Tina Turner's older son has died of an apparent suicide. He was 59. The L.A. County Medical Examiner’s office told Fox News that Craig Turner died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Studio City, Calif., on Tuesday. "Authorities are currently on scene and the investigation is ongoing pending an autopsy," the medical examiner's office said. Reps for Tina Turner did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment. According to TMZ, Craig was in the real estate business in the San Fernando Valley. The eight-time Grammy winner gave birth to Craig Turner when she was 18 and dating saxophonist Raymond Hill. After Tina tied the knot with Ike Turner in 1962, Ike adopted Craig. The “What’s Love Got to Do With It” singer is also mom to a 57-year-old son, Ronnie. Fox News' Julius Young contributed to this report.<doc-sep>Tina Turner's life has been filled with the highest of highs and lowest of lows - from a legendary five-decade music career to a husband who abused her for decades. While Tina has found love and peace again, enjoying her retirement in Switzerland, heartbreak still came knocking on her door when her firstborn committed suicide. And now Tina has opened up for the first time since her son Craig Turner killed himself in July. 'I think Craig was lonely, that's what I think really got him more than anything else,' she told CBS News. Scroll down for video Tina Turner has opened up for the first time about her firstborn son Craig's suicide in July 'I think Craig was lonely, that's what I think really got him more than anything else,' Tina told Gayle King on CBS News this week Craig, a real estate agent, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Los Angeles home on July 3. Weeks later, Tina scattered his ashes off the California coast. 'My saddest moment as a mother,' the rock icon wrote in a Twitter post, which included a photograph of her dropping a single red rose into the water. 'On Thursday, July 19, 2018, I said my final goodbye to my son, Craig Raymond Turner, when I gathered with family and friends to scatter his ashes off the coast of California,' she added. 'He was fifty-nine when he died so tragically, but he will always be my baby.' But it seems, three months later, Tina has been able to find some peace with her son's tragic passing. 'I have pictures all around of him smiling,' she told CBS's Gayle King. 'I think I'm sensing that he's in a good place. I really do.' Tina gave birth to Craig when she was 18 years old. 'I have pictures all around of him smiling,' Tina said. 'I think I'm sensing that he's in a good place. I really do' Tina scattered his ashes off the California coast, saying it was her 'saddest moment' as a mom Tina gave birth to Craig (top right) when she was 18 years old. His father was saxophonist Raymond Hill, who was a member of Ike Turner's band. Ike (top center) would later adopt him after marrying Tina. Also pictured are Ike and Tina's son Ronnie (bottom right) and Ike's two children with Lorraine Taylor, Michael Turner (bottom left) and Ike Turner Jr (top left) His father was saxophonist Raymond Hill, who was a member of Ike Turner's band Kings of Rhythm. Tina first laid eyes on Ike - her future husband - at the Club Manhattan in St Louis, Missouri. But it wasn't romance she was after. 'I thought he was the ugliest person I'd ever seen. I'd never seen anybody that skinny!' she told King. 'But he had a presence. And then I watched him when he got on stage and he started. I thought, "Oh wow, I wanna sing with that man!"' And when Ike heard Tina's uniquely deep voice, he quickly recruited her. 'He was visibly shocked when he heard my big voice,' Tina wrote in her new memoir, My Love Story, out this week. 'It didn't seem possible it could come from such a slip of a girl.' Tina, at the time known as Anne Mae Bullock, soon joined the band. When she went looking for love, she found it with Hill. 'Unfortunately, I became pregnant and my boyfriend moved to Mississippi,' she wrote in her memoir. 'Which was the last I ever saw of him.' Tina fell in love with Hill while singing with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm band (pictured in 1956). Ike is pictured center of the front row, and Hill is pictured second to left of back row At first Tina's relationship with Ike Turner was strictly professional. She found love with Hill, only to never see him again after he moved to Mississippi. But he gave her Craig But Craig (pictured) would grow up watching Tina get horrifically abused at the hands of Ike 'In 1958, at 18, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. I was strong and quick to recover, and I wanted to make a good life for my son.' But while Tina continued to find professional success, her personal life turned into a nightmare after her relationship with Ike turned romantic. Two years later, Tina was pregnant with his child. 'That's not what doomed me, though,' she reveals in her book. 'The real trouble started when his record company told him to make "that girl" the star of his act.' The Kings of Rhythm thus became the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. It was Ike who changed the future pop legend's name. 'He just came home from the record company. He said, "Here's the record". And I said, "Who's Tina?". He said, "You're Tina!"' she recalled to King. 'That is when he took over the money, the name, the control.' It was also the first night Ike hit her, despite the fact that she was pregnant with his child. Tina said everything changed when Ike's record later told him to make her the star of their band, which became the Ike and Turner Turner Revue The first time Ike hit Tina, she was pregnant with their only child together. It was the same day he decided to change her name from Anne Mae to Tina Things only got worse through the years as the couple found more and more success. The day they got married in Tijuana in 1962, Ike took Tina to a whorehouse. 'He was cruel because he depended on me,' Tina said. 'He didn't like that he had to depend on me.' 'And I didn't want to start a fight because it was always a black eye, a broken nose, a busted lip, a rib.' Six years after their horrific wedding night, Tina decided to try and take her own life. In addition to Tina, there were two other women staying at the house and 'Ike was having sex with all of them'. One of the women was pregnant with his child.<doc-sep>More than two months since her son's tragic suicide, Tina Turner is putting the pieces back together. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey for O, The Oprah Magazine, the iconic songstress revisited her final conversation with her late firstborn son, Craig Turner. On July 3, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a spokesperson with the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed to E! News at the time. Authorities pronounced Turner dead at 12:38 p.m. after his body was discovered inside his Studio City, Calif. residence. A day before laying him to rest, Turner agreed to speak with Winfrey. "I said I wouldn't do it with anyone except Oprah," the star told the media mogul.<doc-sep>Tina Turner has been outspoken about the horrific beatings she endured from her ex, Ike Turner. Now, RadarOnline.com has learned that in her forthcoming memoir, My Love Story, out later this month, the legendary singer writes about how her first marriage was so traumatizing she attempted suicide to escape it. The book details the extreme lows Tina endured as Ike cheated on her with multiple women and physically assaulted her. The infidelity and abuse resulted in the singer overdosing on sleeping pills in 1968, she explains. Article continues below advertisement “It felt like something I had to do. Right after dinner, I took the pills, all fifty of them, which is not an easy thing to do,” Tina wrote about the incident. The shocking memoir reveals for the first time the excruciating details that took place before and after the star’s suicide attempt. Tina admits her suicide attempt was premeditated. Before the terrifying stunt, the singer lied to her doctor about having difficulty sleeping in order to obtain a prescription for sleeping pills. Plus, the battered wife said she timed the overdose so that it would not interfere with a scheduled performance she had with Ike. Moments after Tina downed the pills, the diva’s team observed she was having trouble applying her makeup and speaking out loud. She was rushed to the hospital and had her stomach pumped. It wasn’t until Ike began speaking by her bedside that the “What’s Love Got To Do With It” singer woke up, she explained. But his words were far from supportive. Tina recalled her abusive first husband telling her to die and calling her a “mother f**ker.” Tina’s shocking suicide confession comes months after her son, Craig Turner, took his own life at his Los Angeles home on July 3. A coroner’s report exclusively obtained by Radar showed he had relapsed on booze before he shot himself in the head. We pay for juicy info! Do you have a story for RadarOnline.com? Email us at tips@radaronline.com, or call us at (866) ON-RADAR (667-2327) any time, day or night.<doc-sep>
Tina Turner is getting real. The iconic singer released her first autobiography, "I, Tina," in 1986, but there's more to her story. In her upcoming memoir, "My Love Story," Tina shares new details about her marriage to Ike Turner, and reveals she once tried to kill herself in an attempt to escape their tumultuous relationship. TINA TURNER SHARES HEARTBREAKING PHOTO OF HER SCATTERED SON'S ASHES Ike and Tina first met in the late 1950s when he was 25 years old and she was just 17. According to Tina, it didn't take long before their relationship turned romantic -- or abusive. In a previous interview with Spin magazine, Ike said, "Yeah, I hit her, but I didn't hit her more than the average guy beats his wife... if she says I abused her, maybe I did." "First, he was verbally abusive. Then, he picked up a wooden shoe stretcher. Ike knew what he was doing. If you play guitar, you never use your fists in a fight. He used the shoe stretcher to strike me in the head -- always the head,” Tina claims in her new memoir, via People. “I was so shocked I started to cry. Ike ordered me to get on the bed. I hated him at that moment. The very last thing I wanted to do was make love, if you could call it that. When he finished, I laid there with a swollen head, thinking, ‘You’re pregnant and you have no place to go. You really have gotten yourself into something now. '” TINA TURNER'S OLDEST SON DEAD AT 59 In 1960, Tina gave birth to their first child together, son Ronnie, and two years later they married in Tijuana. But as Tina writes, "Our life together was a mockery of a ‘normal’ relationship: defined by abuse and fear, not love, or even affection." Just a few years later, Tina decided she couldn't take it anymore. “At my lowest, I convinced myself that death was my only way out. I actually tried to kill myself. I went to my doctor and told him I was having trouble sleeping. Right after dinner, I took all 50 of [the pills he gave me]," Tina says. "I was unhappy when I woke up. But I came out of the darkness believing I was meant to survive.” TINA TURNER MAKES FIRST RED CARPET APPEARANCE IN FIVE YEARS Tina and Ike split in 1976, and divorced in 1978, but their relationship continued to be a focus of the media. The pair's story was the center of the 1993 film, "What's Love Got to Do With It," and the biographical musical, "Tina," opened on London's West End earlier this year.