Cher Relives Wild Night She Took John Lennon to Playboy Mansion — Before He Stripped Naked in Front of Her at Hugh Hefner’s Kinky 'Secret Grotto'
Cher fulfilled John Lennon's dream of taking him to Playboy Mansion.
Nov. 11 2024, Published 1:51 p.m. ET
Cher took John Lennon on a raunchy date to the Playboy Mansion - before he stripped stark naked in front of her.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the veteran singer, 78, fulfilled the Beatle's "dying wish" of taking him to Hugh Hefner's mansion.
Cher admitted Lennon was more drunk than she thought.
She took him and singer pal Harry Nilsson to one of Hefner's Sunday movie night, which were far less debauched than his notorious parties, but quickly discovered the pair were more intoxicated than she thought.
Cher explains in her new memoir: "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.
"This is not pretty what I'm seeing," I said when they started to emerge from the pool. 'Guys, please do not come out.'"
Cher said it was 'not pretty' seeing Lennon naked.
The night out took place in 1974 and Cher says the party included 50 guests.
She continued: "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 admits she was a regular visitor to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
She even took her young daughter.
Cher was a regular visitor to the Playboy Mansion.
The singer adds: "I had often been to the Playboy Mansion and my daughter Chastity, then five, had known and loved Hef her whole life.
"When she was born he had given her a life-sized lion which stood in a corner of her bedroom in what we called 'the big house - the Bel-Air mansion which Sonny and I had bought from Tony Curtis."
Lennon's killer admitted he deserved the 'death penalty.'
RadarOnline.com revealed last May Hefner's will changed shortly before his death in 2017, aged 91, significantly reducing his son's Marston's inheritance.
He told the New York Post: "From my understanding, I did not receive all the funds meant to go to me in terms of what my dad wanted me to get.
"And nobody f------ knew that the will was being changed until (after) he passed away.
"I did not know the will was changed until we received the will."
Hugh Hefner died in 2017 aged 91.
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Marston claimed that his stepmother Crystal Harris, who married Hefner in 2012, was "a master manipulator" and added "The first person who got the money, in my opinion, if I remember it, was Crystal."
Crystal denied Marston's assertions.
She said: "This story is untrue and was discredited by Hef's estate attorney who wrote his will years before Hef passed."
In response, Marston said, "I am not sure if (her getting the money first) is accurate... I don't know who changed the will.
"My memory is that the change was made within a year before his passing. This was an addition, not a changing of the previous planning."
He continued. "I was upset. "When they were explaining the inheritance and how it would work, I was baffled. I didn't understand."
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