Elijah Blue Allman Leans on Father’s Trust After Cher’s Support Ends

Elijah Blue Allman, the 49-year-old son of Cher and the late Allman Brothers vocalist Gregg Allman, told a Los Angeles court this month that his mother’s financial assistance ended in August 2021. The disclosure came in a request to lower his spousal support obligations to estranged wife Marieangela King.

Court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 5 and obtained by People show Allman now relies on $10,000 per month from a trust left by his father. After taxes, his income lands around $6,790. For years, Cher had supplemented that with what the filing labels a “recurring gift income.” The payments stopped without explanation, and Allman’s current financial situation makes the existing spousal support unworkable.

The filing moves past the surface of rock-star inheritance, laying out the often unsettled logistics of family money. Allman is the only child from Cher’s brief marriage to Gregg Allman, and his livelihood has been propped up by two distinct musical estates. His request to reduce payments to King hinges on the vanished maternal support, a shift that now forces him to depend entirely on his father’s legacy.

Cher, now 79, has not addressed the matter publicly. The case proceeds as Allman and King continue their divorce.