The financial safety net has disappeared. Elijah Blue Allman, the 49-year-old son of music icon Cher and the late Gregg Allman, says his famous mother has stopped providing monthly gift income, leaving him fighting to overturn a spousal support order he can no longer afford. The revelation comes in the middle of an escalating conservatorship battle that has exposed deep fractures in one of Hollywood’s most famous families.
Allman is asking a Los Angeles court to reconsider the $6,500 monthly support payment he has been ordered to pay his estranged wife, Marieangela King, whom he married in 2013 and split from in 2021. The math is brutal. At 96 percent of his net income, the spousal support payment would leave him with almost nothing.
His legal team argues the court issued the order without properly notifying him. They also allege that King inflated his income in her filings, claiming he earned $20,000 per month from two trusts when only his father’s trust actually pays out. Adding insult to injury, Allman says King served court documents about the hearing at his mother’s Malibu mansion, a place he says he does not live.
Cher’s response to her son’s unraveling has been legal and decisive. She first filed for a temporary conservatorship in December 2023, a request that was denied. She filed again in April 2026, describing Allman as “gravely disabled” with a severe drug dependency and an inability to manage money.
But on April 24, 2026, a Los Angeles judge once again denied the emergency request. The ruling stated there was no “sufficient urgency,” noting that Allman’s trust distributions have followed a known schedule for years. The judge added that troubling behavior alone does not automatically justify a conservatorship.
Allman is currently locked in a psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire, where authorities are working to restore his competency to face multiple criminal charges. Those include simple assault, criminal trespassing, and disorderly conduct from a February incident at St. Paul’s School, as well as burglary charges from a March break-in. His trial for the school incident is scheduled for June 16.
The next hearing on the spousal support dispute is set for July 17. For now, the son of two music legends finds himself caught between a mother who has cut him off financially and a legal system demanding money he says he no longer has.
