Nicolas Cage Is Expecting His First Child With Wife Riko Shibata

Jan 07, 2022 by apost team

Nicolas Cage of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” fame is expecting a baby with his fifth wife, Riko Shibata. PEOPLE broke the news on Jan. 6 after the magazine confirmed with the couple’s representative. 

"The parents-to-be are elated!" the couple’s rep told PEOPLE.

Shibata, whom Cage met in Japan through mutual friends, married the movie star in Las Vegas on Feb. 16, 2021 — a date Cage chose to honor his late father’s birthday. Cage, 58, already has two sons from previous relationships: 16-year-old Kal-El and 31-year-old Weston.

Given Cage’s multiple marriages — from Patricia Arquette in the 1990s to Alice Kim in the 2010s — it might be hard for fans to keep up with the “Pig” actor’s love life, especially since the 58-year-old tied the knot just last year.

"It's true, and we are very happy," Cage said in a statement to PEOPLE at the time.

The magazine reports that Cage met Shibata, 27, while the actor was filming “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” a horror Western set and filmed in Japan.

Cage’s relationship with Shibata comes after the star’s marriage to Erika Koike, whom he was married to in 2019 for just four days. The couple, who had been dating since 2018, married in secret in Las Vegas on March 23, 2019. On March 27, Cage applied for an annulment, explaining that he had been intoxicated at the time.

“There was a recent breakup,” Cage said in an August 2019 interview with The New York Times Magazine. “I don’t really want to talk about it. I was pretty upset about that and the way things happened.”

Cage’s previous marriages weren’t all so short-lived.

In 1995, the actress Patricia Arquette proposed to Cage “dressed head to toe in black vinyl, carrying a big purple wedding cake.” Despite the clear passion in that relationship, the off-and-on couple divorced after six years in 2001. There are rumors that the couple split just nine months after marriage, only to officially divorce years later. But Arquette has denied those claims.

“There were times when we weren’t living together because we were fighting, but it wasn’t as reported and I didn’t feel that I needed to explain that,” Arquette told The Telegraph in 2015. “There were times when my mom was dying (from breast cancer in 1997) and I was living with her, taking care of her. There were times when he was away working on a movie.”

It didn’t take long for Cage to tie the knot again — this time marrying Lisa Marie Presley. But again, the relationship was short-lived, as the couple divorced two years later in 2004.

Cage has spoken openly about this first marriages, though he told The Guardian that he doesn’t think his first two marriages “belong on (his) record.”

“I think I felt a connection there (with Lisa), an understanding of the pressure of having a famous name. One of the things Lisa loved about me was that I changed my name — she thought that was the coolest thing. But I don’t really count those two marriages, I don’t think they belong on my record. The real marriage for me was the 14 years I had with Alice and the child we have together,” he told The Guardian.

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Cage is referring to his third marriage to Alice Kim, which lasted between 2004 and 2016, the star’s longest marriage to date. According to The Guardian, Cage met Alice, who was working as a waitress, when she was 19 and he was 39.

That age gap is even larger between Cage and his current wife, who is 31 years his junior. 

The movie star announced his engagement to Shibata on his brother Marc Coppola’s radio show in 2020, according to The Sun.

“She left New York and went back to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I haven't seen her for six months," he said at the time.

“We're really happy together and we're really excited to spend that time together so I finally just said 'Look, I wanna marry you' and we got engaged on FaceTime."

The pair made their red carpet debut for Cage’s most recent film, “Pig.” And given that Cage shows no signs of slowing down — he’s slated to appear in four movies in 2022 — he’s sure to have a lot on his plate with his new wife and child. 

But as we’ve seen, this isn’t the actor’s first time around the block. 

Cage has two sons, Kal-El, whom he had with Kim, and Weston, whom he had with the model Christina Fulton.

“It’s always great to have my family with me wherever I go and wherever I can. I always want to be there to support my kids in all the wonderful things they do,” Cage told PEOPLE in 2020.

Congratulations, Nicolas Cage and Riko Shibata! What do you think about this news? Did you know that Cage has a new wife? Let us know — and be sure to pass this story on.