Posted on 04/03/2008 6:20:33 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers who feared he was going to expose them, a former FBI agent claims.
Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.
"It's nonsense for anyone to now try to suggest that Bono died after crashing into a tree. There's zero evidence in this autopsy report... to show such an accident happened. Instead, there's powerful proof he was assassinated.
"This was an evil plot that was carried out to almost perfection by ruthless assassins," Mr Gunderson told the paper.
The former agent, who has been researching Bono's accident for the past decade, said top officials linked to an international drug and weapons ring feared the singer-turned-politician was about to expose their crimes - so they had him killed on the slopes.
Bono, an experienced skiier, was ambushed on the slopes by hired hitmen, who beat him to death and then staged a tree collision, Mr Gunderson said.
He called for authorities to dig up Bono's remains and open a homicide investigation.
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Anybody that skis deserves whatever happens.
Let me get this straight. You go to a place that is extremely cold, spend a huge amount of money, to engage in behavior that combines suicidal speed with unmovable objects...
No thanks. I’ll head to the beach. Scenery is better there anyhow (and I am not talking about the ocean).
The only part of skiing that is vaguely of interest to me is the evening bar scene afterwards. Maybe if I could get a fake cast, a crutch... hobble in... tell a few war stories...
I recently found out that Sonny Bono was a Scientologist! Hmmm...
I live in Colorado and ski often, and you'd be surprised how many people die while skiing. Sometimes they hit trees, sometimes each other, and sometimes they just drop dead on the slopes. I witnessed the latter, quite sobering. As good a way to go as any I guess.
TaHOHO Ping!
I remember when Sonny and Cher were still married and were skiing at Heavenly when I was working there...
Sonny absolutely LOVED skiing! Cher? That pockmarked wench was absolutely brutal to Sonny for making her learn how! She was one ugly lady (small L) back then...
Wasn’t there a toon assoc. that died skiing? A VP of Arkla, IIRC.
Depends on the tree. Most trees are pretty strong....
She STILL is. I have had the misfortune of seeing her, and she’s STILL pock-marked, and looks like she has been cut up by a plastic surgeon. She's really low class and nasty to people, and looks like a freak in the Michael Jackson league.
I don’t recall one.
Jim Wilhite, 54, vice chairman, Arkla, Inc.
One-person skiing accident, Aspen, Co. 12/21/92.
I’ve heard she’s been cut from a#&hole to elbow in the years since I observed her...
That Plastic Surgeon must have slipped with the knife and cut her brain in half as well!
Aha! Thanks for the information!
Arkincide on the ski slopes? lol
Ping.
I can’t decide who looks WORSE from getting plastic surgery....Cher or Joan Rivers. I CAN NOT stand Joan Rivers! Cher ranks right up there with Rivers in the “can not stand” department.
I thought he got the zot from the same tree that got the Kennedy kid... At least that’s the word around the forest.
Didn’t he just expose the Clontoons about yet another of their crimes about a week before his ‘demise’?
Joan Rivers has been a Republican, and is quite nice in person. Not even Joan looks as weird as Cher. Cher looks like she has been hacked up and frozen. It may also be her hostile and hateful personality that makes her look like such a geek.
Sorry, I was thinking of Big Pussie in a leather coat hanging out with a baseball bat in his hand. ;-)
Tom Cruiz had something to do with this!
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