Police officials in the Bahamas have announced that they had detained two people for an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son Jett.

At the beginning of the year, Jett Travolta, 16, was found collapsed in a bathroom as a result of a seizure and having hit his head on the bathtub and was afterwards taken to Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport by ambulance, where he was pronounced dead.

For the time being, an ambulance driver and a female senator have been detained and questioned, still no charges have been brought to them, the police informed.

Even though the authorities have not revealed what the alleged extortion entailed, the media have been speculating that it involved a threat to sell pictures of Jett's body if the actor refused to pay as much as $20m, but later reports have suggested that the story might not be true.

One of the people detained is ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne, who rushed Travolta’s son to hospital and who told the press that he had tried to revive the boy, while the other is Senator Pleasant Bridgewater, an attorney from Grand Bahama and a  former member of the Bahamian parliament.

After the boy’s tragic death, two specialists were called to perform his autopsy, while his body was cremated in the Bahamas and his ashes flown to Florida, where Travolta and wife actress Kelly Preston share a house in Ocala.

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.

Jett was Travolta and Preston’s oldest child, the couple also having an 8-year-old daughter named Ella Bleu.