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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.

The Spir, the Flh and Marv Gaye.

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

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). 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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY

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.

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.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

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

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD 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. 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.

ANNA GORDY, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI

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.

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

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

Marv and Jan GayeCourty of Jan Gaye. “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.

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. Hunter rells her first time seeg Gaye person.

Hunter met Gaye when she was jt 17.

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

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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE

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 .

Hunter would have a dghter and son wh Gaye by the time she was 22.

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

Courty of Jan Gaye. Gaye was tranged om his wife Anna Gordy when he met Hunter.

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

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.

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

” Anytime they discsed their child, Gaye referred to him as a boy, and exprsed a preference for such. 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.

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

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. Gaye veloped a hab of steerg Hunter toward other men, whether out of some perverse masochism or genue light.

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

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. It was Gaye, seemgly hopg to tch them the act.

Beverly crawled back to his room on his hands and kne, and Gaye found Hunter alone. After a long, ugly and expensive legal battle, Gaye was fally divorced om Anna Gordy, and married Hunter — now Jan Gaye — October 1977. Jan me to wonr if Gaye saw any mment as “a prison.

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.

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

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!

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. Gaye’s jealoy turned vlent.

Gaye told her, “I’ve loved you too much.