Nicolas Cage welcomes his first daughter with his wife Riko Shibata, 31 years his junior

Nicholas Cage He is living the “adventure of his life” as he himself confessed a few months ago in an interview. The 58-year-old actor became a father for the first time with his wife Riko Shibata31 years younger than him, this Wednesday, September 7.

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“Nicolas and Riko are happy to announce the birth of their daughter. Mother and daughter are doing well,” said the interpreter’s representative. Ghost Raider a Page Six. Although at the moment they have not confirmed it, Cage assured at the beginning of the year that the name of his daughter “will be Lennon Augie, Augie for my father”, referring to her father, August Coppolato whom he was very close and who passed away in 2009.

She is the first daughter of the marriage, but not the first of Cage. The American is already the father of Weston Cage31, the result of his relationship with the actress Christina Fulton and that has already given him two grandchildren; Y Kal-El16, who had with the also actress Alice Kim.

“My boys have grown up, and I miss going to buy toys, singing lullabies and rocking them to sleep. I can’t wait to get back to that,” confessed the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola a Access Hollywood some time ago.

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The marriage was known in Japan, Shibata’s homeland, a few weeks after the separation of Cage and Erika Koike in 2019. At the end of 2020, the actor asked Shibata to marry him through a video call and months later they said “I do” in Las Vegas, thus becoming Cage’s fifth wife.

She wore a typical Japanese bridal kimono and Cage, an elegant Tom Ford suit, in a ceremony where both Catholic and Shinto vows were not lacking, as well as the poetry of Walt Whitman and some haikus. Contrary to what happened with his previous partners, Nicolas Cage has hardly been seen in public with his wife and little is known about the life of the 27-year-old before marrying the actor.