Talitha Dina (Pol) Getty (1940 - 1971)

Born 18 Oct 1940 in Java, Nederlands-Indië

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Died 11 Jul 1971 at age 30 in Roma, Lazio, Italia

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Talitha Dina (Pol) Getty is Notable.

Talitha Pol Getty (18 October 1940 – 11 July 1971) was a famous actress and model of Dutch extraction, born in the former Dutch East Indies, who was regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s. She lived much of her adult life in Britain and, in her final years, was closely associated with the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.

Talitha Pol was daughter of the artists Willem Jilts Pol [nl] (1905–88) and Arnoldine Adriana "Adine" Mees (1908–1948).

Her father subsequently married Poppet John (1912–97), daughter of the famous painter Augustus John (1878–1961), a pivotal figure in the world of Bohemian culture and fashion.

Talitha thus was the step-granddaughter of both Augustus John and his muse and second wife, Dorothy "Dorelia" McNeill (1881–1969), who was a fashion icon in the early years of the 20th century.

By Ian Fleming's widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, Augustus John had a daughter and Talitha's aunt, Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist.

Talitha Pol spent her early years, during the Second World War, with her mother in a Japanese prison camp. Her father was interned in a separate camp and her parents went their own ways after the war, Talitha Pol moving to Britain with her mother, who died in 1948 in The Hague.

On 10 December 1966 Talitah became the second wife of billionaire oil heir John Paul Getty, Jr.

Getty's first marriage had been to Abigail "Gail" Harris, a former water polo champion. They divorced in 1964, having had four children including

1. John Paul Getty III, who was later infamously kidnapped and mutilated as a teenager.
2. Mark Getty
3. Aileen Getty
4. Ariadne Getty

In July 1968, Talitha and Getty had a son,

1. Tara Gabriel Gramophone Galaxy, who became a noted ecological conservationist in Africa, dropped his third and fourth forenames, and took Irish citizenship in 1999. He and his wife Jessica (a chalet maid he met in Verbier) had three children, including a daughter named Talitha, after her grandmother.

Talitha Pol died of a heroin overdose on 14 July 1971.

Sources

• Wikipedia article: Talitha Getty

• Wikipedia article: John Paul Getty Jr.