## July 1, 1976: The Departure
The events of July 1, 1976, have been described by Tina Turner in various accounts over the years, most fully in I, Tina and in subsequent interviews. They occurred on a limousine ride to a Dallas hotel.
The specific circumstances — what happened in the limousine, the fight that preceded her departure — are what Turner has described in her own accounts, and what follows here is drawn from those accounts as reported in verified secondary sources, without embellishment or reconstruction.
What the accounts consistently record is this: she left the limousine in Dallas with thirty-six cents in her pocket and a gas station credit card. She crossed over to a Ramada Inn and asked for help. She identified herself. She was given a room.
From the available accounts, the credit card and the thirty-six cents are the specific material details of the moment of departure. She was not in a position of economic strength. She had been performing as the named attraction of the Revue for sixteen years, and she left with coins in her pocket.
She filed for divorce on July 27, 1976, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was finalized on March 29, 1978.
## The Settlement: What She Kept and What She Gave Up
The divorce settlement between Tina and Ike Turner has been described in various accounts, and the Wikipedia summary drawn from documentary and legal sources provides the most specific publicly available version.
She took responsibility for debts: the costs associated with missed concert dates, which were her contractual obligations she had not met in the period after leaving, and an IRS lien. These were real financial liabilities, not abstractions.