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What defined J. Paul Getty in the Guinness Book of Records 1966?

  • Oldest man alive

  • World's tallest man

  • World's richest private citizen

  • Man with most children

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J. Paul Getty was the richest private citizen in the world as listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 1966. He was an American industrialist and art collector who founded the Getty Oil Company. He was born in Minnesota in 1892 and died in 1976. Getty was a self-made billionaire who amassed his fortune through oil and gas exploration.
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