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To: mr.mark who wrote (3299)	8/20/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Wigglesworth	of 4023

Having to ask father for a loan! The family patriarch[J. Paul Getty], who died in 1976, was at one time the world's richest man. Miserly and shrewd, J. Paul Getty built an empire when he struck oil in the Middle East in 1953. Yet, according to one report, he was so cheap that he kept a pay phone in his house for guests to use. In 1973, his eldest grandson, Jean Paul III, was kidnapped by Italian gangsters. The elder Getty balked for five months, refusing to pay the $3.2 million ransom, until the kidnappers sent the boy's severed ear to an Italian newspaper. Finally he gave in, lending the boy's father part of the ransom money -- at a fixed rate of interest -- to win his eventual release.

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