<P> On 5 February 2011, aged 54, Getty died at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire, following a long illness . He had been in poor health since his 1981 drug overdose . He was survived by his son and his mother . </P> <P> A.J. Quinnell used Getty's kidnapping as one piece of inspiration for his book Man on Fire . </P> <P> The 1995 book Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty by John Pearson includes significant content on Getty's kidnapping ordeal . The book was adapted to the 2017 film All the Money in the World, directed by Ridley Scott . John Paul Getty III is played by Charlie Plummer and, as a young boy, by Charlie Shotwell . </P> <P> The kidnapping is also dramatized in the 2018 television series Trust, directed by Danny Boyle, with Harris Dickinson as John Paul Getty III . </P>

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