Anna Gordy Gaye, Marv Gaye's ex-wife, di at 92

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• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, DI AT 92
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66
• ANNA GORDY GAYE
• JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI LOS ANGEL AT 92
• MARV GAYE III’S WIFE FIL RTRAG ORR AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE ARRT
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI AT 92
• MARV GAYE III FIL FOR DIVORCE OM WIFE WENDY AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE CINT
• ANNA GORDY GAYE DEAD -- MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE DI AT 92

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.

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

The Spir, the Flh and Marv Gaye.

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).

ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY

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.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

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.

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

Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and former wife of the late Marv Gaye, wh whom she -wrote songs for his "What's Gog On" album, died at her home Los Angel early…. Anna Gordy Gaye. Anna Gordy Gaye, the sister of Motown founr Berry Gordy and former wife of the late Marv Gaye, wh whom she -wrote songs for his “What’s Gog On” album, died at her home Los Angel early Friday morng.

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

An official fay statement said Gordy Gaye was surround by her son Marv Gaye III and other loved on. Earlier, a fay publicist said Gaye passed away om natural . She married Motown artist Marv Gaye 1963 and worked as a songwrer for the Detro-based R&B/Soul label.

ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI

The hband-wife team penned several hs, cludg “Baby, I’m For Real” and “The Bells” for The Origals, and later “Fly’ High (In the Friendly Sky)” and “God Is Love” off Gaye’s landmark “What’s Gog On” album, released 1971. Their 1977 divorce was unique that a settlement was worked out givg Gordy Gaye the royalti of Gaye’s next album, which he filled wh personal songs about the failed relatnship.

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

The pair later renciled and remaed iends until Gaye’s ath 1984.

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

Gordy Gaye is survived by son Marv Gaye III. 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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE

She beme his ocsnal songwrg partner, llaboratg on two songs – Fly' High and God is Love – for the classic album What's Gog On, and on The Bells and Baby I'm For Real, two of the ft soul ballads of the early 1970s, both rerd by the Origals, a Motown vol group, unr Gaye's third of the eight children born to Berry "Pops" Gordy II and his wife Bertha, Anna was not a year old when the fay moved om Onee, Geia, her birthplace, to Detro, a cy on whose worldwi reputatn the amb and entreprenrial fay would have much fluence. At 18, after graduatg om high school, she moved to California, soon joed by Berry Jr, one of her younger brothers, who was then pursug a reer as a eventually returned to Detro, where Berry Jr would found the Motown group of labels, wh Gaye among s first artists.

In 1973 Marv left Anna for the 16-year-old Janis Hunter, who beme his send wife and the mother of two more were amibly renciled the years immediately before Gaye was shot ad by his father 1984. Here, My Dear, wh s mixture of remembered joy and prent anguish, will rema as an extraordary is survived by Marv III and two grandsons, Marv IV and Dylan Gaye.

JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66

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, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI LOS ANGEL AT 92

After, Gaye projected his joy at the event onto Hunter. The next night, when the other uple returned for more, Gaye’s enthiasm had bee somethg else.

MARV GAYE III’S WIFE FIL RTRAG ORR AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE ARRT

She refed, the uple left and Gaye told her how he really felt about the fantasy that his proddg had ma real.

Marv and Jan GayeCourty of Jan Gaye.

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

“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 III FIL FOR DIVORCE OM WIFE WENDY AFTER DOMTIC VLENCE CINT

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. Janis Hunter met Marv Gaye when she was 17. 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 DEAD -- MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE DI AT 92

Hunter rells her first time seeg Gaye person. Hunter met Gaye when she was jt 17. 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.