Michael Douglas Details His Journey From Humble NYC Apartment to Lavish 190-Acre Mallorca Estate

Michael Douglas has called many places home in his 82 years, and the “Wall Street” star recently opened up about the places he’s lived since he was born.In an Oct. 13 interview with the Wall Street Journal, the A-list actor chatted about some of the most formative residences he has spent time in, beginning with the one-bedroom Greenwich Village apartment his parents moved into just after his birth in 1944.The family would head to the West Coast just a year later, relocating to a property Douglas described as “a Craftsman house in Los Angeles.”The move was due to his father—famed “Spartacus” actor Kirk Douglas, who died in February 2020 at the age of 103—being cast in a 1946 film called “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.”Douglas went on to explain that his father became a “crazy man” in California, citing infidelity as the reason behind another cross-country shift.“When I was 5, Mom had enough and she moved us back to New York, to an apartment on Central Park West with an alley view,” Douglas recalled.While an alley-view apartment can be less desirable than better-lit units, it’s worth noting that Central Park West was a well-established address when Douglas lived there as a child—a...