Cher, 79, and Alexander Edwards, 39, prove they are STILL going strong after 3 years as they hold hands in Rome
The 79-year-old singer, who had performed the night before at the Dolce and Gabbana party, held her boyfriend's hand as they exited the famous Jackie O nightclub.
Cher looked relaxed wearing a white jacket and a pair of straight leg jeans with black and white sneakers. Her long, dark hair was styled in loose waves.
Edwards, 39, looked dapper in a long white and black animal print shirt over a pair of straight leg jeans and dark shoes. His short blonde hair was closely cropped.
The two have been dating for almost three years.
The couple appear to be going strong during their loved up vacation in Italy.
The pair met for the first time at Paris Fashion Week in October 2022. They were first seen holding hands in public a month later.
Edwards, a music executive at Universal Group, shares custody of his son, Slash, five, with ex-partner Amber Rose.
According to Rose, the two women get along well.
'I'm very happy that [Alexander is] with Cher because it creates stability for when [our] son goes over there,' she said on The Jason Lee Podcast in March 2024. 'It's not all mayhem and stuff.'
As an older woman, Cher has received more than a little pushback on the difference in her and Edwards' ages, but that doesn't seem to bother the unflappable icon.
Cher has dated several younger men over the years, including the late Val Kilmer and later his Top Gun co-star Tom Cruise.
In 1986, at age 40, the future Oscar winner a young baker named Rob Camilletti, who was 22 at the time.
Edwards is the dad of five-year-old Slash, whom he shares with ex Amber Rose. Rose has said she considers Cher a stabilizing influence on her son; Pictured in Santa Monica, CA in October 2024
Cher has dated a number of younger men, including the late Val Kilmer (left), seen in June 1982, and Richie Sambora, right, seen in 1991
Camilletti was her plus-one at the Academy Awards in 1988 for Moonstruck. The pair broke up the next year due to the media attention surround their relationship.
The Silkwood actress also dated Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora for about a year. The pair went their separate ways in 1990.
Amazingly, Cher has been able to remain friends with a good number of her exes, explaining on the Table Manners podcast in December 2023, 'I'm close with all of my exes. I'm really close. Yeah. I have a feeling that you have to like someone a lot before you go to bed with them.'
As for her penchant for younger men, Cher explained on The Jennifer Hudson Show in May 2024 it comes partly from necessity. 'The reason I got with young men is because men my age are older—well, now they're all dead—but before, they were always terrified to approach me, and younger men—they were raised by women like me.'
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