Investigators say Douglas was paid tens of thousands of dollars for trafficking methamphetamine — what he referred to in intercepted phone calls as “pastry” or “bath salts.” Cash and drugs were routinely exchanged from coast to coast through shippers such as FedEx, court papers said.
He had been previously arrested on drug-related charges in New York in 1999 and California in 2007.
Cameron Douglas, 31, told a judge that a New York contact first asked him if he could score the drugs in 2006. After that, “I began supplying on a regular basis.”
Asked by a judge if he knew what he was doing was wrong, he replied, “Yes, your honor.”
Cameron has acted in movies including 2003’s “It Runs in the Family,” starring his father and grandfather, Kirk Douglas.
He faces a minimum 10 years in prison at sentencing on April 27.
Ironically Michael Douglas, in the 2000 movie Traffic, played a high-powered judge in charge of fighting a war on drugs, only to find out his teenage daughter was a cocaine addict. In an interview in the March/April issue of AARP he said his son, his only child with his first wife Diandra Luker, is a “tough kid” but that he was still worried about his welfare. “Would it have been better to have been around more? Absolutely. There were absences, and I was no angel.”
“Cameron has a lot of life ahead. He now recognizes his own demons and struggles,” Douglas told the magazine.
