IRS places liens on Nicolas Cage's New Orleans homes

[funkybutt]

Source: Times Picayune, New Orleans

Actor Nicolas Cage may have more trouble selling his homes in New Orleans than most other people who have plunked for-sale signs in front of their houses.

That's because the Internal Revenue Service has placed a tax lien for $6.26 million on his properties for failing to pay income taxes in 2007. Another IRS lien for $360,545.84 stems from unpaid income taxes between 2002 and 2004.

The liens, filed with the Orleans Parish Recorder of Mortgages July 14, are attached to the three-story purple-gray mansion he owns at 1140 Royal St. in the French Quarter. According to the IRS and the mortgage office, Cage was probably served with the lien at his French Quarter address, but they would apply to any property the Academy Award-winning actor owns.

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During an interview with David Letterman last year, Cage called the mansion "a very notorious house, a very famous house, meaning it is allegedly the most severely haunted house in the United States of America. "Some people have beach-front property, " Cage continued. "I have ghost-front property."




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[itsrobert]

1. It couldn't happen to a worst actor

;)

[Blue Gardener]

2. I couldn't agree more

I can't sit through any of his movies.

[Orrex]

4. Not even Raising Arizona?

After that, it's been all downhill for the Nickster.

[Blue Gardener]

10. No

Tried to watch it but couldn't make it all the way through.

[Peregrine Took]

11. He was brilliant in "Raising Arizona" and I don't use that word loosely

One of the funniest comedic performances I've ever seen and I'm a huge movie buff.

Holly Hunter was incredible, too.

I could watch that movie 100 times and never tire of it.

[Orrex]

12. The first ten minutes are a better movie than most movies

And the rest of the film is close to perfection.

I could watch that movie 100 times and never tire of it.

I know what you mean! I've long since lost track of how many times I've seen it.

[a kennedy]

13. how about Moonstruck.......I loved him in that....

anyone like that one???

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Wow, he owns the LaLaurie place.

I'm sure that place IS haunted. How do rich people get so far in arrears with their taxes?

[glinda]

6. Seems that a few actors are not aware of what is going on with their finances.

Sometimes they have others doing it for them and they don't seem to know until it is too late. And I am sure some do know but don't care or cannot crawl out of the mess.

[itsrobert]

14. Haunted?

Lol, what about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? LMFAO.

[OnyxCollie]

5. I guess that's why he's doing a voice for the G Force movie. nt

[elocs]

7. How does a Hollywood movie star simply fail to pay taxes for a year?

It's not like, "Gee, I forgot to pick up milk at the store".

[PNutt]

8. Yet The IRS Can't Find Real Crooks......

You know, the ones hiding income from Swiss, Cayman, and other foreign bank accounts......that is where all of America's wealth has disappeared to.

[tocqueville]

9. Anglo-French lien = loyen bond, restraint

putting restraints on a guy called Cage is perfectly normal

[lataxman]

15. No slack for no one

Looks like Tim G isn't cutting anyone slack over tax liens.