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Aqui vai uma notícia sobre a possível falência do Nicholas Cage!!!!

Apesar das fontes raramente serem credíveis, o caso já está em tribunal, pelo que deve haver mesmo fogo!

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Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Nicolas Cage, the Academy Award- winning film actor seen in “Leaving Las Vegas,” “Moonstruck” and “National Treasure,” sued his former business manager, claiming financial ruin.

Manager Samuel Levin’s alleged failure to pay the actor’s taxes, combined with poor investment decisions, sent Cage “down a path toward financial ruin,” according to a complaint filed in a California state court in Los Angeles yesterday. Claiming professional negligence and breach of contract, the actor is seeking $20 million in damages.

“Levin placed Cage in numerous highly speculative and risky ventures, resulting in Cage suffering catastrophic losses,” the actor’s attorneys wrote in the complaint.

The actor has been “forced to dispose of significant assets,” to pay off his liabilities, according to the complaint. The Daily Mail, a U.K. newspaper, on Oct. 15 reported Cage was selling a castle he owns there to pay back taxes.

Born Nicholas Coppola, Cage, 45, is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola. He has appeared in almost 60 films, according to the Internet Movie Database Web site www.imdb.com.

Cage won a best actor Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his portrayal of a man trying to drink himself to death in 1995’s “Leaving Las Vegas.” He was a best-actor nominee in 2003 for the dual roles of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his identical twin, Donald, in “Adaptation,” losing to Adrien Brody, who had starred in “The Pianist.”

Cage hired Levin and his firm, Levin & Co. Management Inc., in 2001 and fired them earlier this year, according to the complaint.

Levin didn’t immediately return a call to his firm seeking comment on the lawsuit.

The case is Nicolas Cage v. Samuel J. Levin, SC105285, in the Los Angeles County, California, Superior Court.