John Joseph Travolta è un attore, cantante e ballerino statunitense, di origine italiana e irlandese. Soggetto di outing diverse volte.

John Travolta nasce il 18 febbraio 1954 a Englewood, nello Stato del New Jersey, in una famiglia di attori nella quale è il più piccolo di sei figli (due fratelli e tre sorelle: Joey, Margaret, Sam, Ellen e Ann). Suo padre Salvatore era un giocatore italoamericano di football, semi-professionista e collaboratore di una ditta di pneumatici. Il nonno era nato in provincia di Palermo. Sua madre, Helen Cecilia, nata a Burke e di origini irlandesi, fu attrice, cantante in un gruppo della radio locale, i Sunshine Sisters, e in seguito professoressa di inglese e di arte drammatica. È cattolico ed è cresciuto in un quartiere prevalentemente “irlandese”….

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Nell’ultima edizione di “Star Magazine”, il dolore e l’umiliazione di Kelly Preston, scioccata dallo scoppio dello scandalo gay del marito John Travolta, accusato di molestie sessuali. Già nel 1990 il gay porno star Paul Barresi aveva confessato di essere stato amante di Travolta dal 1983 al 1985.
La mamma di Kelly ha rivelato che la figlia e’ svenuta ed e’ esausta a causa del tormento causatole dei media e da telefonate di amici e collaboratori che chiedono notizie sulla verdicità delle accuse. “Star” racconta anche che la Preston era al corrente dei gusti sessuali del marito già da prima del loro matrimonio avvenuto nel 1991.
Quando Travolta e Kelly si sono sposati lei avrebbe firmato un contratto prematrimoniale “di ferro” che le proibiva categoricamente di parlare “male” del marito e di commentare eventuali scandali. Kelly sapeva che il marito era gay ma voleva una vita da moglie di un attore famoso.

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Travolta was in a relationship with actress Diana Hyland, whom he met while filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Hyland died of breast cancer in 1977.
Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. The couple had a son, Jett (1992–2009). Their daughter, Ella Bleu, was born in 2000. On May 18, 2010, Travolta and Preston announced that she was pregnant with the couple’s third child, later confirmed to be a boy. Their son, Benjamin, was born on November 23, 2010 in Florida.
Travolta and Preston have regularly attended marriage counseling; Travolta has stated that therapy has helped the marriage.
Travolta is a certified private pilot and owns five aircraft, including an ex-Qantas Boeing 707–138 airliner. The plane bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honor of his children. Pan American World Airways was a large operator of the Boeing 707 and used Clipper in its names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies. His $4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to his front door.
On November 24, 1992, Travolta was piloting his Gulfstream N728T at night above a solid undercast, when he experienced a total electrical system failure, while flying under instrument flight rules into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. During the emergency landing he almost had a mid-air collision with a USAir Boeing 727, an event attributed to a risky decision by an air traffic controller.
On September 13, 2010, during the first episode of the final season of her talk show, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would be taking her entire studio audience on an 8-day expenses-paid trip to Australia, with Travolta serving as pilot for the trip. He had helped Winfrey plan the trip for over a year.
Travolta has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while filming the movie The Devil’s Rain in Durango, Mexico. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities in helping with the relief efforts, Travolta flew his 707 full of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Volunteer Ministers into the disaster area

In May 2012, an anonymous masseur filed a lawsuit against Travolta citing claims of sexual assault and battery. A lawyer for Travolta said that the allegations were “complete fiction and fabrication” and someone wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Travolta’s counsel also stated that his client would be able to prove that he was not in California on the day in question and asserted that Travolta would “sue the attorney and Plaintiff for malicious prosecution” after getting the case thrown out.A second masseur later joined the lawsuit making similar claims.[