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Alone Together : My Life with J. Paul Getty by Theodora Getty Gaston, Digby Diehl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America's first billionaire.In her passionate, unflinchingly honest memoir of two outsize lives entwined, Theodora "Teddy" Getty Gaston—now one hundred years old—reveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to Getty. As formidable as he was, Teddy was equally strong-minded and flamboyant, and their clutches and clashes threw off sparks. She knew the vulnerable side of Getty—he underwent painful plastic surgery and suffered terrible phobias—that few, if any, saw.A vivid love story, Alone Together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth century from the vantage point of one of its most remarkable couples. This is how the other half lived—dinner dances, satin gowns, beach houses, hotel suites, first-class cabins on the Queen Mary. Teddy's extra-ordinary life story moves from the glittering nightclubs of 1930s New York City to Mussolini's Italy, where she was imprisoned by the fascist regime, to California in the golden postwar years, where
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- Author
- Theodora Getty Gaston, Digby Diehl
- Publisher
- Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062219718
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Management
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (442 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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