Nicolas Cage’s Malibu mansion has been rocked by a massive sinkhole that has swallowed up the beachfront home’s driveway.
Photos of the destruction show the once palatial property on the edge of a huge crater that destroyed the driveway, part of the adjacent street and a portable toilet.
The luxury home, which Cage purchased for $10.5 million in 2024, is now cordoned off with several orange construction cones.
Workers would also be able to assess the situation in the sinkhole and along the street.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Cage, 62, and the Los Angeles County Fire Department for comment but has not yet heard back.
Firefighters discovered the collapsed driveway early Tuesday morning after responding to a suspected gas line break, a public information officer said. KTL.
Nicolas Cage’s Malibu mansion has been hit by a massive sinkhole that swallowed the beachfront home’s driveway
The luxury home was purchased by Cage in 2024 for $10.5 million
The hole, believed to be about 30 by 30 feet wide, was reportedly the result of coastal erosion.
No one has been ordered to evacuate and the gas company has been on site to repair the main line.
The damage occurred mainly as high surf continues to pound the Southern California coast following the development of former Hurricane Marie, the website adds.
KTLA reporter Rich Prickett, who covered the incident from the air, said no one appeared to be in the house at the time.
“Significant damage to this house, or at least the driveway to this house here in Malibu,” he said.
‘It looks like no one was home. Besides, the house looks like some kind of renovation is going on.”
According to KTLA, no one was injured.
Located in a highly sought-after oceanfront area, the home includes a rooftop terrace with Jacuzzi, tall glass walls, multiple bedrooms and was the previous owners’ ‘happy place’.
The sinkhole swallowed the driveway and part of the adjacent street
Orange cones now surround the damaged luxury home
The sinkhole is reportedly the result of coastal erosion; Cage pictured in May
The house was built in the 1990s by the late Jose Liberman, co-founder of Liberman Broadcasting, and remained in his family until it was sold to Cage.
“Yes, Nicolas Cage bought our house in Malibu,” said Lenard Liberman, Jose’s son and co-founder of Liberman Broadcasting. The New York Times in 2024.
“My parents went there on the weekends and it was my dad’s ‘happy place,’” he explained.
‘My father died and my mother simply couldn’t go home anymore. Too many memories,” he added.
The residence offers access to a secluded beach, chef’s kitchen and a garage with elevator.
Cage, an Oscar winner, is a member of a Hollywood dynasty.
The house was the ‘happy place’ of the previous owners
The house was built in the 1990s by the late Jose Liberman, co-founder of Liberman Broadcasting, and remained in his family until it was sold to Cage.
A member of a Hollywood dynasty, Cage rose to fame with roles in Moonstruck and more
In 1996, he earned an Oscar win for his role in Leaving Las Vegas
Cage walked down the aisle for the fifth time in 2021 when he married Riko Shibata; pictured in May
Born Nicolas Kim Coppola, Cage is the son of the late American academic and author August Coppola, as well as the nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and his actress sister Talia Shire.
The family includes Cage’s cousins, filmmaker Sofia Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzman.
His grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola – who scored many of Francis’ films – and Italia Coppola, who also appeared in her son’s Godfather films.
Over the decades, Cage has built a hugely impressive acting career with roles in the films Moonstruck, Raising Arizona, Gone in 60 Seconds, National Treasure and an Oscar win for Leaving Las Vegas.
Last year, Cage legally changed his name to “Nick Cage” to avoid becoming Coppola’s “clown cousin.”
‘I’m Nick Cage. Last year I legally changed my name,” he said Variety.
The name was inspired by Marvel character Luke Cage, a surname he thought was ‘cool’.
‘I am Nick Cage in life, and I am Nick Cage in front of the camera. “It’s better to be the patriarch of my own little family than the clown cousin on the fringes of someone else’s, so I decided I’d put it out there and be ‘Cage.’
“Cage” is a name I loved coming across in comics – I just thought it had a cool name – and I grew up in a very avant-garde, artsy family and there was talk about John Cage and the experimental compositions he made. I was looking for something like “James Dean”; I was looking for something short and sweet.
‘I thought, well, I’ll keep the name ‘Nicolas’, because my father called me Nicolas – with the French spelling, which has always frustrated me, because everyone adds an ‘h’ to it. I don’t know why he gave me the French spelling! But he did.’
Whether he prefers “Nick” or “Nicolas,” the actor told Variety, “I’m both! I think people know me as both.”
In 2021, Cage walked down the aisle for the fifth time when we married his much younger wife Riko Shibata, now 31 years old. In 2022, they welcomed daughter August Francesca.
The actor also has sons Kal-El, 18, with ex-wife Kim and Weston, 33, with ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton.
