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

Nicolas Cage has reunited with the moon revealing that he married his girlfriend, Riko Shibata, last month.

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

The couple got engaged to a “small, intimate wedding” at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on Feb. 16, a day chosen to celebrate Cage’s late father’s birthday. The couple exchanged Shinto and Catholic vows and the ceremony included haiku poems as well as poetry by 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 then identified only as a “mysterious woman”, visiting the pyramid-shaped cage of the mausoleum built in New Orleans to end up burying her dead body.

Cage had announced the couple in August while appearing 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 this time together, so 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 through 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. Her most recent marriage, to Koike, had not disappeared in 60 seconds, but it lasted only four days before Cage filed for annulment. He said he was too drunk to understand what was going on when the wedding was held.

Cage and Kim, who were married between 2004 and 2016, remain friends, and she attended her wedding to Shibata. Also in attendance were Kal-El, Cage’s son and Kim’s son, so named after Superman’s birth name.