A New Hampshire grand jury has indicted Elijah Blue Allman, the son of Cher and the late Gregg Allman, on a felony criminal mischief charge stemming from a break-in at a home in Windham back in March. Police say Allman smashed a glass panel on a back door to get inside while the woman living there hid in a closet and called 911, and that officers later found him smoking on her couch.
According to the New York Daily News, officers responding to the Windham property on March 1 found footprints in the snow leading to the back door, which was surrounded by broken glass. Allman reportedly told police the homeowners had given him permission to enter, but the homeowners denied that account and said nothing was actually taken from inside. A grand jury determined that Allman purposely damaged the property, and the newspaper reports the broken door will cost roughly $1,700 to repair, while a rug he burned with a cigarette was valued at $1,000.
Under New Hampshire law, that combined damage total is significant. New Hampshire Revised Statutes Section 634:2 classifies criminal mischief as a Class B felony once a person purposely causes more than $1,500 in property damage, which is why prosecutors pursued a felony indictment rather than a misdemeanor charge for the Windham incident.
A Second Arrest Just Days Earlier
The Windham break-in came only two days after another arrest that put Allman in headlines. Police say he showed up at St. Paul's School, an exclusive residential prep school in Concord, claiming to be a prospective parent before becoming belligerent toward students and pushing a staff member, according to CBS News.
That February 27 incident led to Allman being booked into Merrimack County jail the same day, per the Daily News' account of the case. He was charged with two counts of simple assault, one count of criminal threatening, one count of criminal trespass, and one count of disorderly conduct, then released later that day without posting bail. He now has an arraignment for the felony criminal mischief charge set for next month, and a separate competency hearing tied to the boarding school incident is slated for later this fall.
Locked Up in a Psychiatric Facility While Cases Pile Up
Following the March arrest, Allman was placed in a locked New Hampshire psychiatric hospital for court-ordered treatment aimed at restoring his competency to face criminal charges spanning both Merrimack and Rockingham counties, as reported by Global News. That confinement has rippled far beyond New Hampshire's courtrooms, complicating a tangle of family and financial disputes playing out simultaneously in Los Angeles.
At a June 25 hearing in Los Angeles, Judge Jessica A. Uzcategui noted that Allman could remain detained in New Hampshire psychiatric or correctional facilities for up to 18 months, and she questioned whether California courts still hold jurisdiction over his estate proceedings, the National Enquirer reported. Allman asked to represent himself at that hearing, but the judge denied the request and postponed the matter.
Cher's Renewed Fight for a Conservatorship
The New Hampshire arrests reignited a legal battle Cher had waged once before. On April 17, she filed a new petition for temporary conservatorship in Los Angeles Superior Court, describing her son as gravely disabled and alleging he spends his $120,000 annual trust income almost exclusively on drugs, expensive hotels, and limousines, according to the same Global News report.
Cher had first sought a conservatorship in December 2023 before agreeing to dismiss that petition in September 2024 following court-ordered mediation meant to rebuild the family's relationship, per Law Commentary. That 2024 dismissal was made without prejudice, leaving the door open for her to refile if conditions worsened. In an April court declaration supporting the renewed petition, Allman's half-brother Devon Allman stated that Elijah was a danger to himself and described his physical and mental condition during a recent visit as appalling, the Enquirer noted.
Despite those concerns, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied Cher's emergency request for temporary conservatorship on April 24, ruling there was no sufficient urgency because Allman was already confined in a locked psychiatric facility without access to his money, according to Keystone Law. The court found that standard unmet given his existing confinement.
Divorce Filings Reveal Financial Strain
Allman's legal troubles have also spilled into his ongoing divorce from estranged wife Marieangela King, whom he married in 2013. In May court filings, he asked to lower his monthly spousal support payments to King from $6,500 to $1,651, stating that Cher cut off all recurring financial support in August 2021 and left him with only $10,000 per month from his late father's trust, according to HELLO! Magazine.
Outside the courtroom, Allman has built a career as a musician, performing under the stage name Phillips Exeter Blue I as lead vocalist and guitarist for Deadsy, an industrial synth-goth rock band formed in 1995 that released two major-label albums, Commencement and Phantasmagore, according to Wikipedia. For now, both his criminal case in New Hampshire and the fight over his estate in California remain unresolved, with his competency to stand trial still pending evaluation.
