Getty family heiress Isabel Getty has wed British financier Faris McKinnon in an elegant London ceremony, choosing a crisp white skirt suit paired with striking cobalt-blue heels for her big day.
The marriage opens a joyful new chapter for Isabel, 32, the great-granddaughter of legendary oil magnate J. Paul Getty, who was once regarded as the richest man in the world with a fortune estimated at $6 billion. Her celebrated family name has also long been shadowed by personal heartbreak and tragedy.
The former Tatler cover star exchanged vows with Faris, 41, at Chelsea Old Town Hall, before the newlyweds continued the celebrations with loved ones at Harry’s Bar, the exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair.
Isabel, who is based in London and works as a gallery owner and singer, welcomed her son Viggo with Faris last year. The couple’s Thursday wedding was an intimate affair, attended by a close circle of family and friends, some of whom later posted glimpses of the celebration on Instagram.
A source close to the couple told the Daily Mail: “It was a beautiful day celebrating a wonderful couple. Everyone is so happy for them.”
For the ceremony, Isabel opted for a fitted white jacket with fringed edging and a matching short skirt, teamed with a white pillbox-style hat and pointed cobalt blue heels. Faris wore a blue double-breasted suit and a patterned tie.
Their young son was part of proceedings too, with Faris carrying Viggo as the couple emerged from the town hall.
Friends and relatives gathered on the steps beneath a large floral arch and showered them with white confetti and red petals, while Isabel carried a bouquet of pink, peach and lilac flowers.
Billionaire dynasty heiress Isabel Getty married British financier Faris McKinnon in a stylish London ceremony this week, wearing a white skirt suit and bright blue stilettos
The wedding marks a happy new chapter for Isabel, whose family has endured a string of tragedies alongside their extraordinary wealth
The newlyweds then left in a vintage black Rolls-Royce convertible, while their guests were ferried to the reception on a privately hired red Routemaster bus.
Celebrations continued at Harry’s Bar, where long dining tables were dressed with pink flowers and guests were handed instant cameras to snap photos of the day.
It was a joyful milestone for a family whose immense fortune has been overshadowed by a succession of personal tragedies over the years.
The most notorious came in 1973 when J. Paul Getty’s 16-year-old grandson, John Paul Getty III, was kidnapped in Rome and held for five months as his captors demanded a multi-million-dollar ransom.
His billionaire grandfather initially refused to pay the ransom, and the kidnappers cut off part of the teenager’s ear and sent it to an Italian newspaper before a reduced sum was eventually paid and he was freed.
John Paul Getty III later struggled with drug addiction and suffered a stroke at 25 that left him severely disabled. He died in 2011, aged 54.
The heartbreak did not end there. J. Paul Getty’s youngest son Timothy died of a brain tumour aged just 12, while his eldest son George died in 1973 after an overdose of pills.
Talitha Getty – the actress and model who married J. Paul Getty Jr and became a 1960s style icon – died in Rome in 1971, aged 30, following a suspected heroin overdose.
Former Tatler cover star Isabel tied the knot with Faris at Chelsea Old Town Hall before celebrating with friends and family at Harry’s Bar, a private members’ club in Mayfair
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The couple married on Thursday in front of a small group of relatives and friends, who later shared photos from the day on Instagram as they congratulated the newlyweds
The extraordinary Getty saga has since reached both the big and small screens.
Christopher Plummer portrayed the patriarch in Ridley Scott’s 2017 film All the Money In The World, which dramatised the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III.
Donald Sutherland then took on the role in the 2018 television series Trust, which similarly focused on the abduction and its fallout, also starring Hilary Swank and Harris Dickinson.
The Getty name is now familiar around the world through photography, too. Isabel’s father’s cousin, Mark Getty, co-founded Getty Images in London in 1995, although the family’s original fortune was made in oil.
Isabel is the daughter of business leader Christopher Getty and film producer Pia Getty, and her lineage is doubly gilded.
While her great-grandfather J. Paul Getty built Getty Oil into an empire to become one of the richest men of the 20th century, she comes from another billionaire dynasty on her mother’s side.
Her maternal grandfather is Robert Miller, the business leader who co-founded the duty-free empire DFS Group.
Her mother’s sisters made high-profile unions of their own: Isabel’s aunt Marie-Chantal Miller is married to Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, while Alexandra Miller was previously married to Prince Alexander von Furstenberg.
For the ceremony, Isabel wore a fitted white jacket with fringed edging and a matching short skirt, teamed with a white pillbox-style hat and pointed cobalt blue heels
Faris wore a blue double-breasted suit and a patterned tie for the ceremony, with one source calling the wedding ‘a beautiful day celebrating a wonderful couple’
Isabel studied music and business at New York University and then carved out her own pathby running The Graduate Gallery in Fitzrovia
Isabel, though, has carved out her own path in Britain in the worlds of art and music.
After studying music and business at New York University, she returned to London, where she now runs The Graduate Gallery in Fitzrovia and fronts the rock band Jean Marlow.
She has spoken candidly about how the Getty surname can colour people’s first impressions of her.
‘Some people bring a prejudice beforehand about meeting me – socially, professionally,’ she said. ‘Which is fine, but after a while hopefully that goes. It’s just my family.’
The wedding comes two months after Isabel celebrated her hen weekend in Copenhagen.
The group took a boat out on the harbour and played games wearing masks bearing Faris’s face, while Isabel wore a white veil for the festivities.
They stayed at the five-star 1 Hotel Copenhagen, where rooms can cost up to £600 a night.