Cher in 2024; Phil Spector in 1989.Photo:Arturo Holmes/Getty; Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Arturo Holmes/Getty; Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Cheris looking back on her time spent with the infamous Phil Spector.
In her memoir,Cher: The Memoir, Part OnetheMoonstruckactress spoke about working with the late music producerPhil Spector.
Cher, 78, recalled how she first met Spector through musician Antonino LoTempio, whom she was dating at the time.
LoTempio invited the young Cher, then 15, to meet Spector at his hotel.
“He might have been a demigod to many, but he acted weird, and I didn’t like how he stared at me,” she writes in the memoir.
Cher in 2024.Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
Cher said that the producer looked her “up and down” and propositioned her for sex — in French. “‘Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?’ he said, smirking, asking me to sleep with him,” Cher writes. “Without breaking a sweat, I gave him a look back and replied, ‘Oui, pour l’argent,’ " she added, asking Spector for money in exchange for sex.
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“Staring at him in fury as he twirled it around his fingers, I said, ‘Don’t f— with me, Phillip!” Cher writes. “This is me, Cher, okay? … Put that f—ing gun down and promise me you’ll never do anything like this s— with my music again, okay?”
Spector apologized and Cher fled the scene. She was skeptical he would have used the gun on her, but she was still “pissed off” and thought that it wasn’t even loaded.
Cher in 2024.Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
Spectordied of natural causesin 2021. He was was incarcerated at the time after being sentenced in 2009 to 19 years to life for his second-degree murder conviction in the 2003 shooting ofBarbarian Queenactress Lana Clarkson.
Cher’s memoir is packed with anecdotes about datingGene Simmons, along with her marriages toSonny BonoandGregg Allman.
Cher also recalls interactions with celebrities ranging fromDolly PartonandSalvador DalítoWarren BeattyandJohn Lennon.
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Cher: The Memoir, Part Oneis available for purchase wherever books are sold.The second part of her memoiris slated to be published in 2025.
source: people.com
