• Cher dishes dirt on John and Harry Nilsson in her new memoir

    From super70s@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 22 15:44:35 2024
    Cher claims 'drunk' John Lennon once got naked in Playboy Mansion pool Music-News.com
    11 November 2024

    Cher has claimed John Lennon once stripped off his clothes during a
    drunken night at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.

    In her new autobiography, "Cher: The Memoir, Part One," the "Believe"
    hitmaker recalled having dinner at a restaurant in Los Angeles with the
    Beatle and his friend, singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, and asking the
    pair if they wanted to visit Hugh Hefner's famed mansion for its Sunday
    movie night.

    According to Cher, Lennon was "dying" to see the property so she drove
    them to the mansion, at which point she realised her companions were
    "drunker than I'd thought".

    The 78-year-old, a regular guest at the Playboy Mansion, led Lennon and
    Nilsson to the swimming pool's Grotto - where they stripped naked.

    "Giggling and falling over each other, John and Harry followed me out
    into the grounds. Sitting them down inside the infamous Grotto - it was
    like a huge cave that one end of the swimming pool went into - I went to
    find a drink and when I came back they were standing in the middle of
    the Grotto naked but still in the water, thank God," she wrote in the
    book, which has been serialised by the Daily Mail.

    When the pop legend told the pair they were not a "pretty" sight, they threatened to leave the water.

    "I was trying not to laugh, but it was impossible not to as they
    threatened to wander around the mansion naked. It took me ages to get
    them back in their clothes. It was like herding drunks," Cher continued.

    She noted that while the mansion was "notorious for drunken orgies", the
    Sunday movie nights were more relaxed events featuring cocktails, dinner
    and the latest films.

    Cher: The Memoir, Part One will be released on 19 November.

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 23 23:50:37 2024
    On 23/11/2024 10:44 am, super70s wrote:
    Cher claims 'drunk' John Lennon once got naked in Playboy Mansion pool Music-News.com
    11 November 2024

    Cher has claimed John Lennon once stripped off his clothes during a
    drunken night at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.

    In her new autobiography, "Cher: The Memoir, Part One," the "Believe" hitmaker recalled having dinner at a restaurant in Los Angeles with the Beatle and his friend, singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, and asking the
    pair if they wanted to visit Hugh Hefner's famed mansion for its Sunday
    movie night.

    According to Cher, Lennon was "dying" to see the property so she drove
    them to the mansion, at which point she realised her companions were
    "drunker than I'd thought".


    Surely hardly a 'big thing'. So to speak ....

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    geoff

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 23 10:40:33 2024
    Thanks for posting this!

    May Pang wrote about their visit to the Playboy mansion, but declined to mention the Lennon's and Nilsson's getting naked in the pool.

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 23 12:56:30 2024
    There's discussion online to the effect that Lennon stubbed out a
    cigarette on a Matisse painting at the Playboy Mansion. If it's true, I
    hope Lennon was compelled to pay for restoration of the painting.

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