Under watch: Nicholas Cage and some serious overspending. Was it alcoholically driven?
Actor Nicholas Cage, who filed a $20 million lawsuit against his former business manager Samuel J. Levin, alleging that he was reckless with his money, including failing to pay more than $6 million in taxes. However, the actor purchased more than a dozen houses (including mansions in places like Newport Beach, Venice Beach, Malibu, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York and a castle near Bath, England), two Bahamian islands, dinosaur skulls, shrunken heads, two yachts, a Gulfstream jet and at least 50 cars (including Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces and Bentleys). Two mansions in New Orleans have been foreclosed and he recently sold his main home in Bel Air for less than half of the $30 million he paid for it. He also owns rare birds, lizards and snakes including two albino King Cobras. Cage admits he went through a period of “drug and alcohol abuse,” but claims he was able to “to get out of that scene on his own.” Based on behaviors Nick, we must ask the question: did you relapse, were you a victim of an alcoholic business manager, or did you just never get sober, which requires an ego-deflation that you clearly haven’t undergone?