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Cher accused of ‘hiring four men to kidnap’ her son Elijah Blue Allman

Singer Cher has been accused of hiring men to kidnap her son from a hotel where he was staying with his wife last year.

Court documents filed by Elijah Blue Allman’s wife, Marieangela King, allege that four men “removed” him from a New York hotel room on their anniversary in November 2022.

The pair had reportedly been at the hotel attempting to work on their marriage after Allman filed for divorce in 2021.

The Standard has contacted representatives for Cher and Marieangela King for comment.

In court documents viewed by the MailOnline as part of divorce proceedings in Los Angeles Superior Court, Ms King said she and Mr Allman had spent 12 days at the hotel “working out our marriage”.

Marieangela King (pictured) has been marrie to Elijah Blue Allman since 2011 (Instagram @iamqueenyking)

But “after spending these 12 days together in New York, on November 30, 2022, the night of our wedding anniversary, four people came to our hotel room and removed [Mr Allman] from our room,” she claimed in a court declaration made in December 2022.

“I was told by one of the four men who took him that they were hired by [Mr Allman’s] mother,” she further alleged.

In the court documents, Ms King said her husband had been receiving treatment at a medical facility since August 2022, but claimed she had not been told where it was and had no means of contacting him.

“I am currently unaware of my husband’s wellbeing or whereabouts,” she said in December, adding that she was “very concerned and worried about him”.

Allman, 47, is the son of Turn Back Time hit-maker Cher and her former husband, the late rock musician Gregg Allman.

He has previously spoken about suffering drug addiction, claiming in a 2014 interview with Entertainment Tonight that he had used drugs since the age of 11.

Allman has been married to UK-born King since 2011, they are both musicians.

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