Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim divorced after 11 years, 10 months of marriage. The settlement was reportedly an estimated $5M. See the full timeline.
Figures are reported estimates. Last updated Oct 2026.
One of Cage's quieter divorces amid his well-documented financial troubles. No settlement figure has been confirmed; the $5 million is a press estimate.
Nicolas Cage, the Oscar-winning actor from Long Beach, California, and Alice Kim, who worked as a waitress when they met, married on 30 July 2004 in a private ceremony. The couple had a son, Kal-El, named after Superman's Kryptonian name, born in October 2005. Cage was a lifelong comic-book enthusiast and had already won an Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas in 1996.
Cage's earnings came from a string of Hollywood roles, in films such as Con Air, Face/Off, National Treasure and Ghost Rider, for which he commanded fees of $20 million or more. He was among the highest-paid actors of the 2000s. He also spent very heavily, buying castles, a dinosaur skull, comic books and a pyramid-shaped tomb in New Orleans, and by the end of the decade he faced financial trouble and large tax debts.
The couple married in 2004 and had a son in 2005. The marriage ended in 2016 after about 12 years. Cage has since married Erika Koike in 2019, a union that ended after four days with a request for annulment, and then Riko Shibata in 2021, with whom he has a daughter.
The settlement is not well documented. Some reports in the press put the sum at about $5 million, but Cage's finances were under strain at the time, and the figure may reflect only part of what was paid. The terms of the settlement have not been published.
The sum looks low for a marriage of 12 years to a star of Cage's earning power, but this reflects his financial position. He had lost a large part of his fortune through spending and tax debts and had been forced to sell properties. California law shares assets, but there was less to share than his past income would suggest.
Cage's finances recovered after he took on a large number of film roles, including independent and genre films, and later won acclaim for Pig and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Kim kept a low profile after the divorce. Cage's earlier property sales and his debts shaped his career choices for many years.
The Cage and Kim case is a good example of a divorce in which a star's spending reduced the sums at stake. Cage's other divorce, from Lisa Marie Presley, is also on this list.
Cage changed his name from Coppola, as he was the nephew of the director Francis Ford Coppola. He named his son after Superman. He once bought a stolen dinosaur skull at auction and returned it. The $5 million figure is a reported estimate.
Alice Kim's reported settlement was about $5 million.
They married in 2004 and divorced in 2016, a marriage of roughly 12 years.
No prenuptial agreement was reported.
Yes, the family is reported to include 1 children.
Reported assets include: Cash, remaining real estate, film royalties.
The sum looks low for a marriage of 12 years to a star of Cage's earning power, but this reflects his financial position. He had lost a large part of his fortune through spending and tax debts and had been forced to sell properties.
* Settlement terms were not publicly disclosed. This figure is an estimate.