Editing Ike Turner (section)

==== 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}}