Jeanne Tripplehorn was spotted in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her first public appearance since Basic Instinct co-star Michael Douglas disclosed that the pair had an affair during filming.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the 1992 thriller centers on a dangerous cat-and-mouse investigation involving Douglas’s detective, Nick Curran, and Sharon Stone’s murder suspect, Catherine Tramell.
Tripplehorn played Dr. Beth Garner, a police psychologist who became the detective’s complicated love interest.
After keeping the relationship private for decades, Douglas wrote about his romance with Tripplehorn in his newly released memoir, One Helluva Ride, published Tuesday.
On the same day the book was released, Tripplehorn was photographed grabbing coffee in Los Angeles with her actor husband, Leland Orser, whom she met years after her relationship with Douglas ended.
Tripplehorn, now 63, opted for a relaxed yet polished look, wearing a simple black T-shirt with fitted jeans that highlighted her slender frame.
Our News Outlet has contacted representatives for Douglas, Tripplehorn and Orser for comment.
Basic Instinct star Jeanne Tripplehorn was seen in Los Angeles on Tuesday, marking her first public appearance since co-star Michael Douglas revealed their on-set affair.
Tripplehorn stepped out for coffee on the memoir’s publication day with her actor husband, Leland Orser, whom she met years after her relationship with Douglas ended.
Douglas revealed his long-secret romance with Tripplehorn in his memoir, One Helluva Ride; the pair are pictured together in the film.
She wore her dark hair swept back into a low bun and shielded her face from the intense California sunshine with dark sunglasses.
Tripplehorn and Orser began dating after meeting on the set of the 1998 comedy Very Bad Things, approximately six years after her relationship with Douglas came to an end.
The couple married in Tripplehorn’s hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2000. They welcomed their son, August, two years later.
When Basic Instinct reached theaters, Tripplehorn was 28 and unmarried, while Douglas, 47, was still married to his first wife, model Diandra Luker.
In his autobiography, Douglas wrote that he was so “crazy about” Tripplehorn that he considered leaving Luker for her.
Ultimately, however, he decided that moving directly from what was then a 15-year marriage into another relationship would be the “worst thing” for him.
Douglas said Tripplehorn initially “was unwilling to get involved with a married man,” but he assured her that he and Diandra had formally separated.
He characterized his marriage to Luker as a “bumpy ride” marked by so many on-and-off separations that he had lost count. By that point, he claimed, they were living “separate lives” and “seeing other people.”
Although the couple tried to remain together for their 13-year-old son, Cameron, Douglas wrote that both understood their marriage was nearing its end.
Tripplehorn, 63, looked effortlessly stylish in a black T-shirt and fitted jeans that accentuated her slender figure.
She and Orser struck up their romance on the set of 1998 comedy Very Bad Things, more than six years after her involvement with Douglas had reached its conclusion
They exchanged vows in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2000 and welcomed a son called August into the world two years later
When Basic Instinct arrived in theaters, Tripplehorn was 28 and unmarried while Douglas was 47 and still with his first wife Diandra Luker
Tripplehorn featured as Dr Beth Garner, the police psychologist and tenuous love interest of the Douglas character Nick Curran
Nevertheless, he was determined to avoid scandal and kept his involvement with Tripplehorn hidden from even their co-stars and the crew, spending private hours with her ensconced in the residence he was renting.
‘While our intimacy in real life was amazing, it made shooting our lovemaking scenes on camera challenging. In front of the crew, Jeanne was so nervous that she kept laughing uncontrollably,’ Douglas recalled.
‘She finally stopped laughing, and we filmed an intense sex scene where I tear her clothes and bite her. She asks me to stop, but I don’t.’
Noting that the era of intimacy coordinators had yet to dawn, Douglas wrote that they ‘did have some concept of consent’ but made the scene ‘the old-fashioned way’ after a careful rehearsal process in which each move was agreed upon before the shoot.
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He recalled: ‘At the point when I was supposed to bite the back of her neck, I checked in with Jeanne after each take to make sure she was okay. After the second or third time, she said: “Michael, you know you can really bite me.”‘
Douglas took the note, but ‘the scene was so intense and we were both so involved in it, she couldn’t feel a thing’ – notwithstanding the bruising that had to be concealed the following day by the hair and makeup team.
He shared that his ‘relationship with Jeanne lasted through production, then we went our separate ways. But I will always think of her as an amazing actress and a truly terrific woman that I was very fortunate to spend time with.’
Douglas and Luker ultimately split three years after the release of Basic Instinct, and in 2000 he exchanged vows with his current wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, 57, with whom he shares his son Dylan, 26, and daughter Carys, 23.
When Basic Instinct was released, Tripplehorn was 28 years old and unmarried while Douglas was 47 and still with his first wife, model Diandra Luker. Above, in 1993
Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the movie centers on a cat-and-mouse game between a detective played by Douglas and a murder suspect played by Sharon Stone
Douglas has clarified that although he did not have ‘much connection with Jeanne’ after Basic Instinct wrapped, he ‘called her up and asked for her permission’ to include their romantic history in his book and she ‘said yes,’ via People.
One Helluva Ride also saw Douglas finally confess he and Kathleen Turner conducted an affair during the making of their 1984 classic Romancing the Stone.
Douglas was married to Luker and Turner was dating her eventual husband, real estate mogul Jay Weiss, at the time the two movie stars fell into bed together.
Rumors of their romance reached such a crescendo that Luker traveled to the Mexican set of the film to confront Turner, who always denied the affair publicly.
However, Douglas has now admitted to the dalliance, detailing in his book how he and Turner became swept up in ‘lust’ on the set of the adventure film.
‘Kathleen was smart, funny and sexy, with a deep sultry voice that became her signature,’ said the ‘nepo baby’ of Old Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas. ‘I instantly liked her and we were immediately attracted to each other.’
His home life, he maintained, was ‘in a bad place. Diandra and I were both having extramarital affairs. The truth is that during the production of Romancing the Stone, Kathleen and I fell hard for each other and began a relationship.’
Far from being ‘a fly-by night affair,’ their romance ‘grew naturally from how closely we were working together, how much pressure we were under, how much we respected and cared for one another, and how attracted we were to each other. Like every other guy in the world at the time, I was knocked sideways by Kathleen.’
They were apparently able to conceal the runaround from their colleagues, up to and including their co-star Danny DeVito and director Robert Zemeckis.
‘Following an exhausting day of shooting in the jungle, we’d go out and have a meal, or head out with the group and afterward I would sneak into her hotel room after everybody was asleep,’ the Fatal Attraction star shared.
Luker brought the affair to an end when she alighted on the set, bringing along her and Douglas’ then four-year-old son Cameron.
One Helluva Ride also saw Douglas finally confess that he and Kathleen Turner conducted an affair during the making of their 1984 classic Romancing the Stone
Douglas and Turner struck a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ to publicly deny their love connection, a move he characterized as a bid ‘to protect my wife and son.’ Above, in 2012
However, the professional connection between Douglas and Kathleen survived, and in 1985 they led a sequel to Romancing the Stone called The Jewel of the Nile.
In 1989, they reunited onscreen yet again for the dark divorce comedy The War of the Roses, this time with DeVito as their director.
Douglas and Turner struck a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ to publicly deny their love connection, a move he characterized as a bid ‘to protect my wife and son.’
He wrote in his new book: ‘The official story went as follows: Yes, we confessed, we had amazing chemistry. Yes, we were both, as Kathleen said, “terrible flirts,” and yes, we were both tempted, but nothing ever happened between us.’
Turner did indeed use the quoted phrase in an interview with The Mail on Sunday a few years ago in which she insisted their attraction never escalated into a full fling.
‘The chemistry was there and Michael and I were both terrible flirts. We were in the jungle and I was feeling very romantic towards him. It was going to happen,’ she said.
‘Then I walked on set one day and his wife was suddenly there. She sat next to him and that was that. You don’t mess with another woman’s husband.’
However, Turner has now reacted with equanimity to Douglas’s indiscretion about her in his memoirs, saying: ‘Good heavens, what a fuss about something 40 years ago! I love Michael and I look forward to enjoying the book.’
