J. Paul Getty: The Real Story Behind The Man With All The Money In The World

Getty Was Buried At His Museum After His Passing

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The construction of the Getty Villa was completed in 1974, but Getty himself didn’t live to see this through, as he never had a chance to visit before his death. J. Paul Getty passed away on June 6, 1976, at his Sutton Place mansion, succumbing to heart failure at the age of 83. Though he never got to see his museum in its completion, Getty was buried at the Getty Villa, though the gravesite is not open to the public. Worth more than $6 billion (equating to almost $18 billion in 2018) at the time of his death, the majority of his wealth unsurprisingly didn’t go to the family that survived him.