Lord of the Flies star Balthazar Getty was born into American royalty. The world's richest man at this time of his death, the actor's great-grandfather J. Paul Getty became a billionaire with Getty Oil. And when Texaco bought the company in 1984 for $10.1 billion, the price of Getty stock went "from $50 a share to $125 a share" with the family owning 40 percent (per CNN). You do the math. In 2015, Forbes ranked the Gettys as the 56th wealthiest family in America with an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion.
Balthazar Getty struggled with his family's legacy growing up (it likely didn't help for him to learn that his father, John Paul Getty III, was kidnapped and held for ransom in 1973, as portrayed in 2017's All The Money In The World), and he had to wait for his inheritance. "I didn't ever want to be labeled a rich kid, because I wasn't," he told People in 2014. "The structure of how [family trusts] work didn't allow me to be at that point." He continued, "We didn't have anything material-wise, that didn't happen until much later."
By 2016, he fully embraced the Getty name. "I don't see it anymore as something I have to run from," he told the Evening Standard. He even bought a Porsche Turbo. "It was my first 'F**k You' car," he explained. Poor guy.