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Busting bad dish!

CLAIM: John Travolta in Sham Marriage, Had Sex with Co-Star Jeff Conaway

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(National Enquirer)

Sister tabloids National Enquirer and Star are continuing to attack John Travolta with allegations that his marriage to Kelly Preston is a sham and that he’s engaged in a decades-long string of gay liaisons.

This week, the mags have given particular attention to Vikki Lizzi, the estranged girlfriend of the late Jeff Conaway, Travolta’s co-star in Grease more than thirty years ago.

Lizzi makes some very serious, completely unsubstantiated claims in both the Enquirer and Star – specifically, that Conaway allegedly revealed that Travolta had once performed oral sex on him as he slept.

In the Enquirer, Conaway is said to have “left Vikki a shocking note he’d written for a failed suicide attempt in 2006″ in which he supposedly claimed that at some point in the 1990s, he “awoke in his home to find Travolta giving him oral sex.”

According to Lizzi, the incident “ruined the actors’ friendship.”

Star quotes Lizzi — again, the estranged girlfriend of a deceased, long-ago Travolta co-star — as saying, “Jeff told me that John and Kelly’s marriage was an arrangement.”

She adds, “Jeff said that Kelly was OK with the arrangement. Jeff said that Kelly knows that John is gay, and that’s why she’s OK with it.”

Conaway, of course, is not around to verify Lizzi’s story, and Travolta’s lawyers point out that Lizzi has been a longtime “source” for American Media Inc. (AMI), the company behind both the National Enquirer and Star.

Marty Singer, Travolta’s attorney, slams Lizzi’s credibility in a statement to Gossip Cop.

“Vikki Lizzi, the late Jeff Conaway’s estranged girlfriend, has been a regular paid source for the AMI’s tabloids, yet this is the very first time we are hearing this new outlandish story that is supposedly based on a six-year-old notarized suicide note,” Singer tells us.

He continues, “Vikki Lizzi sold more stories than we can count to AMI publications both before and after Jeff Conaway died. Why didn’t this ‘notarized letter’ story ever come up before? Why did this story surface only now, after the AMI tabloids sparked a frenzy with its bogus Doe #1 story, and a year after Mr. Conaway’s death when he is no longer around to refute it?”

The two John Does who recently accused Travolta of sexual harassment have since withdrawn their lawsuit.

Singer tells Gossip Cop, “This spate of recklessly published tabloid stories is just part of a malicious tabloid agenda to boost lagging sales by running outrageous defamatory stories about my client sourced by people seeking notoriety or a payday.”

It bears noting that despite the flurry of rumors around Travolta’s sexuality and his marriage to Preston, the salacious stories in the Enquirer, Star and other tabloids have all wilted under scrutiny, with the accusers unwilling to take a real legal stand.

There’s no reason to think there’s any actual evidence to back up Lizzi’s sensationalism.

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  • Anonymous

    Lizzi just wants money. When you watched Conway on his stints on Celebrity Rehab they called Lizzie an enabler and on countless occasions banned her from seeing Jeff because they thought she was on drugs or smuggling him drugs. She is total trash.

  • Anonymous

    That’s right, that woman is nothing but trouble. A liar, a player, and a junkie.

  • Chester

    So that is how the tabloids operate. They don’t care how they ruin anybody’s rep, they just want headlines to make money. That’s enough for any fool to not buy their tabloid. It’s a shame the hate that they build for the no-brains. I wish we could run them all out of business. I am glad to know that AMI is behind those “sick” tabloids.

  • Sheelly

    His marriage is a sham. Shame on you, GossipCop, for letting the Cult of Scientology fool you!

  • Kaylee

    Why is the lawyer responding if these claims are so ridiculous and if this Liz person is a known liar, why respond?

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  • cinchi

    Because the stories are in the tabloid and without refutation, his client will be tried in those tabloids and damage will be done to his career. Justin Bieber’s legal team responded to the bogus paternity allegations as well. Why is the concept of defending yourself in the media when that’s where you are being tried difficult for you to understand?

  • Mayhemgirl

    I make it a habit to never really believe anything I read about celebrities unless they have confirmed it themselves, but I do find it odd that John Travolta has had gay accusations spanning his whole career. I mean, I could see once or twice, they probably all get that, but this is something that has been a constant re-occurrence throughout the years, and it does make me wonder if there is some water to the rumor. I would not care at all if he was gay.

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    yet this is the very first time we are hearing this new outlandish story that is supposedly based on a six-year-old notarized suicide note,” Singer tells us.

  • Anonymous

    @Shelly if John & Kellys marriage were a sham it wouldn’t have lasted the length of the honeymoon let alone 20+ years dumb asses like you said the same thing about Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward’s marriage which lasted nearly 51 years. the tabloids will do anything to sell papers

  • GaPeach

    Why does anyone care if John is gay?? If he is and wants to keep it secret – it’s his right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/christine.west.71 Christine West

    Actually if he is into men and yet still wants to be with his wife that would make him bi-sexual not gay. Does not matter and is no ones business. If their marriage was a sham it would not have survived the death of their son. Star needs to be ignored, if no one bought the stupid magazine they would go away. That they and other like them continue to make money off of b.s. and lies is amazing really.

  • Jennifer

    I don’t think Travolta is gay or there is any truth to any of this nonsense. However… even if there were, who cares? Lots of gay actors out there. It’s a big so what, not some big reveal. Nobody’s business but his and his wife’s. I hope he sues them all.

  • Gossip Cop Jumped the Shark

    Wow! Well, this is it. Gossip Cop has outed itself as nothing more than a PR site for celebrities. Busting Bad Dish??? I don’t thinks so. NO, you just blew it. John Travolta is gay. Everyone in Hollywood knows this. This site can’t be trusted if you’re willing to discredit the story. Forget Lizzy, so many other people have come forward with their stories about John. I’m sick of it. I don’t care about his arrangement with his wife, or what he does behind closed doors with consenting adults. But, my problem is that sites like Gossip Cop allow John’s PR team to spin stories that, in turn, allow the wealthy and connected Travolta to continue propositioning and sexually harrassing men anywhere he sees fit. You should be ashamed, but you’re not. Wealth has kept others from coming forward. Period. His team is working overtime to get each and everyone of his accusers paid off or discredited. It’s gross. And, Johns repulsive! Not because he’s gay. Because he’s been allowed to prey on men that weren’t interested for decades and get away with it. Any article you post going forward debunking gossip I’ll follow-up saying this…”Well, remember, it’s the site that defended Travolta.”

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  • Anonymous

    That’s not exactly true. I don’t recall hearing these accusations when he was a nobody doing TV’s “Welcome Back Kotter,” or when he did a few movies afterwards. Then he faded in popularity, wasn’t doing movies or getting offers either, and we never heard about him or what was going on in his life. Quenton Tarantino put him in “Pulp Fiction” which brought John back into the limelight and then that’s when these ugly rumors started up.

    I’m with you though, only those with a sick agenda gives a shit if he is gay or not. He’s human, with a family and they love each other. He’s a good actor, and we enjoy his work, and that’s all that should matter to HIS public!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe John Travolta does prey on noncensenting men. However the original article was how he was accused by two male masseurs of unwanted sex. That is the immediate question. Can they absolutely prove their charges against the TV and movie star? Its one thing to be gay its another to be falsely, wrongly accused.

  • Gloria

    If John Travolta is gay-that’s his business and his wife’s if she knows but if he is gay it seems to me he wants to be outed or he wouldn’t allow these alleged incidents to keep happening. Don’t you think he would be more discreet. Seems that he wants people to know until he gets caught and then his team of spin doctors go to work. John if you are -then so be it but live one life or the other.

    It’s your life.

  • Anonymous

    The most sickening for me was when some people tried to blackmail him right after his son died. John and his wife have had a lot of grief, but they deal with it together. with dignity.

  • Corimiller62

    ALL of the allegations cannot be made up, i mean come on! he should just be a man(?) and admit it!

  • seriously??

    What? What is wrong with you people? What John is accused of doing IS A CRIME. No one cares that John is gay. So you say, because he’s a good actor and you enjoy his work that’s all that matters to the public? Who are you? So I guess if you were a massage therapist and John continually insisted you perform sexual favors FOR him and ON him you’d be down with that because he’s a good actor??? That’s all that should matter?? These massage therapists aren’t speaking out to “OUT” John as being a gay man. They are speaking out because John is consistently sexually harrassing men that aren’t into it. They didn’t want to participate and some of the men he propositioned weren’t even gay. Get it? It’s a crime! Jesus. Massage therapists aren’t required to get the client off!! Big difference. This is not a gay issue. This is a wealthy gay, celebrity scientologist that is using his power to get his sexual needs met at others’ expense. And, it’s worked for years.

  • Al Boynkya

    Is Travolta the ‘man’ or the ‘woman’?

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  • MyKinKStar

    I agree with all you say – you are right. What I’m saying is if the allegations are true, then those people who have had a crime committed against them SHOULD HAVE spoken up before AND followed through, without dropping the charges or going to the rag papers with their story to make some cash, because it makes them appear to be liars.

    Sure, this particular time there are several who have come forward, BUT they have dates wrong and changed to a high-profile attorney. It just looks outta whack.

    He could be gay or not, or maybe he has an agreement with his wife to do whatever he wants. It’s not our business UNLESS he is committing a crime! He certainly should be in a position to pay someone to be with him, but then maybe he’s more into the thrill of danger, risking not being able to have what he wants from a stranger or that person telling on him Maybe it is about him using his Hollywood or Scientologist self to control someone. I don’t know.

  • MyKinKStar

    Your comment is too stupid. What does it even mean?

  • Pee Wee

    I guess he gave Kenicky a hickey on his dickey!

  • Dave

    Surprised he doesnt have a bad case of the gout by now,everyone knows you get itfrom eating lots of organ meat.Sincerely Dave

  • Dave from Easton

    Ah yes,I almost forgot it should be noted that evan though this has come out about John.You never here about the other musical side of him.It will surprise many to learn of his prowess on the piano,although disapointingly he sucked on the organ.

  • Whitesean83

    Man who gives a f all these gay men are just tryn to get paid o im a massue bout to gto john travulas house and then try and sue him any way i can wat ppl shuld really b thinkn about how sik this world is today that u can slander someones good mame with just hearsay bull crap theese days someone will sue u fot talking to loud truthfully the situation makes me sik people neefa worry bout there own lives and stop tryn sue people for lil bit of m money everyone just n eeds to let john get his nuts bak u life sukn fukn leaches feading on gossip and false claims get a life

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  • Mpettersen

    i gerw up wachting john and i dont think he is gay

  • Been There

    Not true. 15 years and counting from personal experience. Also do some web searches. Plenty of people both men and women find out their hetero spouses are homo after many years. If you haven’t been there personally, you can’t speak to it.

  • Anonymous

    some also stay with a partner they know is gay to help them maintain a career like lady Rachel Kempson did with her husband sir Michael Redgrave though their own children didn’t know until 1983 when son Corin was helping him write his autobiography

  • brian

    no thing atall new hear peoples. all hollowood peoples have the gay. how times many i haft to told you peoples. it pay to have the gay all the way in this day. you see acters love kinkifiediness sextual asperiances acuase they board acuase thay have did all things they are to have did with all the money the haved. that why they all have sextualality games with each others wifes and husbands like the ashcan kruntchner an the demis moorse when they had they manage a triology.. it wont new do it are?

  • brian

    you rite he a funy mans and have the gay to that wont alegal to have a gay but peoples think it are cus he pulp fictionalized an peoples think he a tuff mans when he axually a puff.

  • brad

    thank you kinky star lady but i wont sayed all that laff out longerly. i just saying he are a puff

  • 4ib6pack

    you see dirkeye dirkeye al roker lady mans. it simplistical. the trevolta boy think he are both. when he stand on front of you in full frontage nakedity .he a mans. but when he turn round an bend over he think he a womans. that how the homortextualistical peoples do be an are . they try to be both a mans an a womans. they have flawnesses tho. the mans homortexual not able to have childs naturistically by the birthing canal methodoligy way. an that make them have much jellocy be acause the womans lesbozian homortextuals are able to are. a good exsample be of like it are with the chad boner peoples. the childs of the dead soney an the chair couples child whos name were chadsity but then she change she name to chad so people would think she are a mans. after she changed she name peoples started to call she a he but she really wont a he. she still were a she but she were so ugly she jus look like a he but wont. so after that peoples jus called she a he. she always gunna be a she even win she change she name to a he name an look like a he. it have complicationalities so deep it make you head hurt to think hard on it about why. i suspect this asplain to yous about the he/she dalemia

  • 4ib6pack

    it be acause they wont neather be of canada geanological decent an not dumbisalls like canadonians peoplese. thank heaven.

  • 4ib6pack

    you rite he a puff big like times. did you ever see that movie zanadoodles. he were singing an dancing like he was a girl. it were so funy like i cried with laughature it wew so funy. i couldnt find a floor faster anuff to run over sos i could laff my absticals out. that how funy it were. he haved the gay now for 50 or so years now an no peoples knowed it till now. i finguerd it out tho be acause you see all hollowood peoples aquire the gay at some of a time when it be another.

  • 4ib6pack

    alot of the hollowood peoples do prey the get the gay. you prolly rite. it such a good career ahancemental move to aquire gayness.

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  • Marycam1000

    He is married. FACT. He has sex with his wife to have children. FACT. They kiss and hug publicly. FACT. She is an attractive woman. FACT. They’ve been married awhile. FACT. They have survived the loss of their son with some sought-after outside help. FACT. They want to stay married together. FACT.
    That’s all I need to know.

  • Cassie

    Let’s hear from Kelly

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