Actor Nicolas Cage can hardly be called handsome, but talent, charisma and popularity undoubtedly add points to him in the eyes of the opposite sex. Women, as a rule, are not even embarrassed at first by his eccentric behavior and tendency to depression. However, having lived for some time in the captivity of passions, Cage's wives and girls still prefer freedom, and not the status of a Hollywood star's companion.
One of the Coppola clan
The road to the cinema seemed to have been ordered for Nicholas from birth. After all, he belongs to the famous Coppola cinematic clan. The grandfather of the future actor was a famous composer who composed music for films. Father's siblings also found their calling in Hollywood. Nicholas's uncle is the legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, and his aunt is the famous actress Thalia Shire. Almost all of Nicholas's cousins and siblings also continued the family tradition. For example, Sofia Coppola has established herself as a talented director. Another cousin, Jason Schwartzman, is a popular actor. True, Nicholas, not wanting to bear the stamp of the famous surname, at the beginning of his career decided to take a pseudonym. He named himself after Luke Cage, a beloved comic book hero.
Unusual proposal
The actor always fell in love madly and passionately, on the way to conquering the desired woman he did not stop at anything. True, having achieved attention, he demonstrated his passionate nature to his girlfriends and wives, causing endless quarrels and drunken showdowns. Cage's first big love was his colleague, actress Patricia Arquette. At the time of their acquaintance, which happened in 1987, they were both at the very beginning of their star path. However, Nicholas was so impressed by the charming stranger at the cafe table that after just an hour of meeting he asked for her hand in marriage. The girl approached the sudden proposal with humor, promising to agree if a new acquaintance completed a series of rather difficult tasks: sing an unusual serenade for her, find a black orchid, get an autograph from the reclusive writer Salinger and bring a wedding dress from one of the tribes of Southeast Asia.
Cage enthusiastically followed Arquette's terms. For the performance of the serenade, he ordered a construction cradle, in which he hung at a high height under the windows of his beloved. I thought of painting the orchid black from a spray can. True, I had to tinker with the autograph. Nicholas left a stack of his signatures in Salinger's mailbox, inviting the writer to sell them when the actor achieved fame. And in exchange he asked for his autograph, telling about the wish put forward by his girlfriend. Soon Salinger's coveted flourish was handed to Cage by his assistant.
Alas, Patricia did not appreciate the persistence of her lover and left him. Only 8 years later, having recognized her longtime admirer in the new Hollywood star, she herself invited him to renew their acquaintance. By that time, Cage had had an affair with actress Christina Fulton, who gave birth to his son Weston. Their joint happiness did not last long, the lovers parted with the scandal, and for a long time the actor did not associate anything with his son except alimony.
Then Nicholas became interested in the young model Kristen Zang and even proposed to her, but these plans were interrupted by Patricia. She suggested that he start all over again. This time the actors got married in April 1995. True, Cage was not going to be faithful to his wife. By that time he had become a real star, even won an Oscar for his role in the drama Leaving Las Vegas. So there were many temptations in front of the actor. The paths of Nicholas and Patricia parted just a year after the wedding, but the divorce proceedings were completed only in 2001.
Daughter of an idol
Even more transient and strange was the marriage of Cage and the daughter of his idol Elvis Presley - Lisa Maria. The future spouses met at a Hollywood party. Both quickly discovered that they had a lot in common: a passion for everything unusual and otherworldly, as well as the heavy burden of a famous family. A year after the beginning of the novel, the actor invited Lisa Maria to marry. According to press reports, she allegedly even held a seance, having secured the blessing of her late father.
The wedding took place on August 10, 2002 in the Hawaiian Islands. The ceremony was attended by the children of the bride and groom from past relationships, as well as the widow of Elvis Presley - Priscilla. Cage's second marriage lasted just over a hundred days. As it turned out, neither of the spouses wanted to give in to the other. Quarrels and scandals grew like a snowball, and on November 25, the couple filed for divorce. But the official procedure for divorce was once again delayed until May 2004.
Lovely "geisha"
After another failure in his personal life, Cage went on a spree, indulging himself in alcohol and casual relationships. Once he found himself in a closed nightclub in Los Angeles, where a man, in addition to the Korean menu, could brighten up the evening in the company of the so-called "interlocutor", whose services were offered by the institution. However, Nicholas was interested not in a specially invited girl, but in a cute inconspicuous waitress named Alice. The very next day, he invited the young Asian woman out on a date, and two months later he invited her to marry.
Alice Kim, of course, could not refuse the millionaire and Hollywood star. Although the girl's parents were embarrassed not only by the 20-year age difference with their future husband, but also by his fame and publicity. The traditional Korean family was not happy with the attention of the press, and the third wife of Cage herself did not give a single interview over the years of family life.
The couple married in July 2004 at the groom's ranch in California. In October 2005, Alice gave her husband a second son. An eccentric actor, seriously addicted to comics, decided to name the boy Kal-El - in honor of the first name Superman, which he was given at birth. The third attempt at family life was the longest in Nicholas's life. Alas, he still did not change his habits of debauchery, scandals, alcoholic libations and casual sexual relations. In addition, the actor's brilliant career gradually began to decline, he had serious financial problems, which only exacerbated the depressive state.
In May 2016, journalists published pictures in which Alice appeared in the arms of another man. The couple had to announce that they had not lived together since January and decided to divorce. Even after breaking up, Kim did not consider it necessary to comment in the press on family life with her famous husband.
Marriage anti-record
Three divorces seem to have taught Cage little. He recently broke his own anti-record, set in his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley. At the end of March 2019, Nicholas unexpectedly married his next lover, makeup artist Eric Koike, whom he had been dating for about a year. The wedding took place in one of the chapels in Las Vegas. However, four days later, the actor changed his mind and filed for divorce, explaining his reckless marriage with strong intoxication.
According to eyewitnesses, on the wedding day, the couple really behaved strangely. Nicholas had a row with his future wife, and she tried unsuccessfully to calm him down. By the way, the fourth wife of the 55-year-old actor is even younger than the previous one - Erica is only 23 years old. It is not known if their relationship will continue after the hasty marriage. However, fans are seriously concerned about the health of their idol. It seems that addiction has already done irreparable harm to his life and career. Fans hope that Cage will be able to get out of the crisis and still return to the Hollywood Olympus.
