Members of the same ethnic group can feud. Sonny Bono thought Sonny and Cher's manager--who had an Italian name--was lazy. Bono fired him in order to avoid the manager profiting unfairly from Sonny and Cher's impending comeback.

Sonny and Cher's TV show in the early 70s did indeed bring them back big, and they lived happily ever after. Until they split up. He got the TV show, which soon tanked. She got half of his song-writing royalties, a point which still bothered him decades later when he wrote his autobiography.