A second male massage therapist is claiming John Travolta rubbed him in a very wrong way.
The anonymous masseur has joined a federal lawsuit filed in California with accusations the "Pulp Fiction" star groped him and tried to force a happy ending during a private massage in an Atlanta hotel room January 28.
The new plaintiff is represented by the same southern California lawyer who filed the initial sexual battery lawsuit May 4 claiming Travolta tried to initiate sexual relations with another masseur in a Beverly Hills hotel Jan. 16.
Travolta, 58, is blasting the claims as completely “fabricated.”
“This second ‘anonymous’ claim is just as absurd and ridiculous as the first one,” the actor's powerhouse lawyer Marty Singer said in a statement to the Daily News.
“The attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of his second anonymous client, who does not want to disclose his name although he is required to do so, was notified that his first client's claims were totally false and fabricated, since our client was not in (Los Angeles) when anonymous Doe #1 claims he interacted with John Travolta,” Singer said.
He said he can prove Travolta was on the east coast working on a movie Jan. 16, the day the first plaintiff claims the actor picked him up in black Lexus SUV, drove him to the Beverly Hills Hotel and then groped him, fondled himself openly in his presence and made lewd comments during their $200-per-hour session.
“After we were able to establish that anonymous Doe #1's claims were totally absurd, the same attorney has now filed a claim on behalf of another plaintiff,” he said.
Singer accused the lawyer of first checking media reports to verify Travolta was in Atlanta working on the Robert De Niro movie “Killing Season” before he filed the additional allegations.
“The claim by Doe #2 is just as fabricated as the claim by Doe #1. Our client will be fully vindicated in court on both of these absurd and fictional claims,” Singer said.
“We approached them two months and never heard the defense he wasn't in (southern California),” the plaintiffs' lawyer Okorie Okorocha told The News. “There are pictures of him in Los Angeles the night of the 14th.”
Travolta and wife Kelly Preston were photographed at the 9th Annual G'Day USA black tie event in Hollywood that night.
“If he has evidence to prove he wasn't in town, great, then he has nothing to worry about,” Okorocha said. “But we believe we have enough of a story of when and where things happened that we can procure hotel and cell tower records. And I think there will be witnesses who saw things. This absolutely happened.”
He said it was standard practice to withhold the names of potential victims of sex attacks.
“I do it for all of my female clients who are victims of sexual assault, and I'm not going to treat the men any different than the women,” he said. “I think it's malpractice to identify them (in a complaint). I'm leaving it up to the judge. If they think that's strange, they may not be familiar with the law.”
According to the complaint, Travolta called the first plaintiff “selfish” when he didn't reciprocate his advances and boasted that he "got where is now due to sexual favors he had performed when he was in his 'Welcome Back Kotter' days."
Travolta purportedly said he “wasn't even gay” when he started in the business but was “smart enough to learn to enjoy it,” the lawsuit claims.
The amended suit also claims that the Georgia-based plaintiff originally asked a coworker to handle the Travolta assignment but the colleague refused saying the actor had been banned from a spa where the coworker used to work in Los Angeles.
Travolta was seen dining at The Palm restaurant in Atlanta's Buckhead area the evening of Jan. 24, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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