It really hasn't been a good year for Michael Douglas. First his oldest son Cameron got busted in a major meth trafficking crack down. He got caught in a New York hotel trying to sell about 20 000 in drugs to an undercover cop. That lead to a court date that lead to even more trouble. Cameron's girlfriend tried to pass him heroin inside an electric toothbrush in open court. She got caught and that didn't do anything for young Cameron's case.Naturally this preyed on Michael's mind. He'd attempted to straighten the kid out with the tough love approach. He had cut the kid off financially. As a Hollywood brat Cameron wasn't really qualified to do anything, except work in films or deal dope. Since Michael had put the kibosh on any film work it was down to dope dealing. So of course Michael felt personally responsible for his son's misfortune. Perhaps that's why the actor recently developed throat cancer.
While Michael was trying to deal with his son's incarceration and his own illness his ex wife Diandra came out of the wood work. Mike and Diandra had been married for about 23 years. They divorced about 10 years back when Michael got hooked up with Catherine Zeta Jones. The divorce was fairly amicable, with Mike and Diandra agreeing on a split up of everything that he'd earned while they were together. The fine print included any future earnings from projects he'd worked on during their time together. The fine print paid off for Diandra. She earned about 6 million last year out of that.
The fine print didn't work out do well for Mike. He's recently released Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Since it's a Wall Street sequel and Mike did Wall Street while he was with Diandra, she thinks that she's entitled to a piece of the action. So her lawyers are suing Douglas for some of the proceeds.
Mike doesn't want to take this lying down. So he's had his lawyers contest this, and issue a public statement calling Diandra a greedy woman who won't let him live in peace. Diandra's people have responded, claiming in their own press release that it's exactly the opposite - not that Diandra isn't greedy, but that Michael isn't living up to his obligations.
So it's kind of ironic that this brouhaha has developed over a money film. It couldn't have happen at a worse time either, since Douglas really needs the peace and quiet to deal with his health, and family, issues. So what can you say, except money never sleeps, trouble never stops, and there's no rest for the weary.
