Marv Gaye’s wife Janis Hunter Gaye di aged 66, after re-release of in’s album | Eveng Standard

Contents:

• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• INSI MARV GAYE'S TOXIC MARRIAGE WH WIFE JANIS HUNTER
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66
• MARV GAYE'S 2ND EX-WIFE JANIS CHEATED ON HIM WH 2 FAMO SGERS AMID ABIVE RELATNSHIP THE 1970S
• JANIS GAYE, EX-WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DEAD AT 66
• ‘AFTER THE DANCE’: JANIS HUNTER SHAR THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF LIFE WH MARV GAYE
• WHO WAS JANIS HUNTER GAYE AND HOW MANY CHILDREN DID SHE HAVE WH MARV GAYE?
• MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE AD AT 66 - JANIS HUNTER DI AFTER SPIRG MOTOWN LEGEND'S H ALBUM
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, DI AT 66
• JAN GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MOTOWN LEGEND MARV GAYE, IS AD AT 66
• WHO WAS JANIS HUNTER GAYE? WIKI, BGRAPHY, NET WORTH, AGE, HBAND
• MARV GAYE’S EX-WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE AD AT 66
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE: WIFE OF MOTOWN SGER MARV GAYE DI AT 66
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE DI AGED 66
• MARV GAYE'S WIFE JANIS HUNTER DI AGE 66 AFTER SPIRG IN'S ALBUM
• MARV GAYE’S 2ND WIFE JANICE HUNTER GAYE HAS DIED – SHE WAS 66 | WATCH MARV SG ‘JAN’
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, WIFE OF MARV GAYE, DI AT 66
• JANIS GAYE WAS MARV GAYE’S ME — SHE ‘SAW MY SOUL,’ HE SAID — AND SO MUCH MORE

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

Hunter Gaye spired several songs by the late Motown sger, cludg “I Want You, ” “Let’s Get On, ” and “After the Dance.

INSI MARV GAYE'S TOXIC MARRIAGE WH WIFE JANIS HUNTER

She died her Rho Island home of an undisclosed Gaye’s fay announced news of her ath, acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter. “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.

Still married to his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye, Marv began a romantic relatnship wh Hunter Gaye that produced two children, Nona and Frankie. After his divorce om Gordy Gaye was falized 1977, Janis and Marv Gaye would spire her hband to rerd numero songs about her, cludg “Jan” for his 1974 “Marv Gaye Live!

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

” Marv even namedropped Hunter Gaye the album’s songs, cludg “I Want to Be Where You Are, ” and “Soon I’ll Be Lovg You Aga.

”However, the marriage between Marv and Janis was short-lived, wh much of their relatnship marred by Gaye’s alleged physil and psychologil abe of Hunter Gaye. They separated the late 1970s and divorced 1981, two years before Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marv Gaye 2015, Hunter Gaye wrote a memoir about her tumultuo relatnship wh her late hband, “After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye. No doubt two-time Grammy-wng soul sger-songwrer Marv Gaye belongs among the 20th century's most acplished and fluential micians.

Includg his ath 1984 at the hands of his own father (an act his father claimed was self fense, but for which he was later nvicted of voluntary manslghter, per Bgraphy) Marv Gaye's personal life tells a different story. Though passnate, Gaye's marriage wh Hunter was filled wh substance abe, sexual impropriety, and trma, as Hunter rerd her memoir, "After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, " per New York Post.

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

By the time his wife was her early 20s, though, and mother to two children, Gaye's ey began to wanr as his substance e issu worsened.

Gaye had also enuraged Hunter to engage sex acts wh other people for his enjoyment prr to their marriage, but she never agreed, per New York Post. As Janis Hunter rells her memoir, she was her early 20s when Marv Gaye erced her to a nonnsensual sex act wh another uple, and she relented agast her will.

"That I lost myself someone else — someone as remarkable as Marv Gaye — is no longer e for self-nmnatn, " she wrote her book. 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. “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'S 2ND EX-WIFE JANIS CHEATED ON HIM WH 2 FAMO SGERS AMID ABIVE RELATNSHIP THE 1970S

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. 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.

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

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.

‘AFTER THE DANCE’: JANIS HUNTER SHAR THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF LIFE WH MARV GAYE

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. 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. 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.

WHO WAS JANIS HUNTER GAYE AND HOW MANY CHILDREN DID SHE HAVE WH 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.

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. "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, " dghter Nona Gaye told the outlet a statement. He and Janis first met the early 1970s, when she was jt 17 and Gaye was still married to Anna Gordy, the sister of Motown rerds founr Berry Gordy.

MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE AD AT 66 - JANIS HUNTER DI AFTER SPIRG MOTOWN LEGEND'S H ALBUM

In her 2015 memoir After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, Janis relled their first meetg, which took place after producer Ed Townsend, a iend of her mother's, brought the teenager to Gaye's rerdg stud. Their unn was tumultuo at tim, and Gaye admted to PEOPLE 1983 that he'd once menaced Janis wh a knife after they separated, and also arranged for their then-4-year-old son to be kidnapped Hawaii.

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

Fd out the tails of Marv Gaye's relatnship wh his send ex-wife, Janis Hunter, who had three children wh him and wrote a book to tell the tale of their love.

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

Gaye's past romance had been filled wh ntroversi, and a story me to light when Hunter wrote a book tled "After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, " where she scribed tails of their relatnship.

However, she and Gaye's love was plited by the burns of fame, the chaos of dysfunctnal fai, and the hard-to-rist temptatns of dgs.

WHO WAS JANIS HUNTER GAYE? WIKI, BGRAPHY, NET WORTH, AGE, HBAND

Hunter spoke about her and Gaye's relatnship a chat wh her memoir, she narrated how he tortured her and ma her participate an y agast her will.

Hunter also wrote about Anna's reactn the first time they met, revealg the latter told Gaye she never wanted to see her aga. After beg mistreated by Gaye for a long time, Hunter slept wh Maze sger Frankie Beverly and hooked up wh Gaye's ma mic rival Teddy Penrgrass.

After some setbacks and fancial issu, Hunter filed for divorce om Gaye, who was then stute and uld not pay child support.

MARV GAYE’S EX-WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE AD AT 66

It has been nfirmed that sger, thor, manager, stylist — and ex-wife of the legendary late sger Marv Gaye — Janis Hunter Gaye has passed at me to many of Marv’s songs died on Saturday (Dec.

3), at her Rho Island rince, their dghter Nona Gaye om To Pay Tribute To Marv Gaye Durg People's Choice Awards 2021Clarence Gilyard Jr., Famed Actor, Dead At 66'Flashdance' And 'Fame' Sger Irene Cara Dead at 63Jan Gaye attends Songwrers Hall Of Fame 47th Annual Inductn And Awards at Marrtt Marquis Hotel on June 9, 2016 New York Cy.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE: WIFE OF MOTOWN SGER MARV GAYE DI AT 66

(Photo by Larry Bac/Getty Imag for Songwrers Hall Of Fame)Acrdg to UdisverMic, Nona issued the followg statement followg the ath of her mother:“I am eply sadned by the passg of my mother, Janis Gaye. (L-R) Nolan Shaheed, Jan Gaye, David Rz and Harry Weger speak durg An Eveng wh Marv Gaye’s “You’re The Man” at The GRAMMY Mm on April 02, 2019 Los Angel, California.

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, ” add Nolan Pentz, her grandson. Further mentg, Nona Gaye stated, “My mom was immensely proud of her grandson, Nolan, and how he stepped up as a young man, like a soldier, to help the fay and lend support tim of need.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE JANIS HUNTER GAYE DI AGED 66

” Asi om thorg her 2015 memoir After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye, she also managed the actg reer of Nona Gaye — who had rol The Matrix, Ali and sger Marv Gaye hugs his children, Nona Gaye and Frankie Chirstian Gaye at an event cir 1981. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archiv/Getty Imag)Per Billboard, Hunter Gaye met Marv as a teenager when he was the procs of rerdg his sensual 1973 h “Let’s Get It On. Reportedly, the LP was “a romantic and erotic tribute” to Gaye is creded for assemblg some of Marv’s inic ensembl for performanc.

MARV GAYE'S WIFE JANIS HUNTER DI AGE 66 AFTER SPIRG IN'S ALBUM

The late stylist put together Marv’s inic silver and red-laced platform boots, bead nim shirt and red p outf that he wore at his historil Marv Gaye Live! See vio Hunter Gaye is survived by her sister Shawnn Monteiro, her brother Mark Gaillard, her children Nona and Frankie and grandson Nolan Pentz. “After her 17th birthday 1973, Janis Hunter met Marv Gaye — the soulful prce of Motown wh the sctive liquid voice — whose chart-toppg, socially-nsc album What’s Gog On ma him a superstar two years earlier.

In 1964, eight-year-old Janis Hunter veloped a csh on Marv Gaye while watchg him perform “How Sweet It Is” on Amerin Bandstand. All of the above and more is reunted lurid fashn After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, a tell-all tobgraphy -wrten by Jan wh David Rz, who is also the thor of the bgraphy Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye. Janis Hunter Gaye served as the Motown in's me throughout their marriage om 1977 to 1981 - here's everythg we know about her.

Hunter met Gaye 1973 through producer Ed Townsend at a rerdg ssn at Hsville Wt Los Angel for Mart's album Let's Get It On.

MARV GAYE’S 2ND WIFE JANICE HUNTER GAYE HAS DIED – SHE WAS 66 | WATCH MARV SG ‘JAN’

Janis wrote a memoir published 2015 tled After the Dance: My Life wh Marv Gaye, which clud referenc to domtic abe, sexual impropriety, dgs and trma after her marriage to Marv. There was a brief rekdlg of their romance durg Gaye's fal tour but was short lived due to more arguments between them. Gaye's life me to a tragic end when he was shot by his own father a day before he turned 45, durg a heated argument.

Marv Gaye's wife Janis Hunter Gaye has passed away at the age of 66, her fay have passed away on Saturday at her home Rho Island. Her dghter Nona Gaye released a statement, which she lled her mother unfettable and said she worked tirelsly to prerve Marv's legacy after his ath. Sad news: Marv Gaye's wife Janis Hunter Gaye passed away at the age of 66, her fay have nfirmedNona said: 'She was the most fluential woman my life and many others.

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

Legacy: Her dghter Nona Gaye released a statement, which she lled her mother unfettable and said she worked tirelsly to prerve Marv's legacy after his athJanis even featured on his 1977 track Got To Give It Up, on backg got married that same year and had two children together before their divorce released a memoir 2015, lled After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye about her relatnship wh the famo mician.

Candid: Janis released a memoir 2015, lled After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye about her relatnship wh the famo micianBut he uld not be whout Jan and ved her to rerd wh him the stud along wh his elr brother at their mounta top home Topanga Canyon, California, they spent many happy days alone wh their two dogs. Issu: She scribed how her and Gaye had a troubled relatnship, wh their problems fuelled by dgsAndy Warhol wanted to pat a portra of the Motown man, but Marv failed to follow through wh the rerds Marv's love and rpect for his parents and his closens particularly to his mother Alberta, who she said had a sweet loved his father, but went om idolizg the preacher to spisg him, she said.

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

Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown legend Marv Gaye and the spiratn for several of his songs, died Saturday of an undisclosed e at her home Rho Island, her fay announced. Hunter Gaye was troduced to the sger by producer Ed Townsend durg a 1973 rerdg ssn at Hsville Wt Los Angel for his album Let’s Get It On, which was released that year. Gaye wrote the song “Jan” for his future wife and rerd for his 1974 album, Marv Gaye Live!, and his 1976 album, I Want You, has been scribed as “a romantic and erotic tribute” to her.

Acrdg to her fay, Hunter Gaye put together the inic outf — red watch p, bead nim shirt and silver red-laced platform boots— that Gaye donned for his memorable 1974 ncert performance at the Oakland Colism.