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A lawyer for Barnes wrote to HBO in the week before the documentary premiered in the US to protest'Leaving Neverland'Lawyers for Brett Barnes have claimed that the filmmakers behind the controversial Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland refused their request to remove both footage and mention of Barnes from the film. The documentary notes Barnes’ friendship with the late singer when he was a child, with one interview suggesting that Barnes was a “replacement” for one of Leaving Neverland‘s primary […]The post ‘Leaving Neverland’ filmmakers refused to remove Brett Barnes from Michael Jackson documentary appeared first on NME.
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