The sperm donor at the center of ‘The Man with 1000 Kids’ says he plans to sue Netflix. Here’s where Jonathan Jacob Meijer is now.

• “The Man with 1000 Kids” puts a prolific sperm donor, Jonathan Jacob Meijer, in the spotlight.

• It features families that used him as a donor and later realized how many children he’d fathered.

• Meijer told Business Insider he was planning to take legal action against Netflix.

“The Man with 1000 Kids” tells the stories of four couples and a single woman as they gradually realized their sperm donor had fathered hundreds of children.

The Netflix docuseries details how Jonathan Jacob Meijer told those who used him as a donor that he’d helped only a handful of families. But as parents in the Netherlands realized their children born using sperm donors looked oddly similar, it became clear that wasn’t the case. It later emerged that he’d been donating sperm around the world.

The families quickly became fearful of the potential dangers to future generations if half-siblings unknowingly have children together.

A man identified as John, one half of a couple who used Meijer, says on the show: “We thought, ‘Oh fuck. What if these children meet each other and maybe have a connection or fall in love, and they don’t know they are related?’ That’s when the real panic started. That’s when we saw the real danger of this.”

Meijer was barred from donating sperm in the Netherlands

In April last year, Meijer was barred from donating sperm to fertility clinics by the Hague District Court in his native country, the Netherlands, after it emerged that he’d fathered more than 500 children, The Independent reported.

He’s set to be fined 100,000 euros for every violation if he donates again.

An anonymous sperm donor also alleged in the series that Meijer and another man, identified only as Leon, ran a website named “Longing for a Child” to try to father as many children as possible. The anonymous donor said Meijer and Leon mixed their sperm samples together to play “sperm roulette” to see who the child would look like.

In an email to Business Insider, Meijer denied running the site.

“I have never ran a website, there’s no evidence for that. I had posted my advertisement on that very website in the early years of my donating, 2008-2014,” he wrote. “What Leon did is unclear to me, I have met him 4-5 times in my life, he passed away two years ago.”

Referring to Netflix, Meijer added: “I will take legal action for slander, this is really insane! I will take legal action, not only because of the mixing but some other claims as well.”

Netflix didn’t respond to a request for comment from BI.

Meijer still posts videos of himself traveling on YouTube

The docuseries details how Meijer traveled a lot for work, which is why some of the mothers involved weren’t able to speak to him face-to-face when they discovered just how many children were conceived using his sperm samples.

He frequently posts videos to his YouTube channel about his thoughts on various topics, such as spirituality, traditional wives, raw-meat diets, and his reaction to “The Man with 1000 Kids.”

On May 5, he uploaded a video from Tanzania, explaining that he decided to leave the Netherlands because it had become overpopulated and he wanted to be closer to nature.

In his most recent upload on Wednesday, Meijer was on a beach in Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa. He explained that he spent “over 50,000 hours” as a sperm donor until 2019, saying that that was when he stopped donating to clinics.

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