Nicolas Cage was once one of the highest paid stars in the world, but he fell into financial difficulties due to uncontrolled spending of money.
Nicolas Cage is famous for a series of popular films such as The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), City of Angels (1998), 8mm (1999), Windtalkers (2002), Lord of War (2005), The Wicker Man (2006), Bangkok Dangerous (2008) and Knowing (2009). He has received many major film awards such as the Oscar, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award.
In October 1997, Nicolas Cage was ranked 40th on the list of the 100 most famous movie stars of all time voted by Empire magazine. The following year, he ranked 37th in the Top 100 most powerful people in Hollywood voted by Premiere site.
As one of the most popular stars in Hollywood for many years, Nicolas Cage was once paid $28 million for a single role. He once owned a fortune of up to 150 million USD, but due to not knowing how to manage finances and spending excessively, Nicolas Cage fell into a series of money problems when he turned forty.
The actor once fell into debt, owing the US tax department an amount of up to 18 million USD in 2009. Nicolas Cage blamed his financial manager for causing him to fall into debt and financial hardship. The actor then sued his former manager and demanded $20 million in compensation for pushing him on the path to financial ruin, but the lawsuit was unsuccessful.
Nicolas Cage has been married many times (Photo: Getty Images).
According to People magazine, Nicolas Cage spent a lot of cash to buy 15 houses including the LaLaurie mansion in New Orleans, USA, which he bought in 2007 for $3.4 million. This mansion is known as one of the most haunted houses in America.
Nicolas Cage also spent 3 million USD to buy hundreds of thousands of square meters of land on a private island and then, in 2006, he bought 4 luxury yachts worth 20 million USD, including a yacht. called Sarita comes with a jacuzzi, gym and rooms for 12 guests.
The actor also splurged on a luxury sports car manufactured in 1971 for $446,820. In 2007, Nicolas Cage outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skull priced at $276,000.
The famous actor said he bought the skull of a tyrannosaur from a gallery in Beverly Hills, USA in 2007 without knowing it was stolen. “It’s a skull I bought at an auction and I bought it legally. When the Mongolian side said they needed it back, I returned it immediately but I haven’t received my money back yet.” me,” Cage said.
Nicolas Cage also has a special passion for exotic pets. He once bought two king cobras for hundreds of thousands of dollars and an octopus for $150,000. In 1997, the actor spent $150,000 on the first edition Superman comic book titled Action Comics No. 1.
Nicolas Cage is famous for the movie “Speed Ghost” (Photo: Getty Images).
In the mid-90s, Nicolas Cage was one of the most famous movie stars in the world. However, around 2010, Cage’s career began to slow down after several films he participated in did not achieve great success. The actor shared with GQ magazine that the low point in his career coincided with a time when he needed a lot of money, not only due to his own debt but also to take care of his mother.
“I had a bunch of creditors and I had to spend $20,000 a month trying to get my mother out of the mental institution but I couldn’t. Everything happened at once,” said Nicolas Cage.
Difficult circumstances forced Nicolas Cage to make some decisions and one of them was to act in more movies. After that, Cage became one of the most popular faces in movies simply thanks to starring in many movies, although not all of them were known to a wide audience.
Many people commented that, when Nicolas Cage acted in so many movies and money was an important factor, he didn’t really care about his movies. Cage then rejects these assumptions.
The actor affirmed that he always gives his all to every performance and said that working hard will be better for him personally. Although Nicolas Cage admits that many of his films are not successful, it is not because he does not care about his movies.
“When I was making four movies a year in a row, working non-stop, I still had to find the motivation in it to be able to give it my all. Not all of my movies back then were bad. Some movies are great, like Mandy but there are also some movies that are not good. Some people have the misconception that I just act in movies and don’t care about the results but that’s a misunderstanding, I’m always very concerned about my movies”.
After being on the brink of bankruptcy, Nicolas Cage managed to make his money back through hard work, good investments, and effort at work. Recently, the actor happily shared that he no longer has any debt.
After four unhappy marriages, Nicolas married his fifth wife, 30 years his junior, Riko Shibata, in February last year, and Riko Shibata is pregnant with their first child together. The actor also has a son named Weston Coppola Cage, 33 years old, the result of his relationship with ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton and has a son Kal-El with his third wife Alice Kim.
The star of the movie Speed Ghost said that he and his wife are preparing to welcome their first child together and they have already chosen a name for their little daughter. “We chose the name Akira Francesco for a boy and Lennon Augie for a girl,” Nicolas Cage said.
Nicolas Cage also recently confided to a reporter: “I am a romantic person. When I love, I want to give that person everything I can. I will tell that person: “I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.” That’s really me.”