Cage-Presley Divorce Done Deal

Divorce made official amid reports of Cage ready to marry 19-year-old waitress

By Marcus Errico May 25, 2004 11:15 PMTags

The union of Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley is officially a hunk of burning history.

On Monday, a year and a half after Cage filed to break up their three-and-a-half-month marriage, the divorce was finalized, according to Cage's publicist, Annett Wolf.

Wolf says the paperwork was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and the resolution was "amicable."

The move comes amid tabloid reports indicating the 40-year-old Cage is ready to marry a 19-year-old former waitress.

Per the settlement, neither will receive any kind of spousal support and each will retain all assets acquired before they swapped vows: He keeps his Oscar, she keeps Graceland, etc. There was no disclosure of how much each is worth, but suffice to say they're both loaded.

Cage filed the divorce petition (under his given name, Nicolas Coppola) way back in November 2002, just months after the couple tied the knot in front of Lisa Marie's mom, 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 some guy named Michael Jackson. (Coincidentally, the Cage-Presley divorce was finalized almost 10 years to the day after Jackson and Presley wed.)

Cage cited the usual irreconcilable differences as the reason behind the split. At the time he issued a brief statement: "I did not talk about the marriage, and I am not going to talk about the divorce, but I loved her."

Presley, on the other hand, was a bit more forthcoming with her post bust-up remarks. "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake."

Cage, who famously played a skydiving Elvis impersonator in Honeymoon in Vegas, hooked up with Elvis' only child in the spring of 2001, but by February 2002 announced they had split. They were back together that June for their trip to the altar.

Both have since moved on. Presley, 36, was recently linked to Michael Lockwood, who served as musical director for her recent world tour in support of her debut album, 2003's To Whom It May Concern. Meanwhile, the 40-year-old Cage--whose next big-screen foray is National Treasure (due out in November)--has been making the rounds with 19-year-old Alice Kim, and, if the gossip is to be believed, is ready to make her wife number four.