I was looking at old posts and discovered I am kin to the Getty family. Christopher Wilding, the son of my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, was married to Aileen Getty.
Garth Benton sued his friend, Gordon Getty, for painting over a mural he did in the Getty home, where Christine Rosamond Benton spent the night. Christine’s partner in the Crossroads gallery, Lawrence Chazen, was a financial advisor for the Getty family, and their partner in Plumpjack. That is Chazen at the Rosamond gallery, and Christine at the Getty home.
Princess Diana, my possible kin, met Aileen at a foundation for AIDS victims. Aileen was stricken with AIDS and spent her fortune fighting this disease. This is key because I sent letters to Judges and Congressman objecting to my family’s Legacy of Recovery that could save many lives, being sold to, and then mishandled by lovers of money.
The Getty children were hippies and abusers of drugs, as were the Presco children. Christine’s funeral fell on her first sober birthday. I had seven years of sobriety.
After I forbid Tom Snyder to use my family recovery in his terrible book, and after he promised me he would not, he went against his word and made it a theme of ‘When You Close Your Eyes’ he pretending he knew about 12 Step programs.
Garth and Shannon Rosamond did the murals at the Getty Villa. His kindred, Aileen Getty, was an artist, a talented human being found in my family tree. Alan C. Fox has his people, I have mine. Why can’t there be a merger?
The Getty family has started many foundations and amassed one of the world’s largest art collections. Both the Getty and Fox family give grants to folks to do the research I have done. I have connected my family to great people while the un-gifted members of my family lured my seventeen year old daughter into their camp, dangling the Rosamond limelight before her – and the hint of Wealth! I don’t have a price, and thus I am a threat.
Then there is Liz’s art collection.
I am disabled and have for years recieved around $600 dollars a month to live on. Just think of what I could do if I had a little more money, and a helper or two. I have logged over 20,000 hours in my study and blogging. I have increased the value of Rosamond’s work – in every way! I never realized a dime from the bautiful image my apprentice rendered.
If you noticed the faintness of the report I filed, after I sent it, I dug in the dumpster for beer cans so I could buy an new ribbon for my Brother. To do this as a sober soul, was hard, but, the stories of true artists, go like this.
Just think of what I could have done – and can do – if people would just tell me the truth instead of putting a dreadful obstacle course before me! But, true love goes like this. I have been blessed with a gift, and more then one beautiful Muse.
Jon Presco
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Copyright 2012
http://thefrenchsampler.blogspot.com/2010/03/beautiful-and-damned.html
It has been said California has produced its own breed of royalty to
compete with the bluebloods of the East Coast, who in turn competed
with the royalty of Europe for prestige. Christine had risen from
poverty to be in their ranks, she and they not knowing the
Rosamond/Rougemont name was linked to the Habsburgs.
Jon Presco
Princess Diana and Stricken Getty Heiress Visit AIDS Clinic
AP , Associated Press AP News Archive Jun. 27, 1996 10:17 PM ET
LONDON (AP) _ Princess Diana and oil billionaire’s daughter Aileen Getty, each drawn to the AIDS cause for a different reason, visited Britain’s largest AIDS clinic Thursday.
Diana, the estranged wife of Prince Charles, is patron of the National AIDS Trust, while Getty, the 36-year-old daughter of oil baron J. Paul Getty Jr., developed AIDS six years ago.
Diana grasped the hand of her friend as they listened to doctors at central London’s Mortimer Market Center explain the latest figures on the spread of AIDS-related illnesses.
Diana officially opened the center in December 1994.
Getty, a longtime California resident, recently moved to London, she said, to establish an AIDS clinic specifically to treat women and children.
She contracted the HIV virus nearly 10 years ago through unprotected sex during an affair.
Diana and Getty were told that heterosexual infection was the fastest-growing method of AIDS transmission in Britain _ 13 percent of the total cases up from 3 percent in 1986.
Diana talked with eight patients for about 25 minutes, and paid particular attention to one small boy in the group, putting him on her knee. Officials declined to say whether he had HIV or full-blown AIDS, or was the uninfected child of parents carrying the disease.
http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/millers/gettys1.html
Sir Jean Paul Getty II was originally born Eugene Paul Getty. He
married three times, to Gail Harris, Talitha Pol, and his current
spouse Victoria. He received an honorary knighthood in Britain for
contributing over $200 million to British causes, and is known as
both a patron of the arts and a devoted cricket fan. However, Sir
John Paul was also a registered heroin addict in Britain; both his
son and grandson would become addicts as well. He continues to live
in London, where he has resided for over 25 years.Garth Benton, a
cousin of the painter Thomas Hart Benton, has been interested in art
since the time his father gave him a book on his counsin’s
paintings. He went on to study art at Art Center College of Design
and at UCLA. In 1971 he received his most important assignment —
murals for the J. Paul Getty Museum. He won the commission with
extensive renderings in the first-century-Roman style based on his
research at the Metropolitan’s cubiculum — a rebuilt Pompeian room
with original frescoes.
http://www.pamelasilinpalmer.com/archdig3.html
GETTYS SUED OVER DESTROYED MURAL
California philanthropists Ann and Gordon Getty are being sued for
$327,000 plus attorney fees and punitive damages by artist Garth
Benton for painting over his mural in their home, reports the San
Francisco Examiner. According to the painter, the untitled 15 by 40
foot painting was created on canvas to allow removal and the Gettys
were advised of that fact before the work was installed in their
mansion in 1986. Benton says he discovered the $327,000 piece had
been destroyed after asking for a photograph in March. for his
upcoming catalogue raisonné. A spokesman for the family says experts
are now working to remove the paint from the mural and restore it to
its original condition.
http://www.lamurals.org/MuralFiles/Westside/TrompeLoeil.html
As has been recently reported in the press, the artist Garth Benton
is suing Gordon Getty, son of the art collector J. Paul Getty.
Benton claims that one of his murals which was in Getty’s home has
been painted over. The action is being brought in California under
the Art Preservation Act of 1979, which prohibits intentional
defacement, mutilation, alteration, or destruction of fine art.
While we consider this a matter to be resolved privately between the
two parties, the implications of such a statute on the work we do at
A.M.P. could not go unnoticed. The Art Preservation Act of 1979 is
clearly an infringement on personal and civil rights regarding
issues of speech and property, not to mention common sense. The
unfettered production of physical works of art has reached crisis
proportions and threatens to drown us in mediocrity. There just
isn’t enough room. It’s time to make the difficult choice.
http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/millers/gettys1.html
The Gettys
The Previous page covered J. Paul Getty’s First, Second, Third and
Fifth Marriages. This page covers his Fourth marriage to Ann Rork-
the branch of the now most famous Gettys in the family.
The Sources are at the bottom of the page. I would also like to
thank Jeanann Goss for contributing information to this genealogy.
Chart 1: The First Family of the Fourth Getty Branch
Clockwise from top left: Jean Paul Getty III in the 1970s; Sir Jean
Paul Getty II’s family; artist Aileen Getty; Getty Images
businessman Mark Getty; actor Balthazar Getty .Notes on Chart 2
Sir Jean Paul Getty II was originally born Eugene Paul Getty. He
married three times, to Gail Harris, Talitha Pol, and his current
spouse Victoria. He received an honorary knighthood in Britain for
contributing over $200 million to British causes, and is known as
both a patron of the arts and a devoted cricket fan. However, Sir
John Paul was also a registered heroin addict in Britain; both his
son and grandson would become addicts as well. He continues to live
in London, where he has resided for over 25 years.
Jean Paul Getty III is the oldest grandson of J. Paul Getty Sr. He
was also the victim of what possibly is one of the most famous
kidnapping cases in the last century. He was kidnapped (while in his
teens) by the Italian Red Brigades and held for a $3.2 million
ransom. Because his family balked at paying the ransom, his right
ear was cut off and sent to an Italian newspaper. Only then was a $1
million ransom paid and Jean Paul III released.
Jean Paul III’s life has been a tragic one. He opted to marry a
German artist named Gisela at a young age, and because of that, was
disinherited for violating a clause stipulating that they marry only
after the age of 26*. In addition, years of alcohol and drug abuse
resulted in paralysis and blindness.
Paul Balthazar Getty is the only son of Jean Paul III and Gisela
(who had a daughter named Anna). He is a well-known actor whose
credits include the Lord of the Flies remake, Where the Day Takes
You, Young Guns II, and David Lynch’s Lost Highway.
Balthazar has been making a comeback after a period of heroin
addiction (well-detailed in a current issue of Premiere magazine).
He also married Rosetta Millington recently, and the couple are
expecting a child. He also has the letters B-Z-A-R tattooed across
his fingers.
Aileen Getty is an artist. She married Christopher Wilding, son of
Elizabeth Taylor, and has two sons- one with Wilding, the other
adopted. Aileen became HIV-positive in 1984, and developed full-
blown AIDS in 1990. However, she and Taylor are still very close, as
well as devoted AIDS activists.
Mark Getty is also a businessman. He owns Getty Images, a company of
archival photographs that is giving Bill Gates some severe
competition. Like his cousin Christopher, he too is an Irish
citizen.
Talitha Pol Getty was the daughter of painter William Pol and step-
granddaughter of artist Augustus John. During her life, she was
known as a free spirit; among her friends was designer Diane Von
Fürstenberg. Tragically, she too was a drug addict, and died of an
overdose in her pool.
Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone Getty is the only child of Sir John
and Talitha Getty. He has supposedly married recently.
Rosamond Press 
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