Cher 72: a daughter who changed her gender and the deaths of relatives only made the singer stronger -

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Having celebrated her 70th birthday in mid-May, the singer began to quietly transfer the houses she owned to family members. Her sister Georgeanna became the sole owner of a $2 million mansion in Malibu, and a four-bedroom house in Beverly Hills, bought for the same amount two and a half years ago, became the property of Elijah's youngest son Blue Allman.

It's no secret to anyone in Hollywood that Cher doesn't get along with her son - the last time they had a big fight was in March of this year. The unexpected generous gift again raised the question of the true state of the star’s health.

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“Cher knows her days are numbered,” said a source close to the Oscar winner. “She wants to leave quarrels in the past and personally make sure that her loved ones do not need for anything after her death.”

Cher's childhood

Her name is Sherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre Bono Allman. She was born in California, in the family of an Armenian emigrant and a little-known actress of Indian origin. Her parents divorced soon after the girl was born, so Cher first met her dad at the age of eleven. I studied at school frankly so-so, but I wanted, like my mother, to become an actress. Or a singer. Overall, she didn't care! At a young age, I went to concerts and movies all the time, fortunately California allowed it. And at the age of sixteen she dropped out of school and went to study acting in Los Angeles.

Livanov's son staged a stabbing

Boris Livanov is called the unlucky son of Sherlock. Although at first he had every chance of becoming a movie star. He started acting from an early age. His first role was in the film “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.”

Livanov Jr. also treated his studies without fanaticism, preferring student parties. He was expelled from the Shchukin School with the wording “without the right of reinstatement.” Over the years, the addiction to alcohol became stronger. His wife Ekaterina, herself a big fan of pawning by the collar, played a huge role in this. One day she dragged Boris to celebrate the New Year with her friends. When the alcohol ran out, everyone decided to go for more. The owner of the apartment, who had previously been sleeping peacefully, woke up, saw that the guests were leaving, and ran out after them with a knife. During the scuffle, the knife ended up in Livanov’s hands...

Having sobered up at the police station, the actor did not remember anything. For the nighttime adventure, he received 8 years in prison, but after half the term he was released on parole. While Boris was in prison, his parents obtained custody of his daughter Eva through the court. The same court sent Eva’s mother for compulsory treatment for alcoholism. The Livanovs admitted that their daughter-in-law turned their life into a nightmare. Having been released, Boris seems to have decided to make up for lost time in raising his daughter.

For the murder of a child, Amanda received 20 years.

Sonny

Cher was only sixteen years old, but when she met Phil Spector’s assistant, a music producer, and Sonny (fully Salvatore Bono) invited her to become a housewife for him, she agreed immediately, because she didn’t plan to study at school anyway. She cleaned, cooked, then Sonny discovered her love for rock music and a beautiful voice... He hired Phil Spector into the studio as a backing vocalist. In 1864, Cher recorded her first solo song, “Ringo, I Love You.”

As a result, Sonny wrote songs, and together with Cher they sang them. They simply became a sensation all over the world! They released the first album in 1965 - and the second at the same time, which included Cher’s solo song. Then - seven more collections. Along the way, the couple managed to get married. Alas, unsuccessful albums brought serious debts in the end. I had to start the program “The Sonny and Cher Show”; for seven years the guys made money with comedy sketches and musical numbers. But in 1974, the couple broke up, and the programs separately from each other, alas, did not bring success.

Jackie Chan disinherits his offspring

Jackie Chan is one of the ten highest paid actors in the world. In films, he plays exclusively positive heroes. But he did not become an example for his own children.

In his marriage to actress Lin Fengjiao, Chan had a son, Jaycee. Jaycee tried to make a career in cinema, but, alas, did not inherit his father's talent. Then the son took up music. He toured around the world until he got caught on drugs. In 2015, he was detained in Hong Kong for using marijuana, where such acts face serious punishment. But the superstar's son was released just 6 months later. The kung fu master did not forgive the shame and deprived his son of his inheritance. Jackie made a public statement: “If Jaycee has brains, he will make his own money. If not, then my money will not bring him happiness, and he will squander it.”

The son of a kung fu master was caught on drugs, for which his father disinherited him.

Jackie's illegitimate daughter, like Celentano's daughter, turned out to be a lesbian. Photo: uchux2/Instagram

He also renounced his illegitimate daughter, Etta Wu Zhuolin, whom Elaine Wu Qili, winner of the Miss Asia beauty contest, gave birth to. To confirm paternity, Chan demanded a DNA examination. Tsili was offended by this and forbade the father to see the child. They managed to get closer only when the girl turned 15. But in 2017, Etta publicly spoke about her relationship with Canadian Andy Oth. And then she even married her. The father did not let his daughter enter the door and refused to provide finances.

Tom Hanks and his wife disagree on raising their son Chester. Photo: Nancy KAZERMAN/Global Look Press

Cher as an actress and singer

Played on Broadway! After which she was invited to the film “Silkwood”. Together with Meryl Streep! Cher didn’t even read the script, but agreed immediately, because Streep! She was even nominated for an Oscar. And then there was the drama “Mask” - the role of the mother of a boy with a disfigured face. "The Witches of Eastwick." Oscar Award for the film Moonstruck. Her “If I Could Turn Back Time” video was banned due to her overly revealing outfit! But Cher did not refuse such outfits, she continued!..

And in 1998, “Strong Enough” and “Believe” were released. Well, the completely traditional singer has become an icon for non-traditional people! Then there was a song with Eros Ramazzotti, which became wildly famous. By the way, there was even a Russian version, performed by Valery Gorlov and Oksana Voyage - the arrangement was written entirely from scratch, by ear, without notes, through the efforts of the famous Kiev arranger Alexander Ovseev (alas, he died in December 2022, so to congratulate Cher on her birthday - this is partly to remember Ovseev).

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The artist’s friend Paulette Howell became the “gray eminence” in the inheritance story
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Whoever the “anonymous source” was, it is not difficult to guess that he was motivated by concern that Cher herself or potential heirs would suffer from the machinations of her closest friend Paulette Howell.

“She brainwashed Cher,” the tabloid wrote. – The singer is bewitched, she trusts her friend unlimitedly. And she forces her to drink handfuls of potent pills. Cher lives in a fog, she doesn’t even know what she’s taking.”

However, the article contains a transparent hint about the identity of the informant. Who else but Elijah, with his long history of drug addiction, could tell by eye that Cher was under the influence of mind-altering drugs? Cher apparently had a conversation with her son as Elijah contacted reporters again. This time he stated that he considered Paulette an “aunt” and did not believe in her ability or intention to harm her mother.

Nevertheless, Cher decided to provide separate housing for her troubled sons, and limited her immediate circle to the irreplaceable Paulette and 89-year-old mother Georgia Holt, whom she took in from the hospital last December. But this does not mean that Chaz and Elijah will be satisfied with such a small part of the inheritance and allow the remaining $305 million to go into Paulette’s pocket. Even if Cher is not as close to death as everyone thinks, she definitely guaranteed herself the attention of loved ones for the rest of her days.

Cher's personal life

She has two children: Chastity Bono is forty-nine years old, Elijah Allman is forty-two. Cher dated a variety of stars! Even with Tom Cruise - despite the fact that she was forty and he was only twenty-three. And in 1998, Sonny died, moreover, at a ski resort - Cher was friends with him until the end of her life... So what? Our heroine, with her Indian roots, still communicates with Sonny with the help of the medium James van Praag. You can believe it, you can not believe it, but, probably, if Cher believes, then Sonny has proven that he is Sonny?!

And Chastity, by the way, changed her gender. Now she is Chaz Salvatore. Or rather, he is. Cher came to terms with this with difficulty, but survived. And she married Tim Medvetz, a biker. At her age! Well, look what she looks like now. All that remains is to admire!.. And sincerely congratulate the star on her birthday.

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Cher with her mother Georgia, youngest son Elijah Blue and his wife Angie
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39-year-old artist Elijah Blue Allman has always said that he admires his famous mother, but their relationship can hardly be called spiritual. Two and a half years ago, he and his wife Angie moved to Cher's main residence, a $45 million mansion in Malibu. The family idyll did not work out; after a few months, Elijah ran away from under his mother’s roof.

“There are a lot of unresolved issues between us,” he says. “My mother did not raise me; at the age of seven she sent me to a boarding school. It hurt me to feel like a burden, I rebelled. During the holidays, he hung around Hollywood with friends and got into trouble. By the age of eleven, he knew all the places where you could buy drugs. Now I am no longer a bitter teenager, but an adult, ready to forgive my mother for neglect and move on. But this does not mean that I suddenly began to consider her behavior at that time correct or normal.”

Cher tried to get closer to Elijah after years of estrangement for a reason. In 2013, she almost stopped communicating with her eldest son, Chaz Bono, who was born female and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2008. Although Cher publicly supported him and tried to adapt to the situation, she found the change too difficult to accept.

“She dreamed of a flirty girl who would secretly borrow dresses from her wardrobe, but I was never like that,” says Chaz, 47, who received deeds from Cher for a $1.7 million house in West Hollywood. “I admit that I wounded her and did not live up to expectations, so I have no claims against her.”

In 2008, the singer's daughter Chastity underwent her first gender reassignment surgery and took the name Chaz.

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Cher refused to meet with him for a long time after the operation, fearing that she would not recognize her child. And she even asked Chaz to leave a greeting recorded in his female voice on the answering machine, so that she could continue to call her daughter, and not her son who had come from nowhere. It was decided to put personal communication on pause, so Chaz was above suspicion in the matter of information leakage.

The Passion of Celentano

The general public saw Adriano Celentano's youngest daughter Rosalind in Mel Gibson's film “The Passion of the Christ.” There she simply brilliantly embodied the image of Satan. By the way, Gibson introduced this role specifically for her, and the actress basically starred completely free of charge.

From early childhood, Rosalind caused her parents a lot of trouble and dreamed of quickly getting rid of their guardianship. Having fled from her father's house, Rosalind began to wander. She lived with the homeless, while doing art - Rosalind painted and sang well.

In 1990, in San Remo, she met Paolo Pierluigi. Alas, the romance was short-lived; the artist soon died of brain cancer. This crippled the girl, her behavior became more and more strange. She shaved her head, dated women, wore very peculiar clothes, and at the age of 36 she tried to take her own life. The doctors managed to pump out the unfortunate woman.

Now it is difficult to say what is more in the life of 52-year-old Rosalind: she sings, participates in shows, occasionally acts in films and draws. For a long time, Rosalind hid from her family that she preferred women: it seemed to her that her father would not accept her choice. Among her mistresses, the names of Monica Bellucci and Asia Argento surfaced.

How many operations and which ones did the celebrity have?

Most Hollywood stars try to avoid the topic of surgically changing their appearance. However, Cher does not make her operations a secret. It seems that today she herself has lost count of the interventions that allow her to look younger than her age.

New face

After having a perfect nose, Cher wanted to change the shape of her mouth. Soon she had full lips, and her eye shape became more classic. Then the singer changed the shape of her ears and chin.

But what suffered the most was the face itself. First, Cher got rid of excess fat and made her cheeks more “sunken.” Then she removed several teeth to insert implants and highlight her cheekbones. Over time, she required blepharoplasty as age-related changes to the eyelids began to appear. This was followed by circular facial skin tightening and “beauty” injections.

Perfect body

The surgeon’s hand did not miss the “construction” of Cher’s figure. In her interviews, she said that she had solved the problem of excess fat deposits forever. Therefore, we can conclude that her arsenal of interventions has been expanded with regular liposuction. Another achievement of plastic specialists was the star’s thin waist. They say that to achieve this result, Cher had to part with several ribs .

But she didn’t stop there either. Cher decided to complement her body by changing the shape of her buttocks and reducing the volume of her hips. And the seventy-year-old diva’s latest “acquisition” was a new magnificent bust, which she could not boast of even in her youth.

Of course, such changes did not go unnoticed by the tabloids. But Cher responded to caustic remarks and comments about her neckline in her usual manner: “If I suddenly want to put my breasts on my back or my face on the back of my head, that will be entirely my own business.”

However, Cher does not call for blindly following her experience and repeating a huge number of plastic interventions. Her position on this issue is this: there is no need to change anything if you are happy with everything in your appearance.

However, she herself notes that the artist is obliged to take care of his appearance. And since it is not yet possible to turn back time or drink the elixir of youth, you can turn to plastic surgeons for help. There is nothing sinful or criminal in this.

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Term for murder

Amanda Broomfield, the daughter of actor and director Billy Bob Thornton (“Bad Santa”), ex-husband of Angelina Jolie, received a prison sentence of 20 years. She was accused of murdering a child. In October 2008, Amanda's friend asked to babysit her little daughter, Broomfield's goddaughter. Nobody saw the girl alive anymore. Amanda claims that the baby accidentally fell out of the playpen and hit her head. However, forensic experts doubted this version: there was a 10-centimeter wound on the child’s head, and during the autopsy a brain hemorrhage was discovered. Experts were sure that such damage was only possible with repeated blows to the head.

The girl Chastity turned into a boy Chaz.

Zee Famelu

Back in 2008, Boris April (real name Kruglov) at Star Factory 2 surprised viewers with his shocking behavior, unusual appearance and manners. The guy was outwardly indistinguishable from the girl, and the audience did not always understand who was actually performing on stage. After the show, the artist was at the peak of his popularity for several years, touring and filming videos. But in 2012, Borya disappeared from Ukrainian show business. As it turned out, he worked in China and then moved to the USA. In 2014, on his Instagram page, the artist announced that he was a transsexual and her name was now Angel.

Two years ago, the artist returned to Ukrainian television, taking part in the “Voice of the Country” show under the pseudonym Zianja.

I worked as a volunteer in Kyiv, teaching English to children. I had long blonde hair back then and they called me Angel. These are touching memories. Therefore, I decided to leave this name and transform it into Zianja,” the singer said about her name in an interview with Anatoly Anatolich.

The singer admits that she always felt like only a girl.

I've liked boys since childhood. I was treated like a boy, but I’m still a girl, I’ve always been very feminine. People often approached my mother on the street and said: “You have such a beautiful girl.”

Last year, the singer admitted that she is no longer Ziaja, but Zi Famelu. Now under this name she releases new songs.

Strange, freedom-loving and open to the world. My name is Zee Famelu, and today I am reborn!.. In the new decade, I choose to love and live to the fullest, without any rules and restrictions, said Zee Famelu.
Yulia Mochalova changed her gender at the age of 16. Photo: Instagram