Kidnapped
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This title was previously published as Uncommon Youth The true account behind the glamorous life and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973, as seen in Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World and the FX series Trust by Danny Boyle J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defined the decade-and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions. Kidnapped is richly reported, and includes many interviews with Getty himself conducted from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, that raise new angles about the case. How much did Getty acquiesce to the kidnappers? Why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which began at the equivalent of $550,000 in lire and bulged to 3.6 million as the months dragged on? Charles Fox began following and researching this story since the days shortly after Getty's disappearance. Fox's writing captures the voices of models and maids, mistresses and mothers, carabinieri and club-owners, drug dealers and drivers, alongside the Getty family members themselves to paint an evocative portrait of an era and one of its most misunderstood participants.
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Getty Family
J. Paul Getty III: (aka Paul, Little Paul, young Paul) Grandson to J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty: (aka Old Paul) Th e grandfather, the oil magnate
J. Paul Getty II: (aka Big Paul) Father to Little Paul, son to Old Paul Gail Harris Getty: (aka Gail Harris Jeffries) Mother to Little Paul, first wife to Big Paul
Martine Zacher: Little Paul's girlfriend, and later wife
Victoria Brooke: Big Paul's mistress, and later third wife
Talitha Pol: Big Paul's second wife and Victoria's close friend
Gordon Getty: Big Paul's younger brother
Sarah C. Getty: Old Paul's mother
Balthazar Getty: Son of Little Paul and Martine
Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone Getty: Son of Big Paul and Talitha
The Kidnappers: (Fifty, the Chipmunk, Piccolo, VB1, VB2)
James Fletcher Chace: (aka Chace) Troubleshooter hired by Old Paul to investigate kidnapping of Little Paul
Giovanni Iacovoni: Gail's Roman lawyer
Nicolette Meers: House keeper for Big Paul in Morocco
Marcello Crisi: Little Paul's best friend and roommate in Rome
Jutta Winkelmann: Martine Zacher's twin sister
Others
Byron: Getty driver in London
Jerry Cherchio: Big Paul's friend and own er of the Luau Club in Rome
Ciambellone: The Roman coke dealer
"Cockney Pauline": London LSD supplier
D. O. Cozzi: Writer and social anthropologist, a San Francisco expatriate who has lived in Italy for fifty years
Ed Daley: Owner of World Airways
George d'Almeida: American in Rome, friend of Gail and Big Paul
Luigi Della Ratta: (aka Lou) Gail's boyfriend
Derek: Big Paul's London minder
Derek: Old Paul's manservant
Danielle Devret: Rome go-go dancer and sometimes girlfriend of Little Paul
Capt. Martino Elisco: Commander of the carabinieri (one of Italy's two police forces), in Lagonegro
Jack Forrester: Old Paul's best friend
George and Aileen Harris: Gail's parents
Iovinella: squadra mobile (Rome police)
Lang Jeffries: Gail's second husband
Fiona Lewis: Victoria's close friend in London
Martin McInnis: Family lawyer in San Francisco
Mario: Big Paul's Roman chauffeur and minder, suspected of using the kidnapping to extort money, but nothing was proved
Dr. Fernando Masone: Head of squadra mobile (Rome police)
Ann Rork: Big Paul and Gordon's mother, Old Paul's third wife
Dado Ruspoli: Big Paul's friend
Lord Christopher Thynne: Social peer to Big Paul, Talitha, and Victoria
Jack Zajac: American sculptor in Rome, friend of Gail and Big Paul
