Cher Files for Conservatorship of Son Elijah Allman: Report
Cher has reportedly applied for guardianship of son Elijah Allman amid his alleged battle with substance abuse.
In documents filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by TMZ on Wednesday, December 27, Cher, 77, claims that Allman, 47, is “substantially unable to manage his own financial resources due to serious mental health and substance abuse issues.”
Cher shares Elijah, 47, with ex-husband Gregg Allman, who died in 2017 at the age of 69 after battling cancer. According to the documents filed Wednesday, Cher is concerned that Elijah, who is set to receive assets from a trust Gregg set up before his death, will be “spent on drugs,” putting his “life in danger.”
The file also states that Elia’s estranged wife, Marieangela Kingis not fit to be his conservator because “their tumultuous relationship was marked by a cycle of drug addiction and mental health crises,” according to People. Instead, Cher believes she would be the best person to manage her son’s conservatorship as she has “worked tirelessly to get Elijah into treatment and get him the help he needs” but has “always acted with his best interests in mind.”
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The court has set a hearing date for March 6, 2024 to assess the possible conservatorship.
Cher’s filing follows 36-year-old King accusing the pop icon of trying to kidnap Elijah last year. In a statutory declaration obtained by We weekly in October, King claimed that she and Elijah tried to reconcile their relationship in November 2022 after breaking up the year before. According to King, the pair were in a New York hotel on November 30, 2022, when four people came to their room and “removed” Elijah.
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Cher was not identified by name, but King claimed that “one of the four men who took Elijah” told her “they were hired by petitioner’s mother.” (The “petitioner” is Elijah, who filed for divorce from King in 2021 after eight years of marriage.)
King also claimed she was told she was “not allowed to see or speak to” Elijah, who was “confined” in an “undisclosed treatment facility” with no access to his phone.
The documents, filed in December 2022, also alleged that Elijah, who has struggled with heroin addiction, had been in treatment since August 2022. King claimed that Cher asked her to “leave our family home” during his absence. Beverly Hills and “was not allowed to remove all of my belongings from our main home and residence, nor was I given the opportunity to inventory our belongings.”
King also claimed that while waiting for additional spousal support payments, she allegedly lost her housing and health care and “had to leave the country to stay with family for a while.”
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Following King’s allegations, Cher denied the accusations in a telling statement People in October: “That rumor is not true.”
Cher and Gregg, who tied the knot in 1975, welcomed Elijah in July 1976. Cher also shared son Chaz, 54, with first husband Sonny Bono, who died in a skiing accident in 1998 at the age of 62.