Pop diva Cher to mount Sotheby’s sale of cast-offs

The highest bidder gets to sleep in Cher’s bed – though the Academy Award-winning actress, singer songwriter and half of the pop duo Sonny & Cher – will have taken the money and ran. She’s signed up with Sotheby’s to sell the contents of her Malibu home in California.

Around 700 lots of furniture, works of art, jewellery, original costumes and a four-wheel drive Hummer are expected to raise around $1 million (£540,000). There’ll be viewing in London and New York for some of the highlights before the Beverly Hills sale on October 3.