Cher accuses estranged son Elijah Blue Allman of spending $1M on hotels and drugs as conservatorship fight intensifies
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: In her battle for conservatorship over her estranged son Elijah Blue Allman, Cher has dropped a new court filing where she claimed her son is incapable of saving money.
In December, Cher filed a petition in the court and requested to be named the temporary conservator of her son with the late musician Gregg Allman.
In her petition, the 77-year-old songstress claimed that her son struggles with mental health and addiction issues, and added that he is unable to make important financial decisions.
The judge has, however, dismissed her petition to be named Elijah’s temporary conservator saying the legendary songstress failed to establish the matter as an emergency.
The judge, nevertheless, set a hearing for June to determine whether Elijah requires a permanent conservator.
Cher claims Elijah Blue Allman has no savings
To strengthen her case in favor of her conservatorship over Elijah, the ‘Strong Enough’ singer has filed a new petition in court.
She revealed that Elijah receives a sum of approximately $30,000 from his father’s trust quarterly. He received the recent payout of the quarterly distribution on February 1, 2024.
However, she claims that despite receiving upward of $1 million in the last six years, Elijah doesn’t have any savings.
The court filing reads, per RadarOnline, “Elijah has a well-established pattern of being entirely unable to manage his own financial resources or resist fraud or undue influence.”
“She continued in the filing, “Specifically, over the past three years, Petitioner, physicians, friends, and family have seen Elijah receive his trust distribution and immediately spend the entirety of such on drugs, expensive hotels, and other non-essential items, leaving him with no assets to provide for himself.”
“Indeed, [Cher] is informed and believes that despite receiving over a $1,000,000 in distributions from the trust since his father’s death in 2017, Elijah has no savings,” reads the filing.
The petition further notes that Elijah’s “untreated mental illness” decreases his ability to manage funds as the filing reads, “Elijah’s untreated mental illness and addiction exacerbates his inability to manage his finances because when he is experiencing psychosis or using illicit substances, he lacks the ability to make decisions, let alone rational decisions, about his finances.”
“This is not a situation where Elijah is simply bad with money or makes poor investment choices, it is a situation where he is completely incapable of managing his financial resources and vulnerable to scams and other undue influence by financial predators,” said the filing.
The ‘Believe’ singer claimed that she has always financially supported her son because “he is always running out of money,” and claimed her financial team helped him several times because of his inability to make “rational investment decisions.”
The songstress also claimed that she still pays for Elijah’s expenses, including his health insurance, car insurance, medical expenses, and storage fees.
Elijah Blue Allman thinks Cher is a 'terrible' mother
According to an insider, Elijah and Chaz Bono (Cher's son with Sonny Bono) think the musician is a "terrible" mother. The insider revealed, “Elijah and Chaz think she's a hypocrite and has no business controlling their lives when she can't even manage her own life.”
They continued, “She was a terrible mother, they'll both attest to that. But Elijah perhaps felt the brunt of it. She shipped him off to boarding school when he was seven. He had no relationship with his father at that time and he felt shut out by his mom," before adding Cher, “was a horrible influence. All she cared about was her career and men.”
