Michael Douglas Lists Mallorca Estate for $32.38 Million
Michael Douglas is amping up his involvement in selling off his longtime estate in the Balearic Islands of Spain—even lending his voice to a new video promoting the $32.38 million cliffside villa. The home, which Douglas bought with his then-wife Diandra Luker for $3.5 million back in 1990, has languished on the real-estate market for several years; he and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones have been trying to sell it since 2014, when they first listed it for approximately $60 million.
The estate spans an impressive 250 acres and includes a whole assortment of buildings and structures, including two cottages and five apartments with a total of 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, a home theater, an outdoor heated pool, a library, a game room, an outdoor kitchen, a wine cellar, and even a vineyard. Douglas previously called the residence his “spiritual home,” but it seems the home is no longer serving that same purpose. “My life has taken a new course,” Douglas says in the video, “and now it’s time for me to let someone else enjoy he privilege and adventure of owning S’Estaca.” Under Douglas’s ownership, the property has hosted a litany of A-list guests, including Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson.
In the video, Douglas explains that the property was once owned by Austrian archduke Ludwig Salvator of Habsburg, who bought the main house in the 1860s and renovated much of the dwelling, adding the smooth stucco walls topped with decorative crenelations along the roofline. The archduke also carved a set of dramatic stairs into the stone bluff beneath the clifftop villa; at the top, he built a bathhouse for one of his rumored mistresses, his own cousin Sisi, empress of Austria.
In the video, Douglas recalls how “when I first saw S’Estaca in 1990, I also fell under its spell and bought the property." The Kominsky Method star also says he has "put my own mark on the place" during the past three decades, "completely modernizing and redecorating the old buildings that were built by the archduke."
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
