She Was The Most Beautiful Woman of The 1960s and Married a Getty... Only To Die At 30
How the most influential style icon of the 20th century died at 30 in a borrowed bed in Rome, trying to get a divorce...
The photographer raised his camera on a Marrakech rooftop in January 1969 and the final shot took less than a minute.
The woman in the striped kaftan was Talitha Getty, born Talitha Dina Pol in the Dutch East Indies in 1940.
The man in the hooded djellaba was her husband, John Paul Getty Jr., heir to the largest oil fortune in the world. Lichfield had come to document the decade’s most imitated household.
Yves Saint Laurent had been on this same rooftop two years before and said it changed his vision completely. The photograph ran in American Vogue in January 1970, captioned: “Paul and Talitha Getty, wearing Moroccan kaftans, on the terrace of their holiday house in Marrakech.”
