Cockpit Pilot Claims 6 Year Affair with Capt.John Travolta

 

John Travolta had a six year gay affair with his pilot - according to an explosive new report.

The actor is said to have had a long-term relationship with Doug Gotterba in the Eighties - before the actor's marriage to Kelly Preston in 1991.

The claims are made in the new issue of the National Enquirer - by Gotteba's ex-boyfriend and Travolta's former secretary.

Fresh claims: John Travolta, pictured in 1983, is said to have had a six-year gay affair with his pilot  Doug Gotterba, seen right in 2008, back in the Eighties 

Gotterba - now 60 - is not quoted in the article - but the publication claims he did confirm he worked for Travolta 'for six years in the 1980s'.

Travolta's one-time secretary Joan Edwards - who worked for the star from 1978 to 1994 - told the publication: 'Of course I knew he [Travolta] was gay. It never bothered me.'

Edwards goes on to reveal that she knew Gotterba - detailing how he started working for Travolta, 58, in 1981. She adds that she is still good friends with Gotterba.

The tabloid then quotes Gotterba's ex-boyfriend Robert Britz in the article - who the pilot had a relationship with post-Travolta.

Britz makes a string of claims about the Grease star and Gotterba, saying: 'Doug told me right at the beginning of our relationship that he'd had a homosexual relationship with John Travolta in the 1980s.'

He goes on to detail how:

• Gotterba showed him a home video of Travolta with his shirt off
• Says Gotterba would chauffeur the actor to gay sex stores
• Claims Gotterba told him it was 'lucrative' to work for Travolta

Family man: Travolta pictured in June last year with wife Kelly Preston, daughter Ella Bleu and son Benjamin 

Five years into the relationship, Gotterba began to tire of the Hollywood star, apparently becoming repulsed by his habits, according to Britz.

'Doug said that he hated sleeping with John because his body was very hairy and he didn't like they way John smelled,' Britz claims.

Date night: Travolta pictured with Brooke Shields in 1981

He went on: 'John would also become very heavy between movies. Doug called him "huge" and said it turned him off.'

'After a few years, Doug grew apart from John sexually, and John's advances eventually started to repulse him,' Britz said, adding: 'The relationship ended shortly thereafter.'

The Enquirer claims Travolta went to great lengths to cover up his fling and used actress Brooke Shields - who was just 16 at the time - as a smokescreen by going on a few dates with her in public.

In his 1997 biography, John Travolta: Back In Character, author Wensley Clarkson says the dates with Shields were set up by their agents.

Gotterba, 60, is the owner of a private jet company near Santa Barbara, California.

Travolta was hit with two lawsuits last month from masseurs claiming the actor made sexual advances towards them during massages - but one claim was later withdrawn.

A string of other people came out of the woodwork making similar claims.

Travolta's legal team strenuously denied the allegations at the time. No Comment from Travolta.

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER