Simpsons producers choose to pull episode featuring michael jackson's voice

After watching the HBO documentary _Leaving Neverland_, the producers of _The Simpsons_ decided to pull from circulation a 1991 episode of the show featuring the voice of Michael Jackson,

_The Wall Street Journal_ reports. _Leaving Neverland_ focuses on two men who say they were molested by Jackson as children, and removing the "Stark Raving Dad" episode from

streaming services, television stations, and DVD box sets "feels clearly the only choice to make," producer James L. Brooks told the _Journal_ on Thursday. In "Stark Raving

Dad," Homer Simpson meets a patient in a mental hospital named Leon Kompowsky, voiced by Jackson, who thinks he's the pop star. Brooks said this was one of his all-time favorite

episodes, but it has to be pulled out of empathy for the alleged victims. Before he died in 2009, Jackson denied multiple allegations of molestation, and his estate sued HBO last month in an

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