Oil tycoon heir John Gilbert Getty found ‘with eyes and mouth open in Indian-style sitting pose’ in hotel room

New details have emerged about the lonely death of oil tycoon heir John Gilbert Getty, found sitting in a yoga pose in a hotel room.

John Gilbert Getty was found “with his eyes and mouth open” sitting in an “Indian style-pose” after the oil tycoon heir died in a hotel room.

Getty, 52, was found unresponsive at the luxury Hotel Emma in San Antonio, Texas, on November 20 – just months after the death of his mother and nearly six years after the death of his brother.

According to a police report, Mr Getty was found dead while in an “Indian style sitting pose” with both his eyes and mouth wide open.

The hotel staffer told police he entered Mr Getty’s room because the noon check-out time had passed and they were unable to get hold of him.

The heir to the Getty fortune was “cold to the touch” when he was found in the hotel room, according to documents obtained by DailyMail.com.

Associated with meditation or yoga, the pose which Mr Getty was found in is when a person sits with their legs tightly crossed with the soles of their feet facing the ceiling.

It’s known in yoga as the lotus pose.

The San Antonio Police Department report, compiled by Officer Rosendo Hoyos, refers to Mr Getty as SB1 and the hotel staffer as R1.

“SB1 was found upstairs lying back on some pillows from an Indian style sitting position on his bed in front of his laptop,” it said.

“SB1 had his glasses in his left hand, eyes were open, mouth was open.”

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His daughter, Ivy, posted a heartwarming tribute to her dad on social media.

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The officer said there were no signs of foul play and everything appeared “neat and orderly”.

In the report, it also stated that Mr Getty’s assistant had last received a text from him on November 19 at 5.28pm – the day before he died.

The nature of Mr Getty’s death is still not yet clear, with an autopsy yet to take place.

A block has been put on any information being released publicly by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office – which is an unusual step to take.

Hotel Emma, where Mr Getty was staying for almost three weeks, is a 146-room luxury boutique hotel in downtown San Antonio.

The 52-year-old was set to inherit the Getty family fortune, which is estimated to be worth more than $US5 billion ($A6.8 billion).

“With a heavy heart, Gordon Getty announces the death of his son, John Gilbert Getty,” his family said in a statement when his death was announced.

“John leaves behind his daughter, Ivy Getty, whom he loved beyond measure, and his brothers Peter and Billy. His brother, Andrew, predeceased John. John’s mother, Ann Gilbert Getty, passed this September. John was a talented musician who loved rock and roll. He will be deeply missed.”

He leaves one daughter, Ivy Love Getty, who posted memories on Instagram about her dad’s love of rosé wine and how he would put ice cream in the fridge for 30 minutes before he would “drink it like soup”.

Ivy, 25, who said she was proud to be the only “consistent” woman in his life, wrote, “My father was awesome – the coolest man to ever land on this planet and I will forever be the proudest daughter.”

John was the son of composer Gordon Getty, 86, who has now lost his wife and two of his seven children within five years.

The Getty family tree.

FAMILY TRAGEDY

In 2015, John’s brother Andrew died aged 47 from an intestinal haemorrhage.

He was found to have a toxic level of methamphetamine in his system. Two months ago, Gordon’s wife Ann passed away from a heart attack, aged 79.

The latest death in the family is part of the long and sorry saga of the Getty clan, which includes the 1973 Mafia kidnapping of a 16-year-old John Paul Getty III.

His grandad J. Paul refused to pay the ransom of $US17 million ($A23 million) – equivalent to $US103 million ($A140 million) today – so the Mob cut off John Paul’s ear and sent it to a newspaper in Rome.

Renowned miser J. Paul eventually coughed up, but only after the US government negotiated a ransom figure of about $US2.2 million ($A3 million), the maximum that would be tax deductible.

The kidnapping was the subject of Ridley Scott’s 2017 movie All The Money In The World – and it seems even that film could not escape the Getty curse.

Actor Kevin Spacey was cast as J. Paul, but had to be replaced after filming came to a close when sexual abuse allegations broke. His scenes were then re-shot, with Christopher Plummer taking over the role.

J. Paul’s road to fortune began in 1903, aged 11, when his father George, a lawyer, moved the family to Oklahoma in the hope of striking it rich with oil.

And strike it rich they did. In 1914, George lent a 21-year-old J. Paul $10,000 to make his own investments. Within two years he had made his first million.

Thanks to shrewd early investments in oil-rich land between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, he was named the richest man in America in 1957.

The Guinness Book Of Records named him as the richest private citizen in the world in 1966, with wealth of $US1.2 billion ($A1.6 billion) – approximately $US10 billion ($A13.5 billion) in today’s terms.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission