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(According to Jet magazine, he owed the government about $6 million.) He moved back in with his parents in 1983.

Then his life ended in familial violence.

On April 1, 1984, the day before Gaye's 45th birthday, he intervened in an argument between his parents at their shared Los Angeles home, according to Turner's Trouble Man.

A short physical fight broke out, leading to Marvin Sr grabbing a .38 caliber revolver and shooting his son twice, killing him. It's reported that Marvin stood up to his father, chastizing him for something  said to Alberta. That seemed so unfair to Reverend Gaye. "My husband never wanted Marvin, and he never liked him," she said.

"For some reason, he didn’t love Marvin, and what’s worse, he didn’t want me to love Marvin either," she continued.

marvin gaye crime scene

Marvin Gaye: A Music Legend Killed By His Father

Marvin Gaye was a much loved if drug-haunted musician and helped shape the Motown music scene in the 60s to the extent that he was often called The Prince of Motown or the Prince of Soul. Gaye’s father stated that he killed his son in self-defense, did not know if the gun was loaded, and even said, “I didn’t mean to do it.” Marvin, Sr pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge and was given a six year suspended sentence with five years of probation.

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The crime scene photos show his body being carried away and his father in court for the trial.

2. "Marvin wasn’t very old before he understood that.”

It all came to a head on April 1, 1984, while Marvin was visiting his parents' home in Los Angeles. The bullet hit his right lung, heart, diaphragm, liver, stomach, and left kidney. On the day of the murder, Marvin and Marvin Sr were arguing about a misplaced insurance policy document.

Gaye was pronounced dead at the hospital, the day before his 45th birthday. In this list we will dive into the 11 most scandalous celebrity fatalities, blood and motive included. Gaye's mother Alberta Gay told his "Sexual Healing" co-writer and biographer David Ritz in Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye that the first time she spoke to her husband after posting his $30,000 bail, "He started speaking to me, but said nothing about Marvin.

"I'll never live there again because it's nothing but a tomb to me," said Alberta Gay. She filed for divorce, but settled for being separated.

At age 70, Gay was sentenced to a six-year suspended sentence and just five years' probation because of his failing health and Gaye's attack on him.

I was backing up toward my room. "[White] said that's when Marvin told him that it was as if this opened a way for him to leave all his troubles behind by effectively committing suicide. There are blogs, magazines, and television shows all dedicated to following the lives of the rich and famous. At this point, the relationship between Marvin and his father was as heated as ever- Marvin’s sister had moved out of the house just to avoid the conflict.