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• HERE'S WHO INHERED MARV GAYE'S ESTATE WHEN HE DIED
• HEIRS OF MARV GAYE’S SONGWRG PARTNER COULD SEE MILLNS IN SONG THEFT LAWSU AGAST ED SHEERAN
• THE ESTATE OF MARV GAYE: FROM BANKPT TO NOT
• MARV GAYE’S FAY NOW WANTS MONEY FROM T.I., TOO
• MARV GAYE'S HEIRS W $7.4 LN FOR 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY
• MARV GAYE HEIRS SUE ‘BLURRED L’ ARTISTS
• 'BLURRED L' LAWSU: THICKE, WILLIAMS SETTLE WH MARV GAYE'S FAY FOR $5 MILLN IN COPYRIGHT INGEMENT

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.

HEIRS OF MARV GAYE’S SONGWRG PARTNER COULD SEE MILLNS IN SONG THEFT LAWSU AGAST ED SHEERAN

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.

THE ESTATE OF MARV GAYE: FROM BANKPT TO NOT

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. The fay of Ed Townsend, songwrg partner of the late legendary Marv Gaye, believ that sger Ed Sheeran stole mic om one of the duo’s biggt ClaimsAcrdg to Insir, Townsend’s fay says that the popular sger ged on the pyright for “Let’s Get It On. ”They allege that Sheeran’s “Thkg Out Loud” pi parts of “Let’s Get It On, ” a track that Townsend wrote alongsi Gaye.

Prev Marv Gaye Copyright ClaimsAlthough Gaye’s fay isn’t directly volved this se, his son, Marv Gaye III, is keepg a close eye on the suatn, acrdg to his lawyer who reprented him durg the succsful lawsu agast Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke 2015 for their h “Blurred L. Sheeran knows what he did — he misappropriated protected tellectual property directly om the md of the late, legendary Marv Gaye. 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.

MARV GAYE’S FAY NOW WANTS MONEY FROM T.I., TOO

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.

MARV GAYE'S HEIRS W $7.4 LN FOR 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM

All this to say…Gaye’s heirs were still pretty lucky. Marv Gaye’s Fay Now Wants Money From T.

Hey, remember that part “Got To Give It Up” where Marv Gaye sang that he would never pull a Pharcy and let you pass him by? Last week, a jury award Marv Gaye’s heirs a sry $7.

3 ln, lg that “Blurred L” songwrers Rob Thicke and Pharrell had taken too much om Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up. ’s rap verse had nothg to do wh anythg Marv Gaye ever did.

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

But the Gaye fay isn’t satisfied wh that. Acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter, lawyers for the Gaye fay have filed motns to “rrect” the jury’s cisn, holdg more parti rponsible for any “Blurred L” gement that might’ve happened. The Gaye fay only owns Marv’s sheet mic, not the rights to his actual rerdgs, and that’s why the jury cid that the “Blurred L” songwrers would be held acuntable but that the distributors would not be.

But the Gaye fay claims that “by virtue of their participatn the creatn, manufacture and distributn” of “Blurred L, ” all those other parti need to ugh up money, as well. The Gay are also seekg an junctn preventg those labels om further distributg “Blurred L, ” and they’re even lookg for an “impoundment” of all existg pi of the song.

MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY

LOS ANGELES (Rters) - Heirs of the late soul sger Marv Gaye won a $7. District Court jury Los Angel sid wh Gaye’s tate, fdg that parts of his 1977 h “Got to Give Up” were lifted by Thicke and Williams for their 2013 R&B jury award Gaye’s heirs $4 ln actual damag pl $3. Several other parti sued by Gaye’s tate, the rapper T.

And var mic pani, were cleared of ’s dghter, Nona Gaye, hugged her attorney and wept as the urt clerk read the verdict ppg a weeklong trial that explored the boundari between artistic spiratn and theft. It’s a disappotg number, ” he attorney for Gaye’s heirs, Richard Bch, said they would seek an junctn to halt further distributn of “Blurred L.

Williams acknowledged urt he had been a fan of Gaye’s mic sce childhood, but said “Blurred L” and “Got to Give Up” were siar genre only.

MARV GAYE HEIRS SUE ‘BLURRED L’ ARTISTS

Gaye, whose hs clud “I Heard Through the Grapeve, ” was fatally shot by his father 1984 at age 44. 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. 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.

'BLURRED L' LAWSU: THICKE, WILLIAMS SETTLE WH MARV GAYE'S FAY FOR $5 MILLN IN COPYRIGHT INGEMENT

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. Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke had a certified h on their hands wh 2013’s "Blurred L, " a Billboard Song of the Summer that seemed to many listeners to borrow om Marv Gaye’s qutsential 1977 h “Got To Give It Up.

” Of urse, Pharrell and Thicke disagreed wh that sentiment, and the pyright issue sent them to urt agast the Gaye tate.