Overview

• In Softly As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, released Sept. 23, Presley writes that a fight off Catalina Island on Cage’s yacht, the Weston, ended with him tossing a six-carat, $65,000 engagement ring into the sea.
• She says Cage hired divers to search the water and adds that the ring was never found.
• According to the memoir, two days later he bought a larger ten-carat diamond and the couple re‑engaged.
• The on‑again, off‑again relationship culminated in a Hawaii wedding on Aug. 10, 2002, followed by a divorce filing months later and a 2004 finalization.
• Media outlets reporting the account note that representatives for Nicolas Cage have not responded to requests for comment.