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Travolta lawyer denies offer to settle sex lawsuit
JOHN Travolta's legal team's alleged unwanted advances may have gotten the beleaguered actor into an even deeper legal hole, according to the New York Daily News.
A source tells the paper the actor's legal representatives tried to silence Atlanta-based massage therapist John Truesdale (previously known as John Doe No. 2) by offering the former U.S. Army medic $125,000 to withdraw his federal sexual battery lawsuit against the actor.
Truesdale reportedly turned down the offer, firing his original attorney Okorie Okorocha in favour of famed celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, the source claims. Despite that, the masseur followed in the footsteps of Travolta's first accuser (known as John Doe No. 1) by dropping the $2-million lawsuit last Thursday.
Travolta's lawyer, Marty Singer, insisted no settlement offer was ever on the table.
"That is completely false," Singer said of the Daily News' report, reiterating his remarks in a statement to the press last week in which he claimed, "not one penny has been paid nor do we have any intention to pay any money for these ridiculous and false claims."
-- Postmedia News Service
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 25, 2012 D2
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