Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones List Their Bermuda Compound for $10.6 Million
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are paring down their real estate holdings. The couple have been trying to sell their Majorca estate for quite some time (they recently relisted it for $32.38 million with a promotional video voiced by Douglas), and they have now listed the three-acre Bermuda compound they've owned for decades for $10.6 million.
As long as Douglas and Zeta-Jones have owned their Caribbean getaway property, Douglas's family has a connection to the island nation that goes back even further. His mother, Diana, was a member of one of the oldest and most respected families in Bermuda, and her ancestors lived on the island in the 1600s. “I celebrated my first birthday here,” Douglas told Architectural Digest back in 2002. “There’s real solace in returning to this tiny island where I have so many relatives, probably 70, in one place. To me, Bermuda is a real family spot.”
The couple’s multiresidence compound is located in the island’s tony Warwick Parish, and consists of a total of eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms spread out over a main house, a two-story guesthouse, a two-bedroom caretaker’s cottage, and a one-bedroom apartment. The towering 7,300-square-foot main house is built in a Caribbean Colonial style, with ivy covering much of the front of the building. Once inside, the home features a formal living and dining room (both of which boast their own wood-burning fireplaces), as well as a cozy kitchen with a built-in dining banquette. Wood floors throughout the first level complement the kitchen’s wood cabinetry and exposed-beam ceiling.
The rest of the bedrooms are upstairs, with the master suite dominating the space. The luxurious master bathroom has a crystal chandelier, a freestanding deep-soaking bath, and glass-enclosed shower—but the crowning feature of the master suite has to be a 50-foot-long cedar-planked veranda with stunning views of the sea.
Other notable amenities on the main house’s second floor include an en suite guest bedroom, an office, and a media room. Down below in the basement, the house also boasts an exercise room with a bath and sauna. Out back are a number of beautiful outdoor spaces, including a kidney-shaped swimming pool, tennis court, herb garden, and fruit orchard.
Douglas previously told AD that they settled on the property when they were “looking for a country place" and realized that a flight to Bermuda could take "less time than it takes to get to the Hamptons.” Presently, in addition to the Majorca estate and Bermuda compound, the couple also maintains a residence in Zeta-Jones’s hometown of Swansea, Wales, an apartment on NYC’s Central Park West, and a 15-acre bucolic spread in Bedford Corners, New York.
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
