Courthouse News Service
Friday, December 07, 2012
By MATT REYNOLDS
SANTA BARBARA (CN) - A former employee who claims he had an affair with John Travolta claims in court that the movie star invoked an invalid confidentiality agreement to stop him from talking publicly about their relationship.
Travolta's former pilot, Douglas Gotterba, sued Travolta, his aircraft company Alto, and his firm Constellation Productions in Superior Court.
Gotterba asks the court to invalidate a confidentiality agreement that Gotterba claims Travolta, 58, plucked out of thin air. He says that even if such a contract exists, it was "induced by fraud." (17)
Gotterba was Travolta's pilot from 1981-1987 before he officially stopped working for him in March 1987, according to his 6-page complaint.
"An actual controversy has arisen and now exists between plaintiff and defendants Travolta and Alto regarding the respective rights and duties under the termination agreement. Various news and entertainment publications have recently published articles regarding plaintiff's relationship with Travolta. Plaintiff did not initiate this publicity," the complaint states.
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