The couple's agony did not end there, because Jett's death led to a lengthy court case after an ambulance driver and his attorney were accused of trying to extort $25million from the couple by threatening to release sensitive details about the death. Travolta described his son's death in 2009 as the 'worst thing that ever happened in my life' and told how the Church of Scientology had helped him and his wife through their grief after Jett died suddenly at a holiday home in the Bahamas.
The death of Kelly Preston at the age of 57 is the third personal tragedy to devastate the life of John Travolta, after the couple's 16-year-old son Jett died from a seizure 11 years ago and the actor's first love Diana Hyland died of breast cancer in 1977.
