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Previously posted as Uncommon Children, Charles Fox's Kidnapped examines the attractive life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973. J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, might have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the incorrect people and virtually abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a kid of his international jet-set period, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping identified the 10 years - and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as proof the kidnappers' intentions. Kidnapped is richly reported and includes many interviews with Getty himself, conducted from the overdue 1970s to the first 1990s, that raise new sides about the truth. How much does Getty acquiesce to the kidnappers? Why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which started out at the same as $550,000 in lire and bulged to 3.6 million as the a few months dragged on? Charles Fox started out following and exploring this tale in the days soon after Getty's disappearance. This interesting audiobook catches the voices of models and maids, mistresses and moms, carabinieri and membership owners, drug traders and drivers, alongside the Getty family members themselves to coloring an evocative family portrait of a time and one of its most misunderstood participants.
