Teddy Getty Gaston (September 13, 1913 – April 8, 2017) (born Louise Dudley Theodora Lynch, also known as Teddy Lynch and Theodora Getty) was an American author and singer. She was the fifth and last wife of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.
Lynch was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1913. She was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She moved to New York City to become a singer and worked at a supper club for $25 a week.
While singing at a nightclub in New York in 1935, Lynch met J. Paul Getty. The two start dating. Lynch wanted to be an opera singer and Getty paid for her lessons. The couple married in Rome, Italy, in 1939.

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