Cher was married to Sonny Bono from 1964 to 1975, after meeting him when she was just 16. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images. In fact, Bono was blunt about that.

Sonny and Cher met when she was just 16 and he was 27. She moved in with him after he offered her a bed in exchange for being his cook and housekeeper, and they were married from 1964 to 1975.

Bono, whose real name was Salvatore Bono, and Cher married in 1967 and skyrocketed to success as a musical duo. The two welcomed their only child, Chaz Bono, in 1969. Sonny Bono and Cher ...

Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband ...

Cher wasn’t kidding when she sang “Love Hurts.” The singer soared to stardom in the ’60s alongside Sonny Bono as the pop duo Sonny & Cher, but their split was as bitter as they come, with ...

Cher and her first husband, Sonny Bono, struck gold when they joined forces for "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" back in 1971. During its massively-successful 3-year run, Cher's variety show got up ...

Cheating, threats, jealousy and hidden money — how Sonny Bono and Cher’s marriage turned dark, as told in “Cher: The Memoir, Part One.” ...

In 1962, Cherilyn Sarkisian met Sonny Bono in a coffee shop. He was wearing a mohair suit and a mustard-colored shirt with a white collar. "I thought it was like when Tony met Maria," she said.

Bono and Cher went out on their own and struck it big with the 1965 release of their signature song, “I Got You Babe.” The track zoomed up the charts to No. 1. By early 1966, Sonny and Cher ...

Stern, of course, is speaking metaphorically about strangling Bono, who died in a skiing accident in 1998. In the book and in interviews to promote it, Cher, 78, revealed that she and Bono had a ...

(CNN) — Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late ...