- Source of Wealth: Music, Film, Other Businesses
- Age: 73
- Birth Place: El Centro, California, United States
- Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Weight: 125 lbs (56.6 kg)
- Marital Status: Divorced (Gregg Allman)
- Full Name: Cherilyn Sarkisian
- Nationality: United States
- Date of Birth: May 20, 1946
- Ethnicity: Armenian, Cherokee, English, German
- Occupation: Singer, Actress, Film director, Entrepreneur
- Education: Fresno High School (Drop Out)
- Children: 2 (Chaz Bono, Elijah Blue Allman)
American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer, and philanthropist, Cherilyn “Cher” Sarkisian has an estimated net worth of $305 million. Cher has had three careers that place her indelibly in the public consciousness, and two have been in association with her then-husband, composer/producer/singer Salvatore “Sonny” Bono. Cher met songwriter and producer Sonny Bono in 1963. She was 16, he was 28, and two years later they recorded their first hit song, “I Got You Babe.” She charted major hit records in the 1960s and 1970s, working in idioms ranging from early-’60s girl group-style ballads to Jackie Deshannon folk-influenced pop, to adult contemporary pop in the manner of later Dusty Springfield. She also embarked on an acting career, initially in the late 1960s in association with her work as part of Sonny & Cher but later on her own, which led to a series of increasingly polished and compelling performances in Silkwood, Mask and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Cherilyn Sarkisian was born in California in 1946. In the 1990s she returned to music as an electro-pop diva, releasing the successful album Believe in 1999. She began a three-year gig in Las Vegas in 2008, replacing Celine Dion at Caesar’s Palace.