A bombshell was dropped in December 2022 when court documents alleged that Cher had hired men to kidnap Elijah Blue Allman to keep him from using drugs. The court documents were filed by Allman’s wife, Marieangela King, and pertained to their divorce. King said that she and Allman had stayed in a hotel together for 12 days to work on their relationship when four men — hired by Cher — showed up and took him away. “I am currently unaware of my husband’s wellbeing or whereabouts. I am very concerned and worried about him,” King said in the documents published by People in September 2023.
Cher addressed the kidnapping accusations a month after they were made public. “[T]hat rumor is not true,” she told People in October 2023. “I’m a mother. This is my job — one way or another, to try to help my children,” she told the outlet. The “If I Could Turn Back Time” artist also addressed the allegations that same month when speaking to the New York Post. “I didn’t do it, and if I did it, I wouldn’t say I did it,” she told the outlet while adding that a mother’s job was never done.
Around the same time that King’s kidnapping allegations came to light, a report from the Daily Mail claimed that Allman had overdosed while staying at the famed Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard and that Cher had hired a caretaker to watch over him. Years earlier, Allman had opened up about his drug use.
