Allman alleged in a new court filing that the singer stopped sending him financial support in 2021
Cher‘s son Elijah Blue Allman has claimed that his mother financially cut him off years ago, according to a new filing tied to Allman’s divorce proceedings from his estranged wife Marieangela King.
According to court documents filed on May 5 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles and obtained by People, Allman requested his spousal support payments be reduced and said his mother was the reason behind the request. Allman, Cher’s only son with late Allman Brothers singer Gregg Allman, alleged that she no longer sends him a “recurring gift income” and only receives “$10,000 per month from his father’s trust.”
Allman, 49, said that pop star, 79, stopped sending him financial support in August 2021. His income without the funds totals $6,790 after taxes, per the filing, which also states he is mandated to pay King $6,500 per month following their separation. Allman claimed King has “made no efforts to become self-supporting” and his lawyers have made a bid to lower the amount to $1,651 per month. A hearing is set for July 17, per the outlet.
Lawyers for Cher and Allman did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
Last month, a judge denied Cher’s emergency bid to have a court-appointed conservator placed in charge of her son’s finances while he remained locked in a New Hampshire psychiatric facility facing criminal charges. Her request was made ahead of his next quarterly payout from his late father’s trust this month.
Cher brought her first petition for a conservatorship in 2023, claiming Allman “urgently needed” protection amid “severe mental health and substance abuse issues.” The singer and her son reached a private settlement in 2024 that ended Cher’s earlier effort to get control of his trust payments.
When Cher filed her revived petition, she claimed Allman failed to live up to his promise to hire a business manager and that his life had been derailed again by ongoing substance abuse and mental health issues. In a petition filed April 15 in probate court and obtained by Rolling Stone, Cher called Allman “gravely disabled,” pointing to his recent back-to-back arrests in New Hampshire for allegedly making criminal threats at a school and breaking into a woman’s house. The second bid was ultimately denied.
