Translation:
Career is flat-lining. Must administer CCPR (Celeb Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation). Say "controversial" things. Whine, but claim you're not.
On July 14, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service filed documents in New Orleans in connection with a federal tax lien against property owned by Cage in Louisiana, concerning unpaid federal taxes. The IRS alleges that Cage failed to pay over $6.2 million in federal income tax for the year 2007. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service has another lien for more than $350,000 in unpaid taxes dating from 2002 to 2004. Cage filed a $20 million lawsuit on October 16, 2009, against his business manager, Samuel J. Levin, alleging negligence and fraud. The lawsuit states that Levin “had failed to pay taxes when they were due and had placed [Cage] in speculative and risky real estate investments ‘resulting in (the actor) suffering catastrophic losses’.” Cage is also facing separate lawsuits from East West Bank[48] and Red Curb Investments for unpaid, multimillion dollar loans.
The LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans was purchased anonymously by Cage in 2007 and sold in 2009.
Samuel Levin filed a counter-complaint and responded to the lawsuit in a filing stating that he warned Cage that he was living beyond his means and urged him to spend less. Levin’s filing states that “instead of listening to Levin, cross-defendant Cage (Coppola) spent most of his free time shopping for high ticket purchases, and wound up with 15 personal residences”, Levin’s complaint continued: “Likewise, Levin advised Coppola against buying a Gulfstream jet, against buying and owning a flotilla of yachts, against buying and owning a squadron of Rolls Royces, against buying millions of dollars in jewelry and art.”
In his filing Levin says that in 2007 Cage’s “shopping spree entailed the purchase of three additional residences at a total cost of more than $33 million; the purchase of 22 automobiles (including 9 Rolls Royces); 12 purchases of expensive jewelry; and 47 purchases of artwork and exotic items.” One of those exotic items was a dinosaur skull of a Tarbosaurus for which Nicolas Cage paid $276,000 in an auction after winning a bidding contest against Leonardo DiCaprio.
I don’t understand why this guy even has a career, he is a horrible actor. I have no interest in anything he does.
Ok, I didn’t read the article, but shouldn’t the response be to anyone defending Bill Clinton, “Hey, I hear he is looking for interns, I sent him your teenage daughter’s contact information.”
In the immortal words of James Ellroy, “actors are f’d-up people.”
Niky is an asshole. Condo next to his in Mexico. He tried to implement rules about speaking to him or even looking at him.