Nicolas Cage, a 57-year-old National Treasure actor who played an alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas" and won an Oscar, was photographed last Monday (September 13) getting drunk at Lawry's Prime Rib, a fine dining restaurant near the Las Vegas Strip, and was mistaken by onlookers as a tramp. According to restaurant staff, Nicholas had been drinking expensive whiskey and tequila before the riot. From the video footage, Nicholas, dressed in leopard-print pants, sits barefoot on the couch, wobbly trying to put on flip-flops, and then stumbles and shouts. Subsequently, when he tried to re-enter the restaurant, he was stopped by a female staff member.
The incident comes after Nicholas went through a year of emotional roller coasters in which he took on his fifth marriage and lost his mother, Joey Voguessan.
"We noticed him in Lawry's's bar and at first we thought he was a drunken tramp," the onlooker said. But to our shock, he was Nicholas Cage. He was completely drunk and had some arguments with the staff in the restaurant. He was in a very bad state, walking around barefoot. The staff told us he had a few glasses of tequila and a 1980 McAllen whiskey. He yelled at the others and tried to fight, after which the restaurant staff asked him to leave. He was so drunk that he could barely put on flip-flops until he was escorted out. He asked if we wanted to go back to his accommodation but he was in a terrible situation so we thought it wasn't a good idea. Finally, a regular at the restaurant brought him home. A woman prevented Nicholas from entering the restaurant again, and this isn't the first time Nicholas has been photographed getting drunk in public.
In March 2019, he and his fourth wife, Erika Koike, were photographed drunk applying for a marriage license at Nicholas Court. Four days after receiving his license, he asked the court to withdraw his marriage license, claiming he was so drunk that he couldn't understand what he was doing.
This year, Cage married his fifth wife, Riko Shibata, who is 30 years younger, at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. Subsequently, it was revealed that his mother, Joy Voguessang, died in May this year at the age of 85 after being hospitalized for two weeks.