Cher has reportedly filed for conservatorship of son Elijah Allman amid his alleged combat with substance abuse.
In paperwork filed in Los Angeles Awesome Court docket and received through TMZ on Wednesday, December 27, Cher, 77, claims that Allman, 47, is “substantially unable to manage his own financial resources due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues.”
Cher stocks Elijah, 47, with ex-husband Gregg Allman, who died on the age of 69 in 2017 after struggling with most cancers. Consistent with the paperwork filed on Wednesday, Cher is anxious that Elijah, who is about to obtain belongings from a agree with Gregg arrange ahead of his loss of life, will likely be “spent on drugs,” leaving his “life at risk.”
The submitting additionally states that Elijah’s estranged spouse, Marieangela King, isn't have compatibility to be his conservator as a result of “their tumultuous relationship has been marked by a cycle of drug addiction and mental health crises,” according to Folks. As an alternative, Cher believes she will be the best possible individual to control her son’s conservatorship, as she has “worked tirelessly to get Elijah into treatment and get him the help he needs” however has “always acted with his best interests in mind.”
A listening to date of March 6, 2024, has been set through the courtroom to judge the prospective conservatorship.
Cher’s submitting comes at the heels of King, 36, accusing the pop icon of seeking to kidnap Elijah final yr. In a felony declaration received through Us Weekly in October, King claimed that she and Elijah had been making an attempt to reconcile their dating in November 2022 after setting apart the yr prior. Consistent with King, the twosome had been in a resort in New York on November 30, 2022, when 4 folks got here to their room and “removed” Elijah.
Cher was once no longer discussed through identify, however King alleged that “one of the four men who took” Elijah informed her “they were hired by petitioner’s mother.” (The “petitioner” is Elijah, who filed for divorce from King in 2021 after 8 years of marriage.)
King additionally claimed that she has been informed she is “not allowed to see or speak to” Elijah, who was once “locked down” at a “treatment facility that is undisclosed” with out get admission to to his telephone.
The paperwork, that have been filed in December 2022, additionally alleged that Elijah, who has struggled with heroin habit, have been in remedy since August 2022. King claimed that during his absence, she was once requested through Cher to “leave our family home” in Beverly Hills and was once “not allowed to retrieve all my belongings from our primary home and residence, nor was I given the opportunity to inventory our assets.”
King additionally claimed that whilst looking forward to further spousal make stronger bills, she allegedly misplaced her housing and healthcare and “had to leave the country to stay with relatives for a while.”
Following King’s allegations, Cher denied the accusations in a observation, telling Folks in October, “That rumor is not true.”
Cher and Gregg, who tied the knot in 1975, welcomed Elijah in July 1976. Cher additionally shared son Chaz, 54, with first husband Sonny Bono, who died from a ski twist of fate at age 62 in 1998.