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TIL So dubious was the 2003 documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, that Jackson himself produced a video rebuttal using footage that he recorded parallel to documentarian Martin Bashir’s, after Bashir selectively edited and voiced-over footage to create a false and negative image of Jackson.

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