Cher Net Worth 2026: Vegas Millions, a Catalog Sale and a Royalties Win

Cher’s net worth is about $360 million, according to the widely reported estimate cited by outlets such as Parade in 2026. Forbes and Bloomberg do not track her fortune, and some sites put it higher, so treat this figure as a rough guide rather than an audited number.

Cher: quick facts

Net worth

$360 Million

Source of wealth

Touring, Las Vegas residencies, music catalog

Profession

Singer, Actress

Nationality

American

Place of birth

El Centro, California, United States

Date of birth

May 20, 1946 (age 80)

Cher has earned money in every decade since the 1960s. She has been a pop star, a TV host, an Oscar-winning actress, a Las Vegas headliner and a bestselling author. Few entertainers have stayed bankable for so long.

Her biggest paydays came from live shows. Her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour grossed about $250 million, and her three-year deal at Caesars Palace was widely reported at $60 million. In 2023 she also sold her interest in her recorded music and songs to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group, turning decades of royalties into a lump sum.

Cher at a glance

• Net worth: about $360 million (widely reported estimate, 2026)
• Born: Cheryl Sarkisian, May 20, 1946, in El Centro, California
• Profession: singer, actress, TV host and author
• Record sales: more than 100 million records worldwide
• Biggest paydays: the Living Proof tour (about $250 million gross) and a widely reported $60 million Caesars Palace residency deal
• Awards: Academy Award (Best Actress, Moonstruck), a Grammy for “Believe” plus the 2026 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy, three Golden Globes, Kennedy Center Honors (2018), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2024)
• Spouses: Sonny Bono (1969–1975) and Gregg Allman (1975–1979); partner Alexander “A.E.” Edwards since 2022
• Children: Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman

Her net worth by year is charted at the end of this article.

Where Cher’s money comes from

Source	Details	Estimate
Touring	Living Proof (2002–2005), Here We Go Again (2018–2020) and earlier tours	More than $360 million in combined grosses for those two tours
Las Vegas residencies	Caesars Palace (1979–1982 era and 2008–2011), Classic Cher (2017–2020)	Caesars deal widely reported at $60 million
Music catalog	Recordings and compositions sold to Iconic Artists Group in 2023	Price not disclosed
Sonny & Cher royalties	50% share under her 1978 divorce settlement	Upheld in court in 2025
Film and TV	Moonstruck, Mask, Burlesque, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, 1970s variety shows	Reported $1 million for Mamma Mia! cameo
Books	Cher: The Memoir, a two-part deal with Dey Street/HarperCollins	Advance not disclosed
Brands	Uninhibited perfume, Cher Eau de Couture, Cherlato gelato, infomercials	Uninhibited sold about $15 million in year one
Real estate	Malibu estate bought in 1989	Listed at up to $85 million

Biggest paydays and grosses

Cher’s income has always peaked when she is on the road or on a stage in Las Vegas. These are the best-documented figures.

Project	Years	Reported figure
Caesars Palace shows (first run)	Late 1970s	About $300,000 a week
Uninhibited perfume	1988	About $15 million in first-year sales
Living Proof: The Farewell Tour	2002–2005	About $250 million gross
Cher at the Colosseum, Caesars Palace	2008–2011	$97.4 million gross; deal widely reported at $60 million
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again	2018	About $1 million for a short role
Here We Go Again Tour	2018–2020	$112.5 million gross
Music assets sale to Iconic Artists Group	2023	Undisclosed

Early life

Cher was born Cheryl Sarkisian on May 20, 1946, in El Centro, California. Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver who was rarely around. Her mother, Georgia Holt, was a model and actress.

Her parents split when she was a baby, and money was tight. Her mother married several times and the family moved often. Her stepfather, Gilbert LaPiere, adopted her in 1961.

Cher left school at 16 and moved toward show business in Los Angeles. In November 1962 she met Sonny Bono, who was working for producer Phil Spector. That meeting set up the first chapter of her career.

Sonny & Cher and the 1960s breakthrough

Sonny and Cher started singing backup on Spector sessions before recording as a duo. In 1965, “I Got You Babe” went to No. 1 in the U.S. and made them stars almost overnight.

Cher also built a solo career at the same time, with hits such as “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”, “Alfie” and “Sunny.” By the late 1960s, though, the duo’s record sales had cooled, and the couple were reportedly deep in debt.

TV stardom and No. 1 hits in the 1970s

Television revived them. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour debuted on CBS in 1971 and at its peak drew more than 30 million viewers a week. It made Cher one of the most recognized faces on American TV.

Her solo singles took off too. She scored three U.S. No. 1 hits: “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves”, “Half-Breed” and “Dark Lady.” After the couple divorced in 1975, she hosted her own CBS variety show.

The decade ended with an early Las Vegas run at Caesars Palace. She played two shows a night and was reported to earn about $300,000 a week, an enormous sum for the time. The show grew into the Take Me Home Tour (1979–1982).

Hollywood and the Moonstruck Oscar

In the 1980s Cher reinvented herself as a serious actress. Her early films brought big honors:

• Silkwood (1983): an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe win
• Mask (1985): the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Suspect (1987)
• Moonstruck (1987): the Academy Award for Best Actress

The Oscar made her one of Hollywood’s most bankable women. She followed it with Mermaids (1990), made her directing debut on If These Walls Could Talk (1996) and later starred in Burlesque (2010).

In 2018 she played Meryl Streep’s mother in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. She was reportedly paid about $1 million for a few minutes on screen, and her cover of “Fernando” became a hit.

She is the only performer to have won an acting Oscar and also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Rock comeback and “Believe”

Back in music, Cher signed with Geffen and released Cher (1987) and Heart of Stone (1989). Rock-flavored hits such as “If I Could Turn Back Time” returned her to the charts and to arena stages.

Her biggest record came in 1998. Believe was a dance-pop album, and its title track topped the U.S. charts and became the best-selling single by a female artist in UK history. It won her a Grammy in 2000 and made Auto-Tune a pop sound of its own.

Later albums kept selling. Closer to the Truth (2013) and the ABBA tribute Dancing Queen (2018) both debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.

Touring and Las Vegas residencies

Live shows have been Cher’s biggest earner since the late 1990s. Each run was larger than the one before.

Living Proof: The Farewell Tour

Billed as a goodbye, the tour ran from 2002 to 2005 and played more than 300 shows. It grossed about $250 million, the highest gross ever for a female artist at the time.

Caesars Palace (2008–2011)

The farewell did not last. In 2008 Cher began a residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. It played 192 shows over nearly three years, sold about 698,000 tickets and grossed about $97.4 million.

Her deal was widely reported at $60 million for the three-year run. That was gross pay, not profit; the show reportedly used a staff of around 100 people.

Classic Cher and Here We Go Again

From 2017 to 2020 she headlined Classic Cher in Las Vegas and at National Harbor, Maryland. She took the show worldwide as the Here We Go Again Tour (2018–2020).

That tour played 85 shows, sold about 934,000 tickets and grossed about $112.5 million, according to Billboard Boxscore data. Billboard reported that her 2019 touring gross topped $100 million, a personal best for a single year. The tour ended in March 2020 when the pandemic shut down live music.

Recent work: Christmas album, memoir and catalog sale

Cher has stayed busy into her 80s.

• Christmas (October 2023): her first holiday album, on Warner Records, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart. Guests included Stevie Wonder, Michael Bublé, Cyndi Lauper and Darlene Love. “DJ Play a Christmas Song” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart.
• Music assets sale (August 2023): she sold her interest in her past recordings and compositions to Iconic Artists Group, led by Irving Azoff. The price was not disclosed.
• Cher: The Memoir, Part One (November 2024): published by Dey Street Books in the U.S. and HarperCollins in the UK. It debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for three weeks.
• Part Two: first planned for 2025, the second volume has been pushed back. Booksellers now list an April 2027 publication date. The value of the two-book deal has not been reported.

She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2026, the year she turned 80. A Broadway musical about her life, The Cher Show, won two Tony Awards in 2019.

The Sonny & Cher royalties lawsuit

Cher’s 1978 divorce settlement with Sonny Bono gave her 50% of the royalties from their joint recordings and songs. Bono died in 1998, and his widow, former congresswoman Mary Bono, became the head of his estate.

In 2016 the estate stopped paying Cher her share. It argued that the heirs could use the U.S. Copyright Act’s termination rules to take back rights Sonny had granted decades earlier. Cher sued Mary Bono in October 2021.

The case went Cher’s way:

• 2024: a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the copyright termination did not cancel the divorce settlement.
• November 26, 2025: Judge John A. Kronstadt entered a final judgment. Cher keeps her 50% share in perpetuity and was awarded more than $187,000 plus interest in withheld royalties. Mary Bono kept control over how the royalties are administered. Her lawyer said she planned to appeal.
• July 2026: the judge denied Cher’s request to recover her legal costs, leaving her to cover about $1.02 million in fees.

Because Cher sold her music interests to Iconic from July 2022 onward, royalties after that date are paid to her and passed on to Iconic. The lawsuit mattered less for the dollars involved than for protecting the long-term value of the Sonny & Cher catalog.

Business ventures and brand deals

Cher has lent her name to products for more than 35 years:

• Uninhibited (1988): her first perfume sold about $15 million in its first year.
• Infomercials: in the 1990s she earned close to $10 million promoting health, beauty and diet products.
• Cher Eau de Couture (2019): a newer fragrance line launched decades after Uninhibited.
• Cherlato (2023): a gelato and ice cream company she said was five years in the making. It launched in Los Angeles with a branded ice cream truck.
• Clothing: she has also sold a clothing line over the years.

None of these is close in size to the beauty empires of younger stars. Live performance and her music catalog have always been her main sources of wealth.

Real estate

Cher has bought, built and sold homes in Los Angeles since the 1970s. Her best-known property is an Italian-style estate on the beach in Malibu.

Property	Year	Reported price
Beverly Hills land (later a custom mansion)	Bought 1977; sold to Eddie Murphy in 1988	Sale price not disclosed
Malibu oceanfront estate (Pacific Coast Highway)	Bought 1989	$2.95 million
Malibu estate, first listing	2009	Asking $45 million
Malibu estate, relisting	2022	Asking $85 million
Malibu estate, price cut	2023	Asking $75 million
Beverly Hills English-style house	Sold 2019	About $2.73 million

The Malibu house took about five years to build and was finished around 1999. The main home has about 13,200 square feet, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms on 1.7 acres.

She listed it for $85 million in 2022 and cut the price to $75 million in 2023. No sale has been reported, and the home was later taken off the market. Even unsold, it is likely her single most valuable asset outside her music income.

Personal life

Cher married Sonny Bono in 1969, and their child Chaz Bono was born that year. They divorced in 1975. Days later she married rock musician Gregg Allman, and their son Elijah Blue Allman was born in 1976. They divorced in 1979.

Since 2022 she has been in a relationship with music executive Alexander “A.E.” Edwards.

In December 2023, Cher asked a Los Angeles court for a temporary conservatorship over Elijah’s finances. She cited his mental health and substance abuse struggles and worried about money he receives from his late father’s trust. A judge denied the temporary request in January 2024, and Cher voluntarily dropped the petition in September 2024. Elijah’s lawyers said the family was focused on healing.

Philanthropy

Cher supports a range of causes, often linked to her own life and roles:

• Children’s Craniofacial Association: a longtime supporter and honorary chair, a link to her role in Mask
• Free the Wild: the animal welfare group she co-founded helped move Kaavan, called the world’s loneliest elephant, from a Pakistan zoo to a Cambodian sanctuary in 2020
• Flint, Michigan: she helped arrange donations of bottled water during the 2016 water crisis
• LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS: decades of advocacy and fundraising

How Cher compares

Musician	Estimated net worth	Main source
Madonna	About $850 million	Touring, music catalog, business
Celine Dion	About $550 million	Las Vegas residencies, touring
Barbra Streisand	About $460 million	Music, film, touring
Dolly Parton	About $450 million	Music catalog, Dollywood
Cher	About $360 million	Touring, Las Vegas, music catalog

Peer figures are Forbes estimates from its May 2024 list of America’s richest women celebrities. Cher’s figure is a widely reported estimate; Forbes does not list her. Like Celine Dion, she shows how valuable Las Vegas residencies can be for veteran stars. For a look at bigger fortunes, see our list of the richest musicians.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Cher worth?

About $360 million, according to the widely reported 2026 estimate. Forbes and Bloomberg do not publish a figure for her.

How much did Cher make in Las Vegas?

Her 2008–2011 Caesars Palace residency was widely reported to pay her $60 million. The 192 shows grossed about $97.4 million.

What was Cher’s highest-grossing tour?

Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (2002–2005), which grossed about $250 million. The Here We Go Again Tour (2018–2020) grossed about $112.5 million.

Did Cher win her lawsuit against Mary Bono?

Mostly, yes. In November 2025 a federal judge ruled she keeps her 50% share of Sonny & Cher royalties forever and awarded her withheld royalties. She still had to pay about $1.02 million of her own legal fees.

Did Cher sell her music catalog?

Yes. In 2023 she sold her interest in her past recordings and songs to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group. The price was not disclosed.

When does Cher’s memoir Part Two come out?

Part One came out in November 2024 and hit No. 1 on the New York Times list. Part Two, first planned for 2025, is now listed for April 2027.

Sources: Parade (2026), Forbes (America’s richest women celebrities, May 2024), Billboard and Billboard Boxscore, Music Business Worldwide, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, Fox Business, Today, Wikipedia. All net worth figures are estimates.