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

Nicolas Cage found himself moonlit again and revealed that he was married to his girlfriend, Riko Shibata, last month.

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

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

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 identified at the time only as a ‘mystery woman’ – who paid a visit to the pyramid-shaped mausoleum cage built in New Orleans to finally bury his body.

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

“She left New York and returned to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I did not see her for six months,” said Cage, who lives in Las Vegas. ‘We’m very happy together and we’m very excited to spend time together, and I finally said,’ Look, I want to marry you, ‘and we got engaged to FaceTime. “

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

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

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