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The mother of sla soul sger Marv Gaye, who tried to stop the 1984 argument that led to her son's ath and her hband's arrt, died Friday of bone ncer at St.

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

The younger siblg of the R&B legend Marv Gaye is addrsg ntroversial statements om Qucy Jon regardg his sexualy. * marvin gaye sr interview *

The father of Marv Gaye said a jail cell terview published here today that he did shoot his son, but thought the weapon that killed the soul sger was load wh BBs or blanks and "I regret what happened to this moment.

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

On April 1, 1984, mician Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his own father. Although Marv Gaye Sr. shot his son at pot-blank range, the urt granted * marvin gaye sr interview *

" "I pulled the trigger, " Marv Gay Sr. ' " In the terview, published today's Los Angel Herald-Examer, Gay, a retired ordaed mister, also said his son was heavily g e, which turned him to "somethg like a beastlike person... " The elr Gay--whose name is spelled differently bee his son add an "e" to the fay name when he began his reer--said his son was troubled and prone to vlent outbursts.

Gay plead nocent to a murr charge Wednday, and was orred held li of $100, 000 bail while psychologil tts requted by his attorney are nducted.

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

Twenty-eight years ago this week, Marv Gay, Sr., received a six-year spend sentence and five years of probatn for the voluntary manslghter of his son, the R&B legend Marv Gaye. Gay pled guilty after shootg his namake ad the L.A. home given to him and his wife by Gaye,... * marvin gaye sr interview *

Gay said the sger-poser, who had lived his parents' home for four months, feared someone was tryg to kill him and kept guns the home. He said the gun that fired the fatal shots belonged to Gaye, and that his son rried a gun his robe the morng of the argument that end his ath.

Gay said the argument began early April 1 when he went lookg for his wife to ask her where to fd one of the uple's surance polici.

Eventually, the scene shifted to Gay's bedroom. "He took me om the back, " Gay said, "and he grabbed me and he slung me to the floor and he started beatg me, kickg me.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

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" Gay said he did not rist but told his son to stay away. "Marv was the very one that put that gun unr my pillow four months ago, " said Gay. I thought was load wh blanks or BBs, " Gay said.

" Gay said he did not know his son was ad until a tective told him hours later.

Robert Mart, manr of tectiv handlg the se, said physil evince and statements om Gay's wife, Alberta, pat a different picture.

ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER

" The two were separated by the mother, Mart said, and Gaye was on the bed talkg to her when the father appeared at the doorway wh a gun his hand and fired one round. Gay said he fired bee he was tryg to ward off his son's blows.

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"I jt want the world to know wasn't prumptuo on my part, " Gay said. " Gay said he had seen no news acunts of the ath of his son, whose hs ranged om the 1960s Motown sound of "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" to the 1983 Grammy-wng "Sexual Healg.

"If you see my wife, tell her I'm hurt and I want to see her so bad--all of my children, " Gay said. He even went so far as to say both Richard Pryor and Marv Gaye were timate wh The Godfather himself, Marlon Brando.

While Pryor’s widow nfirmed the ic slept wh Brando, relativ of the “What’s Gog On” sger are fur wh Jon for makg such claims publicly, and while they neher nfirm nor ny ’s legimacy, speakg on the matter at all is a ser problem for Gaye’s sister, Zeola Gaye. Zeola go on to say she and her fay are workg to perserve Gaye’s legacy, and she ref to let be tarnished over a mor he n’t even addrs himself.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MARVIN GAYE SR INTERVIEW

Alberta Gay, 74, Di; Mother of Soul Sger - Los Angel Tim .

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