Besides his acting career, Nicolas Cage’s personal life consumes a lot of ink in the press. Before marrying a wife 31 years younger than him, the actor went through four noisy marriages, some of which he only married for a few days and then divorced.
When mentioning Nicolas Cage , the public remembers one of the most expensive actors in Hollywood with a series of “blockbusters”: Stone Prison, Face Off, Hijack, National Treasure, Speed Ghost…
However, people also Deep impression of a flamboyant, amorous Nicolas Cage with a noisy love life. At the age of 60, the actor has been married 5 times, had a marriage so quick that it was only counted in days, and his latest wedding just took place a while ago.
Patricia Arquette
The first wife that the actor born in 1964 married was star Patricia Arquette. Meeting in 1987, Nicolas immediately proposed to the other. In an interview on What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in November 2018, Arquette said that the 6X actor tried to complete all the difficult challenges she gave him to marry the beauty. Patricia Arquette decided to break up when she realized she was too young to get married
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Many years passed, they finally met again and at that time the star born in 1968 was ready to get married. The couple moved in together in April 1995 but their marriage did not last long. According to Instyle , there is information that this actor-star couple separated after 9 months of marriage and spent many years completing paperwork before officially ending it in 2001 due to irreconcilable differences.
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However, Patricia Arquette denied that they broke up early and explained that there was a time when the two did not live together because of an argument, but it was not considered a breakup.
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Lisa Marie Presley
Nicolas Cage met Lisa Marie Presley , the only daughter of Elvis Presley – the king of rock and roll, in 2000. The two quickly fell in love and got married in August 2002. However, like their first marriage, this famous duo quickly fell apart. They filed for divorce just 3 months after the wedding and it was not until May 2004 that all divorce procedures were officially completed.
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In an interview in March 2003, Nicolas Cage admitted that he married this beautiful and talented female singer and musician because they both came from famous artistic families. However, they had difficulty getting along and fell into an irreversible deadlock
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Talking about his second marriage, actor Ma Speed once expressed his regret: “Sometimes I wish we hadn’t rushed to get married and sometimes I regret rushing to divorce. But it seems like things won’t change.” The actor revealed that they are still friends after breaking up
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Alice Kim
After two failed marriages, Nicolas Cage fell in love with Asian beauty Alice Kim when the two met at a restaurant in Los Angeles in 2004. At the time of meeting, Kim was a 19-year-old waitress. The 6X actor is already a star at the age of 40.
Despite the difference in age, status and reputation, they got married 2 months later so that Alice Kim could go with her husband to South Africa, where the male star is famous. Hollywood is filming Lord of War . Talking about the hasty decision to get married, Nicolas Cage shared in The Guardian in 2013: “We did it because we love each other.”
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About a year after getting married, Kim gave birth to their son Kal-El. The actor expressed his interest in marrying a wife from a different culture and admitted that he found it interesting that in his wife’s homeland, Korea , he was lovingly called “son-in-law”.
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Unlike the previous two times, Nicolas Cage’s third marriage lasted more than a decade and is the longest marriage of the flower actor. They broke up in January 2016 and finalized their divorce later that year.
In 2018, in an interview with The Guardian , the father of two admitted that the breakup between him and Alice Kim was a big shock to him and he did not expect this to happen. After the divorce, the Hollywood actor and his Korean wife still maintain a good relationship and take care of their children together
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Erika Koike
Leaving a 12-year marriage with a Korean beauty, Nicolas Cage experienced the shortest marriage in nearly 60 years of his life. In March 2019, the American actor married Erika Koike – a Japanese makeup artist in Las Vegas after a year of dating.
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However, 4 days later, when the information about the wedding was still “cool” in the newspapers, the star of the movie Lord of War regretted his decision when he learned the “true face” of his young wife. In court documents, Nicolas Cage admitted that he was thoughtless when deciding to marry Koike
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The two argued for a while, and the fourth wife even sued and demanded compensation from the male artist for damaging her reputation and causing her to lose many career opportunities. After a series of noisy arguments, everything was resolved amicably by both parties and the court approved the divorce in June of the same year.
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Riko Shibata
Four breakups in the past did not make Nicolas Cage lose faith in love or falter before marriage. The proof is that not long after divorcing Erika Koike, the 57-year-old actor quickly found new love. He first met Riko Shibata, a girl 31 years younger than him, in Shiga (Japan) in early 2020.
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After about a year of dating, this “mismatched” couple decided to hold a secret wedding on February 16 in Las Vegas. It was not until March 6 that information about their wedding was revealed by the owner. Responding to People magazine , Nicolas Cage said they are living very happily after getting married
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Riko Shibata appeared at the wedding wearing traditional Japanese Kimono while Nicolas Cage looked dashing in a suit from fashion house Tom Ford. The two exchanged traditional Catholic and Shinto vows. According to People , on the marriage certificate, the young wife of the U.60 actor named Riko Cage
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It is known that after the cozy wedding, Nicolas Cage and his 31-year-old wife attended a small celebration with the participation of his ex-wife Alice Kim and their common son. The 57-year-old actor is enjoying happy time with his wife
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In addition to 5 controversial marriages over the past 20 years, Nicolas Cage has had many relationships in the past. Among them, the star of the movie National Treasure once loved actress Christina Fulton and had a son named Weston born in 1990. However, this relationship ended without any wedding. The American actor was also entangled in dating rumors with Angelina Jolie in 2003 after meeting them through filming the movie Gone in 60 Seconds . However, they have never spoken out about this relationship.