Anna Gordy, ex-wife of Marv Gaye, di at 92 | CNN

Contents:

• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• 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
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
•  WHERE ARE MARV GAYE CHILDREN NOW GRAMMYS TRIBUTE PRCE OF MOTOWN MERCY MERCY MERCY ME FAY
• ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY
• ANNA GORDY GAYE
• 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
• MARV GAYE'S 2ND EX-WIFE JANIS CHEATED ON HIM WH 2 FAMO SGERS AMID ABIVE RELATNSHIP THE 1970S
• ANNA GORDY GAYE, MOTOWN SONGWRER AND EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 92
• ANNA GORDY GAYE(1921-2014)

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Gordy and Hunter briefly met once, and Gordy told Gaye to never brg “” to her home Imag.

ANNA GORDY GAYE OBUARY

“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.

Hunter suffered a misrriage, and Gaye nsoled her by tellg her, “God giv and God tak away.

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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.

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

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, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI

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.

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. 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!

MARV GAYE'S 2ND EX-WIFE JANIS CHEATED ON HIM WH 2 FAMO SGERS AMID ABIVE RELATNSHIP THE 1970S

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 rage subsid before he uld do physil harm, but for Jan, this was the fal straw.

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.

Gaye was shot to ath a btal fight wh his father on April 1, 1984. “That I lost myself someone else — someone as remarkable as Marv Gaye — is no longer e for self-nmnatn. 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.

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

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.

ANNA GORDY GAYE(1921-2014)

(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. 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. 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. 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.