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Cher's Son Elijah Offers Extra Reasons Why He Doesn't Need Conservatorship
Cher‘s son Elijah Blue Allman is doubling down against the conservatorship his famous mom is seeking to control his estate … he says he’s cleaning up his act.
In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Elijah and his wife, Marieangela King, lay out the reasons why he doesn’t need his mom to step in as conservator of his estate … and he’s taking shots at Cher and leveling some pretty serious accusations in the process.
Elijah claims he’s now sober, paying his bills and is committed to managing the quarterly payments he gets from the trust set up by his late father, legendary musician Greg Allman.
As we reported … Cher claims she’s concerned her son has substance abuse and mental health problems and can’t manage the money he gets from the trust … but here he says that’s just not true.
Elijah’s wife goes a step further in the docs … alleging Cher essentially orchestrated a kidnapping of Elijah and had him held at a Mexican rehab facility against his will.
In the docs, Marieangela claims Elijah was brought to Mexico in October and told by a doctor Cher hired that he would be doing holistic alternative therapy … but she claims it was actually a “makeshift prison-type facility known as the ‘Baja Rehab’ where he was being held against his will.”
Marieangela claims she traveled daily from L.A. County to Rosarito “to rescue Elijah from the captivity his mother arranged.” She says Elijah “was held captive” there for 2 months until Mexican federal agents escorted him out and dropped him off at the border.
For her part, Cher has vehemently denied the kidnapping allegations.
Elijah’s wife also takes some shots at Cher in the docs … she says she’s known Cher for 11 years and says the singer is “categorically unfit to serve” as Elijah’s conservator.
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Marieangela claims Cher doesn’t drive, doesn’t make her own food or dress herself, and has told Marieangela she’s “manic depressive.”
While Elijah’s giving his reasons why he doesn’t need a conservatorship, there’s a court hearing set for March 6 to determine whether Cher will be appointed conservator anyway.
Stay tuned.
Teen Vogue signage is seen during the 2025 Teen Vogue Summit at NYA WEST on Sept. 20, 2025 in Los Angeles.
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Teen Vogue staffers have taken to social media to share the news they’ve been laid off, just as Condé Nast announced the outlet will be “joining Vogue.com, a transition that’s part of a broader push to expand the Vogue ecosystem.”
Teen Vogue covered fashion and celebrity, but also took in-depth looks at politics and social justice issues. Their writers have tackled everything from climate change to political pressures on universities, celebrity style to Billie Eilish’s recent comments about billionaires.
According to a statement posted on X from Condé United, a bargaining unit of the union the NewsGuild of New York, six of its members who worked for Teen Vogue are being laid off.
The union statement said that most of the six “are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue‘s politics editor, . . . Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics.” The statement also says that after the layoffs, there is only one woman of color on the editorial staff.
A statement posted on Vogue.com said that Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Versha Sharma “will be leaving the company.” Chloe Malle, head of editorial content for American Vogue, will oversee the outlet.
“I was laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, along with 70% of my incredible team,” Kaitlyn McNab Teen Vogue‘s culture editor, posted on X. “Much longer post incoming, but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has reached out to me with love. God got me. We move.”
I was laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, along with 70% of my incredible team.
Much longer post incoming, but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has reached out to me with love.
God got me. We move. ❤️🩹🚀
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Venmo: @/kaitmcnab pic.twitter.com/MhzwZ12xcP— kaitlyn mcnab (@kaitmcnab) November 4, 2025
The Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank which recently awarded Teen Vogue its 2025 Freedom of Speech and Expression awards, criticized the move. “The decision by Condé Nast today to collapse this publication into Vogue and eliminate the politics reporting staff at Teen Vogue is evidence that corporate concentration eliminates innovative ideas and silences voices with less power,” it said in a statement.
Vogue said the move is not intended to diminish Teen Vogue. It said, “The title will remain a distinct editorial property, with its own identity and mission; sitting under the Vogue umbrella will provide a more unified reader experience across titles.”
Vogue Business, for industry professionals, was folded into Vogue.com’s platform last week.
This story was edited by Jennifer Vanasco.
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Tika The Iggy Dead at 14
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Tika the Iggy, an Italian greyhound with a fashion sense and a huge internet following, is dead.
Tika’s owner, Thomas Shapiro, announced her death Tuesday in a heartbreaking social media post.
Shapiro says Tika had two tumors in her liver and they had surgery to remove them — on the advice of veterinarians — and things seemed like they were going well.
The surgery was a success, Shapiro says, and Tika was discharged from a clinic without complications … and on her first night home, she had her favorite food, chicken, and everything appeared on the up and up.
But Shapiro says Tika was totally different on the second day after surgery … looking tired and not quite herself, but peaceful. He says vets believed it was just a side effect from pain killers, but he says they soon found out her body was “slowly giving up.”
Shapiro says Tika spent her final moments at home with her humans.
Tika had over 1.6 million Instagram followers and she was famous for showing off her fashionable outfits … being hailed by some as “a new fashion it girl” and “the Anna Wintour of dogs.”
Tika was 14.
RIP
Tessa Thompson in Hedda.
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In the new film Hedda, Tessa Thompson plays a woman bored with her dull husband, and who devilishly manipulates the affections of everyone in her orbit. Writer/director Nia DaCosta makes some bold changes in this adaptation of the classic Henrik Ibsen play Hedda Gabler, and sets almost all of the action during a lavish party gone awry. But this is not your grandmother’s Hedda. It’s sexy, chaotic, and, above all, messy as hell. It’s streaming on Prime Video.
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