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ISBN10: 0333590333, ISBN13: 9780333590331, [publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd] Hardcover 368 pages. photos pags have minor wrinklingOil tycoon J. Paul Getty created the greatest fortune in America - and came close t o destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. One kill ed himself, one became a drug-addicted recluse and the third had to bear the stigma all his life of being disinherited in childhoo d. But did the disaster have to happen? John Pearson sets out to find the answer. He traces much of the trouble to the bizarre cha racter of the avaricious, sex-obsessed billionaire, J. Paul Getty himself - and demonstrates how much of his behaviour has been re peated in succeeding generations. And he shows how the family has coped with the latest modern scourges: drugs and AIDS. For Painf ully Rich is not a hopeless story. While some of the family have been damaged by the Getty legacy, others have saved themselves fr om disaster, most notably the cricket-loving philanthropist, J. P aul Getty Jr. Pearson's moving story of his recovery from drugs a nd deep personal tragedy shows that there is hope for future gene rations of this stricken family - and demonstrates that money can be used to buy survival and even happiness.
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 1995]

ISBN10: 0333590333, ISBN13: 9780333590331, [publisher: Macmillan, London] Hardcover First Edition
[Oundle, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]

London: Macmillan, Date: 1995 F-/F-. 8vo. original charcoal boards gilt (top edge a trifle sunned, faint speckling) in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed, Hill of Content price label on lower panel); pp. xiv (last blank), 350 (last blank), with illustrations + family tree endpapers. A near fine copy of the first edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/F-. 1995. Macmillan ISBN 0333590333 9780333590331 [AU]