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Nicolas Cage is out of legal hot water.
The actor, who was sued alongside his son last month by ex-partner Christina Fulton, was dropped from the claim Monday.
Fulton dropped the charges against the Oscar-winning actor without prejudice, but maintained her claims against their son, Weston Cage.
In now dismissed claims, she alleged Cage, 61, knew that his son was violent with a history of mental instability and substance abuse and chose not to act, amounting to negligence. Fulton’s accusation – that Nicolas Cage bailed their son out of jail, supported him financially and supplied him with alcohol – cannot be refiled in court.
“Ms. Fulton and Mr. Cage have reached an amicable and confidential resolution,” her lawyer, Joseph Farzan told USA TODAY in a statement Wednesday.
“It appears Ms. Fulton and her personal injury lawyers saw the writing on the wall.” Michael A. Goldstein, a lawyer for Weston Cage, said in a separate statement. “Ms. Fulton’s continuing lawsuit and objectives are suspect given earlier claims of concern for his well-being. Perhaps she will reconsider and send positive energy instead.”
USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Nicola Cage for comment.
In a February lawsuit, Fulton accused the younger Cage of assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Police arrested the 34-year-old in July for assault with a deadly weapon, after allegedly punching and causing injury to two people. Fulton, 57, says she was one of those alleged victims.
The arrest followed an April incident in which Cage, an actor himself, allegedly punched two people repeatedly at a downtown Los Angeles apartment complex. The Los Angeles Police Department ultimately charged him with two felony counts of assault, to which he pleaded not guilty and was released on bond.
In a statement shared with USA TODAY at the time, Fulton said she was contacted by Weston Cage’s friends urging her to help him, but when she arrived to console him, “he was already in the midst of a manic rage.”
“Within minutes, I was brutally assaulted and sustained serious injuries,” she said in her statement. “As a mother, I am deeply saddened and concerned about Weston’s on-going mental health crisis. It is imperative that he receives the help he desperately needs.”
Fulton has requested a jury trial and financial damages after the attack allegedly left her with a brain concussion, neck and throat injuries, “disfiguring eye injury,” dental and abdominal trauma and PTSD.
She also claims the assault “devastated” her modeling and acting career, forcing her to miss filming for a Netflix show and jeopardizing her business ventures, including an unspecified “multimillion-dollar opportunity.”
In response to Fulton’s original filing, Goldstein called the suit a “money grab” and “call for attention.”
“Ms. Fulton’s decision to file a lawsuit against her own son is not surprising given her past history of litigation against family members,” he wrote in a statement to USA TODAY at the time. “Ms. Fulton correctly advised the responding LAPD officers that her son was in the midst of a mental health crisis at the time of this incident. We will deal with this appropriately, and in a courtroom.”
Contributing: Naledi Ushe, KiMi Robinson, Taijuan Moorman
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