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The roundup covers Cher’s marriages, Chaz Bono’s wedding and Elijah Allman’s legal troubles, including a 2026 arrest on four charges.
- On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, pop icon Cher celebrates her 80th birthday, remaining one Tony Award away from achieving coveted EGOT status.
- At the height of their fame, Cher and her first husband, Salvatore "Sonny" Bono, sold more than 40 million records while their show captivated more than 30 million weekly viewers.
- Her son Chaz Bono, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist, publicly confirmed his transition in 2009, while her son Elijah Skye Blue Allman appeared in her 1989 video "If I Turn Back Time" when he was 13.
- Cher has publicly addressed her relationship with 40-year-old music executive Alexander "AE" Edwards, saying "in real life, we get along great" despite the age gap seeming "ridiculous on paper."
- Refusing to let aging define her, Cher plans to continue wearing jeans and long hair, stating she will "still be doing the same stuff I've always done.
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Cher Through the Years: From Sonny Bono’s Sidekick to Goddess of Pop
There is only one Goddess of Pop — and she needs just one name: Cher. The legendary singer (born Cherilyn Sarkisian) is more than six decades into her mega-successful career, which has spanned the worlds of music, TV, film and fashion. She is just a Tony Award away from becoming an EGOT winner, with an Emmy, a Grammy and an Oscar already under her belt. Cher rose to stardom in 1965 as half of the duo Sonny & Cher with Sonny Bono, her future husb…
Cher showed up at the recent Met gala in a discreet black tulle, leather and stony dress, and with her platinum hair loose (possibly wig, as she likes to wear in her public appearances). While other stars, such as Madonna or Gracie Abrams, bet on fake outfits that referred to artists like Leonora Carrington or Gustav Klimt, as this year's theme asked, Fashion is art, Cher went from Cher, joking with journalists, with a set of Burberry, black, wi…
With songs like "If I Could Turn Back Time" or "Believe" Cher became a legend, an Oscar she has won. Now the singer becomes 80 - and turns up again really. Externally, the aging Cher does not seem to be able to do anything, but the pop icon openly admits that she hates it. "I hate it. It didn't make me any smarter either," said the singer, who is 80 years old today, recently the British "Guardian". "I seem to have the longest life of all people …
If you use any social network, it is more than likely that you have stumbled upon the video that that entertaining interview in which Cher told Jane Pauley the story of how her mother Georgia used to tell her that one day she should settle down and marry a rich man, to which she responded without thinking much: 'Mom, I am a rich man.' The anecdote gives a measure of the personality and strength of character of the American singer, actress and ac…
Sequins, feathers, tight dresses – Cher was always almost aggressively beautiful. You can't be young forever. But Cher can remain Cher forever. Her life in pictures.
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