J. Paul Getty
Now, for months after Sutton Place was purchased, great numbers of people came in and out of the house.  Some were visiting businessmen.  Others were artisans or workmen engaged in renovation and refurbishing.  Still others were tradesmen making deliveries of merchandise.  Suddenly, the Sutton Place telephone bills began to soar. The reason was obvious.  Each of the regular telephones in the house has direct access to outside lines and thus to long-distance and even overseas operators. All sorts of people were making the best of a rare opportunity.  They were picking up Sutton Place phones and placing calls to girlfriends in Geneva or Georgia and to aunts, uncles and third cousins twice-removed in Caracas and Cape Town.  The costs of their friendly chats were, of course, charged to the Sutton Place bill.