Few could resist an invitation from the Gettys, whose patriarch, the five-times married J. Paul Getty, started off with a few Oklahoma oilfields and ended up being known as ‘the world’s richest man’.
He lived in Tudor splendour at Sutton Place in Surrey – where his mistress persuaded him to install a payphone…
But those who were lucky enough to enjoy Getty largesse – perhaps at Wormsley, the 2,500-acre estate acquired and restored by John Paul Getty Jr, or on a yacht off St Tropez – may pause to reflect on the fate of Mogens Tholstrup.
Just last month I disclosed that the enduringly debonair Dane – still revered for resurrecting Daphne’s in Kensington and opening some of…