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The actor and his family thank their adopted Florida hometown for supporting them after son Jett's death
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
The man who caused a mistrial in John Travolta's extortion trial is to appear before a judge next week, the prosecutor said Friday.
Ten months after Jett died, "It's like it was yesterday," the star's longtime friend tells PEOPLE
A retrial is ordered after a Bahamian politician announced one of the accused had been cleared while the jury was still deliberating
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta.
A paramedic accused of plotting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta after his 16-year-old son died in the Bahamas told a jury Wednesday the boy had been dead for some time before the ambulance service was called.
Videotapes secretly recorded by John Travolta's attorney were played Monday at the trial of two people accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from the actor after his son died in the Bahamas in January.
Jurors finally get to see footage of gritty negotiations over multi-million dollar pay off
The actor and his family thank their adopted Florida hometown for supporting them after son Jett's death
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
The man who caused a mistrial in John Travolta's extortion trial is to appear before a judge next week, the prosecutor said Friday.
Ten months after Jett died, "It's like it was yesterday," the star's longtime friend tells PEOPLE
A retrial is ordered after a Bahamian politician announced one of the accused had been cleared while the jury was still deliberating
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta.
A paramedic accused of plotting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta after his 16-year-old son died in the Bahamas told a jury Wednesday the boy had been dead for some time before the ambulance service was called.
Videotapes secretly recorded by John Travolta's attorney were played Monday at the trial of two people accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from the actor after his son died in the Bahamas in January.
Jurors finally get to see footage of gritty negotiations over multi-million dollar pay off
A lawyer for John Travolta on Thursday told jurors that he refused to comply with would-be extortionists who allegedly threatened to go to the media with reports implying that the famed actor was culpable in his son's death.
He says Pleasant Bridgewater tried to sell him a document she claimed was damaging to Travolta
Testimony continued Wednesday morning in a Nassau, Bahamas courtroom
John Travolta testified Wednesday that would-be extortionists threatened to go the media with stories implying "the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable somehow."
John Travolta's lawyer testified Tuesday that the paramedic who drove Travolta's son to a hospital the day he died later wanted money for documents the driver suggested could be detrimental to the actor.
Accused blackmailers allegedly burned a copy of the document at the center of the trial
PEOPLE has obtained secretly-taped video of high-stakes negotiation in the Bahamas
The actor signed a document at the center of the extortion case without reading it because "time was of the essence"
John Travolta spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his desperate efforts to save his teenage son's life after he suffered a seizure at the family's vacation home in the Bahamas in January.
Early testimony focuses on whether son Jett was alive when EMS arrived
In a case involving his son's death, the actor is set to testify as early as Tuesday against a paramedic and lawyer
John Travolta has traveled to the Bahamas and is prepared to be the first witness Tuesday in an extortion case linked to his 16-year-old son's death, a source told PEOPLE.
The movie star may be forced to relive the painful day of his son's death in a Bahamian court
John Travolta and Kelly Preston surprised fans at a Disney expo to promote Old Dogs
Actress Kelly Preston, whose son Jett Travolta died earlier this year, will talk publicly in October about how she and her husband, actor John Travolta, have dealt with their grief.
The actress is shooting The Last Song, quietly going about her career after the death of her son
The actor, who didn't promote The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, is taking time to "reconcile our loss" of son Jett
The family continues healing from the devastating loss of their son
Speaking with Travolta for hours recently, Washington says the healing "is going to take time"
Three months after the devastating death of Jett Travolta, friends tell PEOPLE about the family's struggle to heal
"Life isn't normal without Jett," a friend says of the family's grief since the 16-year-old died
A woman accused of conspiring to extort $25 million from the star chose not to enter a plea
A paramedic allegedly sought $25 million for a medical document said to be irrelevant to the death of the actor's son
Tarino Lightbourn pleads not guilty to the alleged scheme in Bahamas
An investigation is under way in the Bahamas into a report that someone has tried to extort money from John Travolta in relation to the death of his son, a Bahamian police official said Friday.
John Travolta, in a letter thanking his Ocala, Florida, neighbors for sympathy shown in the wake of his teenage son's death, asked them to love their friends and family "like there was no tomorrow."
"Ocala's citizens have made an impossibly painful situation a little less painful," says the family
Their local town mayor says the family will be afforded privacy
Chronic seizures can present a risk for adolescents, whose bodies and metabolism are changing.
John Travolta and Kelly Preston have returned to Ocala, Florida, with the remains of their teenage son, a family friend told CNN on Tuesday.
The 16-year-old died in the Bahamas on Jan. 2
"We have received many messages of condolence from around the world," Preston says on her site
Doctors will attempt to determine Monday why actor John Travolta's teenage son died.
Actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston said Sunday they are "heartbroken" over last week's death of their teenage son.
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