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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones split — for now

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are taking a break — from each other.

Hollywood’s most famous A-List couple have landed in Splitsville, at least for now, in hopes of finding answers to their troubled marriage.

“Michael and Catherine are taking some time apart to evaluate and work on their marriage,” Douglas’ rep told Page Six.

“There is no further comment.”

The world-famous actors have stunned close friends, gradually telling them their 13-year-old union might not have a storybook ending.

In recent weeks, Douglas, 68, has been relaxing on a yacht off the coast of Sardinia, while Zeta-Jones, 43, has been at home in New York, People magazine reported.

Douglas and his wife haven’t been photographed together since April 22.

“They’re taking a break,” a source close to the Hollywood super couple told People.

Neither side has gone to court yet to file for divorce or separation.

The “Traffic” actor and actress have been on a bumpy marital road for at least a year, sources told Page Six.

Douglas has been spending much of this past year at the Westchester County estate of Paul Bluhdorn — son of Charles Bluhdorn, founder of Hollywood studio Gulf+Western, the forerunner of Paramount Pictures and Viacom Inc.

It wasn’t immediately clear what impact Douglas’ embarrassing slip of the tongue in June had on their rocky relationship.

Douglas shocked Hollywood when he told The Guardian newspaper that his throat cancer wasn’t from smoking or boozing, as he had previously said, but from performing oral sex on a woman.

The “Wall Street” actor didn’t disclose whether this HPV-related cancer came from oral sex with his wife or another woman.

“Without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV, which actually comes about from cunnilingus,” he told the British newspaper.

“But, yeah, it’s a sexually transmitted disease that causes [the] cancer.”

The actor’s team tried to retract the statement, but the newspaper stood by its report and released an audio recording of Douglas.

Zeta-Jones, a Welsh stunner, admitted in April that she had checked into a psych ward for treatment of bipolar disorder.