Evidence in Travolta Case Went Up in Smoke
Key suspect says she burned document in extortion trial
Updated 11:00 AM EDT, Mon, Sep 28, 2009
The Bahamas politician at the center of an alleged plot to extort John Travolta set fire to a key document and flushed it down a toilet, according to a report.
Pleasant Bridgewater, a former Bahamian senator, met with Travolta's attorney to discuss payment for a copy of the document, a waiver of medical treatment that the actor signed after his 16-year-old son Jett suffered a fatal seizure, according to People magazine. Three days after the meeting, cops arrested Bridgewater, who according to a police report, admitted she had destroyed the copy after the case heated up. She set fire to it with a candle and then flushed the ashes, according to a police report made public at the trial.
Bridgewater and a former paramedic are on trial for allegedly attempting to extort $25 million from Travolta to keep quiet the fact that he signed the waiver. Travolta testified last week.
It is not known where the original document is.
Get more: People
First Published: Sep 28, 2009 9:52 AM EDT
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