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Ex-secretary: Travolta had affair with his male pilot

 

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In the wake of several masseurs (including one at the Eden Roc in Miami Beach) coming forward with similar stories of inappropriate groping by Pulp Fiction tough guy John Travolta, a yarn in the upcoming issue of the National Enquirer details the Ocala movie star’s alleged six-year relationship with one of his private pilots.

Travolta and Doug Gotterba, 60, were lovers in the 1980s, if you believe Joan Edwards, the actor’s secretary of nearly 20 years.

Edwards says Gotterba confessed to her a sexual relationship with the married actor.

After Gotterba and Travolta split, Gotterba began seeing another man, identified as Robert Britz. Britz was also interviewed by the tabloid and said he and Gotterba, who now owns a small flying service in Santa Barbara, Calif., discussed his affair with Travolta.

“Doug said [Travolta] was constantly grabbing at his genital area, but he put up with John’s sexual advances because working for him was ‘lucrative,’ ” Britz said.

Britz said Gotterba also told him the relationship with Travolta soured when he became turned off by the actor’s “hairy body” and “weight gain” between films.

Wedding bells

Engaged: WSVN-Channel 7 morning anchor Christine Cruz.

The former Miss Miami and FIU grad changed her Facebook status to “engaged” June 4, and word is the lucky guy’s name is Robert Kramer.

Cruz, who’s divorced and has two children, is one of two WSVN morning personalities counting down to married bliss.

The other one is weathercaster Julie Durda, due to get hitched in the fall.

Octomom update

Nadya Suleman, the single mom of six dubbed Octomom when she delivered eight more babies in one sitting in 2009, announced this week she’d be launching a career as a stripper in South Florida.

Then, on Wednesday morning, Suleman said “never mind!”

And now, the owner of the West Palm Beach strip club T’s Lounge says the contract Suleman signed is pretty clear: She’ll have to pole-dance July 11-15. as planned.

“I worked on getting her to my club for six months,” said T’s owner Gary Odle. “I don’t want to take legal action, but the only way she’s allowed not to fulfill the contract is if I don’t pay her.”

What ticked off Suleman?

Odle says she’s objecting to interviews of the lounge’s staff aired on SoFla TV and radio stations. In one, a T’s manager said Suleman would probably take off her thong for the right amount of money.

Suleman’s contract says she’ll only go topless.

Octomom started peddling her body after child welfare authorities in California visited her house to check on allegations that the kids lived in squalor.

She admitted to having financial difficulties and turned to filming a porn movie last month.

Courtroom drama

Catherine Pileggi, who’s accused of killing her multimillionaire boyfriend Ron Vinci a year ago in a canal mansion in Fort Lauderdale, has filed court papers showing her defense includes allegations she was being battered and abused by Vinci.

Former car dealer Vinci wanted to end his long-term relationship with Pileggi when she allegedly hit his head, stabbed his chest, sliced his throat then shot him in the head.

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