Firstly, a little background. IMDb tells us that Cher was born on Mary 20, 1946 in California. Her mother was Georgia Holt and her father was John Sarkisian. According to ABC News, Cher stated her ...

The discovery came when Cher legally simplified her name during a transformative period in her life. She also dropped the four surnames associated with her father, John Paul Sarkisian, stepfather ...

While "Cher" has been the iconic singer's stage ... Ellen DeGeneres — was actually born Cherilyn Sarkisian. Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver and her mother ...

Exeter Blue. Throughout her life, Holt was married six times, twice to her first husband and Cher's biological father John Sarkisian. Both daughters were adopted by her third husband, Gilbert ...

prompting her father, John Sarkisian, to relinquish her. Georgia Holt, who ended up raising Cher as a single mother, was eventually able to retrieve her daughter after she secured the funds and ...

The worst of it was when her mother, Georgia Holt, was married to Cher’s biological dad for the first time. John Sarkisian was a ... was extremely poor and her father was abusive.