View Full Version : Andrew Getty, an heir to Getty oil fortune.....
Team Sergeant
06-17-2015, 09:40
So you inherit billions, I mean billions $$$$$$$$$$$$. So what do you die of at an early age?
Meth.
He should have purchased better "friends"......
"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
Autopsy finds Getty oil fortune heir died of hemorrhage, had meth in system
Published June 17, 2015
·Associated Press
Andrew Getty, an heir to Getty oil fortune, died from an ulcer-related hemorrhage but he also had a toxic level of methamphetamine in his body, according to an autopsy report obtained Tuesday.
Getty, 47, was found dead on the bathroom floor of a bedroom in his Studio City hillside home on March 31, several days after he was last seen alive. His body and the area were bloody but investigators said there were no signs of foul play. Getty's personal assistant told investigators that Getty had complained of stomach pain for the past two months and the assistant had scheduled a doctor's appointment for him on April 1 — one day after his body was discovered.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/17/autopsy-finds-getty-oil-fortune-heir-died-hemorrhage-had-meth-in-system/?intcmp=latestnews
ddoering
06-17-2015, 11:49
Just another turd flushing himself from the gene pool.
Proof that money doesn't buy happiness or brains.
With that kind of money you'd think the ultra wealthy would be focused on ultra high levels of preventative health care(executive level medical testing/scanning) and lifestyle choices to extend life to longer enjoy the money.
Team Sergeant
06-17-2015, 16:00
Proof that money doesn't buy happiness or brains.
I agree. There's a book in there somewhere, why does he who has everything do hard drugs? And why does he who has nothing do the same?
There are some things I will never be able wrap my head around.
mojaveman
06-17-2015, 17:06
Proof that money doesn't buy happiness or brains.
Correct. ;)
craigepo
06-17-2015, 17:35
I heard a guy (Ravi Zacharias) say recently that the most miserable people are those who have exhausted pleasure.
Unlimited cash in my youth would of been the undoing of me I suspect....just not a good thing for anyone.
The struggle is what makes you.
In the early 1980s, Alison Wrigley explained to a car filled with junior high school students that she had an unlisted phone number that she was reluctant to give out due to kidnappings in her family history.
A couple of years later during a bull session, Douglas Coors told to a few dorm mates a chilling story in which the family patriarch refused to pay a ransom, even after he received a finger. (At this same school, there were two Gettys. One was as nice a guy as one could meet. The other was earning a reputation for being a prick who flaunted his family's wealth.)
Years later, while hanging out with one of the heirs to the 99 Stores fortune, that he and his younger brother could never really know if people wanted to be friends or were playing an angle.
Who can understand the loneliness that can accompany affluence?
I agree. There's a book in there somewhere, why does he who has everything do hard drugs? And why does he who has nothing do the same?
There are some things I will never be able wrap my head around.
For problems with the children of wealthy getting into trouble, I do the same thing as when looking at children of the poor getting into trouble.
I look at the parents and how they were brought up.
Not always the parents to blame, but it sure seems like the strongest correlation if not causation for the journey to the dead end.
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It will be interesting to see what the future holds.
I will posit a guess that the next 15-25 years will see a broadening gap in high quality of life longevity for the high affluent/wealthy compared to poor and middle class.
The wealthy will still have their victims of the bad drugs(substance abuse), but I reckon those outliers will be overwhelmed by bespoke medical/life science improvements that add single digit life expectancy and double digit very high quality expectancy improvements for those at the top of the income spectrum.
I've had my share of beverages and cigars that didn't do me any favours.
But I think the opportunity and realistic goal of stretching your 30's into your 50's and your 40's into your 60's(and so on) via lifestyle choices and life sciences nearly within reach.
Trapper John
06-18-2015, 07:32
Unlimited cash in my youth would of been the undoing of me I suspect....just not a good thing for anyone.
The struggle is what makes you.
:lifter
PedOncoDoc
06-18-2015, 07:36
Unlimited cash in my youth would of been the undoing of me I suspect....just not a good thing for anyone.
The struggle is what makes you.
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
Growing up in a very affluent neighborhood, those whose parents bought them anything they wanted, including a large allowance, had a hard time fighting temptation.
In addition, they didn't have to work, thus they had excess money and time, which they used to chase down "thrills" to fill their boredom. Mix in the poor impulse control and decision-making skills inherent in adolescence and you've got a recipe for trouble and for setting one's self down a dangerous path from which many find it difficult to redirect.
It has been stated here before, family Values and Parenting play an important role. I have a class mate whose family is one of the wealthiest in India, an uncle is a former PM. He is without pretense.
Those names you find in the news are a direct result of that lack of involvement.
Famous people with house hold names who have done a good job parenting.
Dylan, Springsteen, Trump, Jagger, Bush, to name a few....
Team Sergeant
06-18-2015, 10:02
Interesting points, but this individual was 47, no spring chicken and surpassed many "struggles" to attain that age.
Had he been 18-25 it would have been a 5th page story about a kid that chose the wrong path. And that's why I can't wrap my head around it.
I'll chalk it up to male mid-life crisis and "no" direction and zero friends. I will purchase and read the book when it comes out if only to better understand.
PedOncoDoc
06-18-2015, 10:37
Interesting points, but this individual was 47, no spring chicken and surpassed many "struggles" to attain that age.
Had he been 18-25 it would have been a 5th page story about a kid that chose the wrong path. And that's why I can't wrap my head around it.
I'll chalk it up to male mid-life crisis and "no" direction and zero friends. I will purchase and read the book when it comes out if only to better understand.
He likely started down the path of a substance abuser in his teens - there is research suggesting that adolescent drug use impairs brain development of higher thinking areas - and never looked back. It only caught up to him now.
Pericles
06-18-2015, 13:43
Unlimited cash in my youth would of been the undoing of me I suspect....just not a good thing for anyone.
The struggle is what makes you.
This is a profound truth.
I have a friend in Palm Beach, FL who works seasonally for a florist whose clients are the rich and the filthy rich. She says the clients who have money because they earned it themselves are approachable, easy to work with - real people. The rich who got their money through inheritance are on another planet. They have no idea what the rest of us experience day to day. I imagine that includes the sweet victory of a hard-won success, the feeling of falling into bed after a physically hard day, or the excitement of finding five bucks in your coat pocket you'd forgotten was there.
Susan
I have no clue as to the monetary or moral value of the Getty heirs but, if you ever go to Los Angeles, a visit to the Getty Museum and the Getty Center are bucket list musts-sees!
Pat