John Travolta and Kelly Preston at last year's Academy Awards. (Getty Images) The Associated Press is reporting that the 16-year-old son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston is dead. Authorities in the Bahamas, where the family owns a vacation home, say Jett Travolta suffered a seizure on Friday morning while in the bathtub and fell, fatally hitting his head. He was declared dead. According to TMZ.com, authorities will be performing an autopsy to try to ascertain a specific cause of death. Rumors that Jett suffered from autism have long swirled in Hollywood, though Travolta and Preston have never publicly admitted that Jett had ever been diagnosed with the condition, which is not officially recognized by the church of Scientology, of which they are members. According to People magazine's Web site, Preston has said in past interviews that Jett suffered from many conditions, including asthma and Kawasaki disease, a condition
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