Kirk Douglas & Catherine Zeta Jones Ask NY Judge To Spare Cameron Douglas Serious Prison Time

First Published: April 6, 2010 5:48 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Caption Catherine Zeta-Jones promotes ‘A Little Night Music Broadway Cast Recording’ at the Walter Kerr Theatre, NY, April 6, 2010Film legend Kirk Douglas has asked a federal judge in Manhattan to spare his drug-dealer grandson a harsh prison sentence.

Cameron Douglas also received a letter of support Tuesday from his actress stepmother, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

She calls him a “considerate, worthy human being.”

The son of Michael Douglas had pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges he peddled large quantities of methamphetamine out of a trendy Manhattan hotel.

The charges carry a minimum term of 10 years behind bars. But lawyers for the admitted heroin addict argue he should get only 3 1/2 years at sentencing next week.

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