Editing J. Paul Getty (section)

==Marriages, divorces and children==
Getty was a notorious womanizer from the time of his youth, which horrified his conservative parents. His lawyer, Robina Lund, once said, "Paul could hardly ever say 'no' to a woman, or 'yes' to a man."<ref name="vanityfair.com">{{cite news|first=Julie|last=Miller|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/fx-trust-john-paul-getty-girlfriends|title= Yes, J. Paul Getty Reportedly Had as Many Live-In Girlfriends as FX's ''Trust'' Claims|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|location=New York City|date=March 25, 2018|access-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref> [[Lord Beaverbrook]] called him "priapic" and "ever-ready" in his sexual habits.<ref name="vanityfair.com"/> In 1917, when he was 25, Elsie Eckstrom filed a [[paternity suit]] against Getty in Los Angeles, claiming he was the father of her daughter, Paula.<ref name="Pearson1995" />{{rp|pages=36–37}} Eckstrom said that Getty had taken her virginity while she was drunk and fathered the child. His legal team tried to undermine her credibility by claiming that she had a history of promiscuity. Getty agreed to a settlement of $10,000, upon which Eckstrom left town with the baby.<ref name="Pearson1995" />{{rp|page=37}}<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-23-bk-5461-story.html| title=The Great Getty : THE LIFE AND LOVES OF J. PAUL GETTY—RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD by Robert Lenzner (Crown: $18.95; 304 pp.) : THE HOUSE OF GETTY by Russell Miller (Henry Holt: $17.65; 362 pp.)| author=Bevis Hillier| work=Los Angeles Times| date=March 26, 1986| access-date=April 5, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406135502/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-03-23/books/bk-5461_1_j-paul-getty| archive-date=April 6, 2018| url-status=live| df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Getty was married and divorced five times. He had five sons with four of his wives:<ref name=Lenzner/><ref name=Vallely>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Vallely|url=http://www.kin.co.uk/news/41.html|title=Don't keep it in the family|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226081524/http://www.kin.co.uk/news/41.html |work=The Independent|location=London, England|date=July 19, 2007|via=[[Wayback Machine|The Wayback Machine]]|archive-date=December 26, 2010}}</ref>
# Jeanette Demont (married 1923 – divorced 1926); one son, [[George Getty#George Getty II|George F. Getty II]] (1924–1973).
# Allene Ashby (1926–1928); no children.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Jean Paul|last=Getty|title=As I see it: the autobiography of J. Paul Getty|url={{Google books|k-_hLLdVhCwC|page=PA91|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}}|publisher=Getty Publications|location=Los Angeles, California|year=1976|page=91|access-date= September 13, 2011}}</ref> Getty met 17-year-old Ashby, the daughter of a [[Texas]] rancher, in [[Mexico City]] while he was studying Spanish and overseeing his family's business interests. They eloped to [[Cuernavaca, Mexico]], but the marriage was bigamous as he was not yet divorced from Jeanette. The two quickly decided to dissolve the union while still in Mexico.<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|page=42}}
# Adolphine Helmle (1928–1932); one son, Jean Ronald Getty (1929–2009), whose son, Christopher Ronald Getty, married [[Pia Getty|Pia Miller]], sister of [[Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece]]. Like his first and second wives, Adolphine was 17 when Getty met her in [[Vienna, Austria|Vienna]]. She was the daughter of a prominent German doctor who opposed her marriage to the twice-divorced, 36-year-old Getty.<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|page=45}} The two eloped to Cuernavaca, where he had married Ashby, then settled in Los Angeles. After their son was born, Getty lost interest in her and her father convinced her to return to Germany with their son in 1929. After a protracted and contentious battle, their divorce was finalized in August 1932, with Adolphine receiving a huge sum for [[punitive damage]]s and full custody of Ronald.<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|pages=48,59–60}}
# [[Ann Rork Light|Ann Rork]] (1932–1936); two sons, [[John Paul Getty Jr.]] (1932–2003) and [[Gordon Getty|Gordon Peter Getty]] (born 1933). Getty was introduced to Rork when she was 14, but she did not become his romantic partner until she was 21 in 1930. Because he was in the midst of his divorce from Adolphine, the couple had to wait two years to marry. He was largely absent during their marriage, staying for long stretches of time in Europe. She sued him for divorce in 1936, alleging emotional abuse and neglect. She described an incident while the two were abroad in Italy in which she claimed Getty forced her to climb to view the crater of [[Mount Vesuvius]] while she was pregnant with their first son.<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|page=71}} The court ruled in her favor and she was awarded $2,500 per month in [[alimony]] plus $1,000 each in [[child support]] for her sons.<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|page=71}}
# [[Teddy Getty Gaston|Louise Dudley "Teddy" Lynch]] (1939–1958); one son, Timothy Ware Getty (1946–1958).

In 2013, at age 99, Getty's fifth wife, Louise, known as Teddy Getty Gaston, published a memoir recounting how Getty had scolded her for spending money too freely in the 1950s on the treatment of their six-year-old son, Timmy, who had become blind from a [[brain tumor]]. Timmy died at age 12, and Getty, living in England apart from his family, who were in the U.S., did not attend the funeral. Gaston divorced Getty that year.<ref name=Newman>{{cite news|first=Judith|last=Newman|title=His Favorite Wife: 'Alone Together,' by Teddy Getty Gaston|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/alone-together-by-teddy-getty-gaston.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 30, 2013|access-date=August 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902181028/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/alone-together-by-teddy-getty-gaston.html|archive-date=September 2, 2013}}</ref> She died in 2017 at the age of 103.<ref>{{cite web|first=Mike|last=Miller|url=http://people.com/celebrity/teddy-getty-gaston-dies-j-paul-getty-ex-wife/|title=J. Paul Getty's Ex-Wife Teddy Getty Gaston Dies at 103|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|location=New York City|date=April 10, 2017|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913223616/https://people.com/celebrity/teddy-getty-gaston-dies-j-paul-getty-ex-wife/|archive-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref>

Getty was quoted as saying "A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure"<ref name=Vallely/> and "I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."<ref>{{cite web|first1=Linda|last1=Bloom|first2=Charlie|last2=Bloom|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stronger-the-broken-places/201204/the-price-success|title=The Price of Success|work=[[Psychology Today]]|publisher=Sussex Publishers|location=New York City|date=April 24, 2012|access-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref>