Cher’s son Elijah Blue Allman, 49, arrested for assault at prep college
Elijah Blue Allman, 49, the son of Cher and the late Greg Allman, was arrested Friday evening at St. Paul’s School, a prestigious prep school in Concord, New Hampshire.
According to the Concord Police Department, officers were called just before 7 p.m. local time after reports of an unauthorized individual causing a disturbance in the school’s dining hall, TMZ reported on Saturday.
The man, later identified as Allman, was said to be acting aggressively and ‘belligerently,’ prompting authorities to respond.
Allman was taken into custody, processed, and released on his own recognizance, meaning no bail was required, per the outlet. He is scheduled to appear in court for a future arraignment.
Sources indicate that Allman has no known ties to the school and that it is unclear why he was on campus, per the outlet.
Daily Mail has reached out to Cher and Allman’s representatives for comment.
Elijah Blue Allman , 49, the son of Cher and the late Greg Allman, was arrested Friday evening at St. Paul’s School, a prestigious prep school in Concord, New Hampshire; (pictured 2023)
According to the Concord Police Department, officers were called just before 7 p.m. local time after reports of an unauthorized individual causing a disturbance in the school’s dining hall, TMZ reported on Saturday; (pictured 2001)
The incident follows a troubling health scare in June 2025, when Allman was hospitalized after suffering a drug overdose.
In addition to Elijah, Cher is also the mother of 56-year-old Chaz Bono, her child with late musician Sonny Bono.
A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department spokesman told Daily Mail at the time of the overdose: ‘On Saturday, June 14, 2025, at about 1:25 p.m., deputies from our Morongo Basin Station responded to a residence in the 2300 block of Cambria Avenue, in Landers, for a male subject acting erratically.
‘When deputies arrived, Elijah Allman, 48, was being evaluated by emergency medical personnel. Deputies located drugs inside the home and Allman was transported to the hospital.’
In 2014 Allman revealed he began using drugs, like weed and ecstasy, at just 11-years-old and detailed some close calls.
‘I [was] just looking to escape all the things in my past and, that’s when you turn to those kind of drugs, you know heroin and opiates,’ he told ET at the time.
He added, ‘[Heroin] kind of saved me … If I didn’t have that at that point, I don’t know what I would have done …You may jump off a bridge. If you can only just go through that time period and live through it and then get help.’
Allman also recalled ‘some moments of really feeling at the edge of mortality.’
‘I always kind of kept it a little bit safe but you never can do that,’ he explained. ‘Even though you think that in your mind, of course the wrong things can happen.
‘The wrong combination of things can happen and you can just slip into the abyss. I knew it was wrong and I knew that I was very unsatisfied with life at that point.’
The 79-year-old music icon shared Elijah with the late Gregg Allman, who died in 2017; pictured in 1978
Cher and Allman pictured in 2001
In addition to Elijah, Cher is mom to son Chaz Bono, whom she shared with Sonny Bono; pictured with both her kids in 1980
In early 2024 a judge threw out Cher’s bid to have Elijah placed in a conservatorship controlled by her.
She had petitioned LA Superior Court to appoint her as Elijah’s temporary conservator, arguing that his 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 late father, rock star Gregg Allman.
Cher said she feared he would spend his $10,000 a month payouts on drugs, putting his life in jeopardy.
Judge Jessica Uzcategui refused to appoint Cher as conservator, saying that the star’s attorneys had not given Elijah enough notice of the court action and refused to share confidential information with him about his case.
After the brief hearing, when the Daily Mail asked how he felt about the result, Elijah just smiled and shook his head.
Cher’s attorney, Gabrielle Vidal, asked the judge to waive the usual five-day notice required to inform a person of a proposed conservatorship, arguing that ‘absent a (conservatorship) order today’ distribution of money to Elijah from his trust fund could put him ‘in a life or death position.’
