Catherine Zeta-Jones Owning Four Homes with Michael Douglas Explained
Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas have four properties between them, but the actress emphasizes that what she craves most is comfort, not ostentation.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, the 55-year-old actress confirmed that their collection includes a house in Canada, a retreat in Spain, and two apartments in New York. “I know it sounds jet set, and I love to be surrounded by beauty, but it’s not excessive,” Zeta-Jones explained. “It’s very comfortable.”
The actress, who enjoys fashion, stressed that she’s also practical: “A pair of jeans is a pair of jeans,” she said, explaining that she wouldn’t spend hundreds on a plain white T-shirt. Zeta-Jones told the paper, “I patrol all the vintage shops in Paris, hunting down things you’ll probably never slip on, like an ochre velvet cape, those perfect, dramatic gestures.”
“Right now, classic Yves Saint Laurent has all my heart. I get light-headed over an evening gown. A pair of jeans is a pair of jeans. A £200 white T-shirt? Forget it. But couture, the weight of the beadwork, the craft … I adore the theatre of it all,” she explained.
The Wednesday actress, raised in the seaside town of Mumbles, Swansea, paused to remember a childhood unlit by fame. Zeta-Jones’ mother, Patricia, sewed by day and her father, David, worked a factory line in a candy plant. As the story goes, David bought the factory a few years later after pocketing $135,000 in a single game of bingo.
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That jackpot also financed Zeta-Jones’ years of ballet classes. “I know it sounds boastful, but it almost felt like a voice inside me, clear as day, saying, ‘I want to dance on a stage,’ so I just rolled with it. Bit of a prodigy, I suppose,” she smiled at a recent press meeting.
She and Douglas, wed on November 18, 2000, a hazy winter after their December ‘99 proposal, have quietly layered upon layer a shared small empire—movies, red carpets, a boy and a girl, Dylan at 25 and Carys now 22. Douglas’ son Cameron, 46, comes from his earlier 13-year marriage to Diandra Luker.
Zeta-Jones’ first public musing about the several homes they co-own followed Douglas’ own little stroll down memory lane. He was talking about “S’Estaca,” the sprawling Mallorcan estate now rumored to hover just over $32 million. He and Luker first signed for it at $3.5 million, a 1990 deal almost buried under their post-1990 headlines.
When that marriage folded in 2000, the divorce court threw them a punch line—share the house. Douglas told the Mallorca journal Ultima Hora, in a 2021 chat, that the split ownership turned “very uncomfortable,” a word he kept in the original Catalan for a subtler sting.
“It wasn’t easy for me and Diandra to share S’Estaca. Six months apiece for a few years was a strain, no question. Nobody enjoyed it—least of all the kids. That’s life,” the Ant-Man actor recalled a while back. Now, the estate belongs to Douglas and Zeta-Jones after a 2019 listing that drew no buyers.
Three years later, Douglas told Ultima Hora, “Now it’s all fixed, one hundred percent Katherine and me, and I can honestly say I never wanted to leave. The kids will keep coming, and their kids, and the kids after that. I know this island will always be theirs. This house is family, and that’s how it will stay.
He then added an old saying—“Happy wife, happy life”—with a smile. Zeta-Jones’s quiet joy, he explained, made the whole arrangement work.
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