Cher has filed for conservatorship of her son for a second time following a string of arrests in recent months.
Elijah Blue Allman, 49, is Cher’s son with her late second husband, the rock singer-songwriter Gregg Allman, and in late 2023, Cher applied for a conservatorship over him, claiming that he was “substantially unable to manage his financial resources” due to “severe mental health and substance abuse issues”.
Allman later filed an objection to his mother’s request, stating that he was not in need of a conservatorship and claiming that Cher would be “unfit to serve”. The family then reached a private settlement in 2024, having paused court proceedings to attempt to resolve the matter privately.
Now, Cher has once again filed for conservatorship, submitting the application to Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this week. The case states that Allman “has significantly deteriorated since a prior conservatorship petition was filed in 2023”.
“The proposed conservatee is currently in custody in the State of New Hampshire in a locked psychiatric hospital in an attempt to restore him to competency to face criminal charges in two cases,” it added.
Allman was reportedly arrested for causing a disturbance at a private school on March 1, while two days later he was arrested again after allegedly breaking into a home in Windham, New Hampshire (via The Independent).
Gregg Allman died in 2017 and Elijah reportedly receives an annual allowance of $120,000 (£89,000) per year from his trust. Cher has in the past claimed that the money is spent primarily on “drugs, expensive hotels and limousine transportation”.
Documents filed by Cher’s lawyers in 2023 suggested that she was concerned that “any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah’s life at risk”.
In other Cher news, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in February, and she accidentally awarded the Record Of The Year prize to Luther Vandross instead of Kendrick Lamar and SZA.
