after taking a few years off from the money-making grind to enjoy spending his earnings on women, getty returned to oklahoma in 1919. during the 1920s he added about $3 million to his already sizable estate. his succession of marriages and divorces (three during the 1920s, five throughout his life) so distressed his father, however, that j. paul inherited a mere $500,000 of the $10 million the senior getty left at his death in 1930.