They’d smile for the cameras and everyone assumed they were a couple.” In the subsequent years, Travolta would reportedly “whisk” Gotterba to exotic locations such as Hawaii and Kenya. “Sometimes he would bring women along as beards, but he would ask me to join him in his suite and we’d spend the nights together.
The next day he told me with a big smile on his face, ‘I really enjoyed last night,’” Gotterba told the Enquirer. Gotterba said he’d expected the invitation, and the massage quickly led to sex. “As we walked from the restaurant back to the room, John suddenly said, “Hey, would you like a massage?’” “I got the sense I was being courted,” Gotterba said. He said they flew to Monterey, Calif., together and shared a “fantastic” bottle of merlot wine over dinner at the Highlands resort in Carmel. “I know the date (the affair began) because I still have the log book and records,” Gotterba, 62, told the Enquirer. In a National Enquirer story labeled “ridiculous” by Travolta’s camp, pilot Doug Gotterba said he first met the “Grease” star in February 1981 when he interviewed for a pilot job – and by September they were lovers. Here’s how the New York Daily News broke the story:
Many in the media expect that he will publish a book about the affair. Now Gotterba has finally been granted right to argue in court that he’s not bound by that agreement, meaning that if he wins he can talk about the details all he wants. However, Gotterba’s actions were halted due to a confidentiality agreement.
Women’s Day Australia notes that Gotterba originally revealed details of the alleged affair to American media back in 2012. The allegations come from the actor’s former pilot, Douglas Gotterba, who insists that he and Travolta shared a romantic six-year relationship while the actor was publicly dating Brooke Shields. Welcome to the John Travolta Gay Scandal 2014! That’s right, the Grease and Hairspray star is in the news fighting back against rumors that he’s a closeted homosexual - again.