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

Getty’s Trust Was Not Necessarily Up For Grabs By Family

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J. Paul Getty was the sole trustee of his mother’s trust, which contained a restriction forbidding any other trustees to come along after his death from altering it or selling its holdings. Although Getty once orally stated that he’d give his sons some of the income, that isn’t quite what happened. Getty’s descendants took the disbursement of the Getty estate to court in order to obtain what they believed was rightfully theirs, especially since they considered the distribution of his fortune to be arbitrary and unjust. After it was all said and done, not everyone was treated equally.