It seems that calm has arrived after many months of turbulence within Cher’s family. The singer and her son Elijah Blue Allman, 47, have reached a temporary agreement after she requested guardianship of her due to “inability to manage her financial resources.” A story that dates back to December 2023, at which time the 77-year-old artist requested guardianship of Elijah from the Los Angeles Superior Court. As she said in the filing, she feared he would spend her income — the $120,000 annually she receives from a trust fund established by her father, Gregg Allman — on drugs. A theory that Cher supported, alleging that her son suffered from schizoaffective disorder and that she feared he “would not be alive in a year.” Additionally, it came to light that in recent months she had undergone several 5150 detentions, a California legal code that allows a person with a mental illness to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalization.
The judge ended up dismissing Cher’s petition in January 2024, since Elijah had proven he could manage his finances and had stayed away from drugs. “In the months since the petition was filed, I have paid my bills, released new music with my band Deadsy, and am in conversations about other creative projects,” she justified in court documents. And he added: “I don’t need guardianship. The only person who can save me from my demons is me, and that’s what I’m doing.” Even so, the judge allowed Cher to continue seeking guardianship of her, if she could provide stronger evidence.
The two were scheduled to appear on June 11 in Los Angeles court to resume the case. However, information published by the Daily Mail and People newspapers revealed that both met in a “private mediation” session with a retired judge to try to avoid going to court. Finally mother and son reached an agreement and decided to pause all legal proceedings to allow them to work together to resolve the matter privately and confidentially.
The bad relationship between the two has come to light on countless occasions. Without going any further than her, last month Elijah attacked her saying that he was “incapable” of controlling her guardianship due to her mental instability. “I have seen her suffer from depression in the past and I do not believe she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate.” He also pointed out that her mother did not manage her own finances and that if she were named her legal guardian she would end up delegating that responsibility to her personal assistant and others with whom she had bad experiences in the past. A third person intervened in all this gale, Cher’s now ex-daughter-in-law, Mariangela King. Elijah’s former wife accused the singer of hiring four men to take her husband out of a New York lodging against her will to force him into a rehabilitation center. For her part, the artist told People magazine last October that King had been “a destructive presence in her son’s life,” and that he “impeded his efforts” to rehabilitate himself from his drug addiction. drugs.
