When there’s not much joy left at the end of one’s life, one might – in lieu of a last goodbye – treat their nearest and dearest to something so perverse that everyone would remember it for a long time.
The founder of the Getty Oil company, Jean Paul Getty, did all he could to ensure that his five wives, five sons and 14 grandchildren really hated him. His last wife, Louise “Teddy” Lynch, would never forgive the billionaire that when his son was dying of brain cancer, he never found the time to visit the boy. For four years, Getty bounced between the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, finalizing deals that soon made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, knowing that his son could not be saved, he asked his wife to keep expenses for his treatment to a minimum. “I don’t think doctors can do much for him now, except for a check-up, and that shouldn’t be more than $25,” he wrote to his wife. Later, he would call the hospital where Timothy Ware Getty was dying and argue with the administration about the cost of his treatment. When 12-year-old Timmy died in 1958, Teddy filed for divorce.
In this way, she joined the great
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