Why Wasn't Marv Gaye's Father Convicted Of His Murr? | The Vtage News

Contents:

• HOW MARV GAYE WAS BEATEN, STARVED & ABED BY CROSS-DRSG PREACHER DAD WHO SHOT HIM AD AT POT BLANK RANGE
• MARV GAYE’S DEATH
• MARV P. GAY SR.; FATALLY SHOT SOUL SGER SON
• MARV GAY SR.
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• IS MARV GAY, SR. DEAD OR STILL ALIVE? MARV GAY, SR. BIRTHDAY AND DATE OF DEATH
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON
• MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
• MARV GAYE NET WORTH

HOW MARV GAYE WAS BEATEN, STARVED & ABED BY CROSS-DRSG PREACHER DAD WHO SHOT HIM AD AT POT BLANK RANGE

But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday. At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad.

Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. As Marv began his mil reer, he was teased for his surname “Gay”, so he add an ‘E’ to the end of , which created distance between him and his father, who had a rocky relatnship.

Gaye’s father stated that he killed his son self-fense, did not know if the gun was load, and even said, “I didn’t mean to do . ” Gaye was killed April 1, 1984, a day before his 45th birthday, at the fay home the Crenshaw district after an argument wh his father.

MARV GAYE’S DEATH

Gay, a retired mister of the Hoe of God Church, plead guilty to voluntary manslghter and was sentenced to five years of probatn.

Police said the argument between the father and son began when Gay was unable to fd an surance pany letter that had nothg to do wh the sger. Gay eventually returned briefly to the Gramercy Place rince, but health issu forced him to move to a nursg home, first Inglewood around 1986, and the fal years of his life, to a nursg home Culver Cy, California, where he died of pnmonia on October 10, 1998, ne days after his 84th birthday. After rults of Marv's topsy showed that he had trac of e and PCP his system taken days before his ath but not active his system, and pictur were shown of Gay taken after he was brought to ctody, revealg juri om his fal fight wh his son, Judge Gordon Rger agreed to let Gay enter a plea barga.

MARV P. GAY SR.; FATALLY SHOT SOUL SGER SON

38 liber Smh & Wson pistol to protect him om trs and murrers after the younger Gaye, heavily addicted to e, felt someone was really plottg to kill him. By the early 1980s, Gay's marriage to Alberta had terrated and, acrdg to his wife 1984, the uple had not shared the same bed nearly ten years and, as a rult, they were now sleepg separate bedrooms.

Acrdg to Marv's sister, Jeanne, om the age of seven well to his teenage years, Marv's life nsisted of "btal whippgs" sce Gay Sr. By this time, Gay, a longtime alholic, had proven to be too difficult to ntue his mistry and his marriage to Alberta would grow more ntent wh his drkg. C., after the cy honored Gaye wh a day his honor lled Marv Gaye Day, a day, Marv later said, on which he felt he had ma his father "proud".

MARV GAY SR.

Acrdg to Alberta, Gay began to drk heavily the 1950s, only furtherg the ictn his relatnship wh Marv and "he never did velop any love for the boy.

Attempted to leave home for good followg one big fight by enlistg the US Air Force; a move which the younger Gay later admted was a bad ia, as he found himself unr superrs who had siar thorarian leangs as his father. However, by the late 1940s, Gay had left the Hoe of God to jo another sect lled the Hoe of the Livg God, but soon returned to the Hoe of God to head s Board of Apostl the early 1950s. Gay left the Hoe of God altogether the mid-1950s after not beg named Chief Apostle of the church and acrdg to his son, "that's when my father lost his healg powers".

In 1970, Gay fathered a son named Antwn Carey wh another woman as a rult of one of his extramaral affairs. He was the father of Amerin rerdg artists Marv Gaye and Frankie Gaye and gaed notoriety after shootg and killg his son Marv on April 1, 1984, followg an argument at their home.

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

Gay was born the first of 13 children to Gee and Mamie Gay on October 1, 1914 on a farm along Catnip Hill Pike Jsame County, Kentucky and was raised Lexgton. Marv Gaye had prevly scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg.

IS MARV GAY, SR. DEAD OR STILL ALIVE? MARV GAY, SR. BIRTHDAY AND DATE OF DEATH

However, police officers quickly disputed the claims that Gaye was vlently beaten after they found no ditn of bis on his head or any physil ditn that he had been kicked or punched multiple tim. After reviewg the documents associated wh the murr, cludg the amount of dgs Gaye had his system, the judge pridg over the se agreed to grant Marv Gaye Sr.

HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR

Marv Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), born Marv Pentz Gay, Jr., was an Amerin sger-songwrer and mician. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown Rerds the 1960s wh a strg of hs, cludg “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “I Heard It Through the Grapeve”, and duet rerdgs wh Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell, later earng the tl “Prce of Motown” and “Prce of Soul”. Followg a perd Europe as a tax exile the early 1980s, Gaye released the 1982 Grammy Award-wng h “Sexual Healg” and the Midnight Love album.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON

Sce his ath, Gaye has been posthumoly honored by many stutns, cludg the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Rhythm and Blu Mic Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was the father of Amerin rerdg artist Marv Gaye and beme famo after shootg and killg him on April 1, 1984 followg an argument at their Los Angel home. Shot his son Marv Gaye at pot-blank range si the fay's Los Angel home on April 1, mic cric Michael Eric Dyson once said, Motown legend Marv Gaye “chased away the mons of lns… wh his heavenly sound and dive art.

That pa largely centered on Gaye’s relatnship wh his father, Marv Gay Sr., an abive man who never wanted his son and ma no secret of .

But not only did Marv Gaye endure this abive childhood, he eventually found worldwi fame as a soul sger for the inic Motown Rerds the 1960s and ’70s. But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti. It was there, the fay’s Los Angel home, that the tensn between Gaye and his father reached s tragic climax when Marv Gay Sr.

MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME

But as the Prce Of Motown’s brother, Frankie, later said his memoir Marv Gaye: My Brother, Marv Gaye’s ath seemed wrten stone om the begng.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND

Gaye scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg. That kg, Marv Gay Sr., hailed om Jsame County, Kentucky, where he was born to an abive father of his own 1914.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

By the time he had a fay himself, Gay was a mister a strict Pentestal sect who discipled his children severely, wh Marv reportedly gettg the worst of . And as Gaye himself later said, “By the time I was twelve, there wasn’t an ch on my body that hadn’t been bised and beaten by him. Whether or not that’s te, the source of the mors was largely that he cross-drsed, a behavr that was — often erroneoly — lked wh homosexualy, pecially s past.

Acrdg to Marv Gaye, his father often wore women’s cloth, and “there have been perds when [my father’s] hair was very long and curled unr, and when he seemed que adamant showg the world the girlish si of himself. As he started to make a name for himself profsnally, Gaye wanted to distance himself om his toxic relatnship wh his father so he changed his name om “Gay” to “Gaye. ” Gaye reportedly also changed his name orr to quell mors that he and his father were both homosexuals.

Gaye eventually moved wh a mil lleague of his to Detro and was able to secure a performance for the biggt name on that cy’s mic scene, Motown Rerds founr Berry Gordy.

MARV GAYE NET WORTH

Though Gaye soon beme the Prce of Motown and enjoyed monumental succs for the next 15 years, his relatnship wh his father never tly healed. By the time Marv Gaye fished what would be his last tour 1983, he had veloped a e addictn to pe wh the prsur of the road as well as his failed marriage to Anna due to his fily and which rulted a ntent legal battle.

“My hband never wanted Marv, and he never liked him, ” Alberta Gay, Marv Gaye’s mother, later explaed. Furthermore, even as a grown man, Gaye harbored troubled emotns related to his father’s cross-drsg and mored homosexualy. While Gaye was talkg wh his mother his bedroom and tryg to lm down, his father reached for a gift that his son had once given him: a.

That one shot was enough to kill Gaye, but after he fell to the ground, his father approached him and shot him a send and third time at pot-blank range. Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collectn via Getty ImagSome 10, 000 mourners attend the funeral followg the ath of Marv Gaye.