Did the butler do it? - & by butler read the druggie nanny

New developments in the John Travolta case - although it's still technically the Jett Travotla case. When last we heard from John he was giving various accounts of Jett's 'misfortune', with widely differing details: Jett died of a head injury, there was no head injury and he died of a seizure, he'd been alone for almost 18 hours when he was found, the nanny never left his side, he was dead when they found him, and he was alive when taken to the hospital. The story seemed to evolve over time, and become more elaborate with each telling.

Then there were the extortionists. It seems that corrupt Bahamians - some of whom were Travolta's close personal friends -were trying to shake him down for money. Initially it was 20 mill, though this detail changed too: it was later upgraded to 25 mill, as if to add emphasis. Though a couple of local big wigs lost their jobs over that one, they insisted that they were innocent, and Senator Pleasant Bridgewater even insisted she would fight to vindicate herself no matter what it took. I'm told by some Caribbean friends that you don't ever want to make a Caribbean woman angry. It's just not worth it.

So while the world waited for the other shoe to drop, it did! A document got released calling the Travoltas even further into question. The document in question was a refusal to transport, and it was a kind of public relations black eye for Mr Kotter's most likely to succeed. Now what refusal to transport means is that when the ambulance showed up, John and Kelly didn't want to hand Jet over. Since the ambulance is on the hook for this, next of kin have to sign a waiver saying that they refuse transport. It releases the ambulance from liability. Now the idea that John and Kelly were bickering with the EMT while their beloved son was dying nearby doesn't exactly make them look like mother and father of the year.

Apparently the Bahamians had even more ammunition. There has been some talk about tape recorded conversations between the Bahamian officials and representatives of the Travolta family. These have now been handed over to the FBI, who are giving it the CSI treatment with their voice analysis specialists. So perhaps this seemed like the ideal time for whomever - we'll call them unnamed sources for the sake of convenience - to drop the latest bombshell. That bombshells comes in the form of a story on the National Enquirer's website that John's very good friend Jeff Kathrein, known to the world as 'The Manny' - the man who's job it was to mind Jett, had only just completed a Scientology drug rehab program. This is confirmed by a Scientology watch website.

So this would seem to point a finger of blame in the general direction of Mr Kathrein. That is if he had been some how incapacitated, or merely incompetent, due to some unresolved drug issue. it's convenient too. Now that the Bahamians seem to be fighting back with a vengeance (I'm told that they're known for that), it would set up another convenient scape goat - fall guy, should such a thing ever be necessary. John and Kelly didn't do anything wrong - it was corrupt Bahamians fiddling with records so that they could set up a blackmail shakedown. If it wasn't corrupt Bahamians then it was merely a case of good natured John being too trusting, and leaving his kid with a nanny on drugs. Why that's just the sort of thing that any parent who cares too much might do! However depending on what the FBI finds on those tapes, who's speaking, how nervous they get, and how they responded to federal pressure (better than Hollywood rat Anne Hathaway, John might hope), things might be a little past blame it on the nanny ('the butler did it'?)

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