Soul Singer and Former Ikette P.P. Arnold Alleges Ike Turner Raped Her in Upcoming Memoir
variety.comThania Garcia American soul singer P.P. Arnold has penned a memoir called “Soul Survivor,” in which she alleges that, during the time she was a member of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Ike Turner “trapped her in a room and raped her.” The allegation was published in an interview she did with the Telegraph in the U.K.
ahead of the book’s release there.In the interview, Arnold, now 75, references the assault, stating: “It was awful. I despised Ike on that level, but I didn’t know how to express myself.
I was told Tina [Turner] wanted to get rid of me because Ike was after me. If I had run to Tina or called my parents, it would have meant I would have [had] to come home.” At that point, still a teenager, she had already experienced considerable violence at the hands of an abusive husband as well as her father, she said.
The article does not mention when the assault occurred. Arnold’s time as an “Ikette” with the Turners was a brief one — 1965-66 — although long enough for her to be immortalized on film in the “Big T.N.T.
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