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Jury Selected in Travolta Extortion Case

Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:41PM by TMZ Staff

Three men and six women decide if John Travolta was the victim of attempted extortion in the death of his son Jett.

John Travolta Extortion Case

A jury is now in place in the case against paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former senator Pleasant Bridgewater. Prosecutors say the defendants threatened to go public with a document that protected emergency responders from liability. Ironically, the document was irrelevant in Jett's death and it's baffling why the pair allegedly would think Travolta would pay $25 million to keep it under wraps.

Tarino LIghtbourne: Click to watchTravolta will testify -- probably either tomorrow or Wednesday. We're told John's testimony will focus on his interaction with Lightbourne as they tried to save Jett and on his reaction to the alleged extortion demands.

Lightbourne and Bridgewater have both pleaded "100% not guilty" -- legal trivia: OJ Simpson pleaded "absolutely 100% not guilty" in his murder trial.

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Tags: extortion, jett travolta, JettTravolta, John Travolta, JohnTravolta, pleasant bridgewater, PleasantBridgewater, tarino lightbourne, TarinoLightbourne

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1. This is so sad!

Posted at 2:46PM on Sep 21st 2009 by PrincessConnie1

2. Yikes! Sleazy!

Posted at 2:47PM on Sep 21st 2009 by mrez golucky

3. Total d-bagz! I hope they get the maxium punishment!

Posted at 2:50PM on Sep 21st 2009 by tacky_hoe_hater

4. These people have got to be the lowest of the low. I hope if they are found guilty, they don't just get a slap on the wrist.

Posted at 2:51PM on Sep 21st 2009 by YLG

5. There's a special place in Hell reserved for people who try to extort money from parents who have lost their children.

Posted at 2:50PM on Sep 21st 2009 by enjoytheflames

6. Here are the pictures of his son in the ambulance: http://www.931theparty.com/cc-common/gallery/display.html?album_id=948 This is so sad!

Posted at 2:55PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Victor Wood

7. Of course you have to throw O.J's name around for no apparent reason, oh wait....that was supposed to be FUNNY!!!

Get a life TMZ, and new writers. You people SUUUUCK!!! LOL

Posted at 3:00PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Nunya

8. A-holes, they should be ashamed of themselves - Greedy folks - wonder if either one of them is gonna use the race card - they usually do.

Posted at 3:25PM on Sep 21st 2009 by atabaw

9. I can't wait to see these 2 go to jail!!!!

Posted at 3:29PM on Sep 21st 2009 by shawn

10. Okay, so their defense is what-that the grieving Travoltas just hallucinated the whole thing?

Somebody needs to explain this again from the beginning. Like, did John refuse to sign a release for this paramedic who attempted to resuscitate his son or something? None of it makes sense. But if they're asking for money, that makes sense insofar as I DON'T think the T's made it all up out of thin air and I DO think the defendants are sleazebags, however you slice them.

Posted at 3:36PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Raejean

11. Go to http://Darrelacity.webs.com/ it's totally awsome.

Posted at 3:52PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Darrelacity

12. This is really sad! I hope those jerks do a lot of time!

Posted at 4:03PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Mike

13. #8- ATABAW

I take offense that you would think that just because they're BLACK, they gotta use the "RACE CARD".....
WE Wouldn't need to USE the "RACE CARD" if white folks were so devilish in the way they deal with minorities......!
Then they want to INSULT BLACK FOLK'S intelligence by insisting that "racism doesn't Exist"....I guess slavery didn't exist either...? I guess the treatment of African Americans as "second class citizens" didn't exist either.....
that's what you all would like to tell yourselves, and everybody else.....!
WELL IT DID, AND IT DOES!
But like you always tell us about 300 years of oppression, "GET OVER IT".....

Posted at 4:04PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Jimmy Carter was Right

14. I wonder what the connection is between the two defendants. Are they related to each other, or friends maybe?

I hope TMZ keeps us updated on this trial.

Posted at 4:08PM on Sep 21st 2009 by Pretzel Logic

15. These people are all just being charged because of Racism against Kanye and Obama. If Obama weren't president, they would've walked away.

NY Governor said his critics were coming after him because they were racist, and "Obama is next".

Its obvious these people are racial pawns.

Posted at 5:47PM on Sep 21st 2009 by The Facts

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