Rank #768
Gordon Getty & family
Net worth $5.5B
Getty Oil · United States
- Born
- Dec 20, 1933
- Age
- 92
- Source
- Getty Oil
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 7
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Net worth over time
Biography
- Gordon Getty, whose oil tycoon father J. Paul died in 1976, led the sale of his family's Getty Oil to Texaco for $10.1 billion in 1984.
- Once the sole trustee of the family trust, Getty orchestrated the breakup into six separate trusts in 1985.
- Getty is a classical music composer, whose compositions include the Canterville Ghost, Plump Jack and Usher House.
- Since 2008, Getty has given more than $450 million to his philanthropic foundation, which supports performing arts, music and museum projects.
- He founded PlumpJack Winery in 1995 with Gavin Newsom, now California's governor.
- An opera and wine aficionado, Getty is a partner in Odette Estate winery in Napa Valley.
- The Getty family faced many tragedies: The wife of Gordon's brother J. Paul Jr. died of a heroin overdose and J. Paul Jr.'s son was kidnapped by Italian gangsters.
- Getty has publicly acknowledged the fact that he has two families: four sons with his late wife Ann, and three daughters with Cynthia Beck.