
Nicolas Cage was arrested over the weekend in New Orleans for domestic abuse, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness!
According to police, Cage was very intoxicated and violent. He was arguing with his wife, Alice Kim, in a tattoo parlor and out into the street. He began pushing her around, then punched a few cars. “He was running around and screaming in the street,” a bartender at Harry’s Corner in New Orleans, told People magazine.
The couple were arguing over which house they were renting while Nic is in town filming his new movie, ‘The Medallion’. “Apparently he had mistaken the house of my neighbors for the other house up the block that he is actually renting,” Peter Bennett, a local street performer who lives near the property, told People. “His wife was trying to persuade him from disturbing the elderly couple who do in fact live in that house.” Cage was at the wrong house, he was staying three houses down.
When the police arrived, Cage started to get into the back of the police car then took off running toward the river, according to People. Police found him trying to get into a cab.
Longtime Hollywood publicist, who does not represent Cage, told GMA that Cage taunted police, saying “Go ahead, arrest me.”
“They tried to send him home,” Bragman said. “Then, finally, they did arrest him,” Bragman said.
Kim has denied that Cage abused her and has declined to press charges.
An inmate who said he was in the holding area of the jail with the actor, told People, “He was drunk.”
But he spent the evening chatting with sheriff’s deputies instead of behind bars, according to the inmate. “He wasn’t in a cell. He was behind the counter with all the other officers,” he said.
In what sounds like one of Cage’s post-Oscar flops, reality star Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman came to the financially strapped star’s rescue, posting the $11,000 bond.
In a statement to E! News, Chapman said he bailed out Cage because, “I am a truly dedicated fan of Mr. Cage.”
“I performed my duties as a bail bondsman and not in connection with our show. This is what I do for a living,” he said. “There are two sides of my job: I release my clients after they have been arrested; and pick them up if they don’t show up in court. I do not believe the latter will be the case for Mr. Cage.”
Cage has been ordered to return to court on May 31.
What a mess! Dog the Bounty Hunter posted his bond? Not his wife?
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Posted Monday, April 18th, 2011 at 9:09am
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