Into this scene in 1973 strolls his grandson John Paul Getty III, a wild-haired 16-year-old newly arrived from Rome where he’s studying art. ‘It was clear, reading between the lines, that John Paul III kidnapped himself,’ said Beaufoy of his research. John Paul III played by Harris Dickinson (pictured) ran up a large debt that he couldn't repay. The Getty family was an accident on the side of the road.’John Paul Getty III (played here by Harris Dickinson) was brought up in Rome where his father John Paul Getty Jnr was running the family’s oil business. According to this story, that’s true – John Paul III had agreed with his drug dealer to organise a fake kidnapping.

Source: Daily Mail September 07, 2018 21:22 UTC