Cher has filed for a conservatorship over her son Elijah Blue Allman’s estate.
According to legal documents obtained by Pvnew, the music icon has requested to be the sole conservator of her son’s estate over concerns that he cannot properly take care of himself or “manage his own financial resources” because of his alleged struggles with drug abuse.
In the documents, Cher, 77, claims she has not been able to discuss the appointment of a conservator with Allman because his “current mental and physical health issues” leave him unable to “form or express a preference.”
The documents further detail Cher’s concern that her 47-year-old son cannot handle his finances, claiming that “any funds distributed to Elijah will immediately be spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself, and putting Elijah’s life at risk.”
Cher noted in the filing that Allman makes $120,000 a year and “is entitled to regular distributions from a trust established by his father for his benefit.”
Allman, whose dad is late musician Gregg Allman, is Cher’s youngest son.
Cher also marked that Elijah has an estimated $0 value in personal property.
Reps for the “Believe” singer did not immediately return Pvnew’s request for comment.
A court date regarding the conservatorship is set for March 6, 2024.
The filing, which was first reported by The Blast, comes three months after Pvnew reported that Cher hired a group of men to “kidnap” Elijah from a New York City hotel room with the “greatest and best intentions possible” to get him help for his alleged drug addiction.
The “kidnapping” took place while Elijah was trying to save his marriage to his estranged wife, Marieangela King, whom he married in 2013.
Before Cher successfully had her son taken to a rehab clinic, he was living with King without electricity in their Beverly Hills residence, a source told Pvnew in September.
“Elijah is such a lovely, lovely guy,” a longtime friend of Cher said at the time.
“He’s got his mom’s amazing sense of humor, and he’s a really talented musician. I’m sure he has his demons — we all do — but it’s such a shame to hear all of this, as he had been doing so well.”
Elijah admitted to the Daily Mail in 2014 that he struggled with drug abuse and at one point was on painkillers, smoking heroin and heavily drinking.
Although Cher denied plotting a kidnapping of her son — despite King also describing the event in divorce documents seen by Pvnew — she spoke out about his struggles in a statement to People in October.
“I’m a mother. This is my job — one way or another — to try to help my children,” she noted. “You do anything for your children. Whenever you can help them, you just do it because that’s what being a mother is.”
“But it’s joy, even with heartache,” she added. “Mostly, when you think of your children, you just smile and you love them, and you try to be there for them.”
Cher is also mom to Chaz Bono, 54, whom she welcomed with her first husband, late musician Sonny Bono.
