Kirk Douglas left most of a $61 million estate to charity and nothing to his son Michael

Kirk Douglas died at 103. Reports in February 2020, citing the Mirror, said his estate was about $61 million and that about $50 million would go to charities through the Douglas Foundation, which he and his wife Anne Buydens founded in 1964. Named recipients included a scholarship program at St. Lawrence University, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City and Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Son Michael Douglas, estimated at $300 million, was reported as not a beneficiary. Survivors were Anne, married to him for 65 years, sons Peter, Michael and Joel, and seven grandchildren. Reports do not agree on who receives the remaining $10 million to $11 million. The will's date and any court filing are not in the sources reviewed, and the figures come from press reports citing the Mirror, not from the will itself^†.