Elijah Blue Allman Says Cher Cut Off His Financial Support Years Ago, Seeks Spousal Support Reduction
Elijah Blue Allman, the 49-year-old son of pop icon Cher, has alleged in a new legal filing that his famous mother stopped sending him regular financial gifts nearly four years ago, a development he says now makes it impossible for him to keep up with his court-ordered spousal support obligations.
The claim emerged from documents filed May 5 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, connected to Allman's ongoing divorce proceedings from his estranged wife, Marieangela King. In the filing, Allman's legal team formally requested a reduction in his monthly spousal support payments, citing a significant drop in his income since Cher, who had the son with late Allman Brothers frontman Gregg Allman, allegedly stopped wiring him what he described as a "recurring gift income" back in August 2021.
Without that financial cushion from his mother, Allman says his monthly take-home pay amounts to just $6,790 after taxes. That figure, he contends, comes almost entirely from a $10,000 monthly distribution tied to his late father's estate trust. Under the current divorce arrangement, he is required to pay King $6,500 per month, leaving him with just $290 in disposable income each month, according to the filing.
Allman's attorneys are now asking a judge to slash that support figure to $1,651 per month. The legal team also argued that King has made no meaningful attempt to achieve financial independence since the couple's separation, a characterization that will likely be contested as the case moves forward. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for July 17.
Representatives for both Cher and Allman had not responded to press inquiries at the time of publication.
Last month, a Los Angeles judge denied Cher's emergency petition to have a court-appointed conservator take over Allman's financial affairs. That bid was filed as Allman sat in a New Hampshire psychiatric facility, where he was being held following a pair of criminal arrests, one involving alleged criminal threats made near a school, and another stemming from an alleged home break-in. Cher's emergency motion was strategically timed ahead of Allman's next scheduled quarterly trust payout, suggesting concern about how those funds might be spent given his circumstances.
This was not the first time Cher sought legal oversight of her son's life. She originally filed for conservatorship in 2023, arguing at the time that Allman was in urgent need of protection due to what she described as severe and ongoing mental health struggles compounded by substance abuse. That initial effort ended without a court order; the two parties reached a private settlement in 2024 in which Cher agreed to step back from her conservatorship push, reportedly in exchange for Allman's commitment to hire a professional business manager to oversee his finances.
That agreement, however, apparently did not hold. When Cher returned to probate court in April with a renewed petition, she alleged that Allman had failed to follow through on his promise to bring in a financial manager and that his condition had deteriorated once again. In that April 15 petition, she described her son as "gravely disabled," pointing to his recent arrests in New Hampshire as evidence that he was not capable of managing his own affairs.
The court ultimately denied that second petition as well.
