Paul Getty Avoids Disaster

Paul Getty was American-born and a British petrol-industrialist who was regarded as the “World’s Richest Man” by People magazine. In July 1956, he booked passage on the luxurious Italian liner Andrea Doria. It was a nine-day voyage, and on its final night, as the liner was traveling to New York from Genoa, the ship collided with a Swedish liner and sank off Nantucket. It killed 46 passengers and crew. In his 1985 biography, The Great Getty, he mentioned this incident, and he also stated that he was warned by a fortune-teller to never attempt to cross the Atlantic again. He made reservations various times but ended up canceling all of them