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Getty finally agrees to pay, but only if Gail signs over full custody of all of her children to their father, who is in a near- vegetative state due to his drug use. Paul's new captors are much less patient, and more ruthless, than his former ones, and, after he almost escapes, they cut off one of his ears and mail it to a newspaper, claiming they will continue mutilating the boy until the ransom is paid.Īfter repeated negotiations between the captors and Gail and Chace, the ransom is lowered to $4 million. A raid is conducted, during the course of which all of the kidnappers who are present are killed, but Paul is not found, as he has been sold to a different 'ndrina, or crime family, who hire Cinquanta to keep looking after Paul and negotiating with Gail. Once they determine the correct identity of the body, the Carabinieri are able to determine where Paul is being held.
Gail is brought in to identify her son, but immediately sees that the corpse is not him. His burned and disfigured body is found in the sea, and, at first, investigators think it is Paul. One of the kidnappers accidentally shows his face to Paul, but, before he can kill Paul so he cannot be identified, another kidnapper shoots him dead. Initially, his captors, particularly Cinquanta, do not treat him overly harshly, as he causes them few problems, but as months go by without the ransom being paid, far longer than the captors anticipated, the situation grows increasingly tense. Paul is kept hostage in a remote location in southern Italy. The media quickly picks up on the story, and Gail is constantly hounded by paparazzi. She travels to Getty's estate in England to beseech him to provide the money, but he refuses, stating that doing so would encourage further kidnappings of his family members, and instead asks Fletcher Chace, a Getty Oil negotiator and former CIA operative, to investigate the case and secure Paul's release. A ransom of $17 million is demanded, but Paul's mother, Gail Harris, is unable to pay it, as she rejected any alimony in exchange for full custody of her children when she divorced Paul's father, John Paul Getty Jr., in 1971 due to his drug addiction. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, where he lives, by the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-like organized crime group based in Calabria. In 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of the world's richest private citizen, oil tycoon J. Plummer received particular acclaim, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the film. It received generally favorable reviews, many of which praised the performances, and grossed $57 million against a $50 million budget. The film premiered at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on December 18, 2017, followed by a United States theatrical release by TriStar Pictures on December 25. It was later reported that Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million for the reshoots, while Williams was only paid $1,000, which sparked a debate on the gender pay gap in Hollywood. Kevin Spacey originally played Getty, but sexual misconduct allegations were made against him two months after filming, so Plummer was cast in the role and, one month prior to the rescheduled Christmas release, the 22 scenes featuring Getty were reshot within eight days. Principal photography began in March 2017 and was completed in August, with the release scheduled for December 8. The film stars Michelle Williams as John Paul Getty III's mother, Christopher Plummer as Getty, and Mark Wahlberg as an adviser of the Getty family. Paul Getty, to cooperate with the kidnappers' extortion demands. Paul Getty, it depicts the events surrounding the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the refusal of his grandfather, the multi-billionaire oil tycoon J. Based on John Pearson's 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. All the Money in the World is a 2017 biographical crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa.
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