Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976) was a billionaire independent oil producer who founded and controlled the Getty Oil Company and over 200 affiliated companies.Jean Paul Getty was born on December 15, 1892,...
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The J. Paul Getty Trust said Thursday that it has submitted revised staff policies to an independent monitor as part of an agreement between the Getty and the California attorney general's office.T...
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, under fire by countries that contend some of its priceless ancient art collection was stolen, on Wednesday announced the appointment of a new curator of antiquities.Karol ...
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Italy will return to Libya an ancient Roman statue taken from its former North African colony, a gesture Rome hopes will help its own campaign to retrieve allegedly looted antiquities from museums ...
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Caltanissetta, Italy (dpa) - Police in Sicily arrested dozens of
tomb raiders, smugglers and art collectors Wednesday as part
of an international probe into the illegal traf...
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Rome (dpa) - Italy is ready to break off relations with Los
Angeles' J Paul Getty Museum unless it agrees to return antiquities
which Rome believes were looted from Italy, C...
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Rome (dpa) - The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has promised
to return a 2,400-year-old statue of Venus to Italy following
repeated requests from Rome, director Michael ...
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Thomas W. Gaehtgens, an internationally respected art historian, has been appointed director of the Getty Research Institute.Gaehtgens, 67, will join the institute on Nov. 1. He currently heads the...
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ATHENS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - A Greek court on Tuesday
dismissed on technical grounds one of several charges against
former J. Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True over illegally
obtaining a preciou...
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Athens (dpa) - A Greek court on Tuesday decided to drop the case
against a former curator of the Los Angeles J. Paul Getty Museum who
was charged with antiquities smuggling....
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The Real NameUsually abbreviated to
L.A.
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Los Angeles
is itself a shortening of the city's original, gigantic name: El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles. Which means "The Town of the Queen of t...
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Jean Paul Getty
Getty Trust revises staff ethics codes
