Anna Gordy Gaye, Ex-Wife of Marv Gaye, Dead at 92 – Rollg Stone

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• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• MEET MARV GAYE’S 3 KIDS INCLUDG SON OM HIS WIFE ANNA’S UNRAGE NIECE DENISE GORDY
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
•  WHERE ARE MARV GAYE CHILDREN NOW GRAMMYS TRIBUTE PRCE OF MOTOWN MERCY MERCY MERCY ME FAY
• ANNA GORDY GAYE
• ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• MARV GAYE NET WORTH
• ANNA GORDY GAYE NET WORTH

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

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. Gordy Gaye played a key role Marv Gaye’s life, both personally and profsnally.

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.

(Gaye fell love wh 17-year-old Janis Hunter durg the rerdg of Let’s Get It On).

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

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

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Anna Gordy Gaye is survived by her brothers, Berry and Robert, her son, Marv Gaye III, and two grandsons, Marv IV and Dillon.

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.

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

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 .

Notwhstandg the mors around his birth, Marv Gaye III had nothg but love for his father. "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.

She ptned :"This is Nona Gaye, Marv Gaye's talented is Marvs birthday and he was honored by a postage stamp. 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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE

"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. 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 four had been smokg weed and snortg e when Gaye noticed the pair sizg her up.

ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY

The next night, when the other uple returned for more, Gaye’s enthiasm had bee somethg else. 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.

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

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. At the time, Gaye was tranged om his wife, Anna Gordy, sister of Motown imprar Berry Gordy. Motown was Gaye’s rerd label, and both Gordys had played an outsized role Gaye’s reer.

Mutually enamored, Gaye brought Hunter to an Italian rtrant Hollywood, where he bribed the waer $20 to brg his unrage date aprit sours.

MARV GAYE NET WORTH

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.

Hunter says that Gaye clearly wanted her pregnant, and she did nothg to prevent . Gordy and Hunter briefly met once, and Gordy told Gaye to never brg “” to her home Imag.

“I jt want to see what someone like you looks like, ” Gordy told her, before turng to addrs Gaye. Hunter found herself pregnant soon after and noticed a troublg tenncy Gaye. ” Anytime they discsed their child, Gaye referred to him as a boy, and exprsed a preference for such.

ANNA GORDY GAYE NET WORTH

Hunter suffered a misrriage, and Gaye nsoled her by tellg her, “God giv and God tak away. Hunter’s first words to Gaye upon his seeg the child were, “I’m sorry. 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.

Gee Clton and Bernie Worrell would often drop by to shoot hoops and drop acid wh Gaye. She didn’t tell Gaye for fear of startg a fight, but time, she learned the effect may have been oppose.