The Simpsons pulls episode featuring Michael Jackson

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

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

The long-running cartoon show featured Jackson in 1991,during its third season, in an episode called "Stark Raving Dad." He voiced a character in a psychiatric ward who believed he wasthe pop star.

Media representatives for The Simpsonswere notimmediately available for further comment.

In the documentaryLeaving Neverland,two men saythey were befriended by Jackson when they were children and abused by him from the agesof seven and 10 in the early 1990s.

It prompted a mixture of horror and disbelief when it ran onU.S. cable channel HBO on Sunday and Monday. Some radio stationsin Canada and the Netherlands stopped playing Jackson's music.

Jackson's family has called the documentary and news coverage ofthe accusations a "public lynching" and he was "100 per centinnocent." His estate filed a lawsuit against HBO in February,saying the program breached an agreement that the cable channelwould not disparage Jackson.

The Thrillersinger, who died in 2009, was acquitted in2005 of charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy, unrelated to thedocumentary, at his Neverland ranch in California. In 1994, hesettled a sexual abuse lawsuit concerning another 13-year-oldboy.