LOS ANGELES - actor Nicolas Cage has avoided prosecution in New Orleans three weeks after he was arrested following a drunken argument with his wife, People magazine reported Thursday.
He quoted his attorney as saying that accusations of domestic violence battery, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness had been dropped.
"The New Orleans District Attorney confirmed that no charge any is prosecuted against him," Harry Rosenberg said the magazine. "After their investigation, the RDR was denied all charges against Nick and the case was closed.".
Calls after hours of officials in New Orleans were not answered, and Cage publicist did not immediately respond to an email seeking further information.
The old actor of 47 years was taken into custody at the end on 16 April, after police said that he and his third wife, Alice Kim, obtained in a debate about the correct address of the House they were renting.
According to a statement which described as "highly intoxicated", Cage began to hit cars and tried to get into a taxi cab. Then he yelled for police officers who order without delay. There is no visible injury to his wife.
Two days later, the couple attended the marriage of the son of 20 years of Cage, Weston, New Orleans.
Cage, the nephew of Director Francis Ford Coppola, is best known for such films as "raising Arizona", "Gone in 60 seconds" and "National Treasure". He won an Oscar for his portrait of a jaded alcoholic in the film of 1995 "Leaving Las Vegas".
But his fortune of ticketing were mixed, and he was forced to sell part of its sumptuous houses around the world to settle tax debts of several million dollars to the Government of the United States.
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