Cher has applied to be the executor of her troubled son Elijah Blue Allman’s estate, citing his “drug addiction at its worst” following a series of arrests.
The 79-year-old music icon filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this week to appoint a temporary conservator of her 49-year-old son’s estate, according to court documents obtained exclusively by Page Six.
She asked her trustee, Jason Rubin, to take charge of her youngest son’s finances.
This is the second time Mr. Scheer has filed for guardianship of Mr. Allman’s estate. However, her previous petition had requested that she be appointed sole guardian.
“Elijah Allman’s (‘Conservatorship Candidate’) life has significantly deteriorated since the filing of his previous conservatorship application in December 2023,” the new filing states.
“The ward candidate is currently being held in a locked psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire in an effort to restore competency to face criminal charges in two cases spanning two New Hampshire counties, including felonies of robbery, simple assault, trespassing and bond violation, which are currently just a series of issues.”
Scheer said Allman had “severe mental health and addiction issues” that caused him to have “no concept of money, no control over financial resources, and an inability to tolerate fraud or undue influence.”
The Grammy winner claimed that he “spends the money he gets quickly” and that he spends almost all of it on “drugs, expensive hotels, and limousine transportation.”
She also claimed that her son “paid no income taxes,” failed to appear in court after his ex-wife, Mariangela King, obtained an order for spousal support, and that “a drug dealer chased her son with an $18,000 bill, which caused Elijah to borrow money from friends to avoid harm.”
Allman also reportedly had “no awareness of the consequences of the damage he caused at the various Airbnbs he stayed in. He would have received even more judgments had his friends and family not cleaned up the financial and physical messes he made at those residences.”
“Elijah has no ability to manage money, and the money he receives from his father’s trust (his only source of income) is quickly squandered, regardless of his debts or well-being.”
According to court documents, Allman (whose father is Cher’s late ex-husband and fellow musician Gregg Allman) receives $120,000 a year through the trust.
“There is a clear pattern to Elijah’s behavior,” Cher argued. “After receiving a trust distribution, he would check into a hotel (usually the Chateau Marmont) and buy and take drugs until he ran out of money and was hospitalized or overdosed. Based on this pattern, if Elijah received a trust distribution, he would use it to buy drugs.”
According to the singer, Elijah caused “thousands of dollars in damage from cigarette burns on rugs, beds, dressers, broken windows (and) walls,” and was kicked out of a total of 18 hotels for “disturbing guests with his obscene yelling and erratic behavior.”
Cher also claimed her son was “exhibiting hypersexual behavior” and once cornered a young hotel housekeeper and “aggressively” approached her for a sexual relationship.
Additionally, she claimed he was “found unconscious in his vehicle in the middle of a traffic stop. Emergency services responded and transported him to the hospital where he was administered Narcan, a drug used to reverse an opioid overdose.”
“There have been many times when Elijah forgot there was food on the stove and went out and caused a grease fire while cooking,” she continued, adding, “Elijah’s situation has become dire in many ways. His mental state has deteriorated severely, his financial situation is at its worst, and his drug addiction is at its worst.”
Cher went on to say that it would be “appropriate” for Elijah to seek a chance to speak with him once he returns to California, calling Elijah “severely disabled.”
Elijah’s brother Devon Allman also submitted a statement supporting Cher’s claims.
“In my opinion, he is currently a danger to himself and is unable to manage his own life and any funds available to him,” Devon wrote. “When I visited recently to check on him, I felt sorry and deeply saddened. It took me weeks of my life to process it. His condition was frightening and paranoid, both physically and mentally.”
Devon also claimed that he had to “negotiate five-figure sums in drug debt with heroin dealers,” noting that it was “very difficult to deal with.”
Elijah previously opposed Cher’s 2023 estate conservatorship application, asserting in a January 2024 response, “I have not taken any illegal drugs for more than 90 days, I am clean and abstinent, and I am fully capable and committed to managing the money I receive quarterly from a trust left by my late father.”
Ultimately, the songwriters filed for dismissal of the petition eight months later.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this article, please call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) at 1-800-662-4357.
