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Death certificate: Travolta son killed by seizure (AP)

Undated picture released by the Travolta family shows actor John Travolta (R) with his son Jett. Officials in the Bahamas on Monday conducted an autopsy on Jett Travolta, the teenage son of actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, who died here last week during a family holiday, police said.(AFP/HO)AP - Jett Travolta's body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a seizure, an undertaker said Monday, after doctors performed an autopsy on the 16-year-old son of the U.S actor.


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Lawyers for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside of Los Angeles be assigned to decide its motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.


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