Celebrity Justice
John Travolta Testimony Will Be Emotional

John TravoltaSources connected with John Travolta tell TMZ the actor's testimony in the extortion trial over his son's death will focus on two issues -- John's interaction with a paramedic/defendant as they tried to save his son ... and John's emotional reaction to the alleged plot.

As we first reported, Travolta will travel to the Bahamas and take the stand this week in the trial of paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater. The pair is accused of trying to extort $25 million from Travolta by threatening to go public with a document that could have relieved medical responders of liability. Ironically, the document had no relevance.

Sources say Travolta will testify about his interaction with paramedic Lightbourne, who tried to revive Jett Travolta after he suffered a massive seizure at the family's Bahamian vacation home.

We're told once the extortion demand was allegedly made, Travolta had no direct contact with any of the alleged extortionists. But sources say prosecutors will ask Travolta about his reaction once he learned of the plot just days after his son's death. This will almost certainly be the most dramatic and emotional part of the trial which could have enormous impact.

Our sources say Kelly Preston will not testify.



Tags: bahamas, extortion, jett travolta, JettTravolta, john travolta, JohnTravolta, kelly preston, KellyPreston, Pleasant Bridgewater, PleasantBridgewater, Tarino Lightbourne, TarinoLightbourne, trial

Relevant Posts

Reader Comments

(Page 1 of 3) | 1 | 2 | 3 | Most Recent | Next 15 Comments

1. First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:37AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Simone

2. Yikes! This will be very sad!

Posted at 12:43AM on Sep 21st 2009 by mrez golucky

3. This story does not make any sense at all. In order to extort $24 Million from someone you must first have some embarrassing DIRT on that person. This is not logical - did they go to Travolta and say "give us 25 Million or we will release information that exonerates us". Must be lots we're not being told about this story. TMZ dig a bit deeper!

Posted at 12:51AM on Sep 21st 2009 by keith

4. LOL @ chef kooky aka "balls" :)

Posted at 12:52AM on Sep 21st 2009 by keith

5. How terrible this must be for the family. My heart goes out to them. As for the scum who did this, well, I hope they have a nice looooong stint in prison.

Posted at 12:54AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Pretzel Logic

6. How terrible this must be for the family. My heart goes out to them. As for the scum who did this, well, I hope they have a nice looong stint in prison.

Posted at 12:56AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Pretzel Logic

7. How terrible this must be for the family. My heart goes out to them. As for the scum who did this, well, I hope they have a nice looong stint in prison.

Posted at 12:58AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Pretzel Logic

8. Heartbreaking....

Posted at 1:00AM on Sep 21st 2009 by a real mommy

9. How terrible this must be for the family. My heart goes out to them. As for the scum who did this, well, I hope they have a nice looong stint in prison.

Posted at 1:00AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Pretzel Logic

10. How terrible this must be for the family. My heart goes out to them. As for the scum who did this, well, I hope they have a nice looong stint in prison.

Posted at 1:06AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Pretzel Logic

11. My prayers are with you John and kelly.
hugs,
Cathi

Posted at 1:10AM on Sep 21st 2009 by huggablealways

12. Why should John even have to be in the same room with this "trash"? And, whoever you are "Mr. Balls"........you're right up there with the same type of trash......what a waste of time you are.

Posted at 2:02AM on Sep 21st 2009 by shelly

13. Hey Shelly, go wipe your ass. I can smell you from here.

Posted at 2:14AM on Sep 21st 2009 by Ball Lover

14. 5. This story does not make any sense at all. In order to extort $24 Million from someone you must first have some embarrassing DIRT on that person. This is not logical - did they go to Travolta and say "give us 25 Million or we will release information that exonerates us". Must be lots we're not being told about this story. TMZ dig a bit deeper!

Posted at 12:51AM on Sep 21st 2009 by keith
___________________________________________

If you send an ambulance away and refuse their services you have to sign off on paper stating this so that you can't come back and sue them saying they didn't help you.

John wanted his son to go to Florida for treatment and was going to fly him there so he signed that paper with the intentions of sending them away. In the end he changed his mind and used the ambulance and went to the local hospital.

The extortionist were going to show that paper and make it look like John was neglecting his son's need for medical attention by sending them away.

Posted at 2:30AM on Sep 21st 2009 by TheNameGame

15. I reaaly believe there was a connection with John Travolta's cult and the death of his son. No meds,etc.. I don't buy it otherwise. If he wasn't such a high profile celeb,we would have all the facts about his son's death. Those trying to extort from him probably know something.

Posted at 4:27AM on Sep 21st 2009 by KATHY =( ^-^ )=

| 1 | 2 | 3 | Most Recent | Next 15 Comments