TRAVOLTA DRAGGED INTO BIZARRE GAY LAWSUIT
John Travolta has been dragged into court battle between a gay artist and
the powerful Church of Scientology. Michael Pattison says he turned to the
sect to "cure" his homosexuality after it used 44-year old
"Face Off" star Travolta to illustrate how the church could turn
gay people straight. Now Pattison is suing the church and 22 of its members
for fraud, claiming he spent 25 years and a half a million dollars trying to
deal with his own homosexuality - but is still gay.
His lawyer, Graham Berry, tells STAR: "Michael was in a Scientology
center in Clearwater, Florida with Travolta and they used him as an
example of someone who could be cured of what they referred to as is
"ruin". However, after 25 years and $500,000, Michael is still
gay".
In a massive 166-page complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles,
Pattison, 49, is seeking millions of dollars in damages from the church,
whose members include Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Kirstie Alley and
Priscilla Presley. Pattison, a Beverly Hills artist, claims in court
papers that he was seduced into joining the church in the early 1970's -
around the same time Travolta became a member - because it promised a
cure.
Pattison became more convinced of the church's supposed powers when
Travolta married his pregnant bride Kelly Preston in 1991. The marriage
came after a male porn star (Paul Barresi) had given graphic details of
an alleged two-year gay affair with Travolta. At the time, Travolta was
romancing co-stars Olivia Newton-John from "Grease", Marilu Henner
from the Broadway production of the same musical and Debra Winger from
"Urban Cowboy", the porn actor said, adding that the affair
finished before Travolta started dating Preston. "That contributed
to my continuing belief in the misrepresentations that Scientology
processing and courses would `handle' my own homosexuality", says
Pattison in his lawsuit.
Travolta is a staunch defender of Scientology, saying it is a viable
religion. "But it is only 50 years old. I'm sure Christianity had
some problems too in its first 50 years," he says.
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by Martin Gould
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