John Travolta & Tom Cruise Caught Up In Black Market Baby Scheme

Celebrity Scientologists and other Hollywood stars procured innocent children — born to struggling, dirt-poor mothers — on a baby black market where money made the rules!

That’s the chilling analysis of a shocking “celebrity adoption” scheme uncovered during an exhaustive 10-month investigation by The National ENQUIRER! A wide range of A-listers, including Scientology cult members Tom Cruise and then-wife Nicole Kidman, Kirstie Alley and John Travolta, used the sleazy “baby broker” business that boomed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Burt Reynolds, now ex-wife Loni Anderson and other stars have also been named as clients!

The ENQUIRER can exclusively reveal a former Florida politician acted as the go-between for stars wanting to adopt, according to a well-placed insider. She also bragged to The ENQUIRER’s whistleblower about arranging adoptions for celebrities and working as a “baby wrangler” on Travolta’s “Look Who’s Talking” movies, which co-starred Kirstie! “She would boast about working on the adoptions for famous people,” the informant claimed. “She’d go out and find babies for celebs — that was her thing.”

  The first adoption she arranged was for “Smokey and the Bandit” star Reynolds and his blond actress wife Loni in 1988, according to the source. “She also confessed to arranging an adoption for Travolta’s manager Jonathan Krane and his wife Sally Kellerman, finding a baby for one of Travolta’s friends, and another for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. She ALSO helped good friend Alley with her adoption,” the insider spilled.

“Donna Mills in ’94 was one of the last adoptions that I recall her being involved with. But she may have been involved in many more.” After reviewing the mountain finalized the adoption. Our source positively identified Hinton walking with the “Top Gun” star and Kidman, who was cradling baby Bella, plus a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy, and the couple’s attorney, Bennett Cohn, outside the courtroom of Circuit Court Judge Richard J. Wennet.

  Cohn had no knowledge of Hinton’s presence. He was Cruise’s second attorney after the actor fired Hinton’s wingman, Jim Robinson, for alleged malpractice after information leaked. “Tom fired his first attorney Jim Robinson [who Hinton worked with on the celebrity adoptions] because it was so badly handled,” a source close to the scandal plagued adoption told The ENQUIRER. “There were leaks to the press, which infuriated Tom. He demanded an investigation by the court.

  Kellerman wrote: “After talking to two adoption lawyers and not feeling right about them, I decided to call Burt Reynolds and his wife, Loni ... [because] he and Loni had adopted successfully. They agreed to make a referral.” Kellerman’s mother-in-law, Lorraine Krane, praised Hinton for bringing grandchildren into her life. Hinton — a 70-year-old registered nurse and former director of a child care center — denied all wrongdoing. However, she admitted to referring Krane and Reynolds to a private attorney, before citing her awards for child advocacy. Hinton, a former mayor of Jupiter, Fla., claimed she could not recall the name of the attorney who got her referrals for celebrities looking to adopt. But when pressed by our reporter, she blurted out the name “Robinson.” Yet in what proves to be a stinging contradiction, Krane’s own wife confirmed in a published memoir that Hinton acted as a baby broker!

    But instead of being introduced to a child placement agency or a private attorney, the referral was to “a woman named Mary Hinton,” Kellerman wrote. “She [Hinton] had news: there was a baby available. ‘It was supposed to go to another couple,’ she told me, ‘but they’ve gotten pregnant.’ But here was the thing: if we wanted the baby, Jonathan and I had to accept right away.” Kasky, a leading mediator in adoption cases, said: “I’ve heard many times that lawyers tell prospective adoptive clients they’ve got a match, and the reason it’s last minute is because the original adoptive family got pregnant."

Mary is a wonderful person,” said Lorraine. “All the adoptions she arranged happened by word of mouth. Disadvantaged women begged her to take their children when they needed help and couldn’t afford it. “Mary could find a home with someone wealthy who could take care of babies who would have otherwise been on welfare or taken by the state. “Those babies have amazing lives now. I don’t know if the mothers were paid or compensated. Mary would hand them over to an attorney.

“Everyone who wanted to give up a child would call Mary Hinton — and if you wanted a baby, you’d call Mary Hinton.” An adoption expert said the birth mothers would be paid the equivalent of about $25,000 to cover their “expenses.” Hinton earned close to a million bucks for services associated with Travolta and other associates for her film work, including “baby wrangling.” Chuck Elderd, film commissioner at the Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission, where Hinton once served on the board, said: “I understood she said that’s what she did, arrange confidential adoptions. She had relationships, and it was my impression she was helping them when they were trying to be discreet.”

    Kasky, who has worked full-time in the adoption field since 1995, pointed out he believed Hinton did pass the adoptions to a lawyer “to be done correctly.” But he added: “The way these cases started, and how the whole situation is procured was wrong in the first place. Nobody will admit to wrongdoing because there’s just too much liability. These people could lose children. They could be prosecuted criminally. I think these cases should have been much more transparent, while maintaining privacy for the family. There was a lot of funny business going on.”