Riko Shibata And Husband Nicolas Cage Are Expecting Their First Baby

Riko Shibata

Cage and his fifth wife, Riko Shibata announced on Thursday that they are expecting their first baby.

A representative confirmed the happy news. This will be Shibata’s first child and Cage’s third as he is already a father to 31-year-old Weston and 16-year-old Kal-El from his previous relationships with actress Christina Fulton and Alice Kim, respectively.

Riko Shibata  And Nicolas Cage Tied the Knot In LA

Cage proposed to Shibata via FaceTime and sent her ring via FedEx to Japan.

The couple exchanged vows at a very small, personal ceremony held at the Wynn Hotel in LA on February 16 of last year. The date was chosen to commemorate Cage’s late father’s birthday. Riko Shibata and Nicolas Cage first met in Shiga, Japan via mutual friends over a year prior.

Shibata wore a handmade Japanese bridal kimono from Kyoto for the wedding, walking down the aisle to her favorite song, “Winter Song” By Kiroro. The Oscar winner wore a Tom Ford tuxedo, and the pair exchanged traditional Catholic and Shinto vows, as well as reading a Walt Whitman poem and a haiku. In a statement to People at the time, Cage said, “It’s true, and we are very happy.”

The 57-year-old actor has been married four times before marrying Riko Shibata in Las Vegas. He got married to Patricia Arquette in 1995 and got divorced after six years. Cage then got married to Lisa Marie Presley for just 107 days in 2002 before divorcing her in November of that year. In August 2004, in California, he married Alice Kim. They welcomed their son Kal-El, now 16, in October 2005 and divorced almost a decade later. In 2016, the former couple formalized their divorce.

The Ghost Rider actor married Erika Koike in Las Vegas in March 2019, but the couple filed for divorce four days later. Their divorce was finalized in June of 2019. After that, he married Riko Shibata, with whom he’s expecting his fifth child.

Riko Shibata and Nicolas Cage first appeared on the red carpet as a couple in July last year. It was the premiere of his film Pig after which they posed for their first cover together for Flaunt magazine in October.