Young heiress Ivy Getty, from the famous billionaire oil family, divorces her husband after four years of marriage. One more event in this clan already marked by drama.
It is rather a drama of men and failed parentage, while the women, on the fringes of the action, are the ones who do what they can behind the scenes. The divorce request initiated by the young woman of 29 years would be "contested," underlines the American tabloid which wonders if yet another scandal risks shaking the clan. George Getty. The law of the father. George Getty, who made his fortune in oil at the end of the 19th century, found the life of his son John Paul too desolute. Convinced that the latter would squander his capital, he changed his will at his death. The story of this extremely wealthy family is indeed a dramatic one; there is a redistribution of roles compared to classical theater. The women are on the fringes of the story. In 1966, the Guinness Book placed him among the richest in the world. His five unions, duly sealed by impregnable contracts, lasted only a few years. The children, left in the care of their respective mothers, wait, parked in a sort of limbo, for this father who will never come. This, like that of his father, is Getty's unforgivable fault. He would only support his children as perfect replicas of himself, an expectation pushed to its paroxysm since the illness itself becomes proof against him. A man who boasts of having a good marriage is bad in business. He's terrified that someone will steal his money. He doesn't even appear at the funeral, yet finds the time to blame his wife for the amount of medical expenses. A poor husband and horrible father, if he maintains his interest in young women, preferably minors, in his eyes, they are only objects of conquest, to be accumulated like the rest of his assets. The last, including Timothy, was born in 1946 and died at 12 years old.