Ike Turner, Tina Turner’s Abusive Ex-husband, Sent Goons to Scare Her After Singer Filed Divorce
Ike Turner was a famous American musician, successful bandleader, creative songwriter, and record producer. He found his true calling in music and began playing piano and guitar as a child artist and later formed the music group Kings of Rhythm as a teenager. His journey from being an instrumental artist to becoming the most thriving musician with his former wife, Tina Turner, is inspiring.
The late musician earned enormous success in his decades-long career. Turner was a man of many talents in the 1950s; he started working as a talent scout and producer for Modern Records and Sun Records. Ike Turner met his former wife, Tina Turner, at Club Manhattan in 1957, and despite their storied professional careers as a hit musical duo, their married life as a couple was quite traumatic.
Ike Turner and Tina Turner’s Abusive Relationship
Ike Turner and Tina Turner were the most successful musical duo in the history of American music, and the former couple sold millions of records together from 1960 to 1976. In a brutally honest interview with People magazine in 1981, the late singer revealed sobering details of her abusive marriage with her husband.
The singer told the outlet:
“I was living a life of death, and I didn’t fear him [Ike] killing me when I left; because I was already dead. When I walked out, I didn’t look back.”
In her 1986 memoir I, Tina: My Life Story, the revolutionary singer wrote:
“He [Ike] threw hot coffee in my face, giving me third-degree burns. He used my nose as a punching bag so many times that I could taste blood running down my throat when I sang. He broke my jaw. And I couldn’t remember what it was like not to have a black eye.”
In her autobiography, the singer also penned that her former husband, Ike Turner, sent goons to her home after she filed for divorce in 1976. After their highly publicized divorce, the Proud Marry hitmaker’s label company, Capitol Records, dropped the singer from their client list.
The singer reportedly took a brief hiatus from her musical career and made her comeback in the industry in 2004 as she revealed in her candid interview that musician David Bowie helped her resume her career.
It was a match made in heaven for their fans, but only the late singing legend Tina Turner knew how she silently struggled for 16 years in her abusive married life to the record producer. In December of 2007, Ike Turner left his music legacy as he passed away at age 76, and his autopsy reports revealed that he died of a cocaine overdose.
In their storied career as a musical duo under the official name Ike & Tina Turner Revenue, they established a reputation for themselves as rock stars in the music industry. The singer married Turner in 1962, and the former couple announced their split in 1978.
A Brief Note on Tina Turner’s Musical Career
Tina Turner was a legend who created magic with her glorious on-stage presence throughout her six-decades-long career in the music industry. Her publicist recently confirmed the news of her demise and claimed Turner peacefully died on May 24, 2023, after a long illness at her home in Switzerland at age 83. The statement reads:
“Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock’n Roll, has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model. There will be a private funeral ceremony; attended by close friends and family. Please respect the privacy of her family at this difficult time.”
According to reports, the singer sold 10 million certified albums in the US, and her biggest hit Private Dancer sold worldwide with 10 million copies. In addition to her musical career, she appeared in several hit movies and television shows like Aunty Entity, Last Action Hero, Our Guests at Heartland, and Moonage Daydream.
Source: New York Post
