John Travolta’s Former Lover is back with a Lawsuit
Douglas Gotterba, a former employee of the ‘Pulp Fiction’ actor, told the Daily News Wednesday that he will continue to pursue a contract dispute with Travolta. In 2012, Gotterba claimed to The National Enquirer that he had an affair with the actor while employed as his pilot.
The California pilot who claims he had a high-flying gay affair with actor John Travolta said Wednesday he's happy a court ruling may pave the way for him to write a book about it.
Douglas Gotterba, 64, said Tuesday’s appeals court decision cleared a path for him to get a judge's ruling on the disputed terms of his 1987 termination, including an alleged confidentiality agreement.
“Yeah, absolutely," Gotterba told the Daily News when asked if he planned to forge ahead in the contract dispute. “But I can't comment any further.”
Gotterba claims he was fired in March 1987 with an unsigned termination letter that didn't include a confidentiality agreement. Travolta claims the pilot is bound by a longer letter Gotterba allegedly signed a month later without legal representation that swears him to secrecy about his time with Travolta.
In a 2012 National Enquirer story labeled "ridiculous" by Travolta's camp, Gotterba said he first met the "Grease" star in February 1981 when he interviewed for a pilot job.
Seven months later, they were lovers, Gotterba said.
"I know the date (the affair began) because I still have the log book and records," Gotterba told the Enquirer.
He said they flew to Monterey, Calif., together and shared a "fantastic" bottle of merlot wine over dinner at the Highlands resort in Carmel.
DOUGLAS GOTTERBA VIA FACEBOOKDouglas Gotterba worked as a pilot for John Travolta during the 1980s.
"I got the sense I was being courted," Gotterba said. "As we walked from the restaurant back to the room, John suddenly said, "Hey, would you like a massage?'"
Gotterba said he expected the invitation, and the massage quickly led to sex.
"John was gentle but very passionate. The next day he told me with a big smile on his face, 'I really enjoyed last night,'" Gotterba told the Enquirer.
He said Travolta, 60, took him on romantic trips to Hawaii, Amsterdam and Kenya.
"Sometimes he'd bring women along as beards, but he would ask me to join him in his suite and we'd spend the nights together. It was our little secret," Gotterba claimed.
The affair ended in 1986 after growing tensions, Gotterba said.
"He'd show up on my door many times, unannounced, to check up on me," the pilot told the Enquirer. "He'd disappear into my bedroom and go through my drawers. He always tried to catch me cheating on him."
DOUGLAS GOTTERBA VIA FACEBOOKDouglas Gotterba claims he was fired in 1987 with an unsigned termination letter that didn't include a confidentiality agreement.
He stopped working for Travolta in 1987.
The Enquirer report came shortly after two professional masseurs filed and later dropped federal lawsuits claiming Travolta groped them during massages.
The first masseur withdrew his lawsuit after Travolta proved he was in New York on the day of the alleged Beverly Hills attack.
"While we believe the Court should have thrown out Gotterba's lawsuit at the outset, ultimately, he will not prevail on his claim," Travolta's lawyer Marty Singer said in a statement to The News.
"Gotterba points to an unsigned draft agreement, which he now claims is the controlling document in the case, yet he attached as an exhibit to his own complaint the final version of the contract that he signed barring his claim," Singer said.
“We are very confident that in the end we will prevail in the action,” Singer said.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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