{"id":167865,"date":"2025-09-25T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167865\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:06:15","slug":"nicolas-cage-once-threw-lisa-marie-presleys-99k-engagement-ring-overboard-during-raging-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167865\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage once threw Lisa Marie Presley’s $99k engagement ring overboard during raging row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicolas Cage and his late one-time fianc\u00e9e Lisa Marie Presley<\/a>\ufeff had a fight so intense, it saw tens of thousands of dollars disappear right before their eyes<\/p>\n

According to Priscilla Presley<\/a>‘s new memoir<\/a> titled\ufeff Softly, As I Leave You: Live After Elvis, Cage was so enraged he threw Lisa Marie’s $US65,000 (approx $98,559) engagement ring into the ocean.<\/p>\n

“One afternoon, they went sailing off the coast of Catalina Island on Nic’s yacht, the Weston,” the 80-year-old recalled in the book.<\/p>\n

\"NicolasNicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley were in a relationship from 2000 to 2002. (AP)<\/p>\n

“Something set off another of their epic fights, and Lisa pulled off her engagement ring and threw it at Nick.”<\/p>\n

In response, the now 61-year-old actor took the “stunning \u2026 six-carat, $65,000 diamond ring” and threw it right into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Priscilla then shared that Cage dispatched a team of drivers to find the pricey piece, but it was never found.<\/p>\n

“As far as I know, the ring is still there,” Priscilla said.<\/p>\n

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\"\u00a9BAUER-GRIFFIN.COMAn epic fight resulted in the ring being thrown into the ocean. (GC Images)\"\u00a9BAUER-GRIFFIN.COMCage dispatched divers to try and find it but it is still down there. (GC Images)<\/p>\n

To make up for the moment of anger, \ufeffthe National Treasure star purchased “an even bigger diamond (ten carats), and they got engaged all over again,” said Priscilla.<\/p>\n

Cage and Lisa Marie \u2013 the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley \u2013 had first begun dating in 2000 and wed in 2002. <\/p>\n

However the marriage did not last long, with the pair breaking up that same year and their divorce being finalised in 2004.<\/p>\n

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\"Lisa<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter shares final photo together<\/p>\n

Before that, she was married to the late Michael Jackson and Danny Keough.<\/p>\n

Priscilla also spoke about her daughter’s marriage to Jackson, which she was “appalled” by.<\/p>\n

“I knew in my bones that Michael wasn’t marrying Lisa Marie; he was marrying the Presley dynasty,” she wrote in her new book.<\/p>\n

The pair officially divorced in 2004. (Getty)<\/p>\n

The couple had started seeing each other in 1994 and surprised everyone with a whirlwind wedding in the Dominican Republic, just weeks after Lisa Marie\ufeff had divorced from her first husband, Danny Keough.<\/p>\n

Her and Jackson’s marriage lasted two short years, finalising their divorce in August 1996.<\/p>\n

\ufeffPriscilla claims Jackson was trying to get “good publicity” amid claims of child molestation at the time.<\/p>\n

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Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley were also married. (WireImage)Priscilla Prescley wrote about her late daughter in her new book. (Getty)<\/p>\n

It was at this time that Jackson reached out to Lisa Marie, according to Priscilla.<\/p>\n

“Michael was a manipulative man, and I think he had his sights set on her long before she realised it,” she wrote. <\/p>\n

“The childlike innocence he projected was part of his public mask.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

With Keough, Lisa Marie welcomed two children: son Benjamin, who died aged 27 in 2020, and daughter Riley, 36, who is an actress.<\/p>\n

\ufeffShe later welcomed twins Harper and Finley, 16, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.<\/p>\n

Lisa Marie died aged 54 \ufeffin 2023 due to a small bowel obstruction that was a complication of a \ufeffbariatric surgery done years beforehand.<\/p>\n

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