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East Lodge gates, Sutton Place, on the north side of the A3 road. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (d. 1963). He modernised the interior. J. Paul Getty, who purchased the estate in 1959 for around $840,000, was then, or shortly thereafter, the world's richest private citizen.
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5 nov 1972 · J. Paul Getty in Sutton Place: Directed by Florian Furtwängler. With Jean Paul Getty, Bert Koetter, Eleonore Noelle, John Paul Getty III. About the estate Sutton Place and its great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate renaissance design elements in English architecture.
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Getty famously had a pay phone installed at Sutton Place, helping to seal his reputation as a miser. He placed dial locks on all the regular telephones, limiting their use to authorized staff, and the coin-box telephone was installed for others.
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- George Franklin Getty, Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher
Billionaire industrialist J Paul Getty walking in the grounds of his Sutton Place estate near Guildford in Surrey, which he has just purchased from... Party at Sutton Place, the Surrey home of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, 1st July 1960.
J. Paul Getty in 1964, in the Great Hall of Sutton Place, England. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute. Photo by Yousuf Karsh, © The Estate of Yousuf Karsh. This permanent installation tells the story of J. Paul Getty, the businessman and art collector who used the bulk of his wealth to create the arts institution that bears his name.
J. Paul Getty (born December 15, 1892, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.—died June 6, 1976, Sutton Place, Surrey, England) was an American oil billionaire reputed to be the richest man in the world at the time of his death. He owned a controlling interest in the Getty Oil Company and in nearly 200 other concerns.
In modern times, the estate has had a series of wealthy owners, a trend started by J. Paul Getty. Synopsis About the estate Sutton Place of Guildford in Surrey, and its great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate renaissance design elements in English architecture.
