It’s not like when he is with Cher and they get all churned up and helpful. “I bought a bracelet like that for Cher,” he says at the major diamond counter up front. “How much do pearls cost?” he asks in Tiffany’s. And all along he was asking, “How much?” Six thousand dollars for the pavéed cross. He had walked from the Pierre Hotel to A La Vieille Russie, Schwarz’s and Tiffany’s. A minute ago Geffen wanted to go into Tiffany’s with one of those Italian ices in the leaky white paper cups. Geffen is secure enough to wear what’s comfortable and if two inches of shank show when the leg is crossed, so what. Thirty-one years old, chairman of the board of Elektra/Asylum Records and boyfriend of Cher, he hops around on his short black sock. In the full noon surge of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street he pulls off one boot. Schwarz bag onto the sidewalk and removes the fifty-dollar stuffed dog he has bought for Chastity Bono.
CHER ON PHIL SPECTRE HOW TO
Having lived so long in California with his legs dangling over the plump leathers of his Fames chair and his Rolls-Royce, he has forgotten how to walk.
David Geffen thinks it might be the boots, the walking. You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. It also refers to Cher's son, Chaz, as Chastity, which was his name at the time. This article originally appeared in the February 1975 issue of Esquire under the headline, "The Winning of Cher." It contains outdated and potentially offensive descriptions of homosexuality, gender, and class.
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