Cage financial and legal troubles
Last night news said that, in August this year it emerged that Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage owed $6.2 million in unpaid taxes. Over the weekend, the star was slapped with yet another lawsuit also over money, in which the East West Bank alleged he had defaulted on a $2-million loan, as confirm by E! Online.
The court papers say East West Bank extended Cage a $2-million loan in August 2007, with the loan set to mature one year later. The actor, in his turn, agreed to pay $11,590 per month, the same papers say. However, in May this year, Cage missed payment – and continued to do so for the following months as well, namely June, July, August and September. Seeing how Cage had suddenly become unavailable, East West Bank did the only thing possible to cut some of the loss and took legal action against him.
Oscar winner secured a three-month extension and promptly defaulted on the loan in November 2008, the suit states. At that time, he entered into a change-in-terms agreement that reset the maturity date to pay back $1,953,732.94 for Jan. 23, 2011. Of course, he had to fork over some money before then. But starting in May, according to East West Bank, he stopped making his monthly payments of $11,590.82 – and then missed the Oct. 1 deadline to pay $100,000 in outstanding principal sums and interest.” E! Online says of the actor’s most recent financial and legal troubles. As of now, Nicolas Cage has not been available for comment on either lawsuit.
Sweethearts Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens one of Hollywood’s most loved young couples, might be considering taking the relationship a step further. The news says that Zac has just proposed to Vanessa, and both are preparing for a big white wedding set to take place next summer. According to a spy speaking to The National Enquirer, he only did it to please her mother, who was having a really hard time seeing her 20-year-old daughter living with a boy. However, that does not mean that Zac did not want to, just that the first reason that prompted him to do it was his future mother-in-law.
Wohoo! Jessica Simpson is dangerously close to becoming an old maid with lil’ sis married first and now a mom! Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her femme bad-boy rocker husband Pete Wentz became parents for the first time. The lucky scion, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, 7 pounds and 11 ounces. One of the spokesperson for the couple said that Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes! Good for them!
One of the best Sci-fi novelist Michael Crichton, who made dinosaurs, DNA and emergency-room dramas populist Hollywood fodder, has died yesterday November 6, 2008 with cancer according to the news. He was 66 then.