Painfully Rich by John Pearson

Author:John Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

The Carabinieri left at around 11 p.m. and it was agreed that because of the Getty name, and the danger to the other children, the press were not to be informed. But someone did inform them and it wasn’t Gail. Within twenty minutes the Italian press was on the line, followed by ABC New York, NBC Chicago, and finally CBS from London.

By then there was no point in Gail denying the kidnapping, and next morning it was the front-page story of Rome’s daily paper, Il Messaggero. The story followed the line the officers had taken during Gail’s interrogation.

Under banner headlines, ‘Joke or Kidnap’, most of the article concentrated on the character and lifestyle of the ‘Golden Hippie’, and suggested that quite probably Paul, ‘famous for his wild hippie life-style’, had gone off with a girlfriend, or some of his wilder acquaintances. There was no reference to Gail’s conversation with the kidnappers or to a demand for a ransom. As far as Il Messaggero was concerned, Paul had simply ‘disappeared’.

But the article changed the situation. In the first place, it would take some time for the element of doubt over the kidnap to go away – and endless complications would ensue until it did. More serious still, since the Getty name was always news, the chance of dealing with the kidnap quietly behind the scenes was over from the start.

Gail’s flat in Parioli instantly came under siege from journalists and television crews desperate for a story, making her effectively a prisoner with Aileen, Ariadne and Tara – for as well as being trapped by the media, she also had to stay within reach of the telephone waiting for the kidnappers to call.

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