Editing Ike Turner (section)

== Personal life ==
=== Marriages ===
Turner was married fourteen times.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /><ref name="Stern-2007">{{Cite web|date=October 17, 2007|title=Ike Turner Is Still With His 14th Wife|url=https://www.howardstern.com/show/2007/10/17/ike-turner-is-still-with-his-14th-wife-RundownGalleryModel-8951/|website=Howard Stern}}</ref> He often married another woman [[bigamy|before divorcing his existing wife]]. Speaking on his early marriages, he said:  "You gave a preacher two dollars, the (marriage) papers cost three dollars, that was it. In those days, African Americans did not bother with divorces."<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" />

==== Early marriages ====
Turner was first married at 16 years old to Edna Dean Stewart of [[Ruleville, Mississippi]].{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=56}} They were married on April 10, 1948. Records show that Turner added four years to his age.<ref name="706 Union Avenue Sessions">{{Cite web|url=http://www.706unionavenue.nl/142232443|title=Biographies – Bonnie Turner|website=706 Union Avenue Sessions|access-date=July 21, 2019|archive-date=June 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623192501/http://www.706unionavenue.nl/142232443|url-status=dead}}</ref> Edna didn't want to stay in [[Clarksdale, Mississippi|Clarksdale]], so she left Turner and returned to Ruleville.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=57}}

Turner's second wife, Velma Davis (née Dishman) is the elder sister of former Ikette [[Jo Armstead|Joshie Armstead]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://othersounds.com/interview-joshie-armstead/|title=Interview: Joshie Armstead|date=January 24, 2012|website=othersounds.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704161747/http://othersounds.com/interview-joshie-armstead/|archive-date=July 4, 2019|access-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref> Turner met her at the Cotton Club on Camplin Avenue in [[Yazoo City, Mississippi]] in 1948. Davis claimed that Turner was the father of her daughter Linda Turner Bullock, born in 1949.<ref name="O'Neal-2017">{{Cite journal|last=O'Neal|first=Jim|date=2017|title=Yazoo Mississippi Blues|url=http://digital.livingblues.com/publication/?i=412000&article_id=2798065&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5#{%22issue_id%22:412000,%22view%22:%22articleBrowser%22,%22article_id%22:%222798065%22}|journal=Living Blues|volume=48, #3|issue=249}}</ref> However, Turner asserted in his book that he is not the biological father.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=57}} The couple married on September 19, 1950.<ref name="706 Union Avenue Sessions" /> Davis and Bullock attended Turner's Mississippi Blues Trail marker unveiling in 2010.<ref name="Mississippi Blues Trail">{{Cite web|url=http://msbluestrail.org/featured_ike_turner|title=This Week's Featured Marker: Ike Turner|website=Mississippi Blues Trail|access-date=March 11, 2023|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224023256/http://msbluestrail.org/featured_ike_turner|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Turner then married Rosa Lee Sane in [[West Memphis, Arkansas]].{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=57}} She had a [[Mental disorder|mental breakdown]] so her family put her in an [[Lunatic asylum|insane asylum]] in Tennessee. Turner tried to get her out, but he never saw her again.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=57}}

Turner married Marion Louis Lee (Bonnie Turner) in Clarksdale on September 24, 1952.<ref name="706 Union Avenue Sessions" /> Lee was a member of the Kings of Rhythm as a pianist and vocalist. In 1952, under the alias Mary Sue, she released the single "Everybody's Talking" / "Love Is a Gamble" on Modern Records.<ref name="706 Union Avenue Sessions" /> She co-wrote both tunes with Turner. The couple also recorded for RPM Records and Sun Records.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=August 30, 1952 |title=Rhythm & Blues Record Reviews |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/50s/1952/Billboard%201952-08-30.pdf |magazine=Billboard |pages=40}}</ref> Turner recalled, "Bonnie played piano. It was a job staying ahead of this chick, man, cos' she was always trying to outdo me."{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=58}} While they were in [[Sarasota, Florida]] for a gig, she ran off to New York with another man in 1953.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=58}} Their divorce was finalized in 1955.<ref name="706 Union Avenue Sessions" />

After Lee, Turner married a woman named Alice in [[Helena, Arkansas]].{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=59}} According to Turner, they did not [[Consummation|consummate]] their marriage. Alice was dating his vocalist [[Johnny O'Neal (singer)|Johnny O'Neal]], but Turner liked her so he married her to avoid "locking heads" with O'Neal. "If I married her, he couldn't do nothing", he said.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=59}}

After Alice, Turner married Annie Mae Wilson from [[Greenville, Mississippi]].<ref name="Turner-1999">{{harvnb|Turner|1999|p=60}}</ref> She played piano and was the secretary for his band.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=February 14, 1958 |title=Shades of Rock 'n Roll: Ike Turner Says Officer Harasses Him In 'Feud' |pages=1 |work=The St. Louis Argus}}</ref> Wilson left Turner for a policeman in [[East St. Louis, Illinois]].{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=65}} In 1958, Turner presented a petition to the East St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, stating that police officer Curtis Smith had harassed him and burst his eardrum out of spite because of his relationship with Wilson.<ref name=":1" />

In East St. Louis, Turner lived with Lorraine Taylor. Her parents owned the Taylor Sausage Factory in St. Louis.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=77}} Sources often incorrectly refer to Taylor as one of Turner's wives, but she was his live-in girlfriend.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=77}}<ref name="Becker-1990">{{Cite web|last=Becker|first=Stan|date=September 30, 1990|title=MARKING TIME|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-09-30-9003210785-story.html|access-date=March 2, 2021|website=Chicago Tribune|language=en-US}}</ref> Lorraine already had two children of her own before she had two sons, Ike Jr. and Michael, with Turner.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=79}}

==== Tina Turner ====
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In 1956, Turner met Ann Bullock<!-- This is not a typo. She went by Ann not Anna Mae once she was a teenager. --> (whom he later renamed Tina Turner) at the Club Manhattan in East St. Louis.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=60}}<ref name="Greensmith-2015" /> They became close friends and she began dating his saxophonist [[Raymond Hill (musician)|Raymond Hill]]. When Bullock became pregnant by Hill, they lived with Turner and his live-in girlfriend Lorraine Taylor.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=72}} Hill injured his ankle and left Bullock before their son Craig was born in August 1958.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=66-68}} During Bullock's pregnancy, Taylor became suspicious that Bullock was pregnant by Turner and threatened her with a gun before shooting herself; her injuries were nonfatal.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=79}} However, Turner and Bullock eventually began having an affair and she became pregnant in January 1960.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=74}}

Following the birth of their son Ronnie in October 1960, they were married in [[Tijuana]] in 1962.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=96-97}} Turner stated that the reason they went to Tijuana was to see "sex shows and whores".{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=96}} At the time, he was still legally married to Alice Bell.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=96}} He used a detective agency to locate Bell in Chicago and they divorced in 1974.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=97}} On multiple occasions, Turner said that he was never officially married to Tina.<ref name="Stern-2007" />{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=97}}<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" /> He also revealed on ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]'' in 1993 and on ''[[Fresh Air]]'' in 1996 that Tina's birth name was Martha Nell (not Anna Mae) Bullock.<ref name="Gross">{{cite web|date=December 14, 2007|title=R&B Legend Ike Turner, 1931–2007|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17253727|work=NPR|publisher=Fresh Air|quote=At 8:06 in the interview, Turner corrects the host who says Tina's real name is Annie Mae Bullock. He says "No, her name is Martha Nell Bullock."}}</ref> Tina signed her legal name as Martha Nell Turner on multiple contracts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/music-memorabilia/autographs-and-signed-items/tina-turner-signed-contract-1977-/a/696-52395.s|title=Tina Turner Signed Contract (1977).... Music Memorabilia Autographs {{!}} Lot #52395|website=Heritage Auctions|language=en|access-date=July 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Tina Turner – Signed Agreement (1978).... Music Memorabilia {{!}} Lot #23263|url=https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/music-memorabilia/autographs-and-signed-items/tina-turner-signed-agreement-1978-/a/606-23263.s|access-date=August 16, 2021|website=Heritage Auctions|language=en}}</ref>

Following a violent altercation in July 1976, Tina filed for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=200}}<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" /> Although Turner reiterated that they were never officially married, they had a common-law marriage and still had to go through a formal divorce.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=210|ps="He also claimed that he and Tina had never actually been married all those years ago—a point that, under California common law, was by now moot."}} Their divorce was finalized on March 29, 1978.{{sfn|Turner|1986|p=211}} In the final divorce decree, Tina took responsibility for missed concert dates as well as an IRS lien. Tina retained songwriter royalties from songs she had written, but Ike got the publishing royalties for his compositions and hers. She also kept her two [[Jaguar cars]], furs and jewelry along with her stage name.{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=211}} Tina gave up her share of their [[Bolic Sound]] recording studio, publishing companies, and real estate.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=210}}

In her [[I, Tina|1986 autobiography]], Tina revealed that Turner had been abusive during their marriage. She said: "It was my relationship with Ike that made me most unhappy. At first, I had really been in love with him. Look what he'd done for me. But he was totally unpredictable."{{Sfn|Turner|1986|p=91}} Turner admitted he took Tina for granted and called her "the best woman I ever knew".<ref name="Jet-9/23/91" /> In his autobiography, he said: "Sure, I've slapped Tina. We had fights and there have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I never beat her."{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=174}} In a 1999 interview, [[Roseanne Barr]] urged him to publicly apologize to Tina on [[The Roseanne Show|''The Roseanne Barr Show'']].<ref name="Roseanne">{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/19990106IkeTurnerGloriaAllredSusannahBreslinSophiaLamarTheRoseanneShow|title=The Roseanne Show (January 6, 1999)|website=Internet Archive|date=January 6, 1999}}</ref> In 2007, Turner told ''Jet'' that he had written Tina an apology letter, but had never sent it.<ref name="Christian-2008" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17212823|title=Ike Turner Dies at 76|date=December 13, 2007|website=NPR|language=en}}</ref> In 2018, Tina told ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' that "as an old person, I have forgiven him, but I would not work with him. He asked for one more tour with me, and I said, 'No, absolutely not.' Ike wasn't someone you could forgive and allow him back in."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/tina-turner-interview-the-legendary-singer-on-ike-buddhism-and-leaving-america-for-switzerland-cfljnkr3l|title=Tina Turner interview: the singer on Ike, Buddhism and leaving America for Switzerland|last=Leckie|first=Michael|date=March 18, 2018|website=The Sunday Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8257484/tina-turner-forgives-ex-husband-ike|title=Tina Turner Says She Forgives Ex-Husband Ike|last=Jefferson|first=J'na|date=March 22, 2018|magazine=Billboard}}</ref>

==== Later marriages ====
Turner married Margaret Ann Thomas in Las Vegas on April 11, 1981;{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=195}} they divorced in 1990. They had met in the mid-1960s at a concert in [[Bakersfield, California]].{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=105}} According to Turner, Tina suggested Ann fill in as an Ikette however, she could not sing, she was attractive.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=106}} Eventually, she moved into their [[View Park–Windsor Hills, California|View Park]] home.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=107}} Turner stated, "I loved Tina, but I was in love with Ann Thomas."{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=106}} Their daughter Mia was born in January 1969. They rekindled their friendship years after their divorce, and she found Turner unconscious at his home the day he died.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" />

Turner was introduced to St. Louis native singer [[Jeanette Bazzell Turner|Jeanette Bazzell]] by his son Ike Turner Jr. in 1988.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 27, 1993|title=Ike Turner Talks About His Ex-Wife Tina And New Fiancée|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsEDAAAAMBAJ&q=turner|magazine=Jet|pages=58}}</ref> She became his lead vocalist and they married in a private ceremony at [[Circus Circus Las Vegas|Circus Circus Hotel & Resort]] in Las Vegas on July 4, 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Allison|first=Lynn|date=July 17, 1995|title=Passages|url=https://people.com/archive/passages-vol-44-no-3/|access-date=March 2, 2021|website=People|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|date=July 24, 1995|title=Ike Takes A Bride|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nj0DAAAAMBAJ&q=Jeanette+Bazzell+Turner&pg=PA16|magazine=Jet|pages=16}}</ref> They divorced in 2000, but later rekindled their friendship. According to Jeanette, Turner called her his "backbone".<ref name="Archer-2019" /> In 2019, she told ''[[Palm Springs, California|Palm Spring Life]]'' that the film ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' "assassinated Ike's career. But more than that, it broke his heart". She added, "Ike doesn't get any recognition because of all the negative things [shown] in that movie and in his relationship with Tina... I went through things with Ike, too, but there's a time to forgive and to let go. To strip him from having the opportunity to get recognition in an area where he was entitled to deserve it, it's so wrong to me."<ref name="Archer-2019">{{Cite web|url=https://www.palmspringslife.com/jeanette-bazzell-turner/|title=Talking Turner|last=Archer|first=Greg|date=June 10, 2019|website=Palm Springs Life}}</ref>

Turner met San Francisco native singer [[Audrey Madison Turner|Audrey Madison]] through a mutual friend in 1993. She started as an Ikette before becoming his lead singer.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> They married at A Special Memory Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on October 8, 2006.<ref>{{Citation|title=Ike Turner's wedding 10/08/2006| date=December 19, 2007 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRK4jxaoOpM| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/aRK4jxaoOpM| archive-date=October 31, 2021 | url-status=live|language=en|access-date=November 15, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Turner filed for divorce two months later on December 22, but after the divorce was granted, they reconciled in 2007.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> In 2011, Audrey appeared as a contestant on [[The X Factor (U.S. TV series)|''The X Factor'']].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2011/10/05/famous-x/|title=Famous 'X'|last=Starr|first=Michael|date=October 5, 2011|website=New York Post}}</ref> In 2016, she released her memoir ''Love Had Everything to Do with It'', which details her volatile relationship with Turner due to his [[bipolar disorder]] and [[schizophrenia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://audreyturnermusic.com/about-3 |title=About Audrey Turner |last=Turner |first=Audrey |website=Personal web page of Audrey Turner |access-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407115850/https://audreyturnermusic.com/about-3/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She told [[Baltimore Afro-American|''The Afro'']]: "I decided to write it because it was like a cleansing and it released all of the trauma. Also, I wanted the general public to have a better outlook and perspective on where Ike was mentally and emotionally, because so often, as a nation, we turn on people who have mental health issues and define them by their behaviors rather than their condition."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afro.com/ike-turners-widow-pens-memoir-on-singers-violent-bipolar-condition/#|title=Ike Turner's Widow Pens Memoir on Singer's Violent Bipolar Condition|last=Cornish|first=Stephanie|date=June 8, 2016|website=The Afro|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205193305/https://www.afro.com/ike-turners-widow-pens-memoir-on-singers-violent-bipolar-condition/|archive-date=December 5, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Children ===
Turner had six children. He had two sons, Ike Turner Jr. (b. 1958) and Michael Turner (b. 1960), with Lorraine Taylor.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=83}} He had a son Ronald "Ronnie" Turner (1960–2022) with Tina Turner.<ref name="Dasrath-2022">{{Cite web |last1=Dasrath |first1=Diana |last2=Stump |first2=Scott |date=December 13, 2022 |title=Tina Turner's son Ronnie's cause of death is revealed |url=https://www.today.com/health/tina-turner-son-ronnie-cause-death-colon-cancer-rcna61458 |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=TODAY.com |language=en}}</ref> Tina's son Craig Turner (1958–2018) with [[Raymond Hill (musician)|Raymond Hill]] was adopted by Turner and therefore carried his surname. Craig died in an apparent suicide.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/03/tina-turners-firstborn-son-craig-turner-dies-apparent-suicide/757019002/|title=Tina Turner's firstborn son dies of apparent suicide|last=Andrea Mandell|first=Bryan Alexander|date=July 3, 2018|website=USA Today}}</ref>

Turner had a daughter, Mia Turner (b. 1969), with Ann Thomas,<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> and he later discovered he had another daughter, Twanna Melby Turner (b. 1959), with Pat Richard.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/05/us/ike-turner-is-paroled.html|title=Ike Turner Is Paroled|date=September 5, 1991|newspaper=The New York Times}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

Turner's second wife Velma Davis (née Dishman) claimed that Turner was the father of her daughter, Linda Turner Bullock (b. 1949),<ref name="O'Neal-2017" /> but Turner denied that assertion in his autobiography (in which Velma is mistakenly referred to as Thelma): "I met Thelma Dishman, who, at that time, I thought was a pretty girl. Thelma was pregnant, not by me, but I liked her."{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=57}}

In 1988, Turner discovered he had a daughter named Twanna Melby.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=211}} He was paroled into her custody in 1991.<ref name="Philips-05-09-1991" /><ref name="Jet-9/23/91" /> Her mother, Pat Richard, attended [[Sumner High School (St. Louis)|Sumner High School]] with Tina in [[St. Louis]].<ref name="Christian-10-2008" />

Ike Turner Jr. released an album, ''Hard Labor'', in 1987.<ref>'Ike Turner, Jr.' (advertisement) ''St. Louis Post-Despatch'' April 30, 1987, p. 23</ref> He won a Grammy Award for his involvement with Turner's 2006 album ''Risin' with the Blues''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/ike-turner-jr|title=Ike Turner, Jr.|website=Recording Academy Grammy Award|date=November 23, 2020}}</ref> He toured with former Ikette Randi Love as Sweet Randi Love and The Love Thang Band.<ref name="BlogTalkRadio-2017" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theoklahomaeagle.net/2017/10/12/tulsa-native-randi-love-giving-to-give-back/|title=Tulsa Native Randi Love Giving To Give Back|last=Jones|first=Fred L.|date=October 12, 2017|website=The Oklahoma Eagle|language=en-US}}</ref>

Ronnie Turner was in a band called Manufactured Funk with songwriter and musician [[Patrick Moten]].<ref name="BlogTalkRadio-2017">{{Cite web|url=https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wfunk/2017/10/16/an-interview-with-ike-turner-jr-and-randi-love-on-the-bobby-eaton-show|title=An Interview with Ike Turner Jr and Randi Love on The Bobby Eaton Show|date=2017|website=BlogTalkRadio}}</ref> He played bass guitar in his mother's band after his parents divorced and he later played in his father's band.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=232}} He married French singer [[Afida Turner]] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.purepeople.com/media/lesly-mess-alias-afida-turner-au-cote_m383522|title=Lesly Mess alias Afida Turner au côté de son mari Ronnie Turner et de sa belle-mère Tina Turner - Photo|website=www.purepeople.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/mort-de-craig-turner-afida-turner-rend-hommage-a-son-beau-frere-648336|title=Mort de Craig Turner : Afida Turner rend hommage à son beau-frère|date=July 5, 2018|website=Voici|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173744/https://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/mort-de-craig-turner-afida-turner-rend-hommage-a-son-beau-frere-648336|archive-date=March 7, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> After his father's death, he told [[Jet (magazine)|''Jet'' magazine]]: "I loved my father very much... You can talk 5 or 10 minutes about the bad he's done. You can talk all night about the achievements he's had. He was successful with my mom and after my mom. He won a Grammy before he died. That's a lifetime achievement."<ref name="Jet-2008">{{Cite magazine|date=January 14, 2008|title=Musical Tributes Honor Ike Turner's Legacy At Funeral|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjsDAAAAMBAJ&q=little+richard|magazine=Jet|pages=52–56}}</ref> Ronnie died from complications of [[Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] in 2022.<ref name="Dasrath-2022" />

=== Legal problems and drug addiction ===
In 1960, Turner and two others were charged for "interstate transportation of forged checks and conspiracy."<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 7, 1960 |title=Band Leader Indicted in Bad Check Swindle |pages=8A |work=St. Louis Globe-Democrat}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hunter |first=Bob |date=June 10, 1960 |title=Ike Turner Charged In Check Deal |pages=1 |work=The St. Louis Argus}}</ref> Turner plead not guilty and was forced to stand trial in St. Louis.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 22, 1960 |title=Two Deny $33,394 Check Forging Spree |pages=12A |work=St. Louis Globe-Democrat}}</ref> The jury failed to reach a verdict at the first trial, but he was found not guilty at the retrial in 1961.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 3, 1960 |title=Jury Deadlocked In Ike Turner Case |pages=5D |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 13, 1961 |title=Ike Turner Is Freed By Jury On Check Charge |pages=1 |work=The St. Louis Argus}}</ref>

In 1974, Turner and three others were arrested for using illegal [[blue box]]es at Bolic Sound studio to make long-distance phone calls.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=May 2, 1974|title=Turner Says He's Innocent Of Telephone Abuse Rap|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uI8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53|magazine=Jet|volume=46|issue=6|pages=53}}</ref> He was cleared of the charges.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 8, 1974 |title=Singer Cleared In Phone Fraud |pages=2–A |work=The Miami Herald}}</ref><ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" />

Before the age of thirty, Turner did not use drugs or drink alcohol.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> He would fire anyone in his band who used any substances.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=135}} Turner was first introduced to cocaine by "two very famous people" he had been working with at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.<ref name="Becker-1990" />{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=135}} Producer D'Angela Proctor alleged in Turner's ''Unsung'' documentary that the two famous people were [[Elvis Presley]] and [[Redd Foxx]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pendleton |first1=Tonya |title=D'Angela Proctor Talks Ike Turner 'Unsung', Reveals Who Introduced Him To Cocaine |url=https://blackamericaweb.com/2015/06/02/dangela-proctor-talks-ike-turner-unsung-reveals-who-introduced-him-to-cocaine/ |website=Black America Web |access-date=August 20, 2019 |date=June 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609013424/https://blackamericaweb.com/2015/06/02/dangela-proctor-talks-ike-turner-unsung-reveals-who-introduced-him-to-cocaine/ |archive-date=June 9, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Penrice-2015" /> He took the cocaine home and tried it one night while writing songs at the piano.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> Turner said he liked the reduced need for sleep the drug gave him, which allowed him to write more music.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=136}} By the early 1970s, he was heavily addicted to the drug, buying it in large quantities and sharing it with friends. Turner later estimated that he had spent $11&nbsp;million on cocaine.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2007/12/19/ike-turner|title=Ike Turner|date=December 19, 2007|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=November 4, 2019|issn=0013-0613}}{{subscription required}}</ref> His addiction caused a hole through his [[nasal septum]], the pain of which he relieved by using more cocaine. He eventually began [[freebasing]] [[crack cocaine]].<ref name="Dougherty-1990">{{Cite web|last=Dougherty|first=Steve|date=September 3, 1990|title=Soul Star on Ice: Divorced by Tina, Ike Turner Pays for His Romance with Cocaine in a California Prison|url=https://people.com/archive/soul-star-on-ice-divorced-by-tina-ike-turner-pays-for-his-romance-with-cocaine-in-a-california-prison-vol-34-no-9/|access-date=March 2, 2021|website=People|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Christian-10-2008 />

By the 1980s, Turner's finances were in disarray and he owed the state of California $12,802 in back taxes.<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" /> He later settled his account. He had tried to sell his studio Bolic Sound to raise funds to avoid [[foreclosure]], but the studio burned down on the day a potential buyer was scheduled to view it in January 1981.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 22, 1981 |title=Fire Razes Turner Recording Studio |pages=C7 |work=The Fresno Bee}}</ref><ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" />

During the 1980s, Turner was arrested multiple times for drug and firearm offenses, which resulted in two convictions.<ref name="Dougherty-1990" />

* In 1980, a [[SWAT]] team raided his Bolic Sound studio, finding a live [[hand grenade]] and seven grams of [[cocaine]]. Turner received his first conviction for cocaine possession. He was sentenced to thirty days in the L.A. county jail with three years [[probation]].<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" />
* In April 1981, Turner was arrested for shooting a 49-year-old newspaper delivery man. He accused the man of assaulting his wife Ann Thomas and of kicking his dog. Turner said he only fired a shot to scare him off and that the man had injured himself when he climbed over the fence to get away. A jury [[Acquittal|acquitted]] Turner of assault in 1982.<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" />
* In June 1985, Turner was arrested and charged with conspiracy to sell $16,000 worth of cocaine, possession and maintaining a residence for selling or using a controlled substance.<ref name="Lakeland-28-06-1985">{{cite news|title=Ike Turner Released From Jail|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19850628&id=ue8vAAAAIBAJ&pg=1777,4664336|access-date=February 27, 2012|newspaper=Lakeland Ledger|date=June 28, 1985|author=Lakeland Wire Services}}</ref> The police took $1,000 worth of rock cocaine from his [[North Hollywood]] apartment. Record producer Eddie Coleman Jr. and music company writer Richard Lee Griffin were also arrested and charged. Turner was released on a $5,000 bond.<ref>{{cite news|title=Drug Charges Filed Against Musician Ike Turner|url=https://apnews.com/6e039c64bda556d671a25e5e75aa432b|work=AP News Archive, Jun. 27, 1985|access-date=February 27, 2012|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
* In 1986, Turner was arrested for cocaine possession, [[concealed carry]] of a handgun and traffic violations; he was released on bail.<ref name="Jet-27-01-1986">{{cite magazine|title=Ike Turner Arrested on Cocaine Charge in Calif.|magazine=Jet|date=January 27, 1986|volume=69|issue=19|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9|access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref>
* In January 1987, Turner was arrested for trying to sell 10 ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer; he pleaded not guilty.<ref name="AP-1-3-1987">{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Not Guilty Plea on Drugs|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/03/us/not-guilty-plea-on-drugs.html|access-date=October 2, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 3, 1987}}{{subscription required}}</ref>
* In May 1989, Turner was arrested on drug charges in West Hollywood. He was convicted of [[cocaine intoxication]] and driving under the influence of cocaine in January 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-17-me-522-story.html|title=Ike Turner Gets 4 Years on Cocaine Convictions|date=February 17, 1990|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}{{subscription required}}</ref> The next month he was sentenced to four years in prison.<ref name="AP-2-17-1990">{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=4-Year Sentence for Ike Turner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/17/us/4-year-sentence-for-ike-turner.html|access-date=October 2, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 17, 1990}}{{subscription required}}</ref> He was released on parole in September 1991 after completing 18 months of his sentence at [[California Men's Colony]] in [[San Luis Obispo]].<ref name="Philips-05-09-1991">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Will They Still Like Ike? : Turner Nervous About Restarting His Pop Career|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-05-ca-2496-story.html|access-date=February 27, 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=September 5, 1991}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="Jet-9/23/91">{{cite magazine|date=September 23, 1991|title=Ike Turner Released From Prison, Returns To Music And 'Appreciates' Tina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5rsDAAAAMBAJ&q=twanna+melby+turner&pg=PA37|magazine=Jet|volume=80|issue=23|page=37}}</ref> Larry Kamien, associate warden of the California Men's Colony, said Turner was a model inmate.<ref name="Philips-05-09-1991" /> In prison he became a trustee working in the library and saved $13,000 by selling cigarettes, candy bars, and coffee to other inmates.<ref name="Jet-9/23/91" /><ref name="Miserandino-10-3-2011">{{cite web|last=Miserandino |first=Dominick A. |title=Ike Turner |url=http://thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/ike_turner.html |work=The Celebrity Cafe.com 12–99–99 |access-date=October 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115022308/http://thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/ike_turner.html |archive-date=November 15, 2011}}</ref>

Turner managed to break his dependency on cocaine while in prison and remained clean for more than ten years. He visited high schools during [[Black History Month]] to speak against [[Substance abuse|drug use]].<ref name="Pareles 12-13-2007" /> While trying to help an acquaintance from crack addiction at a [[crack house]] he [[relapse]]d in 2004.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" />

=== Health problems ===
In 2005, Turner revealed he had been diagnosed with [[emphysema]], which required him to use an oxygen tank.<ref name="Adams-10-27-2005">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ike-turner-on-sex-drugs-and-rocknroll-512759.html|title=Ike Turner: On sex, drugs and rock'n'roll|last=Adams|first=Guy|date=October 27, 2005|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=October 3, 2011}}</ref> His daughter Mia Turner said, "He was too weak from the emphysema to do anything. He'd go in the studio for a couple of minutes and play a couple of bars and say he had to go lay down."<ref name=Carter-01-17-2008>{{cite news|last=Carter|first=Chelsea J.|title=Cocaine overdose killed Ike Turner, San Diego coroner rules|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cocaine-overdose-killed-Ike-Turner-San-Diego-3230877.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202052100/http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-01-17/news/17151576_1_cocaine-overdose-drug-abuse-turner-s-daughter|url-status=live|archive-date=February 2, 2013|access-date=October 3, 2011|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle (AP)|date=January 17, 2008}}</ref> Despite his ill health, he collaborated with Gorillaz on their album ''[[Demon Days]]'' and performed the track with them at the [[Manchester Opera House]] in November 2005.<ref name="NME-2005" />

After his death in 2007, Turner's autopsy and toxicology report showed he was taking [[Seroquel]] at the time of his death. The medicine is most commonly used as treatment for [[bipolar disorder]], [[Alzheimer's disease]] and [[schizophrenia]]. His ex-wife Audrey Madison claimed Turner was bipolar and that she was helping him with his illness, a claim supported by Turner's personal assistant and caretaker, Falina Rasool. Rasool said she talked to Turner about his bipolar disorder and witnessed its effects. "I would come in the room and see him change like a lightbulb, switch on and switch off. I did ask him about it. He said he made a song about it and we started laughing", said Rasool, referring to "Bi Polar" from the Grammy-winning album ''Risin' with the Blues''. "I know I'm bipolar....And I've been bipolar, but a lot of people is bipolar", he told her.<ref name="Christian-10-2008" /> However, Turner's daughter, Mia Turner, disagreed with this diagnosis and felt he was being overmedicated.<ref name="Christian-10-2008">{{cite magazine|last=Christian|first=Margena A.|date=October 2008|title=The Last Days of Ike Turner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA97|magazine=Ebony|volume=63|issue=12|pages=94–100|access-date=October 7, 2011}}</ref>

=== Religious affiliation ===
Turner was raised a [[Baptists|Baptist]] and reportedly converted to [[Judaism]] in 1994, but never spoke about it.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=7, 21}}<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 9, 2016|title=Black Jews You Should Know, Part 2|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/black-jews-you-should-know-part-2|access-date=March 2, 2021|website=Tablet Magazine|language=en}}</ref>