Cher Reveals Salvador Dalí Once Invited Her and Sonny Bono Over to Visit — After an Orgy: 'Inside, I Was Screaming'

Cher said that Salvador Dalí was in “a different league of crazy” after this interaction.

In the memoirs of an entertainer, Cher: A Memoir, Part 1the “I Got You Babe” singer, 78, recalls the invitation she and her then-husband — the late Sonny Bono — received from Dalí and the series of events that made her scream inside.

During your stay at the St. Regis in New York, while visiting a friend, Cher and Bono ran into Francis Ford Coppola, who was filming a movie. They also bumped into a prolific surrealist artist who invited them to a party he was hosting with his wife Gala that evening.

Cher said that everyone in their suite “was either beautiful or bizarre and everyone looked like they were high,” calling the experience “like walking into a bad Fellini movie.”

Cher in October 2024.

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Despite noticing her discomfort, Dalí invited Cher and Bon to dinner the following evening. Upon arriving at Dalí’s studio, Cher realized that an orgy had just taken place. She recalled “a large room where people were naked or undressed”.

“One braless girl came out in a see-through blouse,” which she compared to cellophane wrap. The “Believe” hitmaker tried to look nonchalant as Bono and Coppola, 85, were “pussies,” huddled together on the other side of the room.

Cher then realized that she had sat on something, and pulled out from under her a “beautiful painted rubber fish” that had a moving tail. She assumed it was a child’s toy, but Dalí told her it was actually a vibrating sex toy.

She immediately dropped the fish, and Bono and Coppola laughed. She remained composed, but “inside, however, – how should I say it? – I was screaming.”

The group, including the “bizarre orgies” and Cher, Bono and Coppola, went to dinner. A few minutes into the meal, Dalí said they had a “prior engagement” and moved to a table a few meters away. Cher, Bono and Coppola were beyond relieved and couldn’t stop laughing.

“I’m sure Dalí thought we were all jerks, but by then we didn’t care,” she concluded.

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Salvador Dalí in December 1964.

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Elsewhere in her memoir, Cher wrote about her friend the late Farrah Fawcett, the advice she got from Tina Turner, meeting Jackie Kennedy when she was 19, and many other anecdotes from her life.

Cher: Memoirs, Part One it is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

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