JUNE 30, 1975 – Cher married Allman Brothers keyboardist Gregg Allman only four days after divorcing Sonny Bono. The couple split after ten days, but soon reconciled for a three year rocky marriage. Those who found Cher’s rather speedy return to the altar alarming might have felt differently had they known how long marriage #1 had actually been over. By early 1973, Sonny and Cher were living together with their young daughter Chastity, but also with their respective lovers, “The public still thinks we are married,” Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, “[and] that’s the way it has to be.” By the time her divorce was finalized, the 29-year-old Cher had been playing the field for nearly three years and had been sharing her Holmby Hills mansion with Gregg Allman for at least three months.
