Cage, Presley: Return to Sender
The curious coupling of Elvis fan Nicolas Cage and Elvis spawn Lisa Marie Presley is kaput, with Cage filing for divorce Monday in Los Angeles, after just three-and-a-half months of wedded bliss.
Per usual, Cage cited irreconcilable differences. It's not known exactly what cooled the couple's burning love.
Presley sounded regretful--more so about the marriage, than the breakup. "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place," Presley said through her publicist. "It was a big mistake."
Cage, however, took the high road. "I did not talk about the marriage, and I am not going to talk about the divorce, but I loved her," he said in a statement.
According to Cage's divorce petition (filed under his given name, Nicolas Coppola), the actor is not seeking any kind of spousal support, and the couple's assets--his Oscar, her Graceland, etc.--will be divvied up later. (The two-page document is online at The Smoking Gun.)
Just last weekend, the two appeared to be very much a twosome, putting in a joint appearance for a premiere of Cage's new movie, Adaptation.
While it seems like only yesterday, it was actually August 10 that Cage, 38, and Presley, 34, were wed in front of Mother Presley (aka, actress/entrepreneur Priscilla) and their respective children from previous relationships at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows in Hawaii.
The marriage was Cage's second; Presley's third. Cage previously had gone down the aisle, in 1995, with actress Patricia Arquette. Their on-again, off-again union ended for good in May 2001. Presley's previous spouses were musician Danny Keough, the father of her two children, Danielle and Benjamin, and Michael Jackson.
In the strange-but-true department, Presley's 1994-96 union to the pop oddity lasted nearly seven times as long as her marriage to Cage. (Her marriage to Keough lasted a relative eternity--from 1988 to 1994.)
The Cage-Presley romance sprung in the spring of 2001. At the time, the Oscar winner, who has a son, Weston, by an ex-girlfriend, was fresh off his divorce with Arquette; the rock 'n' roll heiress was fresh off her broken engagement with singer/songwriter John Oszajca.
The two seemed both a good and odd fit. He was a professed Elvis devotee who skydived with the Flying Elvi in Honeymoon in Vegas; she was the lone child of the real Elvis.
But things soured between the two last February. The split was so final (or, so it seemed at the time) that it was announced in a press release from Cage's publicist. Again, no reason was given.
But Cage and Presley, apparently, couldn't help falling in love. By June, they were a couple again. At least until Monday, when their relationship was once again marked: return to sender.





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