The right ear of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Getty_III" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Paul Getty III">John Paul Getty III</a> is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9<span id="mwATE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>million.