Kirk Douglas snubs Michael, leaves most of his $61 million fortune to charity

But will Michael get the family dining room table?

Michael Douglas is worth $300 million.

“For reasons known well to him.”

If Michael Douglas is worth $300 million, CZJ is 35.

Good for him. Between Michael and CZJ, they have plenty of their own money.

It wasn’t necessarily a snub. Michael clearly doesn’t need the money and it’s likely that it didn’t come as a surprise that Kirk left most of his (comparatively paltry) estate to charity.

How is Kirk Douglass worth $61M?

He could left this for his poor grandson . HE has suffered a lot

He could left this for his poor grandson . HE has suffered a lot

R7 He was worth way more then that. He's given away more then $100 million dollars away throughout his life.

I guess $61 is what was left. And what about his wife? What is she going to live on? And how is she holding up?

$61 million.

I am glad that I was born in a stable middle class family and not ultra rich fucked up family like this.

He raped Natalie Wood.

RIP natalie wood

Did he start an "I Raped Natalie Wood Foundation"?

He gave it to the family foundation, the board of trustees of which I’m reasonably certain is populated by family members and friends, and all of whom are able to be legally paid large sums for their tireless work.

While I not saying it’s the case here, family foundations are a common way of lessening the tax burden of large estates passing from one generation to the next.

Bingo R16

Charitable donations, very nice, but still a rapist.

If Michael is worth $300 million why is CZJ selling bathrobes on QVC these days? It can't be for fun.

He should've donated it to a survivors of rape charity. Nasty old fuck.

What in the actual fuck? CZJ, QVC, lighted spheres?

I agree - how is he worth $61 million at that age!! He hasn’t worked in decades - and had major health care expenses. Implies he had like $100 million net worth when he quit working p. That doesn’t sound right.

I'm only 25. You would think that old tightwad Kirk could have left me a least a few million $$$$$ for plastic surgery in my old age.

Many old stars invested money into California real estate.

Does Catherine talk to the hoi polloi who call in on QVC?

R24 That's right.

Ask Ryan O'Neal

I hope he at least set up a trust fund for CZJ. She'll need the money later this year when she finally comes of age.

R27 You're so nice!

Does anybody else think CZJ is seriously fucked up in that QVC segment?

Not Liza level messy but she seems to be having trouble with forming sentences and making sense.

Booze? Medication(s)? And why is she doing this anyway?

R29 She was diagnosed with being bipolar and was in a mental hospital a number of years ago and is on meds.

I know about her breakdowns, her multiple hospitalizations and her bipolar diagnosis r30.

Psych drugs, when taken as prescribed, do not cause you to act like she is in that clip.

And again, why is she selling Chinese knick knacks on QVC?

Maybe Lana Woods' voodoo dolls are finally working.

Is she no longer an A-List Movie Star any longer? What happened to her career?

What the fuck happened?

R22 Kirk Douglas had a really long lucrative career in the Movies. And just like someone else said. A lot of golden age Movie Stars invested their fortune's really well.

Kirk owned a lot of real estate throughout his life and he collected art as well. All of that will maintain wealth. Doris Day was another one who didn't have to worry about money the last decades of her life. She to was well invested. Even owned a hotel at one point in Carmel California I believe.

If your smart with money, you'll always have it.

Day had to declare bankruptcy and do a TV series ro bail herself out- Douglas managed his money well and his wife Ann will probably get almost all of it if she’s still alive- then it will go to his Foundation.

R31 You are right about actual psych meds (SSRI'S, NSRIS, Tricyclics, but most patients with Bipolar 1 patients neuroleptics or antipsychotics are used more often and often in combination and that will kick you upside down your head to the point of being completely nonsensical.

She's just overmedicated which is the general state of psychiatry.

R33 oh, dear. I worry for “your” future.

R36 Don't worry, I do too.

Don't forget, Doris also received a huge $22 million dollar settlement from a lawsuit, I believe in the 70s or 80s.

R38 After her husband died, Doris Day also had her own TV show for 5 years which earned her millions of dollars and shortly after that a hugely successful memoir which gave her a financial windfall. Doris had no money problems and had lots of it in her Will when she passed away.

R39 I haven't seen her will yet. How much did she have left?

Strange that our resident Manny To The Stars didn't know that, R30. Why, it's almost as if he's making it up as he goes along.

Oh r41 how I've missed you.

Did you miss my follow up post or did your support monkey hide your glasses again?

Your input is riveting as always.