Cher accused of hiring men to abduct her adult son in newly surfaced court documents filed by his estranged wife

In newly surfaced court documents, Cher is accused of hiring men to abduct her then 46-year-old son, Elijah Blue Allman, as he was reconciling with his estranged wife, Marie Angela King, who filed the docs.

The allegations were made by King in a Dec. 5, 2022, document made public as part of the couple's ongoing divorce case. Allman, who is the son of Cher and the late rock musician Gregg Allman, filed for divorce from his wife in 2021. In the 2022 docs obtained by PEOPLE, King claimed that she and Allman reconnected a year later and committed to working on their marriage. She said they spent 12 days alone together in New York in the lead-up to their anniversary on Nov. 20, which is when the alleged abduction took place.

"Four people came to our hotel room and removed [Allman] from our room," King alleged in the filing, adding that she was "told by one of the four men who took him that they were hired by [Allman's] mother."

She continued, "I am currently unaware of my husband's wellbeing or whereabouts. I am very concerned and worried about him."

SGranitz/WireImage Elijah Blue Allman and Cher

King also claimed in the same filing that since August 2022, she has not been allowed to "see or speak to" Allman, who is "currently in lockdown" at an undisclosed treatment facility. She added, "I am also told [Allman] has no access to his phone." It is unclear if the duo have been in contact since the documents were filed last December.

"I understand his family's efforts to make sure he is well, and I want what is best for my husband," King stated in the docs.

King also alleged that in Allman's absence, she was asked to leave the couple's home, which was owned by Cher.

"I did so on the belief that my support payments would be timely, and I would be able to afford housing," King claimed in the documents. "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."

Representatives for Cher did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

Allman has previously addressed his struggle with drug addiction, including a 2014 interview with Entertainment Tonight where he revealed that he started using weed and ecstasy at 11 years old before he turned to hard drugs later in life.

"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," Allman said. "[Heroin] kind of saved me. If I didn't have that at that point, I don't know what I would have done." At the time, Allman said he had been sober since 2008.

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