J Paul Getty

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Judith Newman, His Favorite Wife; A memoir looks back on the life of the fifth and final Mrs Getty. Ne York Times, Sept 1, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/0 ... y-getty-gaston.html
(book review on Teddy Getty Gaston, Alone Together; My life with J Paul Getty. Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013)  

Excerpt in the window of print: This book provides a blueprint for living peacefully with a brilliant and monstrously selfish man.

Note:
(a) J Paul Getty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty
(Jean Paul Getty; 1892-1979; in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, whilst the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $8.5 billion in 2012); In 1967 the billionaire merged these holdings into Getty Oil; Souses: among others: Louise Dudley Lynch (1939-1958; divorced))
(i) That is Teddy Getty Gaston. See

Elsa Maxwell, Fourth Wife Ann Reveals Hardships and Cruelties. International News Service (as in The Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan 1, 1958, at page 14)
http://news.google.com/newspaper ... AAAIBAJ&pg=1259,76144
("This time, it was with Louise Dudley Lynch, a society beauty from Greenwich, Conn, who aspired to be a great singer under the name of Theodora, or Teddy Lynch")

This was "Ann Rork (1932-1936; divorced)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty
, whose grandchildren with Getty Sr would be John Paul Getty III, among others.  
(ii) I have no idea how she got the Gaston surname.

(b) "Teddy Lynch met Getty in 1935, when she was a deb and a chanteuse at the New Yorker nightclub."
(i) deb (n): "DEBUTANTE"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deb
(ii) chanteuse (n; French, feminine of chanteur singer):
"SONGSTRESS; especially : a woman who is a concert or nightclub singer
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chanteuse

(c) "she kept the attention of the great man with her russet beauty"

russet (n and adj; ultimately from Latin russus; akin to Latin ruber red)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/russet
(d) "sang the uncredited opera sequence in Billy Wilder’s 'Lost Weekend'”

sequence (n): "a hymn in irregular meter between the gradual and Gospel in masses for special occasions (as Easter)"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sequence
(e) The reviewer coins the term "First Rule of Marrying a Man on the World Stage." Not found anywhere else.
(f) "the famous kidnapping and mutilation of his [Getty's] grandson and the ransom Getty bargained down before finally paying. (From about $17 million to $2.2 million — just the amount that would be tax-deductible.)"

John Paul Getty III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Getty_III
(1956-2011)