Cher was notified by the Bono Trust last month that it would stop paying her share of the royalties when the terminations go into effect, and that she no longer had the right to approve uses of their songs, among other things.
Cher asked the court for a declaratory judgment that the estate cannot terminate her rights. And requests at least $1 million in damages for the defendants breaching the divorce settlement. Since she doesn’t know the names of the responsible parties, except for Mary Bono she left “fictitious designations Does 1-10” as placeholders to “identify those defendants when their true names and involvement in the infringements” are revealed.
The case is Cher v. Bono, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, No. 2:21-cv-08157.
