Painfully Rich: J. Paul Getty and His Heirs by John George Pearson

Painfully Rich: J. Paul Getty and His Heirs

John George Pearson

349 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime emotional informative slow-paced

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Oil tycoon J. Paul Gerry created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. One killed himself, one became a drug-addi...

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