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

Contents:

• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?
• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY
• MARV GAYE
• MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE'S KILLER AND FATHER?
• THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER
• MARV GAYE: FATHER, FATHER, THERE'S TOO MANY OF US DYG
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

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

Marv Gaye had prevly scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg.

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.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?

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.

MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER

At the peak of his reer, Marv Gaye was the Prce of Motown—the soulful voice behd hs as wi-rangg as “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy). ” Like his label-mate Stevie Wonr, Gaye both epomized and outgrew the crowd-pleasg sound that ma Motown famo. That life me to a tragic end on April 1, 1984, when Marv Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th the physil e of Marv Gaye’s ath was straightforward—”Gunshot wound to cht perforatg heart, lung and liver, ” acrdg to the Los Angel County Coroner—the events that led to were much more tangled.

Marv Gay, Sr., (the “e” was add by his son for his stage name) was a preacher the Hebrew Pentestal Church and a proponent of a strict moral he enforced btally wh his four children.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Clearly harbored unrolved feelgs toward his abive feelgs spilled out for the fal time the Los Angel home of Marv Gay, Sr., and his wife Alberta.

Only one year removed om his first Grammy w and om a triumphant return to the pop charts wh “Sexual Healg, ” Marv Gaye was horrible physil, psychologil and fancial an argument between father and son lated to a physil fight on the morng of April 1, 1984, Alberta Gay was tryg to lm her son his bedroom when Marv Sr. Marv Gaye’s brother, Frankie, who lived next door, and who held the legendary sger durg his fal mut, later wrote his memoir that Marv Gaye’s fal, disturbg statement was, “I got what I wanted….

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

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.

MARV GAYE

(Photo by Elsworth Davis/The Washgton Post via Getty Imag)Most people have heard the story behd the horrific shootg that led to the untimely ath of Marv Gaye.

Not only were fans shocked about his sudn ath, but how he died also created a media WHAT WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISING IS HOW MUCH TIME HIS DAD SPENT IN JAIL & THE COURT FOOTAGE OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED(via Instagram)Dpe the horrific murr, Marv Gaye Sr.

To walk Gaye Funeral (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)Durg an terview wh the LA Tim, the retired pastor, Marv Gaye Sr., exprsed remorse for shootg his son and also shared his si of the story.

MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?

WAS SET FREE…The rare urt footage and tailed acunt of the murr trial do not negate the fact that Marv Gaye Sr. 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. “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.

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.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

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. 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. 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.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

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!

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE'S KILLER AND FATHER?

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.

THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER

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. He was also signed to GAYE IIIWhen he troduced his son Marv Gaye III to the world, there were many speculatns around the child's birth.

MARV GAYE: FATHER, FATHER, THERE'S TOO MANY OF US DYG

The great sger would later reveal shortly before his ath that the boy was adopted, a revelatn that was later proven to be Gaye on stage at De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 1, 1980.

| Photo: Getty ImagWhen qutns about the blogil parents of Marv Gaye III arose, the late star found a way to get around . "Soul sger Marv Gaye hugs his children, Nona Gaye and Frankie Chirstian Gaye at an event cir 1981 | Photo: Getty ImagThe picture showed Marv Gaye III's three sons and his two dghters huddled together and sg wh a picture of himself and his wife photoshopped to Gaye III is also a mician, jt like his father; he released a track tled "Can't Take My Ey Off You" 2013 and posted a picture of the track ver on Twter wh a lk to watch the vio letter talked about how their father would handle the GAYEThe late Marv Gaye also had two more children, asis om his son Marv Gaye III.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

FRANKIE GAYEAlthough not much is known about his third child Frankie Gaye, he once joed his siblgs to pen down a letter to clear misnceptns about the succsful lawsus agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams's h song "Blurred L.

"Acrdg to the lawsu, Thicke and Williams were alleged to have pied Gaye‘s 1977 h song "Got to Give It Up" for their song, "Blurred L. " The letter also talked about how their late father would have reacted to the said if he were alive, he would embrace the technology available to artists, but he would also be vigilant about protectg artist's rights and givg cred where is IS MARVIN GAYETheir late father, Marv Gaye, was a talented sger and is known for his ol jazz mic and his ntroversial lyrics.

After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds. Gaye also enjoyed a seri of succsful duets, most notably wh Tammi Terrell (“A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” [1968]). Blsed wh an exceptnally wi range that enpassed three distct vol styl—a piercg falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a ep gospel growl—Gaye bed great technil prows wh rare mil dividualy.