The rock star — who "struggled with many health issues over the past several years" — died today at the age of 69. Let others stre...
The rock star — who "struggled with many health issues over the past several years" — died today at the age of 69.
And then:They had a disastrous first date; Allman sucked on her fingers and tried to kiss her, and Cher fled. Against her better judgment, she agreed to a second date. Allman took her dancing, and they started to connect. "Pulling words out of Gregg Allman is like . . . forget it," she told Playboy that year. "Things started to mellow when he found out that I was a person — that a chick was not just a dummy. For him up till then, they'd had only two uses: make the bed and make it in the bed."
ADDED: Perhaps Cher will give a eulogy for Gregg Allman. She famously spoke at the funeral of Sonny Bono, stealing the show, though Bono had a current wife and it was 23 years since his divorce from Cher. It's 38 years since her divorce from Allman. Allman had no current wife. He'd been divorced from his last wife — his sixth — since 2008. Cher was his third wife. He'd been married to 2 other women before her, and each of those marriages lasted one year. He was with Cher for 4 years. Wife 4 lasted 5 years, wife 5 lasted 5 years, and wife 6 lasted a big 7 years.On June 30th, 1975, five days after Cher's divorce from Sonny Bono was finalized, Cher and Allman went to Las Vegas and got married at Caesar's Palace. It was her second marriage and his third.
They went to Jamaica for the honeymoon, but after a few days Allman picked a fight with Cher, pulling a knife so that she would leave and he could score some heroin. After nine days of marriage, Cher filed for divorce. Allman entered rehab, and a week after Cher had filed they reconciled....
Allman's marriage wasn't stopping his drug abuse and womanizing; realizing the relationship wasn't working, he filed for divorce in November 1975. When Cher discovered she was pregnant a month later, they reconciled once more....
Allman and Cher made a 1977 album, Two the Hard Way, under the name Allman and Woman; in an act of kindness and good taste, the American record-buying public completely ignored it. When Allman passed out at an awards banquet, his face landing in a plate of spaghetti, Cher decided enough was enough. She filed for divorce in 1977; this time there was no reconciliation.
Whatever happened to Elijah Blue, the son Allman had with Cher? He's 40 and a singer in a band I've never heard of, Deadzy. He calls himself P. Exeter Blue now, for some reason, not wanting that name, Allman. Here's a 2013 Daily Mail article about him:
Phillips Exeter Academy?"I’ve always been the black sheep of my family. The reason being we just have different value systems and we just have a different mentality and that clashes a lot. We have lots of ups and downs and right now isn’t the best time."...
"Superstars are a difficult and [a] unique breed. You have to be superficial to be a mega celebrity, you have to be… but who you are behind closed doors is really up you, there’s no cameras there. Usually when there’s fame, there’s also brand of some sort, there’s also revenue. So whatever needs to be done to serve the generating of that revenue takes priority. I think that’s too big for anyone (famous) to escape."...
""[Superstars] can look up at the sky and say it’s red and ten other people will jump in line and say it’s red, I’m not one of those people. So when I see that kind of s*** going on… I speak up about it. I don’t think it’s really the best quality of life for someone when they are just enabled to the nth degree, I think history has shown that."...
He was sent to boarding school aged seven...
AND: I guess you can tell I was never much of an Allman Brothers fan? But did you know that when I was a child, my sister and I performed at talent shows under the name The Altman Sisters? We thought Althouse wasn't a good stage name. This was our song.... and attended several different establishments over a ten year period. Cher once ‘punished’ him for misbehaving at school by sending him to a military school for a year – although he says he actually enjoyed it.
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