Posts with tag "johntravolta"

Tom and Katie Celebrate With Travoltas at Secret Scientology Event

Posted Oct 21st 2009 at 06:15 AM by PopEater Staff

Over the weekend, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and daughter Suri reunited with John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston -- plus over 6,500 Scientologists and their guests celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists in England on Oct. 16, Usmagazine has confirmed. They were surprise guests at the 25th anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists. ...

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Cops: Woman Scorched Travolta Evidence When Scandal 'Was About to Explode'

Posted Oct 9th 2009 at 06:07 AM by PopEater Staff

A Bahamas police officer testified Thursday that a woman on trial for allegedly trying to blackmail John Travolta acknowledged burning a document at the center of the case. Pleasant Bridgewater, one of two defendants in the alleged plot to demand $25 million from the movie star, told police the day she was arrested that she destroyed the form with Travolta's signature "after she noticed the ...

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Travolta Blackmail Trial Turns Into 'A Few Good Men'

Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 08:28 AM by PopEater Staff

The extortion trial surrounding the death of John Travolta's son turned into a reading of 'A Few Good Men' on Tuesday after the actor's lawyer channeled Jack Nicholson to bring the court to laughter. The moment occurred when defense attorney Murrio Ducille accused Travolta's attorney Michael McDermott of entrapment. "I suggest, Mr. McDermott, that you sought to give birth to an extortion plot ...

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Tapes: Suspect Felt 'So Badly' During Travolta Blackmail Attempt

Posted Oct 5th 2009 at 02:00 PM by PopEater Staff

A defendant accused of plotting to extort millions from Hollywood actor John Travolta felt guilty about the plan, according to TMZ. "I just want to get this over with..." said Pleasant Bridgewater in tapes being played at the hearing today. "I don't want to hear about it again ... I feel so badly about the whole thing," she regretted. ...

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Travolta: Bahamas Medic Threatened Me

Posted Oct 1st 2009 at 10:00 AM by PopEater / Wire Services

John Travolta testified Wednesday that Bahamas paramedic Tarino Lightbourne threatened to sell stories to the media suggesting the actor was at fault in the death of his 16-year-old son. Travolta said the paramedic, who is now on trial for extortion, demanded $25 million. If Travolta refused, Lightbourne said he would release a consent document that the actor initially signed refusing to have his ...

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Is John Travolta Leaving Scientology?

Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 03:01 PM by PopEater Staff

After John Travolta took the witness stand last week and testified that his late son Jett was autistic, people wondered if The Church of Scientology would soon lose one of its high-profile members. Until then, Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston said their son had Kawasaki disease, a rare condition that causes arterial inflammation because autism is not recognized in the church. ...

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Travolta Recounts Attempt to Save Son, Acknowledges He Was Autistic

Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 12:42 PM by PopEater / Wire Services

John Travolta described Wednesday how he desperately tried to save the life of his seizure-prone son and made perhaps his first public description of the teen as autistic as he testified in the trial of two people accused of trying to blackmail him. With his wife, Kelly Preston, looking on inside the Nassau, Bahamas courtroom, Travolta said that he performed CPR on his son after a nanny alerted ...

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Jury Selected in Travolta Extortion Trial

Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 03:49 PM by PopEater / Wire Services

A jury was selected Monday for a trial that could see John Travolta take the stand against two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from the movie star following his son's death in the Bahamas. Travolta is on a list of 14 witnesses against the defendants - a former Bahamas senator and an ambulance driver -- who allegedly threatened to release a document related to the treatment of his ...

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Travoltas Make First Public Appearance Since Death of Jett

Posted Sep 13th 2009 at 09:19 AM by PopEater Staff

Marking the first time the Travolta family has attended a public event since the death of their 16-year-old son Jett in January, John Travolta, Kelly Preston and their daughter Ella Bleu gathered on stage to present the Disney film 'Old Dogs,' in which all three members appear. It was a brief and mostly mum appearance for the family. Travolta spoke to the crowd, saying: "I always appreciate the ...