Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares her birthday and who is 25 years her senior, at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito. They got engaged on 31 December 1999, and were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York on 18 November 2000 after Douglas' divorce was finalized. The high-profile ceremony, which cost an estimated £1.5 million, was labelled as the "wedding of the year" by the BBC. The couple signed a £1 million deal with "OK!" magazine to release pictures of the event, and the rest of the press were not permitted to enter. Despite this, journalists of "Hello!" magazine surreptitiously took pictures of the ceremony, and the couple successfully sued the magazine for invasion of privacy.