Marv Gaye is shot and killed by his own father

Contents:

• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?
• HOW MARV GAYE WAS BEATEN, STARVED & ABED BY CROSS-DRSG PREACHER DAD WHO SHOT HIM AD AT POT BLANK RANGE
• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• FATHER OF SLA SGER MARV GAYE GETS PROBATN
• MOSW JURY ACQUS MAN OF MURRG GAY DPE CONFSN
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE
• RSIAN VTIGATN FDS MEN WERE SHOT THE HEAD AT CLOSE RANGE AT CHECHEN 'PRISON FOR GAYS'
• CHECHEN POLICE TA 20 DISTURBG BID TO TRACK DOWN GAY TORTURE VICTIMS’ PARENTS
• ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER
• MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND
• MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?

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

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. 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.

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. (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.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?

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. The father of Marv Gaye said a jail cell terview published here today that he did shoot his son, but thought the weapon that killed the soul sger was load wh BBs or blanks and "I regret what happened to this moment. ' " In the terview, published today's Los Angel Herald-Examer, Gay, a retired ordaed mister, also said his son was heavily g e, which turned him to "somethg like a beastlike person...

" The elr Gay--whose name is spelled differently bee his son add an "e" to the fay name when he began his reer--said his son was troubled and prone to vlent outbursts. Gay plead nocent to a murr charge Wednday, and was orred held li of $100, 000 bail while psychologil tts requted by his attorney are nducted.

HOW MARV GAYE WAS BEATEN, STARVED & ABED BY CROSS-DRSG PREACHER DAD WHO SHOT HIM AD AT POT BLANK RANGE

He said the gun that fired the fatal shots belonged to Gaye, and that his son rried a gun his robe the morng of the argument that end his ath.

" The two were separated by the mother, Mart said, and Gaye was on the bed talkg to her when the father appeared at the doorway wh a gun his hand and fired one round. " Gay said he had seen no news acunts of the ath of his son, whose hs ranged om the 1960s Motown sound of "I Heard It Through the Grapeve" to the 1983 Grammy-wng "Sexual Healg.

Marv Gay senr, the rrect spellg of the fay name was whout an 'e' at the end of their surname, died hospal after velopg pnmonia at a retirement home long beach, California. Followg the shootg of Marv Gaye, the day before his 45th birthday, Marv snr was nvicted of voluntary manslghter and given a six-year spend prison sentence.

MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER

For a sublime sight to how Marv Gaye, perhaps rather bizarrely, lived Ostend, Belgium, for a short perd the early 1980s, then look out for a BBC documentary, Trouble Man. 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).

FATHER OF SLA SGER MARV GAYE GETS PROBATN

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. 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…. LOS ANGELES -- The elrly preacher father of sla soul sger Marv Gaye was placed on five years probatn Friday for shootg his Grammy Award-wng son durg a heated argument the fay home April. Gay, who appeared ail and worn om his oral and medil problems that clud surgery for the removal of a bra tumor May, was barely dible as he spoke to the urt.

MOSW JURY ACQUS MAN OF MURRG GAY DPE CONFSN

Gay plead no ntt at his September arraignment -- the legal equivalent to guilty -- to voluntary manslghter the shootg ath of his 44-year-old son.

HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR

A probatn officer who recently terviewed Gay stated a report that 'he exprs remorse for his actns and the ath of his son and wish that the victim uld walk through the door and would all be a bad dream. The elr Gay shot his son twice the cht -- the fatal bullet piercg the sger's heart -- durg the argument April 1 which the entertaer flicted massive bis on his father.

The sat-voiced Gaye domated the soul mic charts durg much of his rocky 30-year reer wh such h rerds the 1960s and 1970s as 'I Heard It Through the Grapeve, ' 'What's Gog On, ' 'I'll Be Doggone, ' 'A't No Mounta High Enough' and 'A't That Peculiar.

Gaye, who add the 'e' to his last name when he began his entertament reer, won a Grammy 1983 for his 'Sexual Healg' sgle om the album 'Midnight Love. Artyom Lapov, a lawyer om the gay rights group Stimul, said on Febary 7 that jurors at the trial at the Basmanny district urt found Anton Berezhnoi not guilty of murr the beatg of Roman Yedalov, stead nvictg him of a lser charge of asslt. Although homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, anti-gay sentiment among many Rsians remas strong and attacks agast homosexuals across the untry occur on a regular basis.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

Shot his son Marv Gaye at pot-blank range si the fay's Los Angel home on April 1, mic cric Michael Eric Dyson once said, Motown legend Marv Gaye “chased away the mons of lns… wh his heavenly sound and dive art.

But not only did Marv Gaye endure this abive childhood, he eventually found worldwi fame as a soul sger for the inic Motown Rerds the 1960s and ’70s. But as the Prce Of Motown’s brother, Frankie, later said his memoir Marv Gaye: My Brother, Marv Gaye’s ath seemed wrten stone om the begng. By the time he had a fay himself, Gay was a mister a strict Pentestal sect who discipled his children severely, wh Marv reportedly gettg the worst of .

Whether or not that’s te, the source of the mors was largely that he cross-drsed, a behavr that was — often erroneoly — lked wh homosexualy, pecially s past.

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

Acrdg to Marv Gaye, his father often wore women’s cloth, and “there have been perds when [my father’s] hair was very long and curled unr, and when he seemed que adamant showg the world the girlish si of himself. As he started to make a name for himself profsnally, Gaye wanted to distance himself om his toxic relatnship wh his father so he changed his name om “Gay” to “Gaye. Gaye eventually moved wh a mil lleague of his to Detro and was able to secure a performance for the biggt name on that cy’s mic scene, Motown Rerds founr Berry Gordy.

By the time Marv Gaye fished what would be his last tour 1983, he had veloped a e addictn to pe wh the prsur of the road as well as his failed marriage to Anna due to his fily and which rulted a ntent legal battle. That one shot was enough to kill Gaye, but after he fell to the ground, his father approached him and shot him a send and third time at pot-blank range.

Alberta fled horror and her younger son Frankie, who lived a gut hoe on the property wh his wife, was the first one to enter the scene jt after Marv Gaye’s ath. Kypros/Getty ImagAfter the funeral, which clud a performance om Stevie Wonr, Marv Gaye was cremated and his ash were sttered near the Pacific Ocean. In a jail cell terview before his trial, Gay admted that “I pulled the trigger, ” but claimed that he thought the gun was load wh BB pellets.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

Furthermore, his fense, Gay claimed that his son had bee “somethg like a beastlike person” on e and that the sger beat him terribly before the shootg occurred.

As for the nature of the argument that preced Marv Gaye’s ath, distrght neighbors claimed at the time that the fight was over plans for the sger’s 45th birthday, which was the next day. Whatever the e and whatever the tth of Gay’s BB claims, he add that he was remorseful and that he didn’t even know his son had died until a tective told him hours later.

Elsewhere, Steve Turner (the thor of Gaye’s bgraphy Trouble Man) tailed the emotnal and physil abe Gaye and his siblgs suffered at the hands of their father.

RSIAN VTIGATN FDS MEN WERE SHOT THE HEAD AT CLOSE RANGE AT CHECHEN 'PRISON FOR GAYS'

In the years sce his ath, everyone om Charlie Puth and Elton John to Thomas Rhett has ma mentn of Gaye their songs, makg clear jt how fluential Gaye was to mic as a whole. Whether was his h duets wh Tammi Terrell, the polilly-charged album "What's Gog On, " or the oozg sexualy of his only Grammy-wng song "Sexual Healg, " Gaye beme a hoehold name wh the Amerin mil landspe. David Rz his 1991 revised edn of his Marv Gaye bgraphy, "Divid Soul, " noted the importance of Gaye's mic more potedly: "Marv's name has been mentned — reverential ton — on no ls than seven top-ten h rerds.

Yet those nearly 45 years of life, Gaye went om sirg to sg standards to shapg the sound of Motown to beg an in and creative geni mandg full creative ntrol of his mic — which led the way for others like Stevie Wonr. Photographer Godey Frankel took pictur of the muny, talked to s habants, and shared a scriptn that probably would have matched Gaye's experience.

The general perspective on the neighborhood at the time by surroundg (wealthier) rints was one of disgt and fear — "They radiate out sanary fluenc" (via a 2018 Public Health Report) — which explas why Gaye, his iends, and the rt of the Southwt muny probably felt like they were om another untry. Was a vlent man, and his wife and children, cludg Marv Gaye, lived fear of his punishments and the evable relig reasong behd his domtic abe (via The Vtage News). In orr to pe a nasty home life, Marv Gaye enlisted wh the Air Force wh visns of beg a pilot like Errol Flynn, even though he was terrified of flyg.

CHECHEN POLICE TA 20 DISTURBG BID TO TRACK DOWN GAY TORTURE VICTIMS’ PARENTS

However, most acunts of this mor change of nam, the person makg the cisn was Gaye himself, once aga stemmg om his plited relatnship wh his father. Gaye talks about his name  "Divid Soul" and how he was eply troubled by havg the same name as his father, who is often scribed as a "sexually ambiguo man. His first partner 1964 was Mary Wells — at the time, the "queen of Motown" — but their duet rerd, "Together, " tamed her sound while gave Gaye a platform to she.

ALBERTA GAY, 74, DI; MOTHER OF SOUL SGER

Gaye was then placed wh Kim Wton, and their song "It Tak Two" beme a massive h, but after that rerd, she, too, left Motown (via The New Yorker). Then me the fotten Oma Heard (often mistaken on rerds as Oma Page) who was experienced the rerd dtry by the time she rerd some duet sis wh Gaye. It wasn't until 1973 when Barry Gordy tried to nvce Gaye to do a duet rerd wh Diana Ross that Gaye revealed his feelgs about havg another duet partner.

MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME

Wells and Wton had both left Motown after their duet albums wh Gaye, and neher had much of a reer after leavg; and Terrell's ath still weighed heavily on Gaye. ESPN ntextualiz this moment Gaye's life by potg out that Tammi Terrell's ath happened jt a uple of years after the assassatns of Mallm X, Mart Luther Kg, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. While Marv Gaye would be mostly known for creatg the mic behd the film, "Trouble Man, " he did try his hand at beg ont of the mera as well.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND

In 1969 and 1971, Gaye would have small rol two relatively fotten films, "The Ballad of Andy Crocker" and "Chrome and Hot Leather, " rpectively.

MARVIN GAYE: WHY DID HIS FATHER KILL HIM?

However, Michael Eric Dyson revealed his book, "Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Lov & Demons of Marv Gaye" that the child was actually Gaye's blogil son, and he had, wh much parallel to the Biblil story of Abraham and Sarah, had terurse wh the 15-year-old Denise orr to have a son, sce his wife uldn't get pregnant. It ma sense that Gaye never admted to beg the father — not even to David Rz "Divid Soul" — bee, acrdg to Dyson, "Marv had ma love to a mor, apparently wh the nsent of all volved. When Marv Gaye divorced Anna Gordy 1977 and subsequently separated om send wife, Janis Hunter – who was 17 when they met and fell love – 1979, his fancial issu began to encroach to his existence to the pot that he uld no longer ignore .

Acrdg to David Rz's "Divid Soul, " Gaye thought that Motown had gotten their hands on the unfished masters om a uple of the micians who had snuck them out of London and brought them to Los Angel.

From an early age, Marv Gaye was kidd by his peers for his father's looks, ambiguo sexualy, effemacy, and the poorly kept secret that he would drs women's clothg. " When David Rz talked to Gaye about his father and his own nfed feelgs of sexualy, he noted that he, himself, was trigued by women's clothg. Gaye had tervened an argument between his mother and father that night and paid the ultimate price, one almost seemgly termed by fate knowg how ever-prent the threat of his father had been throughout his life (via "Divid Soul").