The first season of the series, which premieres March 25 on FX, focuses on the infamous kidnapping of oil heir John Paul Getty III in 1973. The story is based on the real-life events of Getty’s ...

John Paul Getty III’s recent death brings to a close a tragic chapter in the wealthy family’s decades-long drama of strife and eccentricity. Anthony Haden-Guest reports on their woe.

Trust will chronicle the Getty family through the 20th century over the course of several seasons, though it kicks off in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III.

J. Paul Getty, oil air and the late grandfather of John Gilbert Getty. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Gigi Gaston, whose mother was the fifth wife of the late oil tycoon also mourned John’s death.

John Paul Getty III was known as the grandson of J. Paul Getty. In 1973, when he was only 16-years-old, he was kidnapped while living in Rome by the 'Ndrangheta and held for a $17 million ransom.

Additionally, prior to Andrew's death, John's cousin, J. Paul Getty III, also a former heir to the oil tycoon, died in 2011 at the age of 54. His cause of death was a stroke.

When the grandson of the richest man in the world was snatched off the streets of Rome in 1973, the most shocking aspect about John Paul Getty III’s ordeal was that the person with the power to ...

The first was Ridley Scott’s 2017 film All the Money in the World – for which disgraced Kevin Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer, 88, as the miserly John Paul Getty.

ONE of the world’s first multi-billionaires was John Paul Getty who made his fortune by founding the Getty Oil Company. Many people are well aware of the Getty name, but just how John Paul Ge… ...

John Paul Getty Jr., heir to an American oil fortune who traveled a tormented path from 1960s hippie excess and personal tragedy to become a contented patron of the British cultural establishment ...

John Paul Getty refused to pay a ransom for his grandson at first, declaring, I have 14 other grandchildren. If I pay one penny, I’ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.