Victoria Holdsworth
{{short description|English philanthropist}}
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| name = Victoria Holdsworth
| honorific_suffix = Lady Getty
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| birth_name = Victoria Jane Holdsworth
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
| birth_place = Suffolk, England
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| occupation = Philanthropist, model
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| spouse = James Bertram Lionel Brooke (1964–1969; divorced)
Sir Paul Getty (1994–2003; his death)
| father = Gerald Holdsworth}}
Victoria Jane Getty, Lady Getty (née Holdsworth, formerly Brooke; born 1944) is an English philanthropist and former model. Since 2003 she has been a trustee of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Biography
Victoria Holdsworth is the daughter of Gerald Holdsworth, a Suffolk landowner.{{cite web| url = https://www.tatler.com/gallery/meet-the-getty-family-andrew-getty-history-fortune-getty-images| title = Meet the Gettys!| last = Walsh| first = John| date = 27 September 2016| website = Tatler| publisher = Condé Nast| access-date = 9 March 2019}}{{cite web| url = http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Obits/Getty/Independent.html| title = The Powell & Pressburger Pages| last = Mellor| first = Roger| date = 18 April 2003| website = Powell & Pressburger| access-date = 9 March 2019}} She worked as a model.{{cite web| url = https://people.com/archive/cant-buy-me-love-vol-49-no-14/| title = Can't Buy Me Love| last = O'Neill| first = Anne-Marie| date = 13 April 1998| website = People| publisher = Time Inc.| access-date = 9 March 2019}} She appeared in a campaign for Nivea and in advertisements for Gibbs toothpaste.{{cite web| url = https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/famous-philanthropist-to-take-over-the-running-of-award-winning-lavenham-brook-farm-1-3902836| title = Famous philanthropist to take over the running of award-winning Lavenham Brook farm| last = Gaw| first = Matt| date = 1 January 2015| website = East Anglian Daily Times| publisher = Archant Limited| access-date = 9 March 2019}}
She married James Bertram Lionel Brooke, the son of Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, in 1964.{{cite book| last = Pearson| first = John| title = All the Money in the World: previously published as Painfully Rich| publisher = Harper360
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KTmDpm7hRUkC&dq=Victoria+Holdsworth&pg=PT109| isbn = 978-0008281526|date=2011 }}{{cite web| url = http://www.thepeerage.com/p66383.htm| title = Victoria Holdsworth| last = Lundy| first = Darryl| website = The Peerage| access-date = 9 March 2019}} She and Brooke were divorced in 1969. She married John Paul Getty Jr. as her second husband in 1994.{{cite web| url = https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/mark-getty-all-the-money-in-the-world/| title = How Mark Getty grew from the child seen in @All the Money in the World' to be one of Britain's richest men| last = Masters| first = Sam| date = 3 January 2018| website = i| publisher = JPIMedia| access-date = 9 March 2019}}{{cite web| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-paul-getty-36449.html| title = Sir Paul Getty| date = 18 April 2003| website = The Independent| publisher = Independent News & Media|first=Fiammetta|last= Rocco| access-date = 9 March 2019}} Her husband had been awarded an honorary knighthood in 1987, but was not able to use the title substantively until he became a British subject in 1997. After her husband was granted British citizenship, Holdsworth was styled as Lady Getty. She played a major role in reintroducing her husband to public life and helping him overcome his drug addiction.{{cite web| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/1427781/Sir-Paul-Getty-obituary.html| title = Sir Paul Getty| date = 18 April 2003| website = The Daily Telegraph| access-date = 9 March 2019}}{{cite web| url = https://elt.oup.com/elt/students/headway/pdf/dyslexiafriendly/hwy_preint_reading_text_u11.pdf| title = A tragic dynasty| website = English Language Teaching| publisher = Oxford University Press| access-date = 9 March 2019}}{{cite web| url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/apr/17/arts.world| title = Tycoon and philanthropist Getty dies| date = 17 April 2003| website = The Guardian| access-date = 9 March 2019}} After her husband's death in 2003, Holdsworth took over as trustee of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Holdsworth lives at Wormsley Park, a country house in Buckinghamshire that was owned by her husband. In 2015 she purchased Lavenham Brook Farm in Suffolk.
In popular culture
Holdsworth is portrayed by the English actress Hannah New in the 2018 television series Trust on FX.
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Category:English female models