**Ike Turner Jr. Endured Same Violence and Abuse as Tina Turner, Dies at 67**
*Published Oct. 6, 2025, 6:30 p.m. ET*
Ike Turner Jr. was subjected to the same violence and abuse as his mother, Tina Turner, at the hands of his father, RadarOnline.com can report. Ike Sr.’s biological son, who was adopted by Tina during her marriage to Ike Sr., passed away over the weekend at age 67.
Born in 1958 to Ike Turner Sr. and Lorraine Taylor, Ike Jr. was welcomed into the mixed family and raised by stepmother Tina from the age of two. Following his parents’ turbulent split, Ike Jr. briefly worked as Tina’s sound engineer. However, their professional collaboration was short-lived after Ike Sr. became furious and violent upon discovering they were working together.
“When my mother and father separated, he did not want me working with her,” Ike Jr. previously confessed. He revealed that in response, his father would allegedly “beat me in the head with a nickel-plated .45 pistol.”
### Ike Jr.’s Passing
Ike Jr.’s death was confirmed by Tina’s niece, Jacqueline Bullock, who shared that he passed away on Saturday at a Los Angeles hospital following kidney failure. Bullock said Ike Jr. had been battling severe heart issues for years and that his health had been in steady decline. He also suffered a stroke in early September.
The death of Ike Jr. comes just over two years after the passing of Tina Turner herself. The “Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll” died peacefully at her home near Zurich, Switzerland, on May 24, 2023, at the age of 83. She had battled high blood pressure, kidney disease, and intestinal cancer.
### Tina’s Violent Marriage
Before she died, the *What’s Love Got to Do With It* singer detailed the violent horrors she endured while married to Ike Sr. Tina recounted in her 2018 autobiography, *My Love Story*, that Ike Sr. was a serial cheater whose temper worsened due to drug abuse.
“Sex with Ike had become an expression of hostility – a kind of rape – especially when it began or ended with a beating,” she alleged. “What had been ugly and hateful between us before became worse with every snort of cocaine.”
Within the pages of her book, Tina revealed some of her darkest moments, including an instance when Ike Sr. allegedly threw hot coffee in her face, causing 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,” she wrote, describing how the abuse affected her physical well-being, career, and mental health. “He broke my jaw. And I couldn’t remember what it was like not to have a black eye.”
### Tina Tried to Kill Herself
In 1968, Tina attempted to take her own life. “I convinced myself death was my only way out,” the Grammy winner shared.
Tina finally broke free from Ike Sr.’s control in 1978 when she divorced him. She left nearly broke but eventually found happiness with her second husband, Erwin Bach, who later donated a kidney to her during her health struggles.
Ike Sr. died from a cocaine overdose on December 12, 2007, at the age of 76. Before his death, he disputed the abuse claims while admitting, “Sure, I’ve slapped Tina. There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I never beat her.”
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