Desperate Cher Files for Conservatorship of Son Elijah Blue Allman, Says He Can’t Be Trusted to Manage $120,000 Annual Inheritance

Cher is asking a California court to grant a conservatorship over her “gravely disabled” son, Elijah Blue Allman. 

Earlier this week, the Grammy-winner filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court to appoint a temporary conservator for Allman, 49. The move comes after her son’s various run-ins with the law and other issues, which she says stem from his ongoing issues with substance abuse.

Cher says her son ‘has no concept of money’

According to court documents obtained by People, Allman is currently in a locked psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire with the goal of having him declared competent to face criminal charges for felony burglary criminal mischief, simple assault, criminal trespass and breach of bail. He’s due in court in those cases later in April. 

“That is just the current set of problems,” facing Allman, whose father is Cher’s late rocker Greg Allman. According to the petition, he has also failed to pay income taxes, owes spousal support to his estranged wife, and was $18,000 in debt to a drug dealer, whom he paid with cash borrowed from a friend. In addition, he’s caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages at Airbnbs where he has stayed.

Allman “has no concept of money” and “is unable to manage his financial resources and is unable to withstand fraud or undue influence” because of his “severe mental health and addiction issues,” reads the filing. He spends money as quickly as he receives it, usually on “drugs, expensive hotels and limousine transportation.”

Grammy-winner outlines Elijah Blue Allman’s troubling pattern of behavior 

This is not the first time Cher has asked to be given control of her son’s life and finances. She made a similar move in December 2023. That petition was later dismissed after she and her son reached a private settlement. 

In the latest request for a conservatorship, Cher notes that her son has “no ability to manage money” and that he quickly blows through the $120,000 annual payment he receives from his father’s trust, which is his only source of income. 

There is “a clear pattern in Elijah’s behavior,” according to Cher, who says that as soon as he gets his trust distribution he “checks into a hotel, usually the Chateau Marmont, buys and does drugs until he runs out of money, ends up in the hospital or overdoses.”

Not only has Allman damaged property in various hotels and rentals, but his erratic behavior is putting himself and other people at risk, the “Believe” singer says. He’s exhibited “hyper-sexual behavior” and attempted to force himself onto a young housekeeping employee at a hotel, started grease fires while cooking, and was once “found in the middle of traffic passed out in his car.”

Allman’s half-brother Devon Allman backed up Cher’s concerns, declaring that Elijah Blue was a “danger to himself” and that “his condition, both physical and mental, was appalling and delusional, respectively.” 

How to get help: In the U.S., contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration helpline at 1-800-662-4357.

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