Cher has prevailed in a long-running lawsuit that she filed against the widow of her former musical partner and husband, Sonny Bono.
In 2016, widow Mary Bono – a politician who succeeded Sonny in the US House of Representatives following his death – exercised a feature of copyright law that allows songwriters and their heirs to win back rights they have signed away, arguing that she now owned Sonny’s publishing rights. Royalties were withheld from Cher in 2021, and the singer sued, with her lawyers arguing the termination clause used by Mary was “wholly inapplicable” to the royalty split agreed in the divorce settlement.
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