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Sonny Bono was born in Detroit, Michigan and was the only son of his father, and Sicilian immigrant, and the mother who was an American-born Itailan. was most famous for his marriage and partnership from the 1970s, Sonny & Cher. They went on to tour, play Las Vegas, and had a Sunday Prime Time television show on CBS-TV. The marriage dissolved along with the partnership and Sonny later went on to become a US Senator. He died suddenly in a a skiing accident when he hit a tree. His ex-wife Cher, with whom they shared a daughter (Chasity) gave the euology at the funeral and it is noted that Cher was of great comfort to his 4th wife and 2 young girls.
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Bono's death was doubly freakish, having come just five days after a similar skiing accident killed MICHAEL KENNEDY in Aspen, Colorado. Kennedy (the son of the late senator Robert F. Kennedy) ... crashed into a tree. He was killed while playing a game popular with his family: tossing a football as they sped down the slopes.
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Pierini said officials estimated that Bono was going between 20 and 30 miles per hour when he hit the tree. He said the autopsy by the Douglas County coroner showed "no indication of any substances or alcohol."
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Officially, Sonny died after skiing into a tree at Lake Tahoe's Heavenly Resort on Jan. 5, 1998. But insiders tell GLOBE the congressman crashed because he was being chased by a three-man assassination squad hired by angry drug lords.
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