John Travolta y Kelly Preston
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At just 57 years old, Kelly Preston left: a drama and comedy actress, remembered for her role alongside Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire” or with Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Twins”, and who shone in romantic comedies like “For the love of the game “She passed away Sunday, said her husband, John Travolta.
“It is with great regret that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle against breast cancer. She fought a brave fight with the love and support of many, “said the actor, whose first media partner, Diana Hyland, also died of the same disease. In addition, Travolta and Preston are the parents of three children, the oldest of whom died in 2009 after suffering a seizure attack at the family’s vacation home.
The death resulted in a court case after an ambulance driver and his lawyer were accused of trying to extort money from the actors, demanding $ 25 million in exchange for not publishing sensitive information about the death of their son. Travolta testified in a criminal trial that it ended up being overturned and he was willing to give testimony a second time, but decided to drop the case. He cited the stress that the trial and the loss of his son had inflicted on the family.
And after that blow, which took the couple away from acting for a few years, Travolta now has to digest the death of Preston, who had a long career in film and television, also starring in the aforementioned tapes in 2003 “What to Girl Wants ”and later becoming the mother in the adaptation with real actors of“ The Cat in the Hat ”. The following year he appeared in the Maroon 5 video for “She Will Be Loved”: Adam Levine’s band paid tribute to who was an icon of beauty and fantasy for generations of teenagers, for films like “Christine ”, From John Carpenter,“ Secret Admirer ”and“ Spellbinder ”, films that he starred in before being known as Cruise’s implacable girlfriend in“ Jerry Maguire ”.
Travolta and Preston met while filming “The Experts” in 1988, and they also filmed one of their last films together: “Gotti”, from 2018, in which Travolta played John Gotti and Preston to the wife of the gangster boss, Victoria .
The farewells to the blonde actress accumulated in the networks yesterday, and that of Russell Crowe stood out, who said that he did not see much of Preston, “but when he did, it was always the same jewel with bright eyes”.
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