‘Man with 1000 Children’ Defends Himself Against Netflix

The documentary ‘The Man with 1000 Children’ has been online on Netflix since Wednesday. What is reported therein seems completely insane, it is shocking to say the least. In a kind of God complex, Jonathan Jacob Meijer, portrayed as charming, blond, musical and educated, is said to have fulfilled his desire for children for years all over the world through private sperm donations and on a large scale through commercial sperm banks. With sperm donations in numerous unaffiliated clinics all over the world, even in Kenya, but also through personal service – delivery to the front door in a cup or, if desired, sexual intercourse – he is said to have ‘fathered’ approximately a thousand or more people. more children.

50,000 hours in sperm donation clinics
Meijer, who admits to having spent as many as 50,000 hours in sperm clinics over the past 15 years, now denies that this number is correct.

In YouTube videos, the record sperm donor, who did not want to cooperate with the makers of the three-part Netflix documentary, says he has at most about 550 children. This is also the number that was proven in a court case that stopped him from spreading his genes in April. If he violates this, he now risks a fine of 100,000 euros per child.

Meijer further claims that he has only helped 225 families and does not consider himself special. He pointed out that many sperm banks work with mass donors who have also fathered hundreds of children. There have never been any rules, laws or data comparisons.

Confusion over “sperm roulette”
The documentary also alleges that Meijer mixed his sperm with another donor, creating a kind of “sperm roulette.”

Meijer also denies this accusation in a recent video, but admitted that there were encounters with the man named Leon. “Even though he looks like a hooligan, he is a nice, funny guy,” Meijer said of his colleague, who was portrayed in the documentary as a rather dark and creepy character.

In his criticism of the Netflix production, Meijer also accuses the makers of choosing a distorted and ‘feminine’, almost romantic, perspective on the whole story. His appearance was exaggerated. “I know what I look like, okay, my hair is above average, but I’m happy with how I look…”

Concerns About the Luke and Leia Effect
He insists he always just wanted to help. “I’m even sadder that they decided to change the lives of all my children – my donor children,” he said. “It’s not about me. It’s about the parents and the children.” He even tries to stay in touch with his children. They could call him at any time if something happened.

The documentary shows parents of these children holding networks and gatherings for siblings so that at least a few children get to know each other. The biggest concern is that the large number of offspring could unintentionally lead to incestuous relationships.

In the documentary, this is called the Luke and Leia effect. In the Star Wars saga, Luke Skywalker and Leia Morgana are attracted to each other, unaware that they are twins who were separated at birth and raised on different planets. According to the documentary, Meijer suggested that his children put some kind of label on social media that they are descended from him.

170 million lawsuit from Schottin
This is the second time in a very short period that Netflix has been faced with accusations that it has not done its job properly, even though the allegations are essentially all true.

It wasn’t until early June that a Scottish woman sued the streaming service for at least $170 million (€156 million) over her alleged resemblance to a stalker from the series ‘Baby Reindeer’. Fiona Harvey initially publicly claimed that she was the model for the character Martha. She physically resembles her and, like her, is a lawyer in London. She has now filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles.

In it, she alleges that Netflix and series creator Richard Gadd went too far by implying in the series that she was sentenced to five years in prison for stalking and harassing a person. She was not a stalker and was not in custody. Thousands of Reddit and TikTok users couldn’t tell the difference and referred to her as the real Martha, the name of the character in the series. “Defendants told these lies and never stopped because it was a better story than the true story and better stories made money,” the lawsuit says. Netflix said it would vigorously defend itself.

In the series, which claims to be a true story, Martha stalks a man, the author of the series, for years. She sends him thousands of emails, stalks him, ambushes him outside his apartment, and also harasses friends and family.