But Pountney told Radio 4 that Getty's Usher House was "beautiful, refined, sophisticated and atmospheric".
But Getty's chief executive and cofounder, ex-investment banker Jonathan Klein, couldn't disagree more with Davis' services-heavy strategy.
Part of the Getty's own collection, the museum has agreed to give it back once the show finishes touring.
Now they can download one off Getty's or Corbis' Web sites in minutes.
Pountney denied telling the Getty family that he would put on Gordon Getty's opera after they offered a donation.
But critic Norman Lebrecht told the BBC he was "surprised that David Pountney has conceived an eleventh-hour enthusiasm for Getty's work".
But there is still life after the Getty for Mr Meier, who maintained a packed building schedule during the Getty's gestation.
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The money will be used to present a new series of contemporary operas - including Getty's Usher House - to be performed in the UK for the first time.
The Getty's trustees decided the house loan was a conflict of interest and forced out Ms True while she was on trial for transactions they had known about and approved.
Paul Getty's art collection and countless others.
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Paul's 16 grandkids, he cofounded Getty Images to consolidate fragmented stock-photo business.
They included Mark Getty, the grandson of John Paul Getty and the new chairman of London's National Gallery, Matthew Freud, a PR magnate, Peter Simon, a British retailer and founder of Monsoon and Accessorize, all three members of the Mugrabi family who own already nearly 100 Hirsts, and Sir Norman Rosenthal, a former secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of Mr Hirst's earliest supporters.
Due to a licensing agreement, he's required to buy his fuel from Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. of East Meadow, N.
"Now it's not just multibillionaires like Rockefeller, Getty, Ford and Gates who can take advantage of this sophisticated but perfectly legal tax shelter, " it gushes.
"I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd, " Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore told CNN's online streaming news service, CNN.com Live, in a phone interview Thursday from Islamabad, Pakistan.
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To preserve the home's historic flavor, Mr. McIlwee and Mr. Damaschke looked at Mr. Lautner's original drawings for the property, kept in the Getty archives.
The nine-day trial at the High Court in Dundee heard how Cumming had clashed with Mr Getty in the toilets of the Maltman bar, in Dundee's Mains Road, during Mr Kelbie's 50th birthday party.
Getty is also an investor in former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's PlumpJack Group hospitality business.
San Francisco designer Ann Getty seems remarkably blithe about the issue, even though her husband's TV is gargantuan.
When Napa Valley's PlumpJack Winery moved to screwcaps in 2000, owner Gordon Getty kept half of production in natural cork, largely to appease traditionalists.
In Slim's office today, on a bookshelf lined with works from or about Buffett, Getty and Rockefeller, Slim keeps five ledger books from his childhood.
Last year's champ, Renal Care Group, showed up in seven funds, as did XTO Energy and Getty Images.
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