At the end of December 2023, the news broke that Cher (California, 77 years old) had requested guardianship of her son, Elijah Blue Allman (California, 47 years old). The documents then presented by the singer and actress in the Los Angeles Superior Court revealed that the artist sought to be the sole caretaker of her minor son’s estate, alleging that she is “substantially incapable of managing her financial resources – the $120,000 annually she receives from a trust fund established by his father, the late rocker Gregg Allman—for himself.” According to her, she feared that Elijah would spend his $30,000 a quarter on drugs, putting his life in danger. Three months earlier, Cher’s now ex-daughter-in-law Mariangela King accused her of orchestrating Elijah’s kidnapping from a hotel room when she filed her divorce petition against him. She said that the singer, concerned about the health of her son, had hired four men to take him out of a New York accommodation against her will to force him into a rehabilitation center. The relationship between mother and son was becoming strained at times, but it seems that they have finally reached a temporary agreement to calm the waters.
The two were scheduled to appear on June 11 in a Los Angeles court, where the singer was going to ask to be appointed guardian of her son, a measure that he has vehemently opposed from the beginning. . However, new court documents obtained by means such as the Daily Mail and People reveal that mother and son met in a “private mediation” session with a retired judge earlier this month to try to stay out of court. And, for now, they have achieved it. “On May 7, the legendary singer and Allman agreed to pause all legal proceedings and related activities, including all discovery and motion practice, to allow the parties to continue working together to resolve this matter privately and confidentially,” Has published People based on said legal documents. Thus, as detailed in the Daily MailCher and Elijah have postponed the hearing for at least three more months, until September 13, “to continue working toward a private resolution.”
Last month, Elijah lashed out at his mother, saying she was “wrong” and calling her “incapable” of controlling his conservatorship. “I have seen her suffer from depression in the past and I do not believe that she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate,” she said, as stated in court documents. “I don’t need guardianship. The only person who can save me from my demons is me, and that is precisely what I am doing,” she added.
The turbulent relationship between Cher and her son has been shown on multiple occasions in the media. She herself spoke about it last October with the magazine People, when she stated that her ex-daughter-in-law had been a “destructive presence in her son’s life,” and that she “impeded his efforts” to rehabilitate him. “I’m a mother. This is my job: in one way or another, to try to help my children. You do anything for your children. Whenever you can help them, do it because that is being a mother. But it is joy, even with pain; Most of all, when you think about your children, you just smile, love them and try to be there for them,” she stated. Regarding the accusations that shook the actress for allegedly holding her son against her will, she warned the publication that this rumor was not true and she refused to comment further.
After Cher requested guardianship of her son at the end of December, a judge dismissed it in January 2024 due to the hastiness of the decision, alleging that “the star’s lawyers had not given Elijah sufficient notice of the action.” judicial and had refused to share confidential information with him about his case,” according to the Daily Mail. Still, the judge allowed the artist to continue seeking guardianship of her, despite Allman’s continued resistance. “I understand that a guardianship is appropriate for a person who is substantially incapable of managing his or her own financial resources to resist fraud or undue influence,” he notes in the legal documents now revealed. “In the months since the petition was filed, I have paid my bills, instructed the trust trustee to pay other expenses, released new music with my band Deadsy, and am in talks about other creative projects,” he justifies. In the late nineties, Allman created a rock group in which he is the guitarist and on February 8 they released a new song.
The singer’s youngest son also claims that he has hired an accounting company to help him pay his taxes and manage his finances and, therefore, there is no reason to accept that guardianship. “I know my mother’s goals are not bad… I know my mother’s actions are meant to help me, but I don’t need this help,” Allman acknowledges in his objection. “My mother seems to believe that controlling these quarterly trust distributions will prevent me from engaging in self-destructive behavior. She is wrong “.
![Cher and Elijah Blue Allman at a gala in 2002.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/QR5B7FDKQRER3CEU3CTON7BAO4.jpg?auth=5065e411b6e59b9ec375aa60377fe516d8a36bcdbba9b765258fd63b1e664b96&width=414)
Cher’s fear when she asked for emergency temporary guardianship, according to the application she filed, was that her son “would not be alive in a year.” Lawyers for the singer and actress cited Allman’s treatment for schizoaffective disorder and revealed that in the past year she had undergone several 5150 detentions, a California legal code that allows a person with a mental illness to be involuntarily detained for hospitalization. 72-hour psychiatric treatment. “The doctors told Cher that if she did not take this step like her mother, she would end up once again on the street,” her lawyers argued. Allman disagrees: “I have struggled with addiction, but I am not mentally ill.” In the end, the initial urgency has not been so urgent and the two are willing to wait a little longer to resolve this matter.
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