[3][4] Her parents divorced in 1964 and her father remarried twice; first to Talitha Pol, a Dutch actress and model, and later to Victoria Holdsworth.
Getty serves with Queen Rania of Jordan, Muhammad Yunus, Kofi Annan, and Ted Turner as an inaugural board member of the Better World Fund, a nonprofit that provides educational and advocacy support for the United Nations and causes regarding refugees and gender inequality.
[1] In September 2018, GLAAD presented the inaugural Ariadne Getty Ally Award to Alyssa Milano at its 49th anniversary gala in San Francisco;[13] the Los Angeles LGBT Center honored Getty with the Rand Schrader Distinguished Scholar Vanguard Award;[14] and she became a board member of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.
[1][18] The foundation was formed to revitalize existing charities and individual charitable projects that were failing in their objectives due to financial constraints and/or lack of exposure and publicity.
[20][24][25] In 2018 Getty fulfilled her promise, donating $15 million for the GLAAD Media Institute, which seeks to spread LGBTQ acceptance by training journalists and people in the Hollywood film and television industries how to advocate for and tell the stories of LGBTQ people.
[6][12][26] The Ariadne Getty Foundation and GLAAD partnered in hosting the panel Progress in Peril: How Business, Philanthropy and Media Can Lead to Achieving 100% Acceptance for LGBTQ People at the World Economic Forum.
[2] Getty criticized the 2017 semibiographical crime film All the Money in the World, which focused on the 1973 kidnapping of her brother John Paul Getty III when he was sixteen years old,[33] saying the film incorrectly depicted her family as obsessed with wealth.