Gordon Getty

President and Chairman, Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation

$5.05B

as of 12/21/24

About Gordon Getty

Gordon Getty, whose oil tycoon father J. Paul died in 1976, led the sale of his family's Getty Oil to Texaco for $10.1 billion in 1984.

Once the sole trustee of the family trust, Getty orchestrated the breakup into six separate trusts in 1985.

Getty is a classical music composer, whose compositions include the Canterville Ghost, Plump Jack and Usher House.

Since 2008, Getty has given more than $450 million to his philanthropic foundation, which supports performing arts, music and museum projects.

He founded PlumpJack Winery in 1995 with Gavin Newsom, now California's governor.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Getty Oil

Residence

San Francisco, California

Marital status

Widowed

Birth date

12/20/33 (age 91)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Self-made

inherited

Gordon Getty’s fortune is worth

84K

troy ounces of gold

78K

median U.S. household

50K

median U.S. income

0.101%

U.S. credit card volume

0.02%

GDP of the United States

0.015%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

The Getty family faced many tragedies: The wife of Gordon's brother J. Paul Jr. died of a heroin overdose and J. Paul Jr.'s son was kidnapped by Italian gangsters.