Cher’s troubled son Elijah Blue Allman is no stranger to the depths of addiction despair and relationship turmoil as he’s battled his cruel demons.

Yet he has never appeared to be this rock bottom: a shambling, zombie-like disheveled ruin, as revealed in astonishing exclusive Daily Mail pictures and shocking video footage.

With a vacant expression, sores on his puffed-up legs and sweat-stained clothes that look like they were rescued from a dumpster, Allman was a heartbreaking sight outside the exclusive Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles where he’s staying.

The 48-year-old musician – currently in the midst of a new divorce battle with estranged wife Marieangela ‘Queenie’ King – put on a bizarre display captured in one video clip, standing unsteadily beside the wall at the hotel entrance at night.

Allman appears to be staring intently ahead as guests arrive at the celebrity-packed property, rocking gently back and forth for about 40 seconds.

He sways isolated from others while wearing bizarre green shorts that droop way below his crotch area and cover his knees, set off by a darker and dirty ragged green t-shirt hanging off one shoulder and a rectangular tattoo on his left bicep.

In clearer exclusive photos of the same night, sweat pours off his unshaven and blotched face while two red marks are above his left hand where a chunky ring sits on his forefinger.

On his other hand, one nail is super long and painted red. Adorning his feet are white-soled black canvas shoes, with one of the backs crumpled under his heel.

Back in the video, he suddenly moves to the left while keeping his gaze firmly fixed ahead. But his bulky frame trips slightly as he appears to be acting on the something that sparked his curiosity.

Leaning forward, he then shuffles shambolically across the entrance while maintaining the stare before arriving at the concierge kiosk. 

Just as weirdly, he suddenly loses interest and veers into the hotel, passing an elegantly dressed woman on the way.

Allman, who was also locked in a court battle with Cher over her failed bid to win conservatorship over him, managed a conversation in another clip with one of the concierge staff near the kiosk, one of his favorite haunts.

Constantly dragging on a cigarette held in his grossly nicotine-stained fingers, he was slightly better dressed this time in a black ripped shirt, long pants, and with a satchel bag slung over his shoulder.

However, the former Deadsy guitarist’s ability to speak deserts him entirely after being approached and asked if he is still making music.

Looking befuddled by the simple question, his lips move several times, his eyes blink then go into a distant stare and his face collapses into a childlike grin as he drags heavily once more on a cigarette before leaving.

The startling decline of Allman, born to 78-year-old Cher during her second marriage to guitar great Gregg Allman, is in stark contrast to photos of just eight months ago.

In August last year, the Daily Mail exclusively pictured him at the same $800-a-night hotel sipping what appeared to be cocktails with a mystery blonde woman.

Described at the time as a recovering addict, he was sporting longer hair and dressed in a bizarre vestment-style robe – although did not seem disheveled.

In one photo of the 2024 stay he appeared to be wearing the same green pants and canvas shoes as in our latest shots.

He checked into the Marmont with a male friend on that occasion, booking separate rooms a year after living there the previous summer before a spell in rehab.

An onlooker told the Daily Mail at the time: ‘Elijah is back and looks a lot better than last year around the same time when he passed out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel.’

The source added Allman ‘spent most of the time at the pool chain-smoking with his friend. Every night in the early evening his friend would drive him somewhere for a couple hours.

‘And then like clockwork, a blonde woman who looked to be in her early 30s would come visit Elijah at about 7pm every night and stay until about 10.30pm.’

Another photo of Allman, this time with now estranged spouse King and taken in 2024, shows him neatly attired in dress pants, crisp shirt, puffed jacket and slicked back hair.

However, fresh turmoil has overtaken his life since then and has clearly taken its destructive toll.

His 37-year-old British rocker wife filed for divorce again in April this year, citing irreconcilable differences and noting March 31 as the date of their separation.

She is seeking at least $6,000 a month in spousal support from Allman, who has a trust fund of $120,000 a year left by his father who died in 2017.

The childless couple wed in 2013 but the relationship has been stormy, with King first filing for divorce in 2021 before they patched things up.

Meanwhile, singing legend Cher has had a tumultuous relationship with both Elijah and her daughter in law, who her son met in Germany during treatment for Lyme Disease.

She reportedly didn’t congratulate the newlyweds after they eloped and earlier refused to acknowledge their engagement.

Cher, who shot to fame as a singing duet with first husband Sonny Bono, is also reported to have gone long periods without speaking to Allman, who she packed off to boarding school when he was eight.

Additional rancor in the mix has been fueled by Cher’s 2023 bid to gain conservatorship of Allman, claiming concerns about his mental health and substance abuse.

But her attempt to win legal control over his financial and personal affairs foundered in court and Cher dropped the bid in September 2024.

She had insisted Allman’s past drug addiction, plus mental and physical health issues, made him incapable of managing his annual $120,000. 

She said she feared he would spend his $30,000 quarterly payouts on drugs, putting his life in jeopardy.

Cher alleged in documents that King had not been ‘supportive of Elijah’s recovery and… actively works to keep Elijah from getting clean and sober or receiving mental health treatment that he desperately needs’.

Amid all that, King claimed that Cher had hired four men to kidnap Allman from a New York hotel room in November 2022 while the pair were trying to patch up their marriage – later forcing him into rehab in Mexico. Cher has denied the allegation.

Allman told the conservatorship judge he had been sober from illicit substances for more than 90 days. 

Hitting back, he blasted Cher as ‘misguided’ and ‘unfit’ to control a conservatorship.

‘I have seen her suffer with depression in the past and I do not believe that she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate,’ he said in court documents.

‘I do not need a conservatorship. The only person who can save me from my demons is me – and I’m doing just that.’

Judging by our exclusive photos and videos, that battle is apparently still raging.