Nicolas Cage's ex is suing him and their son. She says Weston Cage beat her and dad shares blame

An ex-girlfriend of Nicolas Cage is taking ineligible enactment against the histrion and their son, Weston Cage, alleging that Weston — whom she describes arsenic a 300-pound nonrecreational combatant — near her with “life-threatening injuries” successful a brutal April assault.

Christina Fulton intends connected suing her lad for battle and artillery and his begetter for failing to forestall Weston from committing acts of unit portion nether his care, according to an unfiled civilian ailment submitted to the Los Angeles County Superior Court connected Tuesday.

Fulton is seeking unspecified damages from the 2 Cages for the “catastrophic physical, affectional and economical harm she has endured owed to an unprovoked onslaught by their son, Weston,” according to the complaint. She alleges that Nicolas was alert of Weston’s “long past of intelligence and intelligence disorder” and “of committing convulsive battle and battery” but continued to alteration his atrocious behaviour and enactment him financially.

Nicolas Cage’s attorney, Brian Wolf, successful a connection shared with The Times, dismissed the allegations against the elder Cage arsenic “absurd and frivolous.”

“Weston Coppola is simply a 34-year-old man,” Wolf stated. “Mr. Cage does not power Weston’s behaviour successful immoderate mode and is not liable for Weston’s alleged battle of his mother.”

Weston Cage’s attorney, Michael Goldstein, called the suit “nothing abbreviated of a wealth drawback and telephone for attention,” and said Nicolas Cage “had perfectly thing to bash with Weston’s affectional authorities oregon information starring up to the incidental with his mother.”

In a connection to The Times connected Friday, Goldstein alleged that Weston Cage — astatine Fulton’s urging — agreed to spot a caller doc of her choosing “who promptly changed his medicine and treatment. Unfortunately, that resulted successful the emotional/medical breakdown resulting successful the incidental with his mother.”

“Christina’s efforts to present blasted his begetter for that incidental are perfectly incorrect and thing much than an effort to make media attraction and unit him to wage her money,” helium said. “It appears her archetypal concerns astir his well-being person evolved into a wealth grab.”

Weston Cage was arrested successful June and charged with 2 felony counts of battle with a deadly limb aft accusations that helium attacked his parent and a idiosyncratic named Rohit Jagadish. The Los Angeles Police Department said successful a July connection to The Times that Weston punched 2 victims aggregate times, causing injury. He pleaded not blameworthy to some charges successful July.

Fulton said she had gone to sojourn her lad aft receiving “urgent messages” from his friends “regarding his deteriorating intelligence state” and asking for her help. But helium attacked her successful a acceptable of “manic rage,” she said successful a connection released aft his arrest.

In the lawsuit, Fulton alleges that Weston attacked her connected April 28 successful a parking lot, elevator and lobby adjacent his home, causing terrible and life-threatening injuries. They see a concussion, an oculus injury, aggregate bruises, cervix and pharynx injuries, dental trauma, tinnitus, abdominal trauma and PTSD, she alleged.

Fulton accuses Nicolas Cage of enabling Weston’s transgression behaviour by turning a unsighted oculus to his unit and intelligence wellness struggles portion continuing to enactment him financially. She alleges that the histrion bought Weston a condo adjacent doorway to him, bailed him retired of jailhouse aggregate times and drank intoxicant with him contempt knowing helium struggled with substance use.

In 2011, Weston Cage was hospitalized aft constabulary responded to a combat helium was allegedly progressive successful connected the streets of Hollywood. He was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, wherever his begetter joined him. Days earlier, Weston and his then-new bride, Nikki Williams, were arrested and booked connected felony home unit charges aft an incidental astatine their apartment. And successful 2017, helium was detained connected suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run.

The ailment alleges the April onslaught “devastated Fulton’s thriving vocation arsenic a erstwhile model, histrion and entrepreneur,” interrupting her filming of a Netflix amusement and tegument attraction and fittingness ventures.

Fulton dated Nicolas Cage from 1988 to 1991.

In 2009, she sued the actor, alleging that helium owed her $13 cardinal and had breached a committedness to springiness her a location successful Hancock Park. The lawsuit was settled nether an undisclosed statement successful 2011.

In November 2024, Fulton filed a suit against Weston Cage’s 3rd ex-wife, Hila Arounian, accusing her of embezzling $100,000 and requesting a “fraudulent restraining order” that prevented Fulton and Nicolas Cage from seeing their granddaughters.

Times unit writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report.