Ike and Tina Turner
The Examiner website published an article today, stating it has received a response from the FBI regarding their request for the file of the late, woman-beating singer, Ike Turner. You know, Chris Brown's daddy (I'm kidding, people, they are not related).
As many of you know, Ike was once married to songstress, Tina Turner, who left him after years of horrible, undeserved abuse and went on to become an international success.
Tina: help!
The Examiner has written about the contents of the file in the first of a series of articles on the subject. It reveals the FBI secretly followed Ike around for an entire year.
Another FBI document reveals there was a dispute, regarding $50,000 allegedly being stolen from Ike's bank account. However, the bank disputed the claim, stating the singer sent numerous employees in to make withdrawals from his account, in an arrangement he set up with the financial institution. Ike was probably high and forgot.
There is also an item of particular note. $150,000 in clothes, jewels and electronics were stolen from Ike and Tina's home, while they were reportedly away on vacation. Considering Ike was high 99.9 % of the time, are they sure he didn't break into his own house, steal and pawn his own stuff.
Seriously, the FBI report claims someone who knew how to quickly disable the alarm committed the crime. Therefore, the person had the alarm code or was a security expert.
Interestingly, some of the files were destroyed, while others have been withheld for privacy reasons. Knowing the FBI, one has to wonder if that is codeword for investigations that were improper and invasive and are now a source of great embarrassment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for being so intrusive. Therefore, they'd rather not release said pages.
Lastly, newer Ike Turner pictures are always funny to me. He always looks so paranoid, suspicious and angry at the same time, like was mad people found out he beat Tina and was worried about reprisals:
Breaking News: Ike Turner FBI file declassified by feds
Ike Turner’s FBI file, obtained by Examiner.com, shows that agents tailed the artist, and at one point, spent almost a year questioning everyone who knew him, throughout the country.
One of the circumstances documented in his FBI file surrounds a 1976 burglary, in which $150,000.00 worth of furs, jewelry, musical instruments and other items were stolen from the home of Ike and Tina Turner, which was located at 4263 Olypiad Drive in Los Angeles...
In part of the FBI’s “Destruction Order” program, there are pages from Ike Turner’s file that were destroyed, and are unavailable. More pages were withheld from public view for various reasons, including privacy regulations concerning other individuals that are still alive, and what the FBI called “poor quality” of the documents...
