Family
May 31, 2023
Tina Turner fled abusive husband with only 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket
If someone as iconic and famous and, in theory, powerful as Tina Turner struggled so much to separate herself from her abuser, what chance does the average victim have?
Eugene M. Hyman
Judge (Ret.)
Santa Clara County Superior Court
Santa Clara Univ Law School
Eugene is a retired judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, where for 20 years he presided over cases in the criminal, civil, probate, family and delinquency divisions of the court. He has presided over an adult domestic violence court and in 1999 presided over the first juvenile domestic violence and family violence court in the United States.
Tina Turner is a role model for victims of domestic abuse, but it’s Anna Mae Bullock that we should all work hard to remember.
You may know by now that’s Turner’s birth name, the one she went by when she met her future husband Ike Turner, a musician eight years senior to the 17-year-old singer.
The man who would be the father of her four children, who beat her, choked her, threw hot coffee in her face, violated ...
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