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Cher's racy 'Turn Back Time' outfit left designer embarrassed: 'This is not family viewing'

27 January 2025 at 10:30

Bob Mackie sometimes wishes he could turn back time.

The costume designer, who first dressed Cher in 1967, has created some of the singer’s most iconic looks over the years. However, there is one outfit that still makes him blush decades later.

The 84-year-old admitted to Page Six that when Cher slipped into her skimpy sheer bodysuit for 1989's "If I Could Turn Back Time," he urged the star, "Please don’t tell anyone I had anything to do with this because I don’t really approve." Mackie stressed it was Cher who wanted to strip down and make a bold statement for the music video.

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"This is not family viewing," he told the performer, 78.

Cher shot the video on board USS Missouri in front of cheering sailors. The outlet noted the video, which showed Cher’s tattooed bottom, sparked controversy.

"Playing the bass guitar is her 12-year-old son [Elijah Blue] – there with her whole being out and everything else!" Mackie recalled to the outlet.

Mackie first dressed Cher when she was a guest on "The Carol Burnett Show." At the time, he was immediately charmed by her.

"She was adorable," said Mackie. "She looked like Audrey Hepburn’s younger sister at that point. Her hair in little pigtails, a little yellow sundress."

When he dressed her up, Mackie said he saw potential.

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"I thought I could do anything on her β€” she'll look amazing," he said. "She could be anything she wanted to be."

Still, Mackie said he was not on board with Cher wearing what he called "the seatbelt outfit," which was paired with a leather motorcycle jacket. He noted that Cher wanted to rock the look "badly."

"There were certain pieces that I was talked into doing," Mackie previously told Fox News Digital. "Even now, I’ll go, β€˜Oh my God, why did I say OK to that?’ But when it comes to design, it’s all about your client. You try to please them but also try to protect them and enhance their look.Β 

"The one particular piece we always laugh about is Cher when she was on the big battleship for the song β€˜Turn Back Time.’ She’s out with all these sailors in this sheer biker outfit with a big strip up the crotch."

Mackie said the look was "so vulgar" that he did not tell anyone he had anything to do with it.

"I remember shaking my head and going, β€˜Oh, no,’" said Mackie. "Cher wanted to wear it, but oh, it was too much! And then she had her 12-year-old son playing bass in the band, which made it even worse than all those sailors around her."

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According to Mackie, even Cher got "very cold feet" – at first.

"She actually put on her biker jacket because she felt so naked," he said. "But it became a popular video, to say the least. She has more confidence than anybody, but on that day, she kind of lost it on that one. She wasn’t used to being around that many sailors all screaming and hollering for her."

Mackie felt the leather jacket made the costume look "more vulgar from the waist down."

"It was just sheer with just one little crotch piece in black," he said. "But people are still talking about it, I guess. [And] Cher is completely comfortable in these kinds of outfits. That’s why they work. She doesn’t pose or do any of that. She just wears them like they’re normal clothes, which still makes me laugh."

Mackie told Variety that the costume was sold at auction for $75,000. That did not stop Cher from wanting to rock it once more. For a tour, she went on to rent it for a year.

Cher claims late producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector β€˜acted weird,’ asked her for sex when she was 15

5 January 2025 at 14:33

Cher is making a shocking claim about the late music producer Phil Spector in her memoir, "Cher: The Memoir, Part One."

In quotes published in The New York Post, the "Believe" singer claims Spector propositioned her for sex when she was just 15, after meeting her through her former boyfriend, musician Antonino LoTempio.

"He might have been a demigod to many, but he acted weird, and I didn’t like how he stared at me," she wrote.

She alleged that Spector asked to sleep with her in French.

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"β€˜Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?’ he said, smirking, asking me to sleep with him," Cher claimed.

She continued, "Without breaking a sweat, I gave him a look back and replied, β€˜Oui, pour l’argent,’" which translates to "Yes, for the money."

"You could have knocked him over with a feather. He didn’t think I’d understand the question, let alone have an answer."

Cher shared another encounter with Spector many years later when she confronted him about using her vocals without her permission on a song he released in Europe.

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Spector used vocals Cher and Harry Nilsson recorded as a "guide vocal" for John Lennon to listen to for his album, but turned around and released the single, a cover of the Martha and the Vandellas song, "A Love Like Yours," violating their contracts, per Entertainment Weekly.

According to the Oscar-winner, Spector attempted to intimidate her by pulling out a gun and playing with it as they talked.

"He told me he could do whatever he wanted. He said our record companies could sue him if they didn't like it. Then he picked up a revolver that I hadn't previously noticed lying on the green felt," she wrote, per the outlet.

Cher remained firm, "Staring at him in fury, as he twirled it around his fingers, I said, 'Don't f--- with me, Phillip!'" she recounts. "'You can't pull that s--- on me, you a--hole. This is me, Cher, okay?'"

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She claimed he apologized and the issue was resolved.

Spector was later convicted of the murder of actress Lana Clarkson and sentenced to 19 years to life after the trial in 2009. He died in prison at 81 in 2021.

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In her memoir, Cher also shared details of her past relationships, including filing for divorce from Gregg Allman after nine days of marriage.

"There was nothing romantic about our wedding day," she admitted, per excerpts in People magazine.

Nine days after their wedding, Cher filed to dissolve the marriage. They later reconciled.Β 

The couple welcomed a son, Elijah Blue Allman, in 1976. However, they called it quits for good in 1979.

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