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Getty was a rich and smart man who loved art.

Getty was a rich and smart man who loved art.

May 11, 2009

John Paul Getty, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, (by the way… I really like people from Minnesota… but I digress), was one of the first people in the world with a fortune worth over 1 billion dollars.  His family was in oil.  He did what all rich sons do,  and went to good schools – USC, then Berkeley, and then graduated from Magelen...