What would you be able to do for your son or your grandson ? Surely, like any person, you would not hesitate to do the impossible to save the life of that person who is part of your family, of that being that is part of your blood and that as expected, you want.
It is what, without a doubt, any normal person would do, if your name were not Jean Paul Getty, one of the greatest billionaires in our history and founder of the company Getty Oil.His fortune, as you can deduce, came from the oil .He had a balance in his account of something more than 1 billion dollars .Art collector and womanizer, he was also famous for starring in one of the most controversial stories of high society.The kidnapping of his own grandson: J.Paul Getty III.
Jean Paul Getty and the ear of a Discolo boy
We were in July 1973 and the young J.Paul Getty III, grandson of the famous owner of the Getty Oil, had He was kidnapped.At first the disappearance of the boy was not taken seriously.He was a young somewhat crazy who had been expelled from several schools, who had posed naked in several magazines and that, to the despair of his fervent grandfather, he had been arrested for participating in a demonstration by launching a Molotov cocktail .
For a few weeks the police ignored what the old man said Getty: it must be a joke .But the boy was 16 years old and had already received several calls warning that it was a kidnapping .How to ignore? Four months passed when, finally, the kidnappers put the puno on the table, sending a mysterious box to the newspaper "Il Messagero" of Rome , inside it was nothing more and nothing less than the ear of young Paul and a strand of his hair.
The reason for the kidnapping was clear.It was nothing political, it was purely economic .Y The main focus of interest was Mr.Getty's fortune.However, everyone knew his character, no one in his family could move a single cent without his consent , no one in his companies could make a decision, by small that it was, without going through its "personal filter".And nobody, absolutely nobody, dared to spend a single dollar without their supervision.Moreover, it was said that their greed went to the point that telephone booths had been installed in their homes so that anyone wishing to make a call, previously paid for it.
How far would Mr.Greed Jean Paul go? Getty ?
The resolution of the kidnapping and the consequences
Every time the kidnappers called the old billionaire, the answer was the same: «I'm not going to pay a single centimo.”But obviously everything changed when the family received the young man's right ear.The kidnappers asked for a figure of 17 million , but Mr.Getty was willing to offer 2.2 million .No more, no less.The reason? That was the figure that his advisors had recommended him to pay, since that was the fair amount for which he could benefit from tax reductions, and taxes every year, but time passed and the policemen were already seriously afraid for the boy's life.His parents were desperate and they no longer knew what to do to get old Getty to give in.
Until He did it.But only a little and with "conditions." He would contribute $ 2.9 million , but yes, with a strong condition: his son had to give it back everything and with interests .4%, neither more nor less.
On December 15, 1973, young Paul was released in southern Italy.His right ear was missing and emotionally, I am very affected by that live ncia.A from then on he would live a total decline of bad companies, drugs and alcohol. His father was forced to pay that debt of almost 3 million dollars, which made his son never receive any money and that none of his medical bills were met.He died in 2011, at age 54.
One more example of the dark of the wealthiest society, where the money , seldom offers real happiness .
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