Andrew Rork Getty (July 1, 1967Legacy Obituries
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Early life

Andrew Rork Getty was born in 1967 in

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'', April 1, 2015 His father,

Gordon Getty Gordon Peter Getty (born December 20, 1933) is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork Light, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, G ...

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'', April 1, 2015 His mother, Ann Gilbert Getty, was a philanthropist. His paternal grandfather,

J. Paul Getty Jean Paul Getty Sr. (; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pion ...

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'', 1 April 2015 Getty was educated at

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in San Francisco and the Dunn School, a prep school in California. He then attended the

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and

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Career

Getty was the president of A. Rork Investment Inc., an investment vehicle. He was the manager of Rork Productions, a production company. In 2002, Getty started filming '' The Storyteller'' starring

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Sean Patrick Flanery Sean Patrick Flanery (born October 11, 1965) is an American actor. He is known for playing Connor MacManus in ''The Boondock Saints'' (1999) and its sequel '' The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'' (2009), Greg Stillson in the television seri ...

Brianna Brown Brianna Lynn Brown (born October 2, 1979) is an American actress and producer. She is known for her television roles as Lisa Niles in the ABC soap opera ''General Hospital'', Taylor Stappord in the Lifetime series ''Devious Maids'' and as Cla ...

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and others. The film was eventually released under the title ''

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'' in 2017, 15 years after the project started and two years after Getty's death.

Philanthropy

Getty made charitable contributions to the

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department of the

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are par ...

Personal life

Getty lived in a historic mansion formerly owned by composer

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on Montcalm Avenue in the

Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills is a residential neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It borders Studio City, Universal City and Burbank on the north, Griffith Park on the north and east, Los Feliz on the southeast, Hollyw ...

. He was a recluse. Two weeks before his death, he filed a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend Lanessa DeJonge. Getty died on March 31, 2015, at age 47. His body was found by his ex-girlfriend, Lanessa DeJonge. An

ulcer An ulcer is a discontinuity or break in a bodily membrane that impedes normal function of the affected organ. According to Robbins's pathology, "ulcer is the breach of the continuity of skin, epithelium or mucous membrane caused by sloughin ...

was suspected in the

intestinal bleeding Gastrointestinal bleeding (GI bleed), also called gastrointestinal hemorrhage (GIB), is all forms of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, from the mouth to the rectum. When there is significant blood loss over a short time, symptoms may includ ...

that killed him. His personal assistant said Getty had complained of stomach pain in the two months beforehand. The Los Angeles county coroner ruled the death accidental, with

methamphetamine Methamphetamine (contracted from ) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug use, recreational or Performance-enhancing substance, performance-enhancing drug and less commonly as a secon ...

use and

heart disease Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina pectoris, angina, myocardial infarction, heart attack), heart failure, ...

as contributing factors.

References

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