Lauren Sarner
If she could turn back time.
Cher, 77, has lost contact with her son, Elijah Blue Allman, and fears that he’ll spend money on drugs, according to new court documents.
“Due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues, Elijah is not currently able to manage his finances,” Cher said in a petition to a Los Angeles court filed Thursday, per Page Six.
She claims if he got his hands on his money, “Such funds will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting his life at risk.”
This is the latest development in an ongoing contentious relationship between Cher and her daughter-in-law Marieangela King.
Musician Allman, 47, is Cher’s son with her second husband, Gregg Allman, who Cher was married to from 1975 to 1979. He’s the half-brother of Cher’s transgender son, Chaz Bono, 54, that she had with her first husband, Sonny Bono.
Elijah, who allegedly also had a fling with Paris Hilton in the past, has been married to King since 2013. He filed for divorce in November 2021 after eight years of marriage, but on Jan. 2, 2024, he requested the case be dismissed.
“They have been working on reconciling since April and that has happened now,” King’s attorney Regina Ratner told The Post.
In divorce documents in December 2022, King claimed that the “DJ Play a Christmas Song” singer had allegedly hired four men to kidnap Allman from a New York City hotel room in an apparent intervention a month prior.
King later claimed that Cher had continued to “interfere” with her son’s “health management as well as his location and accessibility” when the couple agreed to work on their marriage.
Cher denied the accusations this October, telling People, “That rumor is not true.”
She told The Post’s Chuck Arnold in October, “I didn’t do it, and if I did it, I wouldn’t say I did it. You never stop being a mom — you go to the end, you go to the mattresses when you’re trying to save your children. But I didn’t do it. And if I did it, I wouldn’t care to tell you.”
In December 2023, Cher filed for conservatorship over Allman, citing substantial “mental health and substance abuse issues.”
The “Believe” singer filed to be the sole conservator of her son’s estate, claiming that Allman is “substantially unable to manage his own financial resources.”
“[Cher] has been unable to discuss Elijah’s preferences concerning the appointment of a temporary conservator because given Elijah’s current mental and physical health issues, discussed in detail in the concurrently filed Confidential Supplemental Information, he is unable to form or express a preference concerning the appointment of a conservator for his estate,” the docs read.
In a 2014 interview with ET, Allman said he felt “shunned” by Cher and his stepbrother.
“When you go to boarding school at 7 years old, it’s kind of hard to feel like you’re not being shunned,” he said. “But I’m at an age where I’m making peace with it because you just have to. But I still … it doesn’t mean it’s right. It’s still wrong to do that.”
Allman also told the outlet that he was buying drugs before he was even a teenager during breaks from school.
“I would come home on the weekend and me and my friends would go up to Harlem and get into all kinds of trouble. It’s actually shocking to think about myself at like 11 years old buying drugs in Harlem,” he recalled. “It’s pretty crazy. It seemed normal at the time.”
Allman had used the hashtag #ImprisonmentViaConservatorship in the last four of his Instagram posts — the first one being on Dec. 19 and the latest being earlier on Wednesday. He didn’t elaborate on what the hashtag was about.
“The appointment of a temporary conservator is urgently needed to receive the distribution owed to Elijah so that such funds can be held and managed for his benefit,” Cher’s lawyer Lilian Walden Givens wrote, according to The Daily Mail.
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