The Getty clan, up close & realistic

At various points, readers might yearn for a grid with colour-coded pegs to keep track of all the names and relationships

Growing Up Getty: The Story of America’s Most Unconventional Dynasty

Author: James Reginato

Publisher: Gallery Books

Price: $28

Pages: 314

How cheap was the oil tycoon J  Paul Getty, once known as the richest man in the world?

So cheap that his mistress had to eat canned sardines for dinner while she was living in New York during the Depression waiting to become his fourth wife — even while receiving invitations to Condé Nast’s penthouse parties. So cheap that in the early 1960s, Getty installed a pay phone in the cloakroom of his newly acquired mansion outside London for the “convenience” of his guests. So