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The teenage son of John Travolta, who died in the house that the actor has in the Bahamas, will likely be buried in Florida, a lawyer said Saturday.


Preliminary plans are to carry the family's body flown Jett Travolta, 16, to Ocala in mid-week, told the AP Michael McDermott, the corporate lawyer for the family.


The actor, 54, and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, 46, have a house in Ocala.

"John Kelly and even sleep," McDermott said on Saturday mid-morning. "Probably was awake most of the night ... It's very sad. You do not know how I wanted that kid. One could see it, I could feel it."


The teenager died in Grand Bahama, one of the most northerly island of the Bahamas, apparently after suffering a stroke and hit his head in a bathtub, authorities reported.

A housekeeper found the boy unconscious in the bathroom mid-morning on Friday. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Freeport, where he was pronounced dead, said police commissioner Basil Rahming said in a statement.


Jett Travolta was last seen when they went to the bathroom on Thursday. The teenager had a stroke, according to the statement. Are expected to perform an autopsy on Monday.

Apparently the son of the actor hit his head in the bathroom, said a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.


Michael Ossi, the attorney for the family, Jett Travolta announced that died suddenly on Friday.

Travolta and Preston also had eight years of a daughter, Ella Bleu.


Preston said that Jett was very ill when he was two years and was diagnosed with Kawasaki syndrome, a disease that produces inflammation of blood vessels in infants.

It blamed fertilizers and cleaning agents at home, and said that a detoxification program based on the teachings of the Church of Scientology helped them improve their health, according to People magazine. Travolta and Preston are both members of the Church of Scientology.


Travolta said during a 2001 interview with Larry King, host of the television channel CNN, which became obsessed with the cleanliness of their home due to illness of Jett.

"We did that constantly clean the carpets," the actor said during the interview, broadcast again on Friday night.


It is unclear whether Jett Travolta took drugs because of his stroke.

Obie Wilchcombe, a member of Parliament and former minister of tourism in the Bahamas, announced that the autopsy is planned for Monday and is expected to reach a quick resolution. "


"John (Travolta) talked to the minister of health and doctors and the police are in the hospital. They are very, very quick to resolve issues of this kind."

Wilchcombe said Travolta "spent a lot of time with Jett."

"I always carried with him. They had a very warm, much love," Wilchcombe said during a telephone interview with King.

Travolta went to the Bahamas with family and friends to celebrate the end of the year.