Cher's Son Accuses Her of Cutting Off Financial Support After Drug and Hotel Claims

Elijah Blue Allman, the son of legendary entertainer Cher, has stopped receiving financial support from his mother, according to recent court documents. The 79-year-old superstar reportedly made the decision to cut off her 49-year-old son about five years ago, as explained by Allman’s legal team in a request to reduce the spousal support payments he makes to his estranged wife, Marieangela King.

Per a filing obtained by an outlet on Thursday, May 7, Cher ceased sending her son a "recurring gift income" of $10,000 a month in 2021. As a result, Allman’s legal team requested that his monthly payments to King, whom he married in 2013, be reduced from $6,500 to $1,651. According to the Daily Mail's reporting, attorneys noted that King, 38, has “apparently made no efforts to become self-supporting since the parties separated in 2021.”

Allman initially filed for divorce from the singer — who goes by Queenie professionally — in 2021, but they briefly reconciled. However, King filed for divorce again in April 2025.

No Concept of Money

Allman’s request for reduced spousal support comes weeks after his mother filed for a conservatorship of his estate, revealing that he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital following his latest brush with the law. However, this request was later denied.

As previously reported, Allman was arrested twice in one weekend recently — first for causing a disturbance at a local prep school that resulted in assault charges, and then for breaking into someone’s home. In her filing, the "Believe" hitmaker explained that her youngest son “has no concept of money, is unable to manage his financial resources and is unable to withstand fraud or undue influence” due to his “severe mental health and addiction issues.”

Spends Any Money He Gets Immediately

Allman “spends any money he gets immediately, and almost exclusively on drugs, expensive hotels and limousine transportation,” the Grammy winner claimed. Cher further alleged that he “had an $18,000 bill with a drug dealer who tracked him down, resulting in Elijah borrowing money from a friend in order to avoid being harmed.”

The filing also claimed he “has no awareness of consequences for the damage he caused at various AirBnBs where he had been staying; were it not for his friends and family cleaning up the financial and physical messes he made at those residences, he would have even more judgments against him.”

Gravely Disabled

"Elijah has no ability to manage money, and any dollar he receives from his father’s trust (his only source of income) is immediately squandered without regard for his liabilities or well-being," it stated.

Allman’s father is late singer Gregg Allman, who notably died of liver cancer at age 69 in 2017 as a result of addiction.

“There is a clear pattern in Elijah’s behavior,” Cher alleged. “After he receives 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. Based on this pattern, if Elijah were to receive his trust distribution, he will use it buy drugs.”

The “Strong Enough” singer argued it would be “appropriate” to seek a conservatorship of Elijah’s person after he’s out of the hospital, characterizing him as “gravely disabled.”