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THE BILLION DOLLAR CURSE; Last week's memorial service for Sir John Paul Getty saw a rare and haunting appearance of the son whose life has been destroyed by his family's fortune . . .
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September 16, 2003
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Byline: ROSS BENSON
THE eulogies for Sir J. Paul Getty at his memorial Mass in Westminster Cathedral last week were effusive. However, it was the gaunt, haunted face of one man sitting in a wheelchair in the middle of the congregation which provided the true testimony to the life of the oil billionaire so often described as 'Britain's greatest philanthropist'.
Sir Paul's eldest son carries on the family tradition as J. Paul Getty III. But it is a name he can no longer pronounce. The 47-year-old heir to the world's most cursed fortunes, who had an ear cut off by ...
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