Who is the first wife of Michael Douglas?
Michael Douglas' first wife was Diandra Douglas.
Since 2000, actor Michael Douglas has been married to 25-year-younger colleague Catherine Zeta-Jones, so while they often experience embarrassment when people assume his much younger wife is a daughter and their children grandchildren, the couple is mostly in a happy and stable relationship. Michael and Catherine are a long-lived and popular couple so many forget that Michael was already married before her.
Today, the 77-year-old actor was 32 when he married 19-year-old Diandra Luker, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, from 1977. A year later they had a son, Cameron. The couple stayed together for 18 years, and Diandra filed for divorce in 1995. After a bitter legal battle, Diandra was given $ 45 million and custody of their son. The divorce, which was filed due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ ended in 2000. A few years later Douglas shocked many by commenting that the two should have divorced much earlier.
‘I have nothing against her, in fact, my first wife is very dear to me, but we should have ended our marriage eight or ten years earlier,’ he said. The couple never revealed why the divorce ended up, but it is widely believed that they were judged by Michael's love of alcohol and other women.
A year after the divorce, he began a relationship with his current wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, whom he married in 2000, and they soon had their first child together.
At the beginning of her relationship with Catherine, Michael still shared a villa in Mallorca with his ex-wife so everyone used it for six months. He later discovered that this did not suit any of them, and as they failed to sell the house at the desired price, Michael eventually bought it.
' It was very embarrassing to share the villa with my ex-wife Diandra. Everyone was here, in it for six months and that didn't suit anyone. Now we have arranged everything and the house is one hundred percent ours, Catherine's and mine ', he said for the island newspaper Ultima Hora. 'I never wanted to leave, and my children and grandchildren and their children will come here. I am sure generations will come to this island. Catherine is definitely very happy here, 'he added.
