Nicolas Cage Reacts to Ex-Wife Lisa Marie Presley’s Death

Pay tribute. Nicholas Cage has broken his silence after his ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley died at the age of 54.

“This is devastating news,” Cage, 59, said The Hollywood Reporter Friday, January 13. “Lisa has the most laughter of anyone I have ever met. She lights up every room, and my heart aches. I find solace in believing that she is reunited with her son Benjamin.

The Oscar winner’s emotional tribute came a day after news of Lisa Marie’s death.

“It is with a heavy heart that I have to share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” the late singer’s mother, Priscilla Presleytoward people in a statement on Thursday, January 12. We ask for your privacy as we try to deal with this deep loss. Thank you for your love and prayers. There will be no further comments at this time.

hours before, Us Weekly confirmed that the “Storm & Grace” singer has been taken to the hospital after suffering a heart attack. TMZ, which first reported the news, noted that paramedics performed CPR at his home in Calabasas, California, before he was transferred to a local medical facility.

At Elvis by the Presleys coauthor was born in February 1968 to the late musician Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 at the age of 42, and Priscilla. The former couple separated in 1972 when Lisa Marie was 4 years old. When Lisa Marie grew up, she followed in her father’s footsteps and became a singer.

The “Nobody Knows” singer’s personal life has also been in the headlines for years. After her 1994 divorce from Danny KeoughLisa Marie moved to Michael Jackson, whom she married between 1994 and 1996. She then married National Treasure star in 2002 before they split four months later. The divorce was finalized in 2004.

“I walked into the party not knowing who I was going to meet, and there was a beautiful girl standing in the middle of the living room wearing a short leather skirt and this soft jacket, and she looked at me with these big and beautiful, soulful eyes that looked like the same have a sad story to tell, and I just go ‘Oh.’ I was thunderstruck,” Cage told Barbara Walters, who died last month, in a 2003 interview at their first meeting. “We need to talk, we need to understand each other, and he’s funny and he’s a firecracker and he talks like that.”

The former couple – who met while on Ghost Rider This star is legally married to his ex Patricia Arquette – married in August 2002 in Hawaii on the 25th anniversary of Elvis’ death.

“He was born with the pressure of a famous name from the first day; I was a young actor in Hollywood with the name Coppola trying to create that pressure,” Cage – whose uncle is recognized as a filmmaker. Francis Ford Coppola – told Walters at the time of the same upbringing. “There is logic, there is sense.”

The California native later married Alice Kim between 2004 and 2016 and Erika Koike four days in 2019. He married for the fifth time in February 2021, married Riko Shibata.

Lisa Marie, meanwhile, is married to her fourth husband Michael Lockwood in 2006. The couple had twin daughters Harper and Finley, both 11, and called it quits in 2016 after a decade together. The divorce was finalized in 2021.

“Michael hopes for a speedy and full recovery because his children need him,” the 61-year-old guitarist’s lawyer said. Entertainment Tonight on Thursday. “It’s so sad that it didn’t happen that way. Michael’s world has been turned on its ear. He is now with two daughters.”

Lisa Marie is survived by her 77-year-old mother and daughter Riley Keough, which she shares with ex-husband Danny, along with Harper and Finley. The “Dirty Laundry” musician is also the mother of his son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in July 2020 at the age of 27.