Michael Douglas Reveals Kobe Bryant Visited Catherine Zeta-Jones' Pacific Palisades Home
In his memoir, Michael Douglas says NBA star Kobe Bryant frequently stopped by Catherine Zeta-Jones' Los Angeles residence in the late 1990s, before Bryant married Vanessa Laine.
Actor Michael Douglas disclosed in his recently published memoir that the late NBA player Kobe Bryant often visited his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones' home in Pacific Palisades during the late 1990s. Douglas wrote that Bryant lived nearby and would find reasons to stop by, sometimes claiming his dog was missing.
Douglas noted that the visits occurred while he and Zeta-Jones were maintaining a long-distance relationship, with Douglas based in New York and Zeta-Jones working in Los Angeles. He added that the couple continued to develop their romance through regular phone calls and eventually announced their engagement in December 1999, marrying in November 2000.
Zeta-Jones later recalled the neighborly encounters on Instagram after Bryant’s death in a 2020 helicopter crash, mentioning that his dog often wandered onto her property and that she could see his private basketball court from her home.
The memoir also covers Douglas' own marriage, including a brief separation in 2013 and the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary in November 2025.