Zeta’s zillionaire life

Five homes. Gold cutlery. Chandelier in the garden. No wonder Catherine loves showing it all off online ...

Married to Hollywood royalty, Catherine Zeta- Jones has spent decades living pretty discreetly with her double Oscar-winning husband Michael douglas and their children dylan, 16 and Carys, 13.

Okay, she swept through airports with a staff member wheeling her huge Louis Vuitton trunks, and there was no doubt that extravagance was the order of the day — but she didn’t seem to flaunt it.

There was one slip in 2003 when she observed that: ‘a million dollars isn’t a lot of money for people like us.’

But given that Zeta- Jones is worth £35 million and her husband £155 million, she was probably just being honest.

Lately, though, the actress seems compelled to share the most intimate details of her domestic life on instagram — and what she reveals is a life of jaw-dropping opulence almost beyond imagination.

it’s in stark contrast to her upbringing; her dad owned a sweet factory and her mother was a seamstress, and ZetaJones grew up in an ordinary four-bedroom home on a surburban estate in the Mumbles area of Swansea.

a snap of her bathroom cabinet — replete with ‘face and body essentials’ worth £2,000 — and custom-built walk in wardrobe provoked global fascination.

But wait until you see the other luxuries the 47-year-old actress enjoys.

She divides her time between a £5 million apartment overlooking New York’s Central Park (it’s three flats knocked together) and four other boltholes.

The largest is a £10 million period property in Bedford, upstate New York, complete with stables, as well as eight bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. Film star richard Gere and U.S. domestic goddess Martha Stewart are neighbours.

its incredible shiny black granite floors require daily buffing by the staff.

Naturally there is a grand piano (an art deco specimen, worth £30,000-plus), and a picturesque lake with a rowing boat.

She recently explained to Hello! magazine that Michael hadn’t wanted to move from their smaller, previous house nearby but she persuaded him by buying him a massive curved-screen TV.

‘He talks about it like it’s a Picasso, so now i can do anything to the house and he’s happy,’ she said.

in addition, there is a huge holiday home in Majorca, a four-bedroom house in Bermuda and a ‘ barn’ in Quebec, Canada, which is a ski retreat.

enjoy a peek through the keyhole into a life of money-no-object indulgence . . .