Nicolas Cage married for the fifth time, says he and Riko Shibata are ‘very happy’

Nicolas Cage was delighted again, revealing that he married his girlfriend, Riko Shibata, last month.

“It is true, and we are very happy,” said the 57-year-old actor in a statement to People magazine.

The couple married at a “small, intimate wedding” at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on February 16, a day chosen to honor the birthday of Cage’s late father. The couple exchanged Shinto and Catholic vows and the ceremony included haiku poems as well as Walt Whitman’s poetry.

Cage and Shibata, 26, met in Shiga, Japan, more than a year ago, according to Vanity Fair. They were photographed in February 2020 – with Shibata at the time identified only as a “mysterious woman” – paying a visit to the Cage pyramid mausoleum built in New Orleans to finally bury her corpse.

Cage announced the couple in August, while appearing on his brother Marc’s radio show “The Cope” Coppola, USA Today reported.

“She left New York and went back to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I haven’t seen her in six months,” said Cage, who lives in Las Vegas. “We are very happy together and very excited to spend this time together, so I finally said, ‘Look, I want to marry you’, and we got engaged on FaceTime.”

The proposal included a black diamond engagement ring that Cage sent via FedEx.

This is the fifth time that the “Wild at Heart” actor has been married. He was previously married to Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie Presley, Alice Kim and Erica Koike. Her most recent marriage to Koike did not end in 60 seconds, but it only lasted four days before Cage filed for annulment. He said he was too drunk to understand what was going on when the wedding took place.

Cage and Kim, who married from 2004 to 2016, remain friends, and she went to his wedding with Shibata. Cage and Kim’s son, Kal-El, 15 – named after Superman’s birth name – also attended.