"He took all my money," Cher said in an interview with The New York Times, which was published on Sunday, ahead of the debut for the first volume of her two-part book, "Cher: The Memoir." "I just thought,

The diva was duped by Bono, who had set up a company called Cher Enterprises in which he owned 95 percent, with the other 5 percent going to his lawyer.

"All these other women that were his age, they wanted him to be a grown up," she said of her Sonny & Cher partner.