Cher Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR Cher is once again seeking an emergency conservatorship over Elijah Blue Allman after back-to-back arrests in New Hampshire landed her 49-year-old son with Gregg Allman in a locked psychiatric hospital, court documents reveal.
“Elijah’s situation has become dire on multiple fronts. His mental health has severely deteriorated, his financial situation is terrible, and his drug dependency is at its worst,” the new filings made this week in Los Angeles County probate court and obtained by Rolling Stone allege.
Cher claims her son’s life has spiraled since she first sought conservatorship control over his finances in a December 2023 bid that ended with a private settlement. In her prior effort, Cher told the court that Allman “urgently needed” help managing his assets amid “severe mental health and substance abuse issues.” Cher was initially rebuffed by the judge and ultimately resolved the matter privately in September 2024, with Allman promising to hire a business manager. She says he never did.
Since that time, Allman has bounced between “expensive hotels he cannot afford” and short-term rental homes, allegedly causing more than $50,000 in damage to one AirBnB, and purportedly racking up an $18,000 bill with a drug dealer, the new filings state. He’s also facing criminal charges in two counties in New Hampshire.
Allman was arrested on Feb. 27 at St. Paul’s School in Concord on suspicion of trespassing, criminal threats, and simple assault, a bail order obtained by Rolling Stone confirms. According to WMUR 9 News, Allman allegedly slipped onto campus claiming he was a prospective parent, turned belligerent, and poked a student with his cane. Allman was booked and released, then arrested again two days later on a burglary rap in Windham, N.H., after a woman called police saying someone had broken through her back door, and she was “hiding in a closet,” according to a police affidavit obtained by Rolling Stone. Officers arrived to find a shattered glass door and Allman “seated on the living room couch smoking a cigarette,” the report says.
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“Since the proposed conservatee is currently in custody in a psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire, this application does not seek a conservatorship of the person. However, the facts underlying this petition are not only relevant to establish the proposed conservatee’s total inability to manage his finances, but the facts also establish that he is gravely disabled,” Cher’s conservatorship request states. It adds that a more thorough conservatorship over Allman’s personal life likely would be “appropriate for him once he returns to California.”
The new documents say Elijah still receives $120,000 a month via a trust that his father Gregg set up prior to the Allman Brothers Band singer’s death. That monthly payment is then “immediately squandered without regard for his liabilities or well-being,” the court filings say.
“There is a clear pattern in Elijah’s behavior,” Cher alleged in the documents filed by her lawyer. “After he receives his trust distribution, he checks into a hotel, usually the Chateau Marmont, buys and does drugs until he runs out of money, ends up in the hospital or overdoses. Based on this pattern, if Elijah were to receive his trust distribution, he will use it buy drugs.”
The conservatorship filings also detail other instances where Allman allegedly was a danger to himself or others, including an episode where he passed out in his car in the middle of traffic and ended up in a hospital, where he was administered Narcan. “There have been multiple occasions in which Elijah caused grease fires while cooking after zoning out and forgetting that food was on the stove,” the filing states.
Allman’s sister, Devon Allman, submitted a declaration in support of the new conservatorship request. “It is my opinion that he is currently a danger to himself and unable to manage his life, and any funds that would become available to him,” she wrote. “My recent visit to check in on him brought me unfortunate and profound sadness that took weeks of my life to process. His condition, both physical and mental, was appalling and delusional, respectively.”
