ACTOR John Travolta is among the potential witnesses at a Bahamas trial beginning today for two people accused of trying to extort $25 million (€17m) from the movie star, court officials say.

A former Bahamas senator was granted bail today on charges she conspired to help extort $25m (€18.8m) from actor John Travolta after his son died from a seizure at a family vacation home.

A Bahamian politician arrested over an alleged plot to blackmail actor John Travolta said he had only tried to warn the star after his 16-year-old son died from a seizure.

A Bahamas senator accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta after his son’s death resigned today and vowed to prove her innocence.

Police in the Bahamas are holding a senator and a paramedic in connection with an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son.

Authorities in the Bahamas are holding a senator and a paramedic in connection with an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said tonight.

Friends and family members joined John Travolta and his wife at a private memorial service for the actor's son at his Florida home.

Actor John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston returned to Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son today.

THE body of John Travolta’s 16-year-old son Jett will be flown back to Florida from the Bahamas for a funeral today, according to reports last night.

John Travolta’s 16-year-old son was “spectacularly supervised” before he was found collapsed at the family’s holiday home on Grand Bahama, a lawyer for the actor said today.

Aidan O’Brien and Jamie Spencer team up with the unexposed Yehudi in tomorrow’s Criterium de Saint-Cloud, the juvenile prize which brings the curtain down on France’s Group One programme.

Hurricane Jeanne lashed the Bahamas with violent winds and torrential rains today, making a direct hit on Abaco island and threatening the country’s second largest city of Freeport while hundreds of people took refuge in emergency shelters.

Hundreds of people fled their homes and took refuge in shelters set up in schools and churches today as Hurricane Jeanne bore down on the Bahamas with 100mph winds and torrential rains, threatening more destruction to an island chain still recovering from Hurricane Frances.

WITH Florida firmly in its sights, Hurricane Jeanne bore down on the Bahamas with violent winds and drenching rains last night threatening more destruction on islands still recovering from Hurricane Frances.

A revitalised Hurricane Jeanne was tonight on a path for the Bahamas and then on to the Atlantic coast of Florida, a state still reeling from three earlier storms.