[2] While singing at a nightclub in New York in 1935, Lynch met J. Paul Getty,[1][3] and the two started dating.
[1] Lynch went to England and Italy to study opera and she worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune.
[1] On the dawn of World War II, Lynch was arrested and held by the Italian Fascist Party and was accused of being a spy.
Getty was living in Oklahoma and Lynch chose to reside in Santa Monica, California.
Lynch had a son with Getty named Timmy, who died aged 12 of a brain tumor.