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Getty

American  
[get-ee] / ˈgɛt i /

noun

  1. J(ean) Paul, 1892–1976, U.S. oil magnate and art collector.


Getty British  
/ ˈɡɛtɪ /

noun

  1. J ( ean ) Paul. 1892–1976, US oil executive, millionaire, and art collector

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Newson III was an appeals court judge in California, as well as a close friend and adviser to oil nepo baby Gordon Getty.

From Slate

Newsom is eventually taken under Getty’s wing, where he’s introduced into a new echelon of society and politics.

From Slate

In his new memoir “Young Man in a Hurry,” Gov. Gavin Newsom writes about the occasional interludes into his father’s life charmed by the Getty oil family’s affluence and the everyday struggle living with his single mom.

From Los Angeles Times

In “Beginnings,” her contemporary works are in conversation with the Getty’s medieval illuminated manuscripts, creating a collision of past and present that broadens our understanding of origin and authorship.

From Los Angeles Times

Visitors to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles—the oceanside site of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection—have good reason to curse Theodosius as they gaze upon the sublime portrait of Isidora, painted around A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal