CNN logo Navigation COMMUNITY Message Boards Chat Feedback SITE SOURCES Contents Help! Search CNN Networks SPECIALS Quick News Almanac Video Vault News Quiz Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Barnes and Noble Year In Review Main banner Click here for TIME daily rule JOHN PAUL GETTY II NOW A BRITISH CITIZEN December 28, 1997 Web posted at: 9:58 p.m. EST (0258 GMT) LONDON (AP) -- American billionaire John Paul Getty II is an American no longer. The London Sunday Telegraph says the philanthropist has become a British citizen and revoked his U.S. citizenship. Sources in the British government confirm the move. Getty is 65 and has lived in Britain for 25 years. During that time, he's become one of the country's major benefactors. In 1986, he even received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. The Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest Americans estimates Getty's fortune at $1 billion. _________________________________________________________________ Infoseek search ____________________ ____ ____ _________________________________________________________________ rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards & chat [INLINE] Click here for TIME daily rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.