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Cher Accused Of Hiring Kidnappers To Abduct Her Own Son

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The icon is being accused by her daughter in law of having her adult son "removed" from a hotel room.

Ariel Messman-Rucker

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.

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Ariel Messman-Rucker

September 27 2023 12:50 PM EST

October 01 2023 11:02 AM EST

Cher’s daughter-in-law Marieangela King is accusing the pop icon of trying to kidnap her own son Elijah Blue Allman last year.

According to a legal declaration obtained by Us Weekly, King is claiming Allman was “removed” from their hotel in New York by four people in an effort to stop the pair from reconciling in November 2022 after separating in 2021.

While Cher wasn’t mentioned by name, King said “one of the four men who took” Allman told her “they were hired by petitioner’s mother.” The “petitioner” refers to Allman, who filed divorce from King in 2021, Us Weekly reports.

The star’s daught-in-law also claims that she has been told she is “not allowed to see or speak to” Allman, who is “currently in lockdown at a treatment facility that is undisclosed” and doesn’t have access to his phone.

In court documents that were filed in 2022, King said, “I understand his family’s efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband."

King, 36, and Allman, 47, married in 2013, but King said Allman has been in treatment since August 2022 for a heroine addiction, according to the documents.

“In my husband’s absence, I was asked to leave our family home by Petitioner’s mother,” King claimed in the recently resurfaced divorce filings. “I was not allowed to retrieve all my belongings from our primary home and residence, nor was I given the opportunity to inventory our assets. We also have a storage unit that I have been unable to access which contains art, antiques, all our furniture from our second home that we had together in Beverly Hills and other assets accumulated during the marriage.”