She Recorded Hits While Dying—Motown Kept Exploiting Tammi Terrell was only 24 when she died from brain cancer on March 16, 1970. But her story isn't about the cancer—it's about the men who broke her before it did. She was brutalized by James Brown while still a teenager, then savagely abused by David Ruffin of The Temptations. In 1967, while performing "Your Precious Love" with Marvin Gaye, she collapsed onstage—a brain tumor was found. Over the next two years, through EIGHT brain surgeries, we