Travolta blackmail trial told of 'detrimental' document

A paramedic who treated John Travolta’s chronically ill son was ready to release private information to the media unless he was paid $25m for a document he believed “detrimental” to the Hollywood star, a Bahamas court was told.

Allyson Maynard-Gibson, a lawyer for Travolta and the opposition leader in the archipelago’s senate, said ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne’s lawyer told her days after the autistic teenager’s death in January that the paramedic wanted to give the actor “first option” to buy the document.