Paul Adao/INFphoto.com

In the end, John Travolta and Kelly Preston wanted to keep their son Jett close to their hearts and home.

Relatives and close friends gathered Thursday for a private memorial service at the family's Ocala, Fla., estate to say goodbye to the 16-year-old, who died suddenly last week after suffering a seizure.

Members of the press crowded outside the gates of the Jumbolair Aviation Estates, where residents can pilot their private planes practically up to their front doors, but the proceedings remained closed to outsiders.

Attendees were screened by security before being allowed to approach the Travoltas' house.

Keep Reading

A shaken Tom Cruise struggled mightily to describe his feelings on the shocking death of Jett Travolta during an appearance on The View.

"It's horrific," said Cruise, a close friend of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. "Both of them doting parents, just wonderful people...it's just...

"I remember Jett when he was born. I saw him when he was a few months old and John just adored him," he continued. "It's something I don't have the words..."

With Cruise barely holding it together, View maven Barbara Walters changed the subject, asking if Cruise had a response to critics who claim Scientology prevents parents from giving medication to their ailing children and have suggested the religion's rules played a part in the 16-year-old's death.

Keep Reading

• The trailer for the Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience (seriously, that's the best name they could come up with?) is here! They'll be virtually so close you could touch them—what does that make you want to do?

• Did you guys know they still make new Real Worlds? Their 20th season, which is set in Brooklyn, premiered last night, and they're on the reality-show trend with their very own transgendered roommate.

• Simon Cowell's fantasy island getaway just got a whole lot better.

• How far can you make it through this epically long interview with GND's Bridget and Kendra?

• To the vandal who broke the passenger side window of Ryan Gosling's SUV: That was not cool. You mess with the man in the awesome plaid jackets, you mess with us. You ready to dance?

• Do not want.

• So, which celebs were out today shopping, exercising, dining and other kinds of general frolicking? That's what our Big Pic gallery is for.

Lawrence Lucier/Getty Images

It's been easy to forget that R. Kelly also had a crumbling marriage to deal with over the last year.

But nevertheless, as of today, the R&B star, whose full name is Robert Kelly, is officially divorced from his wife of 11 years, Andrea Kelly, according to a joint statement released by their attorneys.

"The parties have reached an amicable resolution concerning all issues related to their marriage and will share joint custody of their three children," the lawyers said in announcing that a judgment for a dissolution of marriage was entered Thursday.

"The details of this agreement will remain confidential and the family requests that their privacy be respected during this time."

The Kellys swapped vows in 1996. They have two daughters, Jaya and Joann, and a son, Robert Jr. This was R. Kelly's second marriage, counting his five-month union with a then 15-year-old Aaliyah, which was ultimately annulled in February 1995.

Will Ragozzino/Getty Images

Stephanie March is back on the job.

The 34-year-old actress will reprise her role as Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot in a six-episode guest arc on Law & Order: SVU, starting Feb. 17.

According to series executive producer Neal Baer, Alex is returning to bust some special victim-abusing heads while her replacement, ADA Kim Grayleck (Michaela McManus), is on assignment in Washington, D.C.

"Every time I run into it I think, 'Hmmm, what if?'" March said in a statement. "I look forward to spending some time working with a production that has always been so rewarding for me."

Since leaving the show in 2003 (Alex was forced into witness protection after busting a murderous drug dealer), March has guested on 30 Rock and Grey's Anatomy, appeared on the Food Network to partake of hubby Bobby Flay's cuisine, and starred—also as Alex Cabot—on the short-lived L&O spinoff Conviction.