The Weather Man's latest forecast? Sunny and breezy with a chance of privacy 100 percent. After selling his Malibu mansion last year for a cool $10 million, Nicolas Cage has now plunked down $3 million for a relatively pristine island in The Bahamas, the Wall Street Journal reports.
It's the second rock for the 42-year-old Oscar winner, who bought his first Bahamian island in 2000 and has a house on Paradise Island near Nassau.
The 40-acre retreat is situated some 85 miles south of that residence in the Exuma archipelago chain in the southern Bahamas, reportedly near an island owned by married country crooners Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.
According to the paper, Cage plans to turn the undeveloped private atoll into a romantic getaway for himself and his wife, Alice, and their infant son, Kal-El.
A rep for the actor was unavailable for comment.
Cage is among an elite group of celebrities with their own private islands to get away from it all (and the paparazzi). Others include Johnny Depp and Mick Jagger who both own strips in the Caribbean. The trend may have been started by the late Marlon Brando, who passed much of his time on an isolated island near Tahiti.
When he's not lying on the beach downing pi�a coladas, Cage has had plenty of work to keep him busy.
The thesp has just begun filming on Next, an action thriller directed by James Bond filmmaker Lee Tamahori about a man (Cage) with a psychic ability to view future events who's wanted by the FBI to help stop a major terrorist attack. The film costars Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel.
Cage's next big screen foray, the Oliver Stone-helmed World Trade Center, unspools nationwide Aug. 9 and finds him playing a port authority police officer who evacuates the iconic towers after the 9-11 terrorist attacks and is trapped under the rubble when the buildings collapse.
The Nassau Guardian
