John Travolta’s Masseur Lawsuits Follow Rumors of a Double Life

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/09/john-travolta-s-masseur-lawsuits-part-of-a-long-history-of-gay-rumors.html

News of an incredibly graphic $2 million lawsuit by a "John Doe" masseur against John Travolta, which broke Monday, may have come as a surprise to some fans of the actor, who projects an image of a smiling heartthrob on-screen and an adoring family man off.

In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, an unnamed male masseur accuses the 58-year-old Pulp Fiction star of sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, saying Travolta came on to him several times during a massage session at the Beverly Hills Hotel in January. And on Tuesday, a second "John Doe" masseur, represented by the same attorney, filed another $2 million sexual-assault suit against Travolta, claiming "substantial documentation and numerous witnesses regarding the substance of Travolta's actions." Travolta's lawyer has denied both men's accusations, saying of the new suit, "This second 'anonymous' claim is just as absurd and ridiculous as the first one."

For anyone who's been following Travolta's life off-screen, however, rumors of a sexual preference for men have persisted for years.

On May 8, 1990, The National Enquirer ran a cover story describing an alleged affair between Travolta and Paul Barresi, a gay-porn star. According to Barresi, the two met in 1982, after the actor allegedly followed him into the shower room of a Los Angeles health club, and the relationship lasted for two years. Barresi reportedly received $100,000 from the Enquirer for his Travolta story, but retracted it several months later under what he later alleged was legal pressure from Travolta's attorneys. While Barresi is not the most credible of witnesses, having inserted himself into several high-profile celebrity scandals over the years, he did snag a speaking role in the 1985 Travolta film Perfect.

Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. The wedding came just a year after Barresi's claims against Travolta, as well as the news that Preston had broken off her engagement to Charlie Sheen when he accidentally shot her in the arm. Despite Travolta's newlywed status—and the birth of their first son, Jett, in 1992—the spa allegations persisted in the tabloids. According to a story published by Yahoo! News, Travolta was banned from a Los Angeles country club and a major hotel chain in the early '90s over his alleged penchant for hitting on men in shower rooms.

Since 1975, Travolta has been a practitioner of Scientology. In 1950, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard published a book called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which classified homosexuals as "the sexual pervert." The following year, Hubbard's 1951 Handbook for Preclears delivers instructions to Dianeticists on how to "cure" homosexuality by breaking the subject's mental fixation on a dominant parent of the opposite sex. In a New Yorker profile of director and former Scientologist Paul Haggis published last year, Haggis spoke about his decision to leave the church after 35 years, blaming its support of Prop 8 in California, as well as the heckling his gay daughter received by fellow members.

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[The Brain]

Doe.

[Jacob]

Doe.

A deer. A female deer.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Doe.

A deer?

[Syt]

inserted himself into several high-profile celebrity

Tee-hee.

[Martinus]

Doe.

A deer. A female deer.

Ray?

[HVC]

Travolta gay? i refuse to believe it. Next you'll be tellin me tom cruise plays the skin flute.

[Martinus]

Well, scientologists are like mormons. You can TURN IT OFF.

LIKE A LIGHT SWITCH.

[katmai]

Well that would explain Jaron's embracing of Mormonism

[CountDeMoney]

Travolta gay? i refuse to believe it. Next you'll be tellin me tom cruise plays the skin flute.

They've both been two of the biggest bareback rumor targets for the last 25 years.

[Martinus]

Travolta gay? i refuse to believe it. Next you'll be tellin me tom cruise plays the skin flute.

They've both been two of the biggest bareback rumor targets for the last 25 years.

Im pretty sure HVC was being sarcastic.

[CountDeMoney]

Travolta gay? i refuse to believe it. Next you'll be tellin me tom cruise plays the skin flute.

They've both been two of the biggest bareback rumor targets for the last 25 years.

Im pretty sure HVC was being sarcastic.

:shrug:  Meh, I don't know about all your fag memes. 

That's why neither one has ever been able to leave the Scientologists.

[Warspite]

Doe.

A deer. A female deer.

Ray?

Ray, a bloke who I find queer.