Nobody wants Nicolas Cage's 'frat house bordello' mansion

There are so many sad stories these days about regular people losing regular homes for regular reasons. This isn't one of them. 

Nicolas Cage's Bel-Air mansion -- its decor described by one Realtor as "frat house bordello" -- went on the auction block Wednesday morning. It came off the block less than a minute later, after not a single soul on the Pomona courthouse steps jumped at its steal-of-a-deal $10.4-million opening price.

Now the lender gets it back. Actually, the lenders. The six outfits that hold the six loans Cage took out in 2005, 2007 and 2008 against the 11,817-square-foot property, which he bought in 1998 for about $7 million and tried to sell in  2007 for $35 million. And only lenders No. 1 and No.  2 have a real shot ...

Nicolas Cage's dad, August Coppola, dead at 75

August Coppola -- father of Nicolas Cage and brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire-- died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a heart attack, Cage's publicist reports.

Among other things, Nicolas' dad was a professor of literature at Cal State Long Beach and later a cinema professor and dean of the School of Creative Arts at San Francisco State.

Read more about the life of August Coppola here.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Nicolas Cage with "Bad Lieutenant" director Werner Herzog on Sept. 15 at the 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival. Credit: Evan Agostini / Associated Press