Marv Gaye Fay Lawyer: How I Won the ‘Blurred L’ Trial (Gut Column) – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• HERE'S WHO INHERED MARV GAYE'S ESTATE WHEN HE DIED
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• THE ESTATE OF MARV GAYE: FROM BANKPT TO NOT
• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE IS NOW AFTER T.I., UMG AND INTERSPE ALSO
• MARV GAYE ESTATE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS COUNSEL DEMAND RULG IN LATT LEGAL SHOWDOWN
• LAWYER: MARV GAYE’S ESTATE EXPLOED ROB THICKE’S ‘PERSONAL VULNERABILY’
• LAWYER: MARV GAYE’S ESTATE EXPLOED ROB THICKE’S ‘PERSONAL VULNERABILY’
• MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER
• ED SHEERAN’S ATTORNEY SAYS THERE’S NO ‘SMOKG GUN’ MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘SHOOTG BLANKS’
• MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE REVIV “BLURRED L” LAWSU AFTER PHARRELL’S COMMENTS IN ‘GQ’ INTERVIEW
• MARV GAYE FAY LAWYER: HOW I WON THE ‘BLURRED L’ TRIAL (GUT COLUMN)
• THE JURY'S VERDICT ON THE ED SHEERAN - MARV GAYE DEBACLE IS IN!
• MARV GAYE CONCERT SETLISTS & TOUR DAT

HERE'S WHO INHERED MARV GAYE'S ESTATE WHEN HE DIED

R&B star Marv Gaye n add his name to the list of performers whose liv were marred by tragedy. In 1984, at the age of 44, Gaye's life was tragilly cut short after he was shot to ath by his own father followg an argument.

What's worse, Gaye was basilly broke at the time, his tate beg worth ls than what owed bt, leavg his heirs wh next to nothg. Marv Gaye's heirs have been able to make some money off of his mic rights. When Marv Gaye died, he was the father of three children, acrdg to Rollg Stone: Marv III, Frankie, and Nona.

ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'

What's more, when the dt had settled on the Gaye tate's bts, the mic rights actually turned out to be profable for the fay. To this day the fay ntu to earn money om their father's talog: for example, 2015, as NBC News reports, Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were orred to pay $5 ln royalti to the Gaye tate after a judge creed their song "Blurred L" ged on the pyright of Gaye's 1977 h song "Got to Give It Up. Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye tate for 'Blurred L'The five-year legal battle has end wh a verdict favor of Mart Gaye's tate, who sued claimg "Blurred L" pied Gaye's "Got To Give It Up"Sger Pharrell Williams and sger Rob Thicke perform together Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 6, Wilkg / Rters fileDec.

13, 2018, 8:24 PM UTCThe long drawn-out pyright battle over Rob Thicke’s 2013 song “Blurred L” has end after a judge orred Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay almost $5 ln to Marv Gaye’s tate the se’s fal lg. Members of Gaye’s fay sued Thicke and Williams, along wh rapper and featured artist on the song, T.

THE ESTATE OF MARV GAYE: FROM BANKPT TO NOT

I., 2013 for pyright gement of Gaye’s 1977 h song “Got to Give It Up. ”In 2015, the Gaye fay won their se. The urt orred Thicke and Williams to pay Gaye’s tate more than $7 ln dollars, an amount that was later rced to $5.

6 lg, a judge the Central District of California reaffirmed the March lg, clarg Thicke, Williams, and More Water From Nazareth Publishg mt pay Gaye’s tate $2.

76 ln dollars, while Williams and his publishg pany mt each pay Gaye’s tat separate rewards of $357, 630. Was cleared of any liabily March, a cisn upheld this last and fal Gaye tate was also reward half of the song’s nng royalti om after the urt’s origal judgment date, and tert of 0. In 2016, more than 200 micians, cludg Jennifer Hudson and Hans Zimmer, filed an amic brief support of Thicke and Williams appeal, claimg the verdict would be “very dangero” to the mic the Gaye fay first filed their lawsu, other high-profile artists like Lana Del Rey and Mark Ronson have been siarly KslenBen Kslen is a reporter for NBC News.

MARV GAYE’S ESTATE IS NOW AFTER T.I., UMG AND INTERSPE ALSO

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud. “Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On. “Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeWhat were the trial’s highlights?

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The trial was watched closely mic and legal circl as the latt example a seri of s that have alt wh whether monplace bs of harmony or melody n be owned by any poser or are part of the public trend began 2015 when a jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, their h “Blurred L, ” had ged on the pyright of another Gaye tune, “Got to Give It Up, ” and they were orred to pay more than $5 ln damag.

MARV GAYE ESTATE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS COUNSEL DEMAND RULG IN LATT LEGAL SHOWDOWN

The first of this month marked the 35th anniversary of the tragic ath of Marv Gaye, who was jt a day shy of his 45th birthday. Fortunately, however, Gaye’s executors—wh the help of a savvy bankptcy attorney—managed to salvage his most important asset: the sger’s tellectual property.

At the time of his ath, Gaye had acced $9. Bouts of prsn, two failed marriag—one of which st him $600, 000 royalti om his 1978 album “Here, My Dear, ” which reunted the fallout of his first marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye—and a heavy substance abe addictn had led him to filg for bankptcy and seekg temporary tax exile Europe. Gaye had left behd all but a Will.

But through skilled marketg of his mic rights, Gaye’s executors were able to pay off the mounta of bt. Gaye’s fay claimed that the song mirrored their father’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up. All this to say…Gaye’s heirs were still pretty lucky.

LAWYER: MARV GAYE’S ESTATE EXPLOED ROB THICKE’S ‘PERSONAL VULNERABILY’

Marv Gaye’s tate has been on a legal enzy lately, and they are not stoppg anytime soon. Richard Bch, the Gaye’s fay attorney, is cemented on the belief that there is no separatn between those who distributed the song and those who created . Not to mentn the fay’s recent sentiments on Pharrell’s “Happy” also soundg a b too siar to Gaye’s “A’t That Peculiar.

An vtment banker who owns the rights to Marv Gaye’s 1973 number one h ‘Let’s Get It On’ is tryg to sue Ed Sheeran for $100 ln over alleged siari between the soul classic and Sheeran’s 2015 sgle ‘Thkg Out Loud’.

LAWYER: MARV GAYE’S ESTATE EXPLOED ROB THICKE’S ‘PERSONAL VULNERABILY’

Prevly, back 2016, the fay of Gaye’s -wrer Ed Townsend tried to make the same plat, suggtg that Sheeran’s song borrows extensively om the melody, harmony, and rhythmic ponents of ‘Let’s Get It On’. You’ll remember how a few years back that the Gaye tate took Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams to the absolute fuckg cleaners to the tune of $7 ln for that ‘Blurred L’ song. The Marv Gaye tate and “Freedom” creator Pharrell Williams have jotly mand that the urt make a lg their latt legal showdown.

Reprentativ for Marv Gaye as well as unsel for Pharrell Williams recently lled for a cisn their ongog urtroom nontatn, which iated December of 2019.

For background, a feral appeals urt 2018 upheld a multiln-dollar verdict agast Williams and Rob Thicke, who a jury termed had ged upon Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” (1977) their “Blurred L” (2013) December of 2019, the Marv Gaye tate acced Pharrell Williams of perjury based upon ments he ma durg a GQ terview wh Rick Rub, purportedly ntradictg statements he offered durg the origal trial.

MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER

“I did not go the stud wh the tentn of makg anythg feel like, or to sound like, Marv Gaye, ” Williams had relayed while unr the GQ terview, however, the Virgia Beach-born artist dited: “What we [Williams and equent llaborator Chad Hugo] always tried to do was reverse engeer the songs that did somethg to emotnally and figure out where the mechanism is. It’s very technil what you’ve done, ’” add Pharrell top of the $5 ln verdict, Marv Gaye’s tate lled on Williams to pay lns legal fe om the years-long lawsu.

(He and the se’s addnal fendants were found liable for pyright gement, but not willful pyright gement, which, among other thgs, would have pelled them to ver the Marv Gaye tate’s legal fe. )Williams and his unsel Febary of 2020 phed back agast the claims, while the Marv Gaye tate returned fire early March, jt before the domtic onset of the COVID-19 panmic.

ED SHEERAN’S ATTORNEY SAYS THERE’S NO ‘SMOKG GUN’ MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘SHOOTG BLANKS’

Rob Thicke’s “moment of personal vulnerabily” was exploed by lawyers for Marv Gaye’s tate, acrdg to Thicke’s attorney Howard Kg.

Kg’s ments are the latt velopment the ntug saga volvg Thicke and the Gaye tate over Thicke’s h sgle “Blurred L. Dpe, Kg’s claims, Gaye’s tate untered wh claims that they did not brg Thicke’s personal issu to the se. Thicke and his unsel did so the attempt to avoid his prr admissns regardg “Got to Give It Up, ” Gaye’s children stated an email om their attorney.

MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS

The Marv Gaye tate/Rob Thicke se stems om a preemptive lawsu filed by Thicke and Williams Augt 2013 that nied they stole sampl of Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up, ” acrdg to reports. The preemptive su rulted a untersu filed by Gaye’s children Nona Gaye, Frankie Gaye and Marv Gaye III October.

Article Details:Marv Gaye: The Motown Legend Who Was Murred by His Father. Marv Gaye: The Motown Legend Who Was Murred by His Father. From the time Marv Gaye was a young boy, before he beme one of Motown’s brightt stars and was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he repeatedly heard om his father: “You’ll never be anythg.

The olr Marv hated his son for beg so attractive to women, acrdg to Gaye’s ex-wife Janis Gaye. ” “It created nflicts when Marv…started to earn more than his daddy, and everybody ran to Marv, ” the sger’s “Let’s Get It On” -wrer Ed Townsend Gaye told Gaye bgrapher Turner. That seemed so unfair to Reverend Gaye.

MARV GAYE’S ESTATE REVIV “BLURRED L” LAWSU AFTER PHARRELL’S COMMENTS IN ‘GQ’ INTERVIEW

As an adult, Gaye led a glamoro but troubled life. The cshg prsn that ensued dogged Gaye until his ath. On April 1, 1984, the day before Gaye’s 45th birthday, he tervened an argument between his parents at their shared Los Angel home, acrdg to Turner’s Trouble Man.

Gaye and his father got physil. ) After Gaye walked away, returng to his bedroom, his father soon appeared the doorway wh a. Bee Gaye was seated, the first bullet was fatal, piercg his heart, lung, liver, stomach and left kidney.

Gay then walked closer, shootg his already ad son pot-blank through the shoulr. Gaye’s murr bears some other hallmarks of tradnal paternal filici: a father wh troubled fanc, a history of domtic abe and a belief that what he did was the right thg to do.

MARV GAYE FAY LAWYER: HOW I WON THE ‘BLURRED L’ TRIAL (GUT COLUMN)

The olr Gay claimed self-fense, sayg he was aaid of his strong, dg-g son. Gaye’s mother Alberta Gay told his “Sexual Healg” -wrer and bgrapher David Rz Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye that the first time she spoke to her hband after postg his $30, 000 bail, “He started speakg to me, but said nothg about Marv. Turner says Gaye’s bodyguard Andrew Whe played a rerdg for him which Gaye said his father had threatened his life before.

THE JURY'S VERDICT ON THE ED SHEERAN - MARV GAYE DEBACLE IS IN!

“‘I brought you to the world, and if you cross me, I n take you out, '” Turner rells Gaye sayg. In his memoir, Marv Gaye, My Brother, Frankie Gaye said his brother’s last words were: “I got what I wanted… I uldn’t do myself, so I ma him do . Beyond his adulthood problems, Gaye never seemed to get over his abive childhood.

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” As tumultuo as their relatnship was, Gaye seemed to try to please his father at tim. Immediately after makg bail, Gay returned home to the crime scene and lived there.

“I’ll never live there aga bee ’s nothg but a tomb to me, ” said Alberta Gay.

At age 70, Gay was sentenced to a six-year spend sentence and jt five years probatn bee of his failg health and Gaye’s attack on him. Ed Sheeran’s attorney turned up the volume her closg arguments Tuday — chargg there is no “smokg gun” the pyright lawsu accg her client of pyg Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get On.