article_snippet.sent: A string of Gettys have died from drug overdoses, while another grandson of the family patriarch, Jean Paul Getty III, never recovered after he became the victim of a notorious and brutal kidnapping.
article_snippet.sent: Twelve years ago, when Andrew Getty’s was being sued over a disagreement with a former employee, he was portrayed in court by ex-colleagues on a film he directed as a threatening, cocaine-snorting gun nut.
article_snippet.sent: ‘No Getty can be a drug addict.
article_snippet.sent: Traumatised by his skinflint grandfather ordeal, the young John Paul Getty III slipped into cocaine and heroin addiction, washed down with a bottle of bourbon a day.
article_snippet.sent: court heard how Andrew Getty’s snorted cocaine, spent heavily on prostitutes and carried a gun — keeping an arsenal of assault rifles at Andrew home and threatening the film crew with the film crew.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Charity Thomson, the movieAndrew Getty’s assistant director, said she saw Andrew Getty’s snorting drugs while on the set.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gettys have died from overdoses, one never recovered from a kidnapping .
  