In Cher’s book, Cher: The Memoir, the star recounts her memorable evening there with John Lennon. She bumped into him at a restaurant in 1974 where he was dining with musician Harry Nilsson. She invited them to come along. Instead of the typical night filled with booze and orgies, she was taking them to one of Hefner’s Sunday “movie nights,” which were known for being more well-behaved than the typical Playboy rave. Food and cocktails were usually served while a new film was screened.
Lennon and Nilsson had already had a lot to drink by the time they made it to the Mansion. “Giggling and falling over each other, John and Harry followed me out into the grounds,” she writes in her book. “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.”
Lennon caused even more trouble at the mansion, potentially ruining a priceless piece of art. As Hefner revealed in 2007, the dickhead visited the Mansion again during his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono and was so drunk he tried to put out a cigarette on an Henri Matisse painting.
Hefner would have been justified in throwing Lennon out of Los Angeles, but he took it in his stride. “He had been drinking,” he said diplomatically. “I was a huge fan. He was under a tremendous amount of pressure, very inappropriate pressure, you know, from the government. They were strange times. And Lennon was one of my heroes.”
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Sixteen, 7 days a week,48 hrs, 3 weeks, Sunday off, 40 hrs, I didn't even understand what I was listening to. Imagine SOUNded good. I didn't understand what a commie even was,yet. I was way too busy working and Runnin gas through my 62 chevy.
ReplyDeleteEighteen months is a long time to be celebrating a separation from Yoko.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason to dislike the uncivil parts of that era. And I will never understand the unhealthy attraction between the Brit and Asian.
ReplyDeleteI would have made him buy the painting. Everybody goes thru problems, they don’t all act like assholes.
ReplyDeleteCher knows how to read and write, who knew?
ReplyDeleteJpaul
I would've had him sign the burn. Double the painting's worth.
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