A Fine Mess in Malibu; Charges of smuggling overshadow the refurbished Getty Villa.(California)

From: Newsweek | Date: January 30, 2006| Author: Mcguigan, Cathleen | Copyright information

Byline: Cathleen Mcguigan (With Barbie Nadeau, Eric Pape and Jennifer Ordonez)

The old Getty villa in Malibu always had a wacky Hollywood vibe. A replica of a grand Roman house that was buried when Mount Vesuvius blew in A.D. 79, it looked so fabulously fake in the southern California sunshine that you half-expected some B-movie actor to stroll out in a toga and start orating. And it was a kind of stage set, a backdrop built by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in 1974 to house ...

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