Editing J. Paul Getty (section)

===Coin-box telephone===
Getty famously had a pay phone installed at Sutton Place, helping to seal his reputation as a miser.<ref>{{cite news|first=Julie|last=Miller|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/all-the-money-in-the-world-j-paul-getty|title=The Enigma of J. Paul Getty, the One-Time Richest Man in the World|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|location=New York City|date=December 22, 2017|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427223640/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/all-the-money-in-the-world-j-paul-getty|archive-date=April 27, 2018}}</ref> He placed dial locks on all the regular telephones, limiting their use to authorized staff, and the coin-box telephone was installed for others. In his autobiography, he described his reasons:

{{blockquote|Now, for months after Sutton Place was purchased, great numbers of people came in and out of the house. Some were visiting businessmen. Others were artisans or workmen engaged in renovation and refurbishing. Still others were tradesmen making deliveries of merchandise. Suddenly, the Sutton Place telephone bills began to soar. The reason was obvious. Each of the regular telephones in the house has direct access to outside lines and thus to long-distance and even overseas operators. All sorts of people were making the best of a rare opportunity. They were picking up Sutton Place phones and placing calls to girlfriends in Geneva or Georgia and to aunts, uncles and third cousins twice-removed in Caracas and Cape Town. The costs of their friendly chats were, of course, charged to the Sutton Place bill.<ref>Getty, 1976, pg.319</ref>}}

In a 1963 televised interview with [[Alan Whicker]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The Solitary Billionaire J. Paul Getty|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nw1t5|work=Talk at the BBC|access-date=April 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319212359/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nw1t5|archive-date=March 19, 2012}}</ref> Getty said that he thought guests would want to use a pay phone.<ref>''Talk at the BBC'', BBC Four, April 5, 2012</ref> After 18 months, he said, "the in-and-out traffic flow at Sutton subsided. Management and operation of the house settled into a reasonable routine. With that, the pay telephone [was] removed, and the dial locks were taken off the telephones in the house."<ref>Getty, 1976, p. 320</ref>