An old episode of The Simpsons featuring the voice of Michael Jackson is being pulled from all future broadcasts, the show's producer says, following a documentary about alleged child abuse by the late pop star.

Key points: A new documentary detailing more sexual abuse allegations has rocked Jackson's legacy

A new documentary detailing more sexual abuse allegations has rocked Jackson's legacy Michael Jackson played himself disguised as a psychiatric patient in a 1991 Simpsons episode

Michael Jackson played himself disguised as a psychiatric patient in a 1991 Simpsons episode The performer was acquitted of child molestation charges in 2005

"It feels clearly the only choice to make," James L Brooks was quoted as telling the Wall Street Journal.

The long-running cartoon show featured Jackson in 1991, during its third series, in a episode called Stark Raving Dad.

He voiced a character in a psychiatric ward who believed he was the pop star.

Media representatives for The Simpsons were not immediately available for further comment.

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In the documentary, Leaving Neverland, two adult men say they were befriended by the King of Pop and abused by him from the ages of 7 and 10 in the early 1990s.

It prompted a mixture of horror and disbelief when it ran on US cable channel HBO on Sunday and Monday.

Some radio stations in Canada and the Netherlands stopped playing Jackson's music.

The singer's family called the documentary and news coverage of the accusations a "public lynching" and said he was "100 per cent innocent."

His estate filed a lawsuit against HBO in February, saying the program breached an agreement that the cable channel would not disparage the pop star.

The mastermind behind Thriller — the world's most popular record of all time — died in 2009, and was acquitted in 2005 of charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy, unrelated to the documentary, at his Neverland ranch in California.

In 1994, he settled a sexual abuse lawsuit concerning another 13-year-old boy.

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