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

Nicolas Cage has been hit by the moon again and reveals that he married his girlfriend Riko Shibata last month.

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

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

Cage and Shibata, 26, met over a year ago in Shiga, Japan, according to Vanity Fair. They were photographed in February 2020 – with Shibata identified only as a ‘mysterious woman’ at the time – visiting the pyramid-shaped mausoleum cage being built in New Orleans to eventually bury his dead body.

Cage had announced the pair in August when they were on his brother Marc “The Cope” Coppola’s radio show, USA Today reported.

“She left New York and went back to Kyoto, Japan, and I went back to Nevada and I haven’t seen her in six months,” said Cage, who lives in Las Vegas. “We are very happy together and we are very excited to spend that time together, so I ended up just saying, ‘Look, I want to marry you,’ and we got engaged on FaceTime.”

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

This is the fifth time that 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, wasn’t completely gone within 60 seconds, but it only took four days for Cage to file for an 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 – was also in attendance.