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 It contains outdated and potentially offensive descriptions of homosexuality, gender, and class. It also refers to Cher’s son, Chaz, as Chastity, which was his name at the time. You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic.The pain is unbearable. It jags down his hipbones to his groin. David Geffen thinks it might be the boots, the walking. 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.The boots must come off immediately. He drops the F.A.O. Schwarz bag onto the sidewalk and removes the fifty-dollar stuffed dog he has bought for Chastity Bono. In the full noon surge of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street he pulls off one boot. This means he has to hop. Thirty-one years old, chairman of the board of Elektra/Asylum Records and boyfriend of Cher, he hops around on his short black sock. He pulls off the other boot. Of course, short black socks. Geffen is secure enough to wear what’s comfortable and if two inches of shank show when the leg is crossed, so what. Original Esquire magazine spread.Esquire It’s like the Italian ices. A minute ago Geffen wanted to go into Tiffany’s with one of those Italian ices in the leaky white paper cups. What did he care. No belt in his belt loops. California millionaire…. Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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