The Dark Si of Marv Gaye's 1st Marriage Involved His Wife's 15-Year-Old Niece

Contents:

• THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS
• MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS
• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS
• MARV GAYE’S EX DETAILS SGER’S SEXUAL DEVIANCE, DGS NEW MEMOIR
• MARV GAYE - MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS ALBUM
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

THE DARK SI OF MARV GAYE’S 1ST MARRIAGE INVOLVED HIS WIFE’S 15-YEAR-OLD NIECE

CelebryMarv Gaye had an credible but troublg life many areas, culmatg his tragic ath. Marv Gaye was a tan of Motown soul durg s heyday, a pop perfectnist wh a voice like velvet who gave a generatn of lovers a soundtrack to exprs their feelgs.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Gaye’s journey wh his first wife, Anna Gordy, started sweetly enough but eventually beme poisono for both parti. Marv Gaye and Tammi Terrell (L) pose for a portra wh two men and Marv’s first wife Anna Gordy (C) 1968 | Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag.

MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS

Their love story began 1959 when Gaye was a staff dmmer for the short-lived Motown precsor Anna Rerds. Gaye wrote several songs spired by their uplg, most notably “Pri and Joy, ” one of his first big hs. Their relatnship is also notable for another reason: Gordy was 17 years olr than Gaye.

MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS

Gaye and Gordy beme parents circumstanc that are more problematic now than they were at the time.

The story about Marv Gaye III’s parentage was rerd the book, Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marv Gaye by Steve Turner. Gaye was physilly and emotnally abed by his mister father, Marv Gay Sr., his entire childhood. 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 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. “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 IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER

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.

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. 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.

MARV GAYE

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

MARV GAYE & HIS GIRLS

“I jt want to see what someone like you looks like, ” Gordy told her, before turng to addrs 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.

MARV GAYE’S EX DETAILS SGER’S SEXUAL DEVIANCE, DGS NEW MEMOIR

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.

MARV GAYE - MARV GAYE AND HIS GIRLS ALBUM

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.

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.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

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 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. “That I lost myself someone else — someone as remarkable as Marv Gaye — is no longer e for self-nmnatn. Marv Gaye and His Girls is a 1969 pilatn album of duets rerd by Marv Gaye and var female sgers on the Tamla label.