Michael Jackson has opened a new front in his battle against a documentary on his bizarre life – going to London’s High Court to prevent a TV production company from airing unseen footage.
The singer is seeking an injunction to stop Granada Television, which produced journalist Martin Bashir’s “Living with Michael Jackson,” from keeping footage of Jackson and his children.
“Granada has failed to honor an agreement reached earlier this month to deliver up to Michael Jackson unused film footage of his children, where recognizable,” Jackson said in a statement.
Previously, Jackson has said he felt “betrayed” by Bashir’s documentary, an authorized biopic that offered some sympathetic treatment of Jackson’s abuse at the hands of his brutal father as well as an unblinking look at Jackson’s own habit of sharing a bed with young boys.
To counter that charge, Jackson’s own filmographers released their own footage that showed Bashir praising the way Jackson treats children.
Bashir has said the only agreement he made with Jackson was to “make an honest film about his life.”