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Contents:

• ANNA GORDY GAYE
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
•  WHERE ARE MARV GAYE CHILDREN NOW GRAMMYS TRIBUTE PRCE OF MOTOWN MERCY MERCY MERCY ME FAY
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY
• THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD -- MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE DI AT 92
• ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI
• MARV GAYE III FIL FOR DIVORCE OM WIFE WENDY AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE CINT
• ANNA GORDY GAYE: WHAT REALLY TOOK PLACE AT HSVILLE U.S.A.
• ANNA GORDY GAYE HEALTH: WHAT ILLNS DID ANNA GORDY GAYE HAVE?
• ANNA GORDY GAYE(1921-2014)
• MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, DI AT 92

ANNA GORDY GAYE

Anna Gordy Gaye, olr sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and ex-wife of Marv Gaye, died today at age 92, a Motown reprentative nfirmed.

Early his reer, Gaye worked as a dmmer for Anna Rerds, a rerd label found by Anna and her sister Gwen wh songwrer Roquel “Billy” Davis. Gordy Gaye herself wrote three of Marv’s songs: “God Is Love” and “Fly’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” om 1971’s landmark album What’s Gog On and “Jt to Keep You Satisfied” om 1973’s Let’s Get It On. Gordy Gaye’s marriage to Marv was one of the most turbulent mic, marked by equent fightg and fily.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92

Wh ltle sh to pay for back tax and Anna’s divorce settlement, Gaye agreed to pay Anna $600, 000, wh the first $307, 000 g om an advance agast royalti off his next album and the remag $293, 000 to be paid om any future royalti.

Gaye began work on Here, My Dear, a btally hont tobgraphil acunt of his relatnship wh Anna; s tl –”When Did You Stop Lovg Me, When Did I Stop Lovg You, ” “You Can Leave, But It’s Gog to Cost You” – exemplified the album’s personal them. Here, My Dear told specific stori about the duo’s past, g Anna to nsir a $5 ln vasn-of-privacy su agast Gaye. Crilly maligned upon s 1978 release (dis fans did not want to hear a double-album about breakups and heartache), Here, My Dear has sce beme an sential album Gaye’s talog and is often ced as one of his bt works.

 WHERE ARE MARV GAYE CHILDREN NOW GRAMMYS TRIBUTE PRCE OF MOTOWN MERCY MERCY MERCY ME FAY

Gordy Gaye and Gaye renciled the early 1980s, wh Anna by Marv’s si at the 1983 Grammy Awards.

Anna Gordy Gaye is survived by her brothers, Berry and Robert, her son, Marv Gaye III, and two grandsons, Marv IV and Dillon. Janis Hunter was a mother of two her early 20s when her longtime lover, father of her children and one of the world’s most lted-after soul sgers, Marv Gaye, suggted an amoro liaison wh another uple. The next night, when the other uple returned for more, Gaye’s enthiasm had bee somethg else.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66

She refed, the uple left and Gaye told her how he really felt about the fantasy that his proddg had ma real. “After the Dance,” a memoir by Gaye’s mistrs-turned-wife Jan Gaye, wrten wh David Rz, rells a love affair propelled by jt the sorts of md gam.

Marv Gaye’s immense, unniable talent for sgg and songwrg, and his equally impossible-to-dismiss sex appeal, were acpanied by creasgly heavy dg e — eebasg e eventually did him — and erratic moods, a nstant tug of war between thrills, love, lt and terror. Her mother, Barbara, was iends wh Ed Townsend, Gaye’s producer, and he brought her to the stud to watch Gaye rerd.

ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY

At the time, Gaye was tranged om his wife, Anna Gordy, sister of Motown imprar Berry Gordy. Mutually enamored, Gaye brought Hunter to an Italian rtrant Hollywood, where he bribed the waer $20 to brg his unrage date aprit sours.

Soon after, they ma love for the first time Gaye’s sparse one-bedroom apartment, which had a “hio gold uch” where Gaye’s assistant, a junkie named Abe, had taken up rince.

Soon, Hunter began to see how Gaye thrived on the emotnal turmoil of those around him and learned the pth of his jealoy and posssivens. Gordy and Hunter briefly met once, and Gordy told Gaye to never brg “” to her home aga.Getty Imag. “I jt want to see what someone like you looks like,” Gordy told her, before turng to addrs Gaye.

THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE

We will have a son.” Anytime they discsed their child, Gaye referred to him as a boy, and exprsed a preference for such. Gaye plimented Nona’s bety and pared to Hunter’s, but Hunter saw the disappotment his ey. But if Gaye grew quickly acceptg of his dghter, his attu toward Hunter — specifilly her new, jt-gave-birth body — changed.

Gaye got over his body hangups (for a while), and they settled to fay life, spendg their days high on ke and pot as Gaye wrote and produced new mic. She didn’t tell Gaye for fear of startg a fight, but time, she learned the effect may have been oppose.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92

Gaye veloped a hab of steerg Hunter toward other men, whether out of some perverse masochism or genue light. Notg a chemistry between Hunter and Maze sger Frankie Beverly, Gaye did everythg he uld to set up an illic liaison between the two. When Beverly me for a vis, Gaye not only booked him a room at a lol motel but booked the adjog room for Hunter, sayg he need her out of the hoe so he uld foc on mic.

After a long, ugly and expensive legal battle, Gaye was fally divorced om Anna Gordy, and married Hunter — now Jan Gaye — October 1977.

Gaye — now almost 40 — plaed to his 22-year-old wife about her saggg breasts and her stretch marks, explag, “There’s a big difference between pleasure and excement. They had vic fights, cludg one time when Gaye, behd the wheel wh both kids the r, began to swerve and threatened to “drive this thg off the road!”.

ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD -- MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE DI AT 92

Soon after, Gaye left Jan and the kids behd on a planned trip to Hawaii wh his fay, begng a pattern that would repeat over the years of Gaye leavg LA and his fay behd, only to implore them to jo him once at his statn. In time, torn by Gaye’s cel treatment, Jan slept wh Beverly and also hooked up wh Teddy Penrgrass, Gaye’s ma mil rival.

Courty of Jan Gaye The next five years saw Gaye, Jan and their children embroiled nasty back-and-forth battl, cludg, after Jan brought the kids to see Gaye Hawaii, his refg to let Frankie leave, g Jan to not see her son for over a year.

Gaye, out of his md on e, would tell Jan that the “end days” were approachg or acce her of sendg her father or gang members to try to kill him.

ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI

“That I lost myself someone else — someone as remarkable as Marv Gaye — is no longer e for self-nmnatn.”. The 63rd Grammys will pay tribute to Marv Gaye's ‘Mercy, Mercy Me (The Elogy)’, on s 50th anniversary.

Ahead of the tribute, here’s a look at the legendary sger’s fay members, who were once h by the tragedy of the sger’s sudn ath at the hand of his father, Marv Gaye, known as the "number-one purveyor of soul mic" left a long legacy of blendg “the soul mic of the urban scene wh the beat of the old-time gospel sger and beme an fluential force pop mic, ” as scribed by the New York Tim after Gaye’s sudn mise. Marv III was adopted by Gaye and his first wife Anna Gordy; he was the birth child of Denise Gordy, Anna's niece, who was 15 at the MOREGui to Grammys 2021: How to live stream, time, performers, events and all you need to know about mic's biggt nightGrammys 2021 Pre-Show Full Performers List: Burna Boy, Jimmy ‘Duck' Holm, tribute to Marv Gaye, and plete le-upADVERTISEMENT. Amerin sger, songwrer, and rerd producer Marv Gaye (1939 - 1984) performg on stage, UK, 29th September 1976.

MARV GAYE III FIL FOR DIVORCE OM WIFE WENDY AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE CINT

Gaye’s children ma headl 2015 when Nona, Frankie, and Marv wrote a jot letter, speakg of the legacy left by Gaye and the fd that took place regardg the lawsu agast Rob Thicke and Pharell Williams, who were alleged to have pied Gaye‘s 1977 h ‘Got to Give It Up’ the song ‘Blurred L’.

Actrs Nona Gaye performs a vio duet wh her late father, sger Marv Gaye, durg the NBA All-Star Saturday Night ftivi on Febary 14, 2004 at the Stapl Center Los Angel, California. Though the urt orr favored the Gaye fay, the jot letter exprsed how Gaye would have felt durg the whole suatn.

Marv Gaye III attends The Ryan Gordy Foundatn Celebrat 60 Years Of Mowtown at Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills on November 11, 2019 Beverly Hills, California.

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Hunter Gaye spired several songs by the late Motown sger, cludg “I Want You, ” “Let’s Get On, ” and “After the Dance.

”Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife and ocsnal me of famed sger-songwrer Marv Gaye, has died at age 66. She died her Rho Island home of an undisclosed Gaye’s fay announced news of her ath, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter. “From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said.

ANNA GORDY GAYE HEALTH: WHAT ILLNS DID ANNA GORDY GAYE HAVE?

(Photo by Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag)Hunter Gaye began her relatnship wh Marv Gaye after meetg him 1973.

ANNA GORDY GAYE(1921-2014)

Townsend was llaboratg wh Gaye on the follow-up album to his 1971 classic, “What’s Gog On. Still married to his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye, Marv began a romantic relatnship wh Hunter Gaye that produced two children, Nona and Frankie. After his divorce om Gordy Gaye was falized 1977, Janis and Marv Gaye would spire her hband to rerd numero songs about her, cludg “Jan” for his 1974 “Marv Gaye Live!

” Marv even namedropped Hunter Gaye the album’s songs, cludg “I Want to Be Where You Are, ” and “Soon I’ll Be Lovg You Aga. ”In late 1978, Gaye released the album, “Here, My Dear, ” wrten about the dissolutn of his marriage to Gordy Gaye.

MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY

The album’s penultimate track, “Fallg Love Aga, ” was dited to Hunter Gaye, as stated Gaye’s bgraphy, “Divid Soul. ”However, the marriage between Marv and Janis was short-lived, wh much of their relatnship marred by Gaye’s alleged physil and psychologil abe of Hunter Gaye.

ANNA GORDY GAYE, MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, DI AT 92

They separated the late 1970s and divorced 1981, two years before Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marv Gaye 2015, Hunter Gaye wrote a memoir about her tumultuo relatnship wh her late hband, “After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye. ”Along wh Hunter Gaye’s two children, she is survived by sister Shawnn, brother Mark and grandson Nolan.

When Anna Gordy divorced Marv Gaye 1975, the settlement was unual: she would receive the proceeds om his next album – $305, 000 om the advance and $295, 000 future royalti – li of matenance and child support. Gaye claimed to be broke, but sce he was enjoyg a perd of succs wh such hs as What's Gog On and Let's Get It On, Gordy, who has died aged 92, uld have looked forward to substantial pensatn for the end of their turbulent 12-year marriage. She would have been equally unhappy about s relative mercial failure, but time has shown to be the last of Gaye's masterpiec for Motown, the pany found by Anna's younger brother was not the only imprt she left on the soul mic of the 1960s and 70s.

The words of some of Gaye's early hs, notably Pri and Joy, were spired by the betiful and sophistited woman he had met when he was still a ssn dmmer.