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100 1  Gaston, Teddy Getty,|d1913-|eauthor. 
245 10 Alone together :|bmy life with J. Paul Getty /|cTeddy 
       Getty Gaston with Digby Diehl. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollins 
       Publishers,|c[2013] 
300    x, 3, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing 
       "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker 
       and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her 
       friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil 
       tycoon and America's first billionaire. In her passionate,
       unflinchingly honest memoir of two outsize lives entwined,
       Theodora "Teddy" Getty Gaston-now one hundred years old-
       reveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to
       Getty. As formidable as he was, Teddy was equally strong-
       minded and flamboyant, and their clutches and clashes 
       threw off sparks. She knew the vulnerable side of Getty-he
       underwent painful plastic surgery and suffered terrible 
       phobias-that few, if any, saw. A vivid love story, Alone 
       Together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth 
       century from the vantage point of one of its most 
       remarkable couples. This is how the other half lived-
       dinner dances, satin gowns, beach houses, hotel suites, 
       first-class cabins on the Queen Mary. Teddy's extra-
       ordinary life story moves from the glittering nightclubs 
       of 1930s New York City to Mussolini's Italy, where she was
       imprisoned by the fascist regime, to California in the 
       golden postwar years, where Paul and Teddy socialized with
       movie stars and the elite. But life with one of the 
       world's richest men wasn't all glitz and glamour. Though 
       terrifically charismatic in person, Getty grew more 
       miserly as his wealth increased. Worse, he often left 
       Teddy and their son, Timothy, behind for years at a time 
       while he built planes for the war effort in the 1940s or 
       brokered oil deals-he was the first American to lease 
       mineral rights in Saudi Arabia, which made him, at his 
       death, the richest man in the world. Even when Timothy was
       diagnosed with a brain tumor, Getty complained about 
       medical bills and failed to return to the United States to
       support his wife and son. When Timothy died at age twelve,
       the marriage was already falling apart. Teddy's 
       unrelenting spirit, her valiant friendship, and her 
       winning lack of vanity transform what could have been a 
       sob story into a nuanced portrait of a brilliant but 
       stubbornly difficult man and the family he loved but left 
       behind, as well as an enchanting view into a bygone era. 
       This was a life lived from the heart. 
600 10 Gaston, Teddy Getty,|d1913-|xMarriage. 
600 10 Getty, J. Paul|q(Jean Paul),|d1892-1976|xFamily. 
650  0 Businesspeople|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Millionaires|zUnited States|vBiography. 
700 1  Diehl, Digby,|eauthor. 
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