The Getty family is known for its immense wealth but also its misfortune. J. Paul Getty made his fortune in the oil industry, beginning work in Oklahoma oil fields with his father, according to ...

The Getty family fortune was built not only in oil fields from Oklahoma to Saudi Arabia but also in factories that built everything from aircraft to mobile homes, and in the boardrooms of Wall ...

(CBS/AP) J. Paul ... Getty said in a statement Tuesday issued by his publicist. "We will miss him terribly." Getty's life captured the turmoil of his times. Born in November 1956 to vast oil ...

Jean Paul, known as J. Paul Getty, was born in 1892. His father, George Franklin Getty, got involved in the oil business in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. J. Paul began to work with his father in ...

John Gilbert Getty, an heir to J. Paul Getty’s oil fortune, has been found dead at age 52. TMZ reports John Gilbert Getty died Friday in Texas. According to law enforcement sources, he was found ...

In his day, J. Paul Getty was known as "the richest man in America." His father struck oil in 1903. J. Paul made his first million at age 23, and turned oil into gold by the billions. James ...

Police are investigating how the oil fortune heir died. — -- Andrew Getty, the 47-year-old grandson of J. Paul Getty and an heir to the family's oil fortune, died Tuesday at his Los Angeles ...

7, 1932, the third of five sons of J. Paul Getty, nicknamed "Oklahoma Crude," who built Getty Oil into a $6 billion fortune — making him the richest man in the world in his day. After attending ...

The Gettys, too, are on that list. Founded by oil baron J. Paul Getty who moved under the radar until his "outing" as the richest American by Fortune magazine in 1957, the subsequent four ...