Cher received her yearslong lawsuit against Sonny Bono’s widow over royalty payments for songs like “I Got You Babe” and “The Beat Goes On.”
The Grammy-winning artist sued Mary Bono in 2021, accusing her of withholding royalties from the Sonny & Cher catalog. The federal civil lawsuit states that Cher and Sonny had agreed to “an equal division of their community property” following their divorce in 1975, which integrated a fair cut up of tune royalty payments. The pair had made up the 1960s and ‘70s pop duo Sonny & Cher and have been married from 1967 to 1975.
Cher stated in her lawsuit that the 50-50 cut up carried on after he died in a snowboarding coincidence in 1998. However, Mary Bono recommended Cher that she was once not entitled to her proportion of payments underneath The Copyright Act, which permits songwriters and their heirs to win again regulate of highbrow belongings given to 3rd events.
In a choice issued Wednesday, Judge John A. Kronstadt dominated in want of Cher, permitting her to proceed receiving payments. Since the dispute started, greater than $400,000 has been withheld from the singer, the submitting states.
NBC News reached out to legal professionals for Cher and Mary Bono for remark.