Notoriously stingy, which 20th-century billionaire initially refused to pay the ransom money demanded by his grandson’s kidnappers?

At the time of his 16-year-old grandson's 1973 kidnapping in Italy, John Paul Getty was Only after the kidnappers’ cut off his grandson’s ear, did J. Paul Getty agree the $2.9million ransom. John's captors cut off his ear and sent it, along with a piece of his hair to the Getty family, reissuing their demands. Despite being one of the richest men in the world J. Paul Getty’s infamously refused to pay up.

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