Drug charge: Michael Douglas’ son nabbed

August 5th, 2009 - 7:41 pm ICT by IBNS

Aug 5 (IBNS) Michael Douglas’s son Cameron Douglas has been held in New York on charges of dealing methamphetamine, a drug.

Douglas, 30, was arrested at the Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan on a drug charge, according to the news agencies.

Michael Douglas was out of the country and unavailable for comment. His longtime rep declined to comment.

Cameron is the son of Michael Douglas and his ex-wife Diandra Douglas, who divorced in 2000 after 23 years of marriage.

Cameron Morrell Douglas (born December 13, 1978 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American actor. He is the son of actor Michael Douglas and Diandra Morrell Douglas and grandson of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill.

He has appeared in three films: Jackie Chan’s Mr. Nice Guy (1997), It Runs in the Family (2003), and National Lampoon’s Adam & Eve (2005). In the film It Runs in the Family, he appeared with his father Michael Douglas, grandfather Kirk Douglas and grandmother Diana Dill.

This isn’t his first run in with the law. Cameron was arrested in 2007 and charged with felony cocaine possession in California.

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas’s first television exposure was that of Karl Malden’s young college-educated partner, Insp. Steve Keller, in the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco, a role he played from 1972 to 1976.