Prince Documentary: No Longer at Netflix

Prince Documentary Will Not Be Released by Netflix

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Netflix has canceled the release of what was to be a six-part Prince documentary directed by Ezra Edelman.

“The Prince Estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive,” Netflix said in a statement on Thursday. “

As a result, the Netflix documentary will not be released.”

Upon making this news public, Prince’s estate published a video on X touting “the vault has been freed,” and including the hashtag “Free.”

Representatives for the late artist’s estate claimed that a first cut of the film was filled with “dramatic” factual inaccuracies and “sensationalized” renderings of certain events from his life, according to sources close to the situation.

According to a September report from The New York Times, the documentary featured Prince’s ex-girlfriends accusing him of physical and emotional abuse.

The film touched on Prince’s journey — both on his artistry and his personal relationships — with accounts of his own abusive childhood and the abandonment of his young wife Mayte Garcia after the couple lost their child.

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