$1.75 million is a lot of money, but is it enough money to pay for the hundreds of hours of therapy the cruise ship employee will need to deal with John Travolta's hungry and itchy anus haunting his nightmares every night?

When celebrities get accused of crimes, they can sometimes make the plaintiffs go away by having their high-priced lawyers wear them down, by threatening them with counter suits, or by paying them off.

This time, however, it seemed that the usual legal maneuverings and threats weren’t working for this famous actor. It looked like the plaintiff was actually going to have his day in court. It looked like the disgusting, private, sordid details of the actor’s bad behavior would be laid out for the whole world to see! Everyone would be talking about it…

Oh, come on. Are you kidding? You know that there was no way on heaven or earth that was going to happen! Guess who just made a huge payoff to the victim to drop everything? That’s right. Money talked and everybody walked. Or sailed. Or flew. The price of freedom? $1.75 million. (Blind Gossip)

John Travolta and that cruise ship employee whose peen he tried to rent for $12,000? Exhibit: A

$1.75 million is a lot of money, but is it enough money to pay for the hundreds of hours of therapy the cruise ship employee will need to deal with John Travolta's hungry and itchy anus haunting his nightmares every night?