Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and his attorney, politician Pleasant Bridgewater, were accused of threatening to release private information about the January 2009 death of Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama.
Lightbourne, who was among the medics who treated Jett, allegedly sought $25 million from the actor with the assistance of Bridgewater, who resigned her seat in the Bahamas Senate after she was charged in the case.
A judge declared a mistrial in October, after a Bahamian lawmaker suggested that the still-deliberating jury had acquitted one of the suspects.
Jerry Hall auctioning her art
Model
Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by
Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant, Sotheby's said Monday.
The London auction will also include works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, David Bailey, and other prominent artists collected by Hall, ex-paramour of Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger.
The Freud portrait, called Eight Months Gone, is the centerpiece of the auction and is expected to fetch more than $460,000, Sotheby's specialist Oliver Barker said. "It's a wonderful painting. It was exhibited shortly after it was done at the Tate Gallery. He's always been interested in maternity. It's a very tender, loving painting."
Hall is willing to sell part of her collection because she has entered a new phase in her life, Barker said.
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