The 15 Most Scandalous Celebrity Families In American History
- By
Meg Butler
The Gettys
Actor Balthazar Getty comes from a tangled family tree. Back in 1957, his great grandfather — oil magnate John Paul Getty — was named the richest man in America. Since then, the billionaire Getty family has been rocked by scandal. John was married and divorced five times. In 1971, his son’s wife died of a drug overdose. In 1973, John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by the mafia. They cut his ear off and sent it to the family to demand $3.4 million in ransom. He was so traumatized that he turned to drugs, overdosed, survived but became a paraplegic. Shortly after, his sister Aileen died from HIV.
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