JPAULGETTY

J. Paul Getty

Jean Paul Getty was an Anglo-American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, whilst the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion . At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion . A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national product. Preceding him in death by two months, Howard Hughes' estate was listed at 2.5 billion. But while Hughes had engaged in a great deal of philanthropy, despite his wealth, Getty was known ...

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