Janis Hunter Gaye Dead: Wife of Motown Legend Marv Gaye Was 66 – The Hollywood Reporter

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• JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• JAN GAY
• WHO WAS JAN GAYE? MEET MARV GAYE’S EX-WIFE
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66
• JANIS GAYE WAS MARV GAYE’S ME — SHE ‘SAW MY SOUL,’ HE SAID — AND SO MUCH MORE
• JANIS GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66
• JAN GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66
• MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, JANIS HUNTER GAYE, HAS DIED AT 66 YEARS OLD
• JAN GAYE
• JAN GAYE, THE WIFE OF MOTOWN IN MARV GAYE, DI AGED 66
• JAN GAYE WAS MARRIED TO MARV GAYE: 10 FASCATG FACTS ABOUT HER
• MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, SIGNER JAN GAYE, DI AT 66
• GAY, JAN

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

Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her fay said a statement. “From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said a statement after notg how “eply sadned” she was by her mother’s passg. She also red about so many people the world, and I will do everythg I n to put to actn the thgs she wanted and help ntue the Gaye legacy.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

”Jan Hunter was troduced to Marv Gaye 1973 Los Angel via a producer iend of her mother’s, when the sger was 34 and she was 17. Marv Gaye died at the age of 44 three years later after beg shot twice the cht by his father at the Crenshaw District home he shared wh his parents.

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Marv Gaye wrote his 1974 h “Jan” for the woman who would bee his send wife, featurg the lyrics, “See, Janis is unique/ One of a kd/ Who says she lov me/ When she go to sleep, I kiss her face/ And thk I’m the luckit man/ And I’m her greatt fan/ There is no sweeter girl all the land (Land)/ Than my Jan (Jan), Janis (Janis), Jan (Jan), oh Jan (Janis)/ Jan (Jan).

WHO WAS JAN GAYE? MEET MARV GAYE’S EX-WIFE

”In the fay statement, Nona Gaye, who acted “Ali” and the “Matrix” seri, scribed her mother as an unfettable woman.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66

”In addn to her children and grandson, Jan Gaye is survived by her sister, Shawnn Monteiro, and brother, Mark Gaillard.

JANIS GAYE WAS MARV GAYE’S ME — SHE ‘SAW MY SOUL,’ HE SAID — AND SO MUCH MORE

Des before a formalized queer activist movement popped up, a rearcher named Jan Gay cid to seek liberatn a different way. Gay saw her study as a subtler type of activism—a way to document the many shas of queer inty, but also to show the world that queer people were far more like the rt of society than they had been given cred. Today, we have many ways to remember Gay: as a picture-book thor, a nudist lear, and the one-time roommate of Andy Warhol.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth this year, I have renstcted parts of Gay’s life through material held at the Library of Congrs and the Johns Hopks Medil Archiv, as well as om letters sent to me om a fay member of Gay’s. The glimps of Gay’s legacy highlight how early queer people envisned rearch as a way to advote for their muny—and how they were nohels erased om that From Harper's BAZAARFour upl of women pose for a photo, .

JANIS GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66

1910 (Photo by Kirn Vtage Stock/Corbis via Getty Imag)Kirn Vtage Stock//Getty ImagJan Gay was born wh the name Helen Reman on Febary 14, 1902 Leipzig, Germany.

Gay was born while her mother revered om mental health Gay moved to the Uned Stat, she studied at Northwtern Universy. In 1927, to distance herself om her father, she changed her name to Jan Gay—eher as a nod to the dual meang of the word gay, or, more likely, as a reference to her mother’s fay. Gay also beme an early figure the nudism movement: She served as the director of the Out-of-Door Club, a nudist lony of 50 people Highland, New York, where she enuraged rearchers to study the psychologil differenc between nudists and people who wore cloth.

JAN GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66

In 1932, she published On Gog Naked, a book that blends Gay’s own experience of nudism wh a larger history of the nudism movement. At Hirschfeld’s Instute for Sexual Science, a proment rearch clic, Gay read Hirschfeld’s “books and not and rerds ncerng homosexuals, seeg somethg of the treatment acrd them, ” she wrote later.

Her qutns mt have sound peculiar to a school admistrator the 1930s: What was, Gay asked, the faculty’s attu toward csh or “passnate iendships” among same-genr stunts? When Gay sent the same qutnnaire to other schools, only some exprsed greater openns to the ia that they might have queer stunts their ranks. Vermont’s Benngton College admted to Gay that had disvered “two or three” relatnships between female stunts, and a doctor at Mount Holyoke said that three girls had “brought up the qutn of homosexualy” wh saw her study as a subtler type of until that pot, the Uned Stat, rearch to queer people was highly clil, and often done through a lens of ntempt.

”When Gay had fished her terviews, she piled them to a 70, 000-word book, which she tentatively tled Soclogil Aspects of Female Homosexualy. Gay ntacted the gynelogist and birth ntrol advote Robert Latou Dickson, who proposed that the two of them llaborate on a larger study of homosexualy.

MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, JANIS HUNTER GAYE, HAS DIED AT 66 YEARS OLD

In s ial outle, the Commtee for the Study of Sex Variants noted that the subjects of s study “were to be obtaed through the servic of Miss Jan Gay, ” addg—phemistilly—that Gay had “close ntact wh this field for a number of years.

JAN GAYE

)Two women on bend knee and drsed as men, appear to be proposg marriage to two women unison, cir Vtage Stock//Getty ImagGay troduced each queer person to the mtee g only their first name and last ial. Then, the rearchers classified each person as eher bisexual, homosexual, or soon found herself siled out of her own study. While Gay saw the rearch as a way to showse the variety the queer muny, Henry viewed queerns as a threat to the heterosexual orr.

JAN GAYE, THE WIFE OF MOTOWN IN MARV GAYE, DI AGED 66

He wrote an early proposal that “homosexualy is a form of arrted psychosexual velopment which serly terfer wh reproductn.

They paid Gay to “supplement” her rearch wh stricter medil histori of each queer person, cludg by nductg X-rays, pelvic measurements, physil examatns, and hormone iends and acquatanc of Gay sat for extend terviews wh the rearchers, they told her that the techniqu felt vasive.

In a September 1935 letter, Gay wrote to a rearcher on the mtee that three of her iends “went away om their terviews feelg that they had rather been ma fools of, ” and plaed that the rearchers’ llo approach to terviewg queer women was jeopardizg the study. Gay wrote one letter, “When one of the foremost women paters Ameri giv up an afternoon and eveng to such a study as this and the whole emphasis nversatn wh her is placed upon the pattern of her sex procre—wh not even the vagut mentn of her creative and athetic and spirual terts and velopment—somethg is, seems to me, a ltle b wrong.

JAN GAYE WAS MARRIED TO MARV GAYE: 10 FASCATG FACTS ABOUT HER

In May 1939, when Gay read the mancript for the mtee’s rearch fdgs—soon to be the book Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns—“My chief reactn is one of disappotment, ” she wrote a letter to the entire mtee. ” While few of the queer people terviewed had crimal histori, Henry repeatedly pared them to “psychotics” and “crimals, ” Gay wrote.

Vtig of Gay’s early tert nudism also lgered: Acrdg to the bgraphy Warhol by Blake Gopnik, Gay parad around their apartment an untied kimono.

At least once, after a vlent outbreak, Gay was rted off to the hospal a she died 1960, Gay received a short obuary The New York Tim that scribed her only as a “publicist and thor” whose book on nudism had “created a stir the early Neteen Thirti.

MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, SIGNER JAN GAYE, DI AT 66

For s, queer people have been attemptg to change how they were portrayed scientific and popular lerature; if Gay’s story is any ditn, they were jt stripped of the opportuny to get regnized.

(Charl Syk / Invisn / Associated Prs)Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and mother of two of his children, has died, her fay said a statement. “From the time she met my father, she was exposed to the way he saw this world was achg, and she did her bt to prerve his legacy as he was taken om far too early, ” Nona Gaye said a statement, after notg how "eply sadned" she was by her mother's passg. "Jan Hunter was troduced to Marv Gaye 1973 Los Angel, via a producer iend of her mother's, when the sger was 34 and she was 17.

GAY, JAN

Anna Gordy and Gaye separated 1975 and divorced welg dghter Nona 1974 and son Frankie 1975, Jan and Marv got married 1977.

They separated 1979, and their divorce was falized Gaye died at the age of 44 three years later after beg shot twice the cht by his father at the Crenshaw District home he shared wh his parents.