Michael Douglas has described himself as a “healthy product of the Sixties” while reflecting on his colourful romantic past.

In his forthcoming memoir, One Helluva Ride, the 82-year-old actor acknowledges that he had an affair with Kathleen Turner during the filming of Romancing the Stone, at a time when he was still married to his first wife, Diandra Luker.

The book recounts several of Douglas’s relationships and includes the story of how he made “five quick calls” after Catherine Zeta-Jones told him she would only continue dating him if he agreed to be monogamous. Asked by a British journalist whether he had ever questioned why he slept with so many women, Douglas rejected that characterisation.

“I don’t know if I slept with so many women, I don’t see it that way,” he said. “No, not me, no. I was a healthy product of the Sixties.”

He then questioned why British media appeared particularly interested in the subject, asking in what was described as an “accusatory” tone: “My curiosity is why, of all countries, of all the press that I do, why are the Brits so consumed with the issues of sex?”

Douglas also makes his position clear in the memoir, writing: “I was never a ***ing sex addict.” His comments address reports from the 1990s that he had entered rehabilitation for sex addiction.

When told that his memoir was “full of sex”, Douglas disagreed. “I didn’t feel like it was,” he said. “I mention a couple [of women] in the book.”

Asked to explain the story about ending relationships with five women before committing to the then 57-year-old Zeta-Jones, he told The Sunday Times Magazine: “No, no, it’s not what it was.”

“What Catherine said is, if we’re going to continue this then I want it to be monogamous. And so I therefore, that evening, you know, made some calls to some people I was seeing, and that was that.”

Asked whether Zeta-Jones was anxious about the memoir’s publication, Douglas replied: “She hasn’t read it.” He nevertheless maintained that their marriage was “in good shape”.

One of the memoir’s major revelations is Douglas’s admission that he had an affair with Turner while the pair were filming the 1984 action comedy Romancing the Stone.

In an excerpt published by People, Douglas wrote: “Kathleen was smart, funny, and sexy with a deep, sultry voice that became her signature. I instantly liked her, and we were immediately attracted to each other.”

He said his marriage to Diandra was “in a bad place” and revealed that he had already been involved with Romancing the Stone screenwriter Diane Thomas before developing a relationship with Turner.

Douglas and Turner, who was single at the time but dating real estate mogul Jay Weiss, both repeatedly denied the affair. Weiss would later become Turner’s husband. The rumours intensified after Douglas’s then-wife, Diandra, became so concerned that she travelled to the Mexican set and confronted her husband.

Now, almost 40 years after the film became a blockbuster, Douglas says he is finally ready to “come clean”.

In the candid memoir, he recalls falling into what he described as immediate “lust” with Turner, now 72. “Kathleen was smart, funny and sexy, with a deep sultry voice that became her signature. I instantly liked her and we were immediately attracted to each other,” he wrote.

The Fatal Attraction actor continued: “Things at home were in a bad place. Diandra and I were both having extramarital affairs. The truth is that during the production of Romancing The Stone, Kathleen and I fell hard for each other and began a relationship.

“It wasn’t a fly-by-night affair; it grew naturally from how closely we were working together, how much pressure we were under, how much we respected and cared for one another, and how attracted we were to each other.”

‘Like every other guy in the world at the time, I was knocked sideways by Kathleen.’

The pair kept their affair hidden from everyone including their co-star Danny DeVito and director Robert Zemeckis.

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Douglas penned: ‘We found each other first as friends, then as co-stars, and finally as lovers.

‘Following an exhausting day of shooting in the jungle, we’d go out and have a meal, or head out with the group and afterward I would sneak into her hotel room after everybody was asleep.’

Their clandestine romance ended when Douglas’s wife flew from LA to Mexico and brought their young son.

He added: ‘Diandra grew suspicious. A woman’s intuition, I suppose.’

Their marriage limped on until 2000 when the couple divorced – with Douglas marrying Zeta-Jones that same year.

He and Turner had a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ never to discuss their relationship and for four decades both stuck to that pact.

Douglas wrote: ‘The official story went as follows: Yes, we confessed, we had amazing chemistry. Yes, we were both, as Kathleen said, ‘terrible flirts’, and yes, we were both tempted, but nothing ever happened between us.

‘That was a lie. It was a lie meant to protect my wife and son, a lie we told the world for 40 years.’

Turner honoured that pact in an interview with The Mail on Sunday a few years ago, saying: ‘The chemistry was there and Michael and I were both terrible flirts. We were in the jungle and I was feeling very romantic towards him. It was going to happen.

‘Then I walked on set one day and his wife was suddenly there. She sat next to him and that was that. You don’t mess with another woman’s husband.’

When asked this week how she felt about Douglas ‘outing’ their illicit romance, Turner appeared far from upset: ‘Good heavens, what a fuss about something 40 years ago! I love Michael and I look forward to enjoying the book.’

Turner and Douglas proved to be a box office draw, with Romancing The Stone grossing $115million at the box office.

They reunited a year later for the sequel The Jewel of the Nile, but they kept their relationship strictly professional.

They did a third movie together in 1989, The War of the Roses, which was another massive box office hit.

Luker eventually filed for divorce from Douglas in 1995 after 18 years of marriage.

According to several reports, Luker walked away with $45million and several homes.

Douglas met actress Zeta-Jones in 1998 and they married two years later. They welcomed son Dylan that year followed by a daughter, Carys Zeta, in 2003.

Douglas and Turner would go on to reunite once again, this time on the small screen in Netflix’s The Kominsky Method.

Turner joined the show’s second season in 2019 and also appeared in the third and final season in 2021.

They once again denied rumours of a past affair while promoting the series, leaving it as a four-decade secret.

One Helluva Ride will be released October 6.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing renewed criticism on the eve of her re-election bid after defending her decision to remain outside the city during a devastating wildfire.

Bass, 73, came under intense backlash on social media after traveling to Ghana as the Palisades wildfire tore through California. She also pointed to the size of Los Angeles as a reason the city faces so many crises.

At the KBLA Talk 1580 Town Hall and Ballot Forum on Saturday, Bass was questioned about her January 2025 trip, which coincided with the disaster that killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

“When people go through grief—one of the stages of grief, and I know grief very well, is anger. People are mad,” she said.

“You are mad and I understand that. And even though objectively, even if I was here, there really wouldn’t have been anything that was done different.”

Bass then appeared to attribute some of the challenges to the sheer size of Los Angeles.

“The problem in our very big city is that it’s very difficult to leave town and not have something that happens,” Bass said.

“I’m not a firefighter, obviously, but it’s the role of mayor to be here.”

Her remarks drew swift criticism online, with angry constituents blaming the mayor for what they viewed as the city’s inadequate preparation.

“Even if she was there she still would have let them burn it down,” one Facebook user wrote.

Another user argued that the weather event had been forecast a week earlier and criticized the lack of additional staffing, pre-positioned equipment and generators at water pump stations. The commenter also pointed to the Palisades reservoir, which they said had been dry for months, writing that such decisions were made “at the highest levels” and accusing those responsible of incompetence or indifference.

A third commenter called Bass a “self-serving socialist” and alleged that the fire department was unprepared, the reservoirs were dry and hydrants failed, describing the situation as “a failure to provide basic services.”

Other commenters said Bass, her opponent Nithya Raman and California Governor Gavin Newsom “should be in prison together.”

“Mind you its has taken her now to really talk about it. Emergencies do happy and she’s right that the city is huge but there are more predictive ways we can organize online and in person and Bass didn’t make herself available,” another user wrote on X.

“Except there was a city wide emergency warning when she left for Ghana and the city was unprepared to respond to what happened,” another comment read.

Bass ultimately admitted months later that her trip to Ghana during the wildfires had been a mistake. In a July 2025 interview with Vice News, she said: “I was asked, ‘Do I regret going?’ Hell yeah.”

‘I mean, let me just do a comparison. If you are out of town and your kid or a member of your family gets sick or hurt, it doesn’t matter where you were or why you were there. You feel horrible,’ she said at the time, echoing similar wording to her latest defense over the contentious issue.

The mayor had traveled to West Africa as part of a US delegation attending the presidential inauguration in Ghana – despite multiple fire weather warnings issued for Los Angeles prior to her departure.

The Los Angeles Times later reported that Bass’s team had been made aware of the fire risks before the trip.

Still, Bass insists she was caught off guard.

‘I’m really not trying to give excuses, but there was no way in the world I knew that the city was in danger when I left,’ she said. ‘Absolutely no way.’

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Upon returning, Bass said she questioned fire officials about the lack of advance warning.

‘I did ask the chief when I came back, like, “Why didn’t you tell me?” and basically the response was: “Because we have Santa Anas all the time, and nobody expected hurricane-force winds.”‘

‘I didn’t get briefed. That’s true,’ she admitted. ‘But again, people did not anticipate the historic wind. And it wasn’t just LA – it was the county too.’

Bass said she spent much of the 12-hour flight back to the ‘city on fire’ on the phone preparing an emergency declaration.

She landed back in the US the day after wildfires began ravaging neighborhoods like Pacific Palisades.

Despite her admission of ‘wrongdoing,’ Bass continued to deflect criticism during the interview with Vice News’ Shane Smith, shifting blame to the county’s fire leadership.

‘What typically happens is that if there’s going to be a big weather event, there are these briefings that happen,’ she explained.

‘It’s either initiated by the fire department or the emergency department. I was used to the fire chief calling me and telling me, “This is getting ready to happen, come over, I need to brief you.” Everything goes into motion. That didn’t happen – in the city or in the county.’

When she eventually returned from Ghana, the embattled mayor received harsh criticism.

The controversy deepened after it was revealed Bass had proposed slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget by $23 million in 2024 – the final approved cut amounted to a whopping $17.6 million, the Daily Mail previously reported.

Amid growing backlash, Bass dismissed Fire Chief Kristin Crowley in February 2025.

However, Crowley pushed back, accusing city leaders of failing to support emergency operations during the fires.

But Bass defended her actions during the all-encompassing interview.

‘Yes, there were broken fire engines,’ she said. ‘We find out later that those fire engines were there broken because they’re used for spare parts. But there were 40 fire engines that were idle because they didn’t have the staff that [Crowley] sent home.’

She also insisted the fire department’s budget was never truly cut – only delayed during labor negotiations.

‘And the budget cut – I don’t know the reasons for it – and then the budget cut that never happened,’ Bass added.

‘What we did when we did the budget was we put money aside for fire because we were in labor negotiations. When the labor negotiations were done, we put it back in the budget. Which is a common thing. We’re doing that right now.’

Just a couple of months ago, Bass was once again out of town in Chicago when another massive fire broke out at a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights. 

‘I was in Chicago three hours away, and I was there 24 hours’ Bass said, as she noted that she was constantly communicating with LAFD Fire Chief Jaime Moore while there. 

Fernando Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, told the LA Times: ‘We’re talking about a fire, and she’s out of town, so it completely and totally reinforces that narrative of January 2025, and that’s not helpful.’

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton was among those criticizing Bass, and said at a news conference at the time: ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with Karen Bass that she seems to keep leaving the city every time something happens.’

The Daily Mail reached out to Mayor Karen Bass’s Office for comment.  

An Australian businessman connected to a troubled Bali property investment venture significantly understated his criminal record in court while locked in a bitter legal dispute with his former business partner.

Adrian Campbell, who is based in Thailand, presents himself as an entrepreneur committed to “improving the lives” of others through what he calls “innovative and impactful ventures”.

He is now chief executive of Kinnara Capital, a property development business that promotes investment opportunities for overseas buyers across South-East Asia.

Kinnara Capital has been linked to a stalled luxury villa project in Bali, where Australian investors reportedly contributed $5.2 million. The investors have since referred the matter to Indonesian police.

Campbell has launched defamation and consumer law proceedings against Jamie McIntyre in the Federal Court. The case remains ongoing, and the court has not yet reached any conclusions about the substance of Campbell’s claims.

However, a Federal Court judgment last month found that Campbell had misled the court and “substantially downplayed” his criminal history when seeking suppression orders against McIntyre, his former business partner who later became his legal opponent.

The two men were previously involved in Marina Bay Lombok, a property development promoted extensively across social media. The project was located about 30 minutes south-west of Bali.

Billed as a luxury waterfront retirement villa community, the development was repeatedly hit by delays and other setbacks. Investors said they received little information about the progress of the properties they had been promised.

In June, some structures were demolished after reportedly being built in the wrong location. Investors also told police they believed their money had been transferred into bank accounts in various countries. No charges have been filed over the development, while the Mail has sought an update on the Indonesian police investigation.

The dispute has since escalated into a bitter cross-border war of accusations, unfolding through the media as well as Australian and Indonesian court proceedings.

McIntyre has accused Campbell of using Australian media outlets as part of a coordinated public relations effort against him. Reports about the dispute have frequently highlighted McIntyre’s 10-year ban from managing corporations imposed by ASIC, while Campbell’s own record of multiple Australian consumer law convictions had not previously received the same attention.

In May, Campbell obtained urgent takedown orders over what he described as a “disinformation campaign” allegedly orchestrated by McIntyre. The material included several articles accusing Campbell of “fraud and misconduct”, “misappropriation of money” and other criminal conduct.

Campbell rejected the allegations as “defamatory and misleading or deceptive”, claiming they had cost him $25 million in contracts.

In an affidavit filed to support his application for the interim suppression orders, Campbell swore that he had “never been the subject of any criminal prosecution in Australia, for business practices or anything else”. He also stated that he had never been convicted of a criminal offence.

He additionally told the court that he had not been involved in a case in 2018 and had never been ordered to pay $500,000 in fines and compensation.

Three months later, Campbell amended his evidence, acknowledging that he had in fact faced criminal prosecutions and been convicted on several occasions.

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The Federal Court’s judgment last month detailed Campbell’s admissions about his criminal record, which reaches back to 2012, when he was convicted of fraud-related offences.

Then, in 2015, he was convicted on five counts of accepting payment and failing to supply goods or services in relation to the conduct of his business, International Solar Solutions, his affidavit stated. 

A report from the Queensland Office of Fair Trading states that Campbell and his business partner accepted $36,710 from customers to install solar systems, yet failed to do so for five months.

Campbell further admitted that he was convicted and fined in 2018 after pleading guilty to 11 charges of making false or misleading representations. He was also ordered to pay $102,200 in compensation. 

The charges relate to a scam in which Campbell and an associate pocketed $204,400 through selling distribution licenses for a certain model of smoke alarm despite knowingly having no right to do so. 

A copy of the court transcript obtained by the Daily Mail reveals that the sentencing Magistrate described the conduct as ‘deliberate’ and ‘a scam’, with a ‘lack of honesty’ and disregard for those affected.

Justice Derrington found that Campbell not only ‘substantially downplayed’ his criminal history, but also led the court to believe he was an Australian resident, when he isn’t. 

Furthermore, the $25 million in lost contracts he’d purported to have been disadvantaged by, were actually sustained by his companies.

So ‘exceptionally serious’ were these omissions by Campbell, that not only was the gag order overturned, but he was also ordered to pay 80 per cent of McIntyre’s legal costs on an indemnity basis. 

When approached for comment, Adrian Campbell said his past convictions were a ‘matter of public record and he never sought to hide them’. 

‘My first affidavit was incomplete. That was not intentional and was corrected in a later affidavit filed in the same proceeding. I regret the error and respect the Court’s finding. The matters referred to are behind me, and I have built Kinnara since then.’

‘A records search does not show these as prior disclosable court outcomes as they are removed/spent from my file so it was simply an error on my behalf that was updated and my apology was accepted by the courts, proceedings continue.’

Campbell also explained that his company Kinnara was involved in the Marina Bay City project as a sales and marketing agent and did not hold any of the purchaser funds.

‘Kinnara is a reporting party in this matter. It lodged its own report with Indonesian police in November 2025, and further reports have since been lodged by purchasers in Indonesia and with the AFP. Those are matters for the authorities, and Kinnara is co-operating fully.’

‘For around a year I have been the target of a sustained online campaign. I have spoken publicly and to the authorities about my concerns with the project. I will continue to do so, and to defend my reputation through the courts.’

Justice Derrington stopped short of throwing out the entire proceedings, as per McIntyre’s wishes. The substantial proceedings remain underway and will reconvene on October 9.