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He was raised in this interesting mix of a world: He had a single mom who fostered kids and struggled financially, but he would spend weekends and summer trips with his dad, who was very close with the wealthy Getty family.

“One time when I was up at the Getty Center, and it was starting to be dusk, with the cars moving it seemed, in its own weird, L.A. kind of way, romantic. Almost like our equivalent, if you really stretch it, to the beautiful rivers in Europe and Japan,” Ron says.

The Getty Museum in L.A. has more than 100.

I was reminded of the charred scrolls from Herculaneum, on which the Getty Villa was modeled, and the ashy human figures from Pompeii, frozen in the poses in which they died as waves of volcanic ash and lava overtook them.

“She is someone who really believes in making a home for talent,” said Latasha Gillespie, a former Amazon MGM Studios executive who is now an executive board member for Getty House Foundation.