What Happened to John Paul Getty III After Kidnapping in ‘All the Money in the World’?
If you thought what happened to 16-year-old John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott’s new movie “All the Money in the World” was bad, the aftermath of his 1973 kidnapping was not much better.
After surviving more than five months in captivity by members of the Calabrian Mafia, the grandson of billionaire John Paul Getty underwent several surgeries to restore the ear that his kidnappers cut off and sent to an Italian newspaper to extract a multimillion-dollar ransom.
In 1975, when he was 18, Paul (played by Charlie Plummer in the film) married a German photographer named Gisela Martine Zacher, who was six years his senior, and had born him a son in January of that year.