Alert – Cher withdraws bid for conservatorship of troubled son Elijah Blue Allman after the two finally ‘reach agreement’ in bitter feud

Cher’s recovering drug addict son Elijah Blue Allman has finally won his bitter legal fight to stop his superstar mother from taking control of his life, DailyMail.com can reveal. 

The nearly year-long legal battle came to an end on Friday after the 78-year-old filed a notice to withdraw her bid for a conservatorship of her son at Los Angeles Superior Court.

In a brief court hearing held via Zoom, Judge Jessica Uzcategui formally dismissed the petition, telling lawyers for both parties: ‘Congratulations to all of you.’

Neither Cher, nor Elijah, 48, appeared in person or via video at the hearing.

Allman – son of the late rocker Greg Allman – was vehemently opposed to a conservatorship and when his famous mother petitioned the court late last year to establish one, the judge turned her down.

Cher and son Elijah Blue Allman’s bitter legal battle came to an end on Monday after she withdrew her petition for conservatorship of her troubled son 

Cher had filed for conservatorship in late December last year, claiming his past drug addiction made him unfit to manage his trust fund 

But Judge Uzcategui at that time also refused to dismiss Cher’s case altogether, continuing her petition until this week, giving Allman a chance to prove he’s a responsible citizen and providing the mother and son the opportunity to meet in a ‘private mediation’ session with a retired judge to resolve their differences.

The mediation proved to be a success, the court heard Monday, and Cher and Allman ‘reached an agreement.’ No details of that agreement were revealed in court.

In her conservator petition to the court last December, Cher argued that Elijah’s past drug addiction, plus mental and physical health issues, made him unable to manage the $120,000 a year he gets from a trust fund set up for him by his father.

The singing legend, said she feared he would spend his $30,000 quarterly payouts on drugs, putting his life in jeopardy.

But Elijah blasted his mom, calling her ‘misguided’ and ‘unfit’ to control a conservatorship.

‘I have seen her suffer with depression in the past and I do not believe that she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate,’ he said in court documents.

‘I do not need a conservatorship. The only person who can save me from my demons is me – and I’m doing just that.

‘I understand that a conservatorship is appropriate for a person who is substantially unable to manage his own financial resources of resist fraud or undue influence.

‘In the months since the petition was filed…..I have paid my bills, instructed the trustee of the trust to pay other expenses, released new music on February 8 with my band Deadsy and I am in talks regarding other creative projects. 

Cher had argued in her petition to the court that Elijah’s drug addiction makes him unable to manage his trust fund 

Elijah Blue Allman and and wife Marieangela ‘Queeny’ King were in the midst of separating but filed a motion in early January to dismiss their divorce action from 2021 amid his legal battle with his mother 

‘I have also retained an accounting firm to assist me in paying my taxes and managing my finances. I am and have been capable of managing my own financial resources and resisting fraud and undue influence. I do not need a conservatorship.’

Allman fiercely contested his mother’s claims that he’s mentally ill and in jeopardy of falling back into the drugs that almost destroyed his life.

‘My mother’s petition raises dual concerns that I suffer from some mental illness and that I live hand-to-mouth using my trust distributions to buy drugs and place myself in mortal danger,’ he said.

‘I have struggled with addiction but I am not mentally ill. The absence of evidence of the concerns (related to ‘cyclical’ mental illness addiction) raised in the petition over the last months are evidence that I have control over my faculties and that I am not mentally ill.

DailyMail.com exclusively revealed in September last year that Allman, 47, had gone back into rehab after he passed out on the sidewalk outside the Chateau Marmont hotel in New York where he had been living.

For days before that he had been seen stumbling around the famed hotel where actor John Belushi died from a drug overdose in 1982.

Cher has long had a contentious relationship both with her daughter-in-law Marieangela

In his petition, Allman said: ‘I know that my mother’s objectives are not nefarious….I know that my mother’s actions are meant to help me – but I do not need this help.’

In her efforts to become Elijah’s conservator, Cher pointed the finger of blame at his wife, rock singer Marieangela ‘Queeny’ King, 37 – whom he was about to divorce last year till the two kissed and made up and decided to give their 11-year marriage another try.

Cher claimed King was a ‘destructive presence’ in his life, impeding his efforts to stay clean and sober.

King in turn accuses Cher of trying to thwart her reconciliation with Elijah by kidnapping him and sending him to a rehab facility. Cher denied that allegation.

‘My mother and I have had a strained relationship for years,’ Allman said in court documents. ‘As an example, on October 17, 2023, my mother arranged for me to be brought to Mexico for what I was told was ‘holistic alternative therapy.’

‘Upon arrival in Mexico, I was told that I was not there for holistic/alternative treatment and, in fact, was not permitted to leave.

‘It was my wife who retained counsel and negotiated my release from the facility in Mexico.

‘While I wish to believe that my mother wants the best for me, I have personal knowledge that she does not manage her own finances. I therefore have grave concerns about this court permitting her to manage any of mine.’

Allman was found passed out in the famed Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles last year 

King had previously released a statement criticizing mother-in-law Cher’s actions, saying she is ‘not OK’ with her husband ‘being coerced’ into ‘participating in an alternative medicine regimen’ 

Cher has been romantically linked to music executive Alexander Edwards – who at 38 is 40 years her junior – since 2022 

Also mother to son Chaz Bono, 56, from her first marriage to the late Sonny Bono, Cher has insisted that, as Elijah’s mother, she was best suited to be his conservator and that she has received family support on the issue.

Referring to Elijah’s on-again, off-again marriage to King, ‘Their tumultuous relationship has been marked by a cycle of drug addiction and mental health crises,’ she said in court filings.

Cher claimed King has not been ‘supportive of Elijah’s recovery and … actively works to keep Elijah from getting clean and sober or receiving mental health treatment that he desperately needs.’

For King’s part, she made a statement to DailyMail.com about the Mexican ‘rehab’ facility Allman referred to in his court filing.

She accused Cher of throwing Elijah ‘into a lockdown facility’ in Mexico, saying she had ‘historically excluded’ her from being involved in his treatment decisions.

‘I have always been a champion for the sober community and for Elijah’s sobriety,’ King said.

‘What I am not OK with are establishments that exclude me (his wife) from being part of Elijah’s treatment and hopeful recovery.

‘I am especially not OK with Elijah being coerced under false pretenses on or about October 17, 2023 into participating in an alternative medicine regimen and then being thrown into a lockdown facility in Mexico, sleeping behind a locked cage with six other individuals, under an imposed Mexican Conservatorship.’