Nicolas Cage threw Lisa Marie Presley's $65,000 engagement ring into the ocean throughout one of many former couple's large blowouts on his yacht.
Priscilla Presley detailed the incident — and the tumultuous relationship — between her daughter and the actor in her explosive new memoir, “Softly, As I Go away You: Stay After Elvis.”
The 80-year-old gushed over the “beautiful … six-carat, $65,000 diamond ring” Cage, 61, proposed with.
“One afternoon, they went crusing off the coast of Catalina Island on Nick's yacht, the Weston,” Priscilla alleged within the e book, which got here out Tuesday. “One thing set off one other of their epic fights, and Lisa pulled off her engagement ring and threw it at Nick.
“Livid, Nick threw the ring overboard,” the actress claimed, noting that Cage had divers search the world — to no avail.
“So far as I do know, the ring continues to be there,” Priscilla wrote.
She went on to jot down that the Oscar winner offered Lisa Marie with “a fair larger diamond (ten carats), and so they received engaged once more.”
Cage's rep has but to reply to Web page Six's request for remark.
The “Nationwide Treasure” star and Lisa Marie's on-again, off-again romance started in 2000, and so they received married two years later.
The duo known as it quits inside the yr, finalizing their divorce in 2004.
The union was Lisa Marie's third, as she had beforehand wed Danny Keough, with whom she welcomed late son Benjamin and daughter Riley, and Michael Jackson.
Priscilla additionally divulged particulars about her daughter's marriage to Jackson in her memoir, writing that she was “appalled” by the “weird” relationship.
She referred to the “Thriller” hitmaker as a “manipulative man” and claimed, “I believe he had his sights set on her lengthy earlier than she realized it. … I knew in my bones that Michael wasn't marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty.”
After their divorce, Lisa Marie moved on with musician Michael Lockwood.
The pair welcomed twin daughters Harper and Finley, now 16, earlier than divorcing in 2021.
Lockwood was granted full custody of the women after Lisa Marie died in January 2023 after struggling a cardiac arrest. She was 54.
As for Cage's love life, the Golden Globe winner's first spouse was Patricia Arquette, adopted by Lisa Marie, Alice Kim and Erika Koike.
He has been married to Riko Shibata, with whom he shares a 3-year-old daughter named August, since February 2021.
When Lisa Marie died, Cage informed the Hollywood Reporter how “heartbroken” he felt.
“Lisa had the best chortle of anybody I ever met,” he gushed to the outlet, recalling how she “lit up each room.”
