Dear started to go out with Warren Beatty at 16 after he almost hit her with his car

The film star was 25 when he met the future music icon.


Before she age half of Sonny & Cher , the artist born CHERILYN Sarkisian was a second year student of ordinary high school excited to obtain her driving license. This license would lead to his first relationship with a famous man when an almost Fender Bender led to the actor of the future star Warren Beatty , nine years older. Pamper and the Splendor in grass Star embarked on a brief relationship after the fortuitous meeting, although his parents were naturally not delighted. Read the rest to discover what happened between them and how dear looks at their romance now.

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Dear and Beatty met in an unusual way.

Cher in 1964
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In the early 1960s, Dear lived with her family outside Hollywood, full of ambition and ready for life outside the school where she was sure that fame was waiting for her, according to the 2001 biography Pamper by Cheryl Napsha And Connie Berman . In a year, she abandoned and began to play in clubs on the famous Sunset Strip - and according to A 2018 interview with She , it was precisely where she headed as soon as she obtained her driving license. She passed the famous Hanguage of celebrities of the Strip Schwab of the pharmacy when she said that she was almost removed by a man in a white Lincoln convertible. Shaken by the quasi-accident, she left for the driver. "Are you crazy?" She said to him before recognizing the man who had almost made his stepfather's car. "Then I looked at his face, and I thought, my God, it's Warren Beatty."

She was 16 and he was 25 years old.

Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood in 1962
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At the time, Beatty was a 25 -year -old heart of her great escape opposite Natalie Wood , with whom he also had an off -screen romance in 1961 Splendor in grass . Tell the same night in his 1998 memories The first time , Dear remembers being actor . The memories of the quasi-crraw were quickly in the past when he apologized, bought his cigarettes and invited him to eat something. "Warren was incredibly beautiful and funny," she wrote. "He had a charm coming out of each pore, which is always a fatal combination."

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He courted it with cheese, crackers and soda.

Warren Beatty in 1962
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Although she had a midnight curfew, Dear remembers having felt it essentially to the women of her life to take Beatty on her offer. "I remembered how crazy my mother, and also my best friend, Penny , so if I was not going to look for something with him, should I indeed deceive these women? "She wrote. As she was considering this question, Beatty took the opportunity to change the invitation." Do you want to go to my house and put something on it? And a coke while she was preparing for what she "knew how to happen".

Only one of her parents was horrified.

Cher in 1965
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According to Cher's book, it was not long before Beatty kissed her. Although she did not explain what happened afterwards, she wrote that Beatty prevented her until 2 am in the first night. The teenager returned home to find his stepfather Gilbert Lapiere In the meantime and "edgy" and the next day, Dear explained to her deceased mother Georgia Holt That she had dinner with the movie star, leaving aside the rest of the story.

According She , his parents forbidden him to see Beatty again. But Holt changed his mind after Beatty himself called to convince her that everything would be fine. "I don't know exactly what he said, but I remember that she was very impressed," recalls expensive The first time . "He definitely charmed it." Gilbert was apparently less impressed. "I don't care who is this guy," he asked by Cher. "What is he doing, to go around with a 16-year-old girl?"

He was not concerned about his age.

Sonny Bono and Cher in 1965
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Dear admitted to her parents that she had not given the star her real age. When the fact that she was 16 years old was shared with Beatty in another conversation with her mother, he simply asked dear if it was true. When she said it was, he told her that "had no difference", according to her memoirs.

They kept seeing each other ("We were taking showers and we are talking about, and he told me beautiful stories about all the things he did, and he was making fun of my stories," she wrote . met a 28 -year -old producer assistant Phil Spector appointed Sonny Bono in November. As for whether to discover her age has never changed anything for Beatty, Dear wrote in her memories: "It actually seemed to do it more like me. (Duh - of course.)"

Later, she called Beatty "a disappointment".

Warren Beatty in 2020
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Dear wrote that even if she didn't love her, she thought of Beatty as "a famous and charming movie star with which I would hang out and with sex". This lack of romantic connection has made its time together " disappointment ," she said Playboy , as mentioned in Suzanne Finstad Warren Beatty: a private man From 2005. "Not that he was not technically good, or could not be good, but I did not feel anything," admitted the singer in the magazine. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

In 1990, she provided some unfortunate accounting of the link Vanity , saying, " Warren was probably with everyone I know, and unfortunately I am one of them ... But I had a fairly weak self -esteem, and I had never really been with men. ""

His business with Cher would hardly be the last case of Beatty linked to a teenager. Decades later, ROB LOWE Write on the time that Beatty implied that he was Sleep with Lowe's then Girlfriend Melissa Gilbert , who said in her own memories that she was 17 years old when Beatty was first approached her. In an interview of 1991 in Rolling stone , the delay Carrie Fisher said the actor approached him four times on the set of Shampoo , when she was 17, with a relief offer of "The huge burden" of his virginity . And in November 2022, as indicated by The New York Times , a woman filed a prosecution Accusing Beatty of abusing him sexually and attacking her When she was 14 and 15 years old and he was 35 years old. The actor, now 86, has not addressed the allegation publicly, and there has been no update on the trial since.

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