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Tuesday, a Bahamian lawmaker informed that the body of 16-year-old Jett Travolta, actor John Travolta’s son, had been cremated in the Bahamas following his sudden death last Friday, while his ashes had been flown to Florida.
Friday, Jett suffered a seizure at his family’s holiday home in the Old Bahama Bay resort on Grand Bahama island and was found collapsed in a bathroom after he had hit his head on the bathtub. Both his father and the paramedics tried to revive him, but after having been taken by ambulance to Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport, the boy was pronounced dead.
An official at the Restview Memorial funeral home, the place where the boy’s body was cremated, stated that his death certificate read „seizure disorder” as the cause of death.
Two specialists worked on determining the cause of death, Dr. Hubert Minnis and a United States-certified clinical and forensic pathologist from Nassau who flew into Grand Bahama on Monday.
Later that day, John Travolta and wife actress Kelly Preston flew out of the Bahamas with their son’s ashes, which were deposited at a funeral home in Ocala, Florida, according to member of parliament for western Grand Bahama Obie Wilchcombe.
Bahamian Police Commissioner Reginald Ferguson informed that the results of the autopsy performed Monday would not be made public, since there was nothing criminal about Jett’s death.
John Travolta’s lawyers, Michael Ossi and Michael McDermott, revealed that the boy had a history of seizures that could result in the loss of consciousness and that he had received an anti-seizure medication called Depakote for a number of years, but that he had stopped the treatment.
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