John Travolta broke out onto the scene as a movie star that helped define male machismo
for a new generation with roles in such hit films as Grease and Saturday Night Fever during
the late 1970s.
Both films featured the star as a womanizer who had the skills to get what he wanted from
the ladies, but recent rumors are suggesting that the actor’s long-standing image as
a ladies’ man was actually put in place by the Church of Scientology to cover up the
star’s rampant homosexuality!
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Over the course of John Travolta’s Hollywood career, numerous men have claimed to have
had homosexual experiences with the actor.
One of the more recent men to have come out with supposed stories of having a gay love
affair with John Travolta is a pilot by the name of Doug Gotterba.
Doug claims that he had a romantic affair with John Travolta that lasted for six years
throughout the 1980s.
Though John Travolta’s camp has continued to deny that Doug’s tales have any veracity,
Doug’s stories feature idiosyncratic details that would’ve been hard for him to make
up, and they coincide with allegations from many other men of similar conduct from the
movie star.
Doug Gotterba claims to have met John Travolta in 1981.
In fact, Doug says that he even has the documents to prove it, as he and John initially met
in a professional capacity.
John Travolta was looking for a new pilot, and Doug Gotterba was one of the many candidates
that the star interviewed.
According to Doug, the interview took place in February, and he and John had become lovers
by the fall of that same year.
For their first date, Doug says that they flew into Monterey, California and then shared
a bottle of wine over dinner at the Hyatt Carmel Highlands in Carmel-By-The-Sea.
After their first dinner, Doug alleges that John Travolta invited the pilot up to his
room for a massage.
Doug accepted the invitation and claims that things quickly turned sexual after the massage
began.
A relationship blossomed, and the relationship apparently lasted for a period of six years
before coming to an end later in the 1980s due to increasing tensions as a result of
John hiding the true nature of his sexuality from the public, as well as his obsessive
tendencies.
It seems that John Travolta was constantly worried that Doug was cheating on him during
their six-year relationship, with John Travolta often showing up at Doug’s house and going
through his personal belongings without his permission in order to try and find proof
of infidelity.
While the relationship between John Travolta and Doug Gotterba allegedly turned dark later
on, it started out as a fairy-tale romance for the movie star and his new pilot.
John and Doug allegedly went on romantic excursions to such exotic locales as Kenya, Amsterdam,
and Hawaii over the course of their relationship, with John Travolta taking special care to
ensure that no one in the public ever realized what the star was really up to.
John would have women accompany him on the trips so that he could pretend that he was
on a heterosexual romantic getaway, while Doug would be ushered into the movie star’s
room in secret so that the two could canoodle away from prying eyes.
Doug Gotterba initially enjoyed the secrecy of his alleged affair with John Travolta.
In fact, Doug claims that it was his idea for John to start a public relationship with
fellow star Brooke Shields.
John’s relationship with Brooke proved the perfect cover to hide the movie star’s homosexual
relationship with his pilot, though Doug claims that John and Brooke never had any actual
chemistry whatsoever.
Despite Doug’s initial enthusiasm for being John’s secret lover, the weight of the secret
eventually became too much for the pilot to bear.
Between the secrecy and John’s increasing obsessive tendencies when it came to their
romance, Doug claims to have decided to end his and the star’s relationship.
After John Travolta and Doug Gotterba ended their alleged romantic relationship later
in the 1980s, Doug claims to have run into the movie star one subsequent time by chance.
The chance meeting occurred in 1992, by which time John had married wife Kelly Preston.
According to Doug, he asked John if he was still carrying on relationships with men during
his marriage, to which John replied that he was.
Doug kept the tales of his alleged affair with the movie star a secret for many years,
until he decided to go public with the story in the 2010s.
By the time that Doug came forward with his story, numerous others had already accused
John Travolta of covering up his true sexuality.
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Prior to pilot Doug Gotterba coming forward with his tales of a supposed six-year-long
romantic affair with movie star John Travolta, John had been the subject of some controversy
when two anonymous male masseuses had come forward with allegations that the actor had
fondled them inappropriately while they were giving him massages.
The first of these anonymous male masseuses went on to retract his claims after John Travolta
was able to provide an alibi suggesting that he couldn’t have possibly been where it
was alleged that he was.
When Doug Gotterba came out with his own tales later on, John Travolta’s camp reminded
the public of the accusations from the first anonymous male masseuse that had been proven
false by John’s alibi.
From the perspective of John Travolta’s PR team, it seems that there is a conspiracy
against the movie star to paint him as a homosexual, when in reality he has always been straight.
The first person to ever come forward with allegations that John Travolta was hiding
his true sexuality from the public was a porn star by the name of Paul Barresi.
Paul came out with his story about John Travolta all the way back in 1990.
According to the porn star, he and John Travolta had been engaged in a romantic relationship
that lasted for two years, from 1983 to 1985.
Of course, if Paul’s story were true, this would mean that John was actually cheating
on Doug Gotterba with Paul Barresi.
This would make John a pretty big hypocrite given how much of a hard time he gave Doug
out of fear that he was being unfaithful.
According to Paul Barresi, his and John Travolta’s romantic relationship started when the movie
star approached him while they were both at a gay bathhouse.
John perhaps recognized the porn star from his variety of adult features, some of which
Paul had even directed.
After John approached him, Paul claimed that the two had sex dozens of times that night.
The romantic encounter led to a two-year relationship.
Similar to Doug Gotterba, Paul claimed that things ended up getting pretty weird between
him and John Travolta, with the movie star proving incredibly obsessive.
A little over a decade after porn star Paul Barresi came forward with his tales of a supposed
two-year relationship with movie star John Travolta, it was revealed that the male porn
star had actually done some shady work for a celebrity attorney that painted his tale
in an incredulous light.
People became convinced that Paul had made his story up, and the porn star was forced
to retract his tale in order to abate public harassment.
Despite the fact that Paul ended up officially retracting his tale, he would later claim
that he only did so because he felt pressured to.
Nowadays, Paul Barresi still stands by his allegations that he had a two-year-long romantic
relationship with John Travolta during the 1980s.
While Paul may have decided to go back on retracting his tale of a supposed romantic
affair with John Travolta, the retraction had already done too much damage to the porn
star’s already-limited credibility.
John Travolta’s camp continues to point to Paul Barresi as an example of someone who
is willing to make up stories in order to paint John Travolta as a gay man.
With all of the many men that have accused John Travolta of being gay, the movie star’s
PR team has thought of a way to discredit each one.
Besides all of the men that have accused John Travolta of being gay, there’s also the
fact that the actor’s late close friend Carrie Fisher constantly talked about the
fact that John’s gayness was an open secret in Hollywood.
According to the late Carrie Fisher, all the ladies in Hollywood knew that John Travolta
was gay and none of them cared.
It remains uncertain how Carrie’s public statements regarding John’s sexuality affected
their supposedly great friendship.
If the ladies of Hollywood have never cared that John Travolta was gay, the Church of
Scientology may be another story.
The church holds some decidedly homophobic beliefs, and many believe that it may have
been their decision to coerce John Travolta into hiding his sexuality.
The movie star has been a long-standing member of the controversial church, and many also
believe that the church may have used some of its resources over the years to help discredit
those coming forward with allegations against the star.
While many, many people claim that John Travolta’s long-standing homosexuality is an open secret
in the entertainment industry, the star and his camp continue to deny it.
Now it’s time to hear from you: did you know that multiple male masseuses have accused
movie star John Travolta of inappropriately fondling them during massages and that several
other men have claimed to have had romantic relationships with the actor in secret?
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