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Police in the Bahamas are deepening their investigation into an alleged plot to extort up to $25 million from the actor John Travolta over the death of his 16-year-old son. A prominent politician on the island of Grand Bahama, Pleasant Bridgewater, quit as a member of the Bahamas Senate over the weekend and investigators questioned a former Tourism Minister who had claimed to be a close friend of the Travolta family. Jett
Travolta was found unconscious in a bathroom at the family's island holiday home on January 2. A post-mortem examination concluded he had died of a seizure. Tarino Lightbourne, a paramedic who said he had tried to revive Jett, is in custody on suspicion of being part of an extortion plot.
