The Tragic Real-Life Story Of The Getty Family
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By Jeff Somers/Dec. 13, 2020 10:30 pm EDT
The phrase "money can't buy happiness" sounds wise, but it overlooks one important fact: Money can, in fact, buy the
things that make us happy. Of course, too much of anything is bad for you, and that's really where the money bites you. When you can have anything you want at any time, it's easy to lose yourself.
Case in point: The Getty family. Once ranked as one of the wealthiest families in the world—and still worth billions—the descendants of Jean Paul Getty's oil empire have spent the last five decades experiencing the corrosive effects of money. While their name is still inextricably linked to the oil business and the chains of gas stations that once bore their name, the family sold its interests in the 1980s for an eye-popping amount of money and have nothing to do with the oil business.