SENATOR ACCUSED IN TRAVOLTA 'EXTORTION PLOT' QUITS

Last updated: Sunday, January 25, 2009

SENATOR ACCUSED IN TRAVOLTA 'EXTORTION PLOT' QUITS

The Bahamas senator arrested over an alleged plot to extort money from movie star JOHN TRAVOLTA has resigned from her post, despite vowing to prove her innocence.

John Travolta and son Jett Travolta at Adare Manor Golf Club. Limerick, Ireland - 31.05.04

Pleasant Bridgewater was arrested on Thursday (22Jan09) following claims she took a photograph of Pulp Fiction star Travolta's 16-year-old son Jett as he lay dying in an ambulance after a seizure at the family's island home on 2 January (09).

Hospital employee Tarino Lightbourne was detained on Friday (23Jan09), with Bahamas former Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe - a family friend of the Travoltas - taken into custody just hours later.

Now Bridgewater, released on $40,000 (GBP29,000) bail a day after her arrest, has quite her job as an attorney, insisting she plans to fight the "untrue and unfair charges" against her.

And she is adamant she was simply acting as a lawyer - claiming her involvement in the case has been "misconstrued".

She says, "How these innocent actions can be so misconstrued, so perversely twisted to mean something other than it was, is a mystery."

Meanwhile, Wilchcombe has also protested his innocence, and states Bridgewater approached him to warn him that "someone was doing something untowards".

He insists he acted with integrity, telling Us Weekly, "I did a noble thing. She (Bridgewater) knew I was close to the Travoltas. She wanted to bring something to my attention.

"This is ridiculous and absurd. The Travoltas are suffering, it's just outright foolish. Never did I ask for anything, no one can say that. We had a friend in my country who lost a son. It was one single individual (who tried to take advantage of the family), the Bahamian people have been very kind to the Travoltas."

Source: WENN

| Sunday, January 25, 2009

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