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John Travolta, 58, has had a difficult 2012 so far. He has gone from a happy and successful actor and family man to being sued for coming on to two men who had been hired as masseurs by the actor, and now another shocking claim has been made by an former employee to the star who claims he had a six-year affair with his male pilot.

John Travolta’s former secretary, Joan Edwards, who worked for John from 1978 to 1994, just came out in an interview with these allegations in the U.S. extreme gossip magazine, the The Enquirer, saying that the Saturday Night Fever star was sleeping with his personal pilot Doug Gotterba in the 80s. Edwards said, “Of course I knew John was gay. Doug is a wonderful guy and we are still good friends. He told me they had a sexual relationship."

Edwards said that Gotterba, 60, ended the long affair with Travolta because Travolta had hygiene problems and had gained too much weight.

One of Gotterba’s former boyfriend’s Robert Britz, also had something to say about the affair to the magazine, “Doug told me he’d had a homosexual relationship with John in the 1980s. Doug said John was constantly grabbing at him, but he put up with his sexual advances because working for him was lucrative. But John’s advances eventually started to repulse him. Doug said he hated sleeping with John as his body was very hairy and he didn’t like the way he smelled. John would also become very heavy between movies."

The Enquirer even claimed that Travolta had faked a relationship in the 80s with actress Brooke Shields to confuse the media.

Are the allegations true? While Travolta’s lawyers have denied that the relationship existed, the media still hasn’t heard from a very important source in the story, Gotterba himself.

Paige Latham