John Paul Getty III died at the weekend after a prolonged illness, surrounded by the Getty clan at his mansion in Buckinghamshire. He was 54.
The grandson of billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty – once the world's richest man – was famous for being kidnapped in Rome in 1973, when he was just 16.
He was freed after five months when his grandfather paid £2.1million, but only after the kidnappers had severed his right ear and posted it to his family.
He became addicted to cocaine and heroin and in 1981 took an overdose, causing a stroke which left him paralysed and almost blind. He had to be nursed around the clock.
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The teenager's life spiralled out of control after the incident which eventually led to him suffering a drug-induced stroke which left him paralysed and almost blind.
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