Gordon P Getty

The son of renowned oil baron J. Paul Getty Sr. (d. 1976), Gordon Getty sold Getty Oil to Texaco in 1984 for about $10 billion, plowing his proceeds into investments and wine. He seeded mutual fund servicing outfit ReFlow Management in 2002 and bought a stake in investment firm Forward Management. Once an aspiring opera singer, Getty now composes operas and hosts numerous events in his native San Francisco for classical connoisseurs. He and his wife Ann preside over a stadium box of the World Series-winning San Francisco Giants. They regularly donate through the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation to local music programs and foundations as well as Bay Area schools. In recent years Getty and his wife have given at least $1 million annually to the San Francisco Opera. In 2008, they donated $5 million to the University of California system. The pair also fund an invite-only preschool called Playgroup for children of high-profile people in San Francisco. Gordon Getty in 1999 confirmed that he had a second family living in Los Angeles, news that came to light after three daughters born to him by another woman filed court documents requesting that their last name be changed to Getty. The revelation that the well-known composer and philanthropist had a second family -- while remaining married to his wife, Ann -- became tabloid fodder, but it was something of an open secret in elite social circles.