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Open the bridal leathers: Nicolas Cage got married. According People, a Willy’s Wonderland The actor married girlfriend Riko Shibata in Las Vegas on February 16. “It’s true, and we are very happy,” he confirmed to outlet Friday, which also published photos of the couple’s “very small and intimate wedding” at the Wynn Hotel, complete with a masked officiant and attendant.
According to Cage’s representative, “After the wedding, the happy couple joined a small party attended by Nicolas’ ex-wife, Alice (of whom he remains very close friends) and their son Kal.” According Weekly entertainment, the marriage certificate filed with Nevada’s Clark County Clerk’s Office listed Shibata under his new married nickname, Riko Cage, an empirically legal name.
Now, if you’re thinking to yourself: wait, Nicolas Cage doesn’t only to get married in Las Vegas? The answer is basically yes. The actor, who was supposed to star in Amazon’s miniseries Joe Exotic, married then-girlfriend Erika Koike on March 23, 2019, only for the pair to split up and file for annulment four days later. Cage was previously married to Alice Kim, the mother of her son Kal-El, as well as Lisa Marie Presley and Patricia Arquette. He shares his other son, Weston Cage, with ex-partner Christina Fulton.