Stephen Garrett, who helped J. Paul Getty transform his dream of a Roman-style villa in Malibu into a world famous cultural attraction, dies at 96.
Stephen George Garrett, a British American architect who helped oil tycoon J. Paul Getty transform his improbable dream of a Roman-style villa in Malibu into a world famous cultural attraction and became its first director, has died at a care facility in Santa Monica.
Born in a ranch house in Malibu in 1954, the museum moved to the facility now known as the Getty Villa in 1974 and later expanded into the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Although the villa was Getty’s “brilliant” idea, Potts said, “Stephen was very much involved with making it happen. He was an architectural consultant who provided expert advice. Getty was not on the ground. He was in England. Stephen was the man here on the ground.
He also became the father of two girls, Carey and Georgia, with his first wife, Peta Jones. Their marriage ended in divorce and in 1964 he married Jean Macintosh, who had two children of her own.Garrett met Getty in 1967, when the oil baron was looking for a “good, inexpensive architect” to advise him on the possible renovation of structures on Gaiola Island in the Bay of Naples in Italy, his daughter said.
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