Michael Douglas’ filmmaker ex-wife Deandra Luke has sold her Upper East Side townhouse for $17 million.
The turn-of-the-century listed Academy of Fine Arts is 6 m wide. It has been on the market since 2019 and was pulled from the market when it first asked for $20 million. Most recently, $17.5 million was required. The five-story, 8,000-square-foot home features five bedrooms, 5½ bathrooms, and a rooftop patio.
It was restored by architect Campion Platt. Details include five wood burning fireplaces and three gas fireplaces. There is also an elevator, a modern marble staircase, white marble floors, a large chef’s kitchen with terrazzo floors, a butler’s pantry and a dumb waiter in the dining room.
A separate breakfast room has a spiral staircase leading to the home office. According to the listing, both the kitchen and breakfast room have folding and bulletproof glass doors, which fully open onto the garden for entertaining.
There’s also a wine cellar and a water purification plant – and a living room with Venetian stucco walls, high-gloss lacquered ceilings, crown moldings and an onyx mantelpiece. Luke and Douglas met when she was 19 and he was 32. They married in 1977 and have a son, Cameron, 43, whose previous struggles with drug addiction were widely covered by the media.
By 1995, Luke, then known as Diandra Douglas, filed for divorce for a reported $45 million — one of the biggest divorce settlements in Hollywood at the time.
When they divorced, Luke also left her home in Santa Barbara and agreed to share her 250-acre estate in Mallorca, Spain. They get six months a year — even after Douglas married Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000. Douglas Luke bought the Mallorca estate last year and has spoken out about the difficulties of sharing the house with his wife and ex.
The listing agents are Lauren Muss and Michael Francis Passaro of Douglas Elliman. The buyer is represented by Iman Bacodari, also from Elliman. All three brokers declined to comment.
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