Elijah Blue Allman, the son of legendary singer Cher, has found himself in a challenging situation as his mother has stopped providing him with financial support. This development comes amid a family conflict that has seen Cher attempt to establish a conservatorship over Elijah due to concerns about his well-being.
In a recent filing with the Los Angeles Superior Court, Allman’s legal team detailed the impact of this financial change on his ability to support his estranged wife, Marieangela King. The attorneys highlighted that Elijah, who is 49, is facing significant financial strain as a result of his income being drastically reduced.
Elijah is the son of Cher, now 79, and the late musician Gregg Allman. His legal representatives have requested a decrease in the $6,500 monthly payments he is obligated to make to King. They noted that Cher’s decision to halt the $10,000 monthly financial assistance, which she had provided for about five years, has left Elijah in a precarious position.
Since August 2021, Elijah has not received any financial gifts from Cher, which coincides with her recent but unsuccessful attempt to place him under a temporary conservatorship after he faced two arrests. Currently, Elijah is residing in a psychiatric facility in New Hampshire as a result of these incidents.
The Daily Mail has sought comments from Cher’s representatives and Elijah’s legal team for more insights into the ongoing family matter.
Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Cher and Allman’s attorneys for further comment on the story.
Cher’s son Elijah Blue Allman, 49, says that his famed mother is no longer sending him money amid a family dispute. Pictured in Las Vegas in 2020
Allman receives ‘only $10,000 per month from’ the estate of his late father, who died in May of 2017, his lawyers said. Allman seen in a New Hampshire mug shot earlier this year
‘Allman receives only $10,000 per month from’ the estate of his late father, who died at the age of 69 in May of 2017, adding that it works out to about $6,790 after taxes.
Allman’s lawyers said that the reduction of funds from the If I Could Turn Back Time singer put a dent in the estimated $20,000 income King claimed Allman received.
Allman’s lawyers said that he should pay $1,651 in monthly support with the updated income totals.
They noted that they assessed King a minimum wage income as she has ‘apparently made no efforts to become self-supporting since the parties separated in 2021.’
Allman’s legal team said that he was never apprised of the August 2025 court order for him to pay King the specified amount.
King sent the legal documents to his mother’s Malibu, California residence during a timeframe he’s been staying at a Joshua Tree, California Airbnb, his lawyers said.
Allman’s lawyers said that the couple initially wed in 2013 and broke up in 2021, with a court dismissing a divorce filing King entered.
The next hearing in the matter is slated for July 17, according to court docs.
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Cher and son Elijah Blue Allman pictured in March of 2021 in LA
Elijah Blue Allman and Marieangela King seen in January of 2024 in LA
Lawyers for Cher in a court filing reviewed by Daily Mail last month said that Allman ‘has no concept of money, is unable to manage his financial resources and is unable to withstand fraud or undue influence.
‘Regarding his financial affairs alone, Elijah spends any money he gets immediately and almost exclusively on drugs, expensive hotels and limousine transportation.’
Allman spoke candidly in 2014 with Entertainment Tonight about his history of substance abuse.
‘I started with drugs around the same time that we all did, around 11,’ he said, referring to marijuana and MDMA. ‘I mean, it’s just what you did, it’s just what everybody did.’
Allman said he later got into ‘heroin and opiates’ amid a rough time in his life, adding, ‘If you can only just go through that time period and live through it and then get help.’
He said that he ‘did have some close calls and some moments of really feeling at the edge of mortality’ at the time he was using.
‘I always kind of kept it a little bit safe, but you never can do that. Even though you think that in your mind, of course, the wrong things can happen,’ Allman said. ‘The wrong combination of things can happen, and you can just slip into the abyss.
‘I knew it was wrong, and I knew that I was very unsatisfied with life at that point.’
Cher is also mother to son Chaz Bono, 57, from her marriage to the late Sonny Bono, who died at 62 in January of 1998 in a skiing accident in South Lake Tahoe, California.
