EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Tortured Life of John Travolta's 'New Love' — Including Her Agoraphobia & Infamous Romps With One of Hollywood's Wildest Stars
A new hint of romance… and a woman whose private battles bring a sobering bite.
BY: AARON TINNEY
John Travolta is finally inching back toward romance after years of heartbreak, friends tell THE VAULT.
And the woman quietly catching his eye is old Hollywood ally Kim Basinger – a star whose life has swung from red-carpet glory to intensely private battles.
Travolta, 71, who rose to fame in Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Pulp Fiction, has lived through profound personal loss – his son Jett died at 16 in 2009 and his wife of 19 years, actress Kelly Preston, died in 2020 after breast cancer.
The actor has largely withdrawn from the dating world while raising his younger children Ella Bleu, 25, and Benjamin, 14, calling their healing a “personal and private journey.”
But now, nearly six years after Preston’s death, sources say Travolta has “fallen for” Basinger, also 71, whom he first worked alongside at the NATO theater awards in 1983 before appearing with her at the Golden Globes in 1999 and later co-starring with her in A Love Song for Bobby Long in 2004.