CHER’S HEAD GAMES WITH SONNY’S WIDOW
Fight over $1M music royalties gets personal
POP icon Cher is deliberately twisting rival Mary Bono’s tail by insisting she was the love of their mutual hubby Sonny Bono’s life as part of all-out psychologiogical warfare over r $1 million in music royalties, insiders tattle.
With Bono’s widow and ex-wife ready to square off in court this year, r, sources say the rock ock diva is turning the knife, if hoping to get an upper hand in the messy money battle, which began two years ago when Mary, as the head of her hu hubby’s estate, stop stopped sharing royalties lt earned on Sonny and Cher classics. “Cher never liked Mary and thinks she’s a fake and a phony who didn’t love Sonny the way she did,” spills an insider. “She also likes to point out she was Sonny’s great love, not Mary, knowing it will get back to the widow woman and grind her gears.”
Ironically, Sonny’s freak Jan. 5, 1998, death in a Lake Tahoe skiing accident temporarily brought the gals together when Mary asked Sonny’s former showbiz partner to give a eulogy at his funeral. But the truce was short-lived as Cher, 77, has been openly mourning the father of their sex-swap child, Chaz Bono, now 54, ever since — while claiming she communicates with him through a spiritual medium!
Sources say Cher’s cheek infuriates Mary — and she knows it! So the I Got You Babe songbird blabs about Sonny just to get Mary’s goat.
“Cher’s angry at Mary for having the audacity to withhold royalties,” blabs the insider. “But Mary thinks Cher’s a loon and delusional, and insists Sonny’s best years were with her.”