Cher, 76, walks hand in hand with toyboy Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, heading to ... trends now

Cher, 76, walks hand in hand with toyboy Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, heading to ... trends now
Cher, 76, walks hand in hand with toyboy Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, heading to ... trends now

Cher, 76, walks hand in hand with toyboy Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, heading to ... trends now

Cher, 76, walked hand in hand with her dramatically younger boyfriend Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, as they stepped out in Los Angeles this Friday.

The pair were headed to a pre-Grammy dinner at the swank Beverly Hills sushi haunt Matsuhisa, two days before the music awards will take place.

For her latest outing Cher, who won a Grammy for Believe in 2008, opted for understated elegance in silver slacks, a black top and a monochrome jacket.

Accentuating her striking features with makeup, she sported a luxurious platinum blonde hairdo and accessorized with a black handbag.

Matsuhisa is the brainchild of the world-famous sushi chef Nobu Matsuhisa, who is also the namesake of the Nobu restaurants favored by such stars as the Kardashians.

On the town: Cher, 76, walked hand in hand with her dramatically younger boyfriend Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, as they stepped out in Los Angeles this Friday

On the town: Cher, 76, walked hand in hand with her dramatically younger boyfriend Alexander 'AE' Edwards, 36, as they stepped out in Los Angeles this Friday

Cher and 'AE' exuded romantic bliss as they headed up the sidewalk together hand in hand during their Friday night on the town.

The duo were first introduced at Paris Fashion Week in September of last year and are thought to have started dating two months later.

In December Cher appeared on "The Kelly Clarkson Show poked fun at the yawning 40-year age gap between her and her toyboy, a Def Jam music executive. 

'Well, on paper it's kind of ridiculous,' Cher admitted: 'but in real life we get along great. He's fabulous and I don't give men qualities that they don't deserve.' 

She hailed Alexander as 'very kind' and added: 'He's very smart, he's very talented and he's really funny so - and I think he's quite handsome.' 

Cher noted: 'If I hadn't met younger men in my life, I would have never had a date, because older men just didn't like me all that much, do you know what I mean?'

The If I Could Turn Back Time singer had 'a couple boyfriends' who were 'hovering around my age' but she felt that 'they just didn't like me for some reason.'

Cher shot to fame in the 1960s alongside her mentor and first husband Sonny Bono, whom she met when he was 28 and she was just 16.

Off they go: The pair were headed to a pre-Grammy dinner at the swank Beverly Hills sushi haunt Matsuhisa, two days before the music awards will take place

Off they go: The pair were headed to a pre-Grammy dinner at the swank Beverly Hills sushi haunt Matsuhisa, two days before the music awards will take place

By the mid-1970s their romance crumbled into a

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