Nov 4 - Nicolas Cage's Outrageous Decades-Long Shopping Spree

An article in The Daily Beast says that Nicolas Cage's recent financial problems are, at least in part, due to outrageous, eccentric spending that puts even his most flamboyant fellow celebrities to shame.

If you can dream it, Nic Cage bought it: yachts, a jet, a castle, over 50 cars, over a million dollars' worth of comic books, multiple (supposedly haunted) mansions in New Orleans, two Bahamanian islands, shrunken heads that may or may not have been human, and, famously, a $500k Lamborghini once owned by the Shah of Iran. Most amusingly, Cage spent $276,000 on a dinosaur skull in a "heated auction with Leonardo DiCaprio." And though the article has details about Cage's many pets -- claiming that he kept antidote serum on his wall for the poison of his two King Cobras -- it neglects to mention at least one: Cage's pet octopus.

Cage's lawyer, Martin Singer, told The Daily Beast "Half the stuff you say is false. I'm not going to get into detail," so we may never know which half is true.

Cage made headlines last month when he filed a $20 million lawsuit against his former business manager. The suit claims the manager, Samuel Levin, failed to pay taxes and lost money in unsound investments, putting him "down a path toward financial ruin." This summer, the IRS placed a tax lien of over $6 million on Cage's New Orleans properties for unpaid income taxes.

Still, it's hard not to look at Cage's extreme-by-any-standards spending habits and not draw conclusions about his current money woes. For example, did he really need to customize a Bentley so elaborately that, when he got it back from the shop, he could no longer fit in it?

However lavishly Cage spent on himself, he's also been a very generous guy. The article reports that the actor gave $1 million to the Red Cross to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina, and $2 million to the human-rights group Amnesty International.

Movie Talk: Nicolas Cage's Outrageous Decades-Long Shopping Spree

when i worked at a loan company,i had to pull his credit report,dude has a ton of expensive s**t. 2 mill bal on his amex card,4 mill worth of "recreational equipment" whatever that means. a few half million dollar cars all kind of s**t.

never understood this..you would think if you have all that money, everything is being accounted for..still, just splurging like that is out of control..whats the point of owning so many homes and cars? just rent a home when on vacation and keep recycling cars through lease plans..you can only be in thing or place at a time lol.

dude thought he literally had the national treasure

Cages movie salaries:

National Treasure (2004) $20 million
Adaptation. (2002) $2,000,000
Windtalkers (2002) $20,000,000
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) $7,000,000
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) $20,000,000
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) $1,000,000
Snake Eyes (1998) $16,000,000
Face/Off (1997) $6,000,000
The Rock (1996) $4,000,000
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) $240,000
Vampire's Kiss (1988) $40,000
Valley Girl (1983) $5,000.00

...And there are about another 40 movies not even listed.

y u putting his biz out. i cant stand punks like you that have access to confidential information and dont treat it as such

The most shocking thing is that this d bag gets paid that much to begin with. Hes the f**kin worst actor on earth. I'd love to know who hes related to or has dirt on to keep making that kinda money when hes dropped s**t movie after s**t movie for the past 10 years.

lol he got haunted houses, dude brought a flying carpet and magic beans to

ya that would be right for people that arent in the spotlight, but when your famous that s what happens, all your recordds are public. i would have to give him a pass since he was just adding in on a article.

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s**tty movies??? he's not that bad of an actor, disappointing dude has financial problems though

thats pretty badass he still getting money

he's the worst f**king actor. i hate that guy

It is what happens, but it shouldn't, they don't really deserve to have their privacy invaded and s**t that's supposed to be confidential put out any more than you or me.

Francis Ford Coppola is his Uncle so hes connected like most celebrities. You usually are conncected to get in the biz. Just most change there names... (even the ones you think are not connected...actaully are )

^ calm the f*ck down, f*ggot. you act like he's your got damn daddy or somethin'. GTFOH.

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i know, so true so true. now all we need is his social security number, address, bank account numbers, and his mother's maiden name...you know....useful s**t that we can actually use

damn dude jumped from 240k to 4 mil

does anyone want a debt free life these days?

I knew he was crazy when I read he bought the Lalaurie mansion in N.O.

Some f**ked up s**t went down inside there.