The son of Nicolas Cage, Weston, will avoid prison, almost a year after his mother, Christina Fulton, accused him of violently attacking his apartment complex.
During a hearing on Wednesday morning, the 34-year-old musician received a two-year diversion program for mental health care to resolve the two crime attacks against him.
'Mr. Cage is suffering from an eligible mental health disorder. I am convinced that it was an important factor in committing the accused violations, explained Los Angeles County Judge Enrique Monguia. “It is clear that he suffered a breakdown at the time.”
Weston's lawyer 'asked for the distraction after he said that his client had received intensive intramural and outpatient treatment after the incident on April 28, 2024, “said Rolling Stone.
At the time of the alleged attacks, his lawyer, Michael A. Goldstein,: “Weston had changed doctors and had only just started a new medicine.”
After the hearing, Fulton had a message for her ex and told Cage in an interview with TMZ: “Take care of my son, our son.”
The son of Nicolas Cage, Weston, will avoid prison, almost a year after his mother, Christina Fulton, accused him of violently attacking his apartment complex; Seen in 2022
She stated that Weston did not apologize to whether it has not regretted it and confirmed that they are not allowed to communicate.
In a message to him, however, she said, “I love you, son.”
Since his arrest, Goldstein noted that his client has remained sober and that Weston “has not felt so good in years.”
“He is in a good headroom, to get married. He left the location that lives earlier and makes absolute progress, “said Goldstein.
The judge decided whether Weston decided his treatment plan and the orders of doctors and 'remains' out of trouble' that the case could be rejected in April 2027.
Fulton expressed her support for the Weston Diversion Program about the prison, but also asked her son to be obliged to do intramural treatment for a few months. '
Fulton also went into graphic detail about the night that she was reportedly attacked and left with life -threatening injuries.
“Nothing prepared me on April 28, 2024, the night that my son almost took my life,” she told the court.
During a hearing on Wednesday morning, the 34-year-old musician and actor received a two-year diversion program for mental health care to resolve the two crime attacks against him; Fulton saw with a horrible black eye after the alleged incident
'Mr. Cage is suffering from an eligible mental health disorder. I am convinced that it was an important factor in committing the accused violations, explained Los Angeles County Judge Enrique Monguia. 'It is clear that he had a breakdown at the time' (seen in 2006)
Fulton claimed that she hurried to his apartment after someone called her to say that he set it “on fire.”
When she arrived there, Fulton claims that Weston was 'furious' and the cheeseburger she brought him would not accept.
Fulton claimed that he 'snarling' after a car stopped and rattled a gate.
For each rolling stone, Fulton claimed that her son grabbed her by her hair, pushed her on the floor of a lift and came on top of her. '
During the alleged incident, she said he started to 'crush and' stifle 'her with his entire body weight.
“He pushed his thumb into my eye socket. The pain was unbearable. My vision became black, “she said. “I lost consciousness.”
Fulton said that after the lift door was opened, he reportedly attacked his best friend, who is the other supposed victim in the criminal case.
Fulton said that Weston reportedly returned to hit her in a wall, stand on her neck and strangle her while his friend desperately tried to pull him off her.
'If it wasn't there [the friend] Who risked his life to save me, my family would have buried me and Weston would have gone to prison, “she claimed.
After the hearing, Fulton had a message for her ex and told Cage in an interview with TMZ: “Take care of my son, our son”; Cage and Fulton from 1988 to 1991 (to be seen in 1988 in the Pallett Club in Los Angeles)
The couple welcomed Weston Cage the day after Christmas on December 26, 1990; Seen in 2016
Although she expressed 'repeated love for her son,' Fulton claimed that he never spoke 'remorse or accountability' about the alleged incident.
As she spoke, Weston was described as 'straight ahead' and not 'responded to her words'.
“I was demonized because I am a good mother,” Fulton said. 'Now I stand here and argue for one thing: that he gets the help he deserves. Please help my son. '
In addition to ordering the Mental Health Diversion Program, the judge said that “Weston is forbidden to bother his alleged victims and to possess weapons for the next two years.”
A hearing of the progress report was established for July.
Weston – who previously entered a non -culprit plea – was arrested in July 2024 for accusation of mistreatment with a fatal weapon and was released on a bond of $ 150,000.
After his arrest, she issued a statement, with the text: 'On April 28, 2024, around 5:30 PM, I received urgent messages from my son's friends, Weston Cage about his deteriorating mental state, encouraging myself to help. When I arrived to offer support and comfort him, he was already in the midst of a manic anger. Within minutes I was brutally attacked and I was seriously injured. '
In March 2025, Weston announced that he was engaged to Jenifer Alexa Canter.
He was previously married to musician Nikki Williams, Danielle Cage, whom he shares sons Lucian and Sorin, and Hila Cage Coppola, the mother of his twin girls, Venice Zohar and Cyress Zara.
Weston – who previously entered a non -culprit plea – was arrested in July 2024 for accusation of mistreatment with a fatal weapon and was released on a bond of $ 150,000 (to be seen in 2022)
Last month Fulton's case against her ex, Nicolas Cage was rejected after she had sued him for negligence.
In the lawsuit that was tackled in February, Fulton Nicolas accused the 'reckless' of their son by saving him several times from prison, to support him financially and drink alcohol with Weston “despite knowing his history of substance abuse.”
She also claimed that Nicolas not to help his son receive 'necessary psychiatric' help.
At the time, Nicolas's lawyer hit Fulton's claims in a statement to people, with the text: 'The allegations of Christina Fulton against Nicolas Cage are absurd and frivolous.
'Weston Coppola is a 34-year-old man. Mr. Cage has not mastered Weston's behavior in any way and is not responsible for Weston's alleged attack on his mother. '
