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Billionaire mogul Barry Diller claims John Travolta rejected iconic role due to film's 'gay subtext'
A Hollywood mogul has claimed John Travolta rejected an iconic role due to the movie's 'gay subtext'.
Barry Diller, who published tell-all memoir Who Knew this week, alleged Travolta, 71, was set to take the leading role in 1980's American Gigolo, about a male escort who gets framed for the murder of an ex-client, but was replaced by Richard Gere, 75, after he exited the movie. Diller, 83 – who was the CEO of Paramount at the time, writes in the book that Travolta told then-Paramount Pictures president Michael Eisner that he was pulling out due to his grief over the death of his mother and girlfriend Diana Hyland. Travolta lost his first love Hyland, to breast cancer in 1977, when he was 23 and she was 41, ten years before he met his wife Kelly Preston, who died from the same disease in 2020.
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