American minor actor, stand-up comedian and model; noted family, the son of Kirk Douglas and his second wife. He played roles in “The Flamingo Kid” and “Tomboy,” and in a TV movie in which he played his father’s character as a young man. He had a part in “Golden Child” and on TV, in the miniseries “North and South,” and in “Delta Force III.” He worked on the production set of his brother Michael’s movie, “Wall Street.”
Gay, he was a close pal with Tommy Lasorda Jr. who died of AIDS in June 1991. Douglas has made the most of a reputation for drugs and rowdy behavior. He was charged with three assault cases, two for battering women and one for kicking a cop. He’s been picked up for possession, a user of coke, booze and valium. On 30 October 1994, he was arrested for drug use and possession, Rosemead, California. The cops hauled him away from Los Angeles airport in August 1995 for a ruckus on the plane when he insisted that he would hold his dog on his lap for the flight and for calling one of the flight attendants gay and pinching the buns of another; he spent a month in jail. In May 1996, he was arrested on charges of possession when a package of 1,085 Xanax pills from France were intercepted by Customs. When he arrested he was holding 11 vials of crack cocaine. On 7 May 1997 he was given 10 days community service, drug rehab, and placed on probation.
The 46-year-old son of Kirk Douglas was found dead in his New York apartment on 6 July 2004. The cause of death was later cited as “acute intoxication” from the combined effects of alcohol, tranquilizers and painkillers.
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