NASSAU, Bahamas — A Bahamian senator accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta after his son’s death resigned Saturday and vowed to prove her innocence.
Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, from Grand Bahama, said she plans to fight “untrue and unfair charges” stemming from actions she took as a lawyer.
“How these innocent actions can be so misconstrued, so perversely twisted to mean something other than it was is a mystery,” she said without providing more details. Bridgewater could not be immediately reached for comment.
Travolta had filed a complaint of attempted extortion, according to police, but did not release details of the alleged plot. The actor and his wife, Kelly Preston, have returned home to Florida with the ashes of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died of a seizure this month at their family vacation home on Grand Bahama. Authorities arrested Bridgewater on Thursday on charges of abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort. She was released Friday on $40,000 bail. The Associated Press
