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Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee

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McAfee described the documentary as fiction. Several people interviewed in the film retracted their statements in video messages uploaded to McAfee's YouTube channel. They said that they felt misled by the director's questioning and filed a cease and desist demand on grounds of untrue allegations.
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Based on interviews with McAfee's former friends and employees in Belize, the documentary suggests that McAfee paid a hitman to kill Faull due to a feud between the two over McAfee's dogs. It further claims that McAfee had suspected David Middleton to have robbed his home and paid people to abduct
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praised the film, stating, "Though she says she began the documentary trying to understand how McAfee's likely guilt was so quickly forgotten by the media as they covered his latest political aspirations, Burstein seems to have wound up conducting an investigation more thorough, or at least more
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Belize's leading newspaper published an article stating the producer paid money to purposely sensationalize the documentary, made interviewees sign papers that they did not or could not properly read and comprehend, or said it was only to be watched by John McAfee.
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and abuse him; Middleton died soon after from his injuries. The film also contains an interview with Allison Adonizio, a biologist who worked with McAfee. She said that she believes to have been drugged and sexually abused by McAfee.
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said, "This film works best as an indictment of a sensationalist, tunnel-vision brand of media coverage that confuses eccentricity for legitimacy and eschews reporting in favor of the face-value testimony of a strong personality."
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said of the film, "Even when Burstein's questions don't prompt easy answers, it's thrilling to consider the possibilities that arise in their wake", while Steve Greene of
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and produced by Ish Entertainment. The film had its world premiere at the
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This article related to a made-for-TV documentary film is a
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fruitful, than any local authority." Jacob Brogan of
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Index


Nanette Burstein
John McAfee
Robert Chappell
Showtime
TIFF
documentary film
John McAfee
Belize
Nanette Burstein
Toronto International Film Festival
Showtime
prominent antivirus software
The Hollywood Reporter
Slate
IndieWire
"New Showtime documentary accuses John McAfee of rape and involvement in two murders"
The Verge
"SV tech titan John McAfee accused of monstrous deeds in scathing documentary"
"John McAfee Accused of Rape and Murder in Explosive New Doc"
"'Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee': Film Review | TIFF 2016"
The Hollywood Reporter
"This New Doc About Anti-Virus Software Pioneer (Turned Fugitive) John McAfee is Spellbinding"
"'Gringo' Review: John McAfee Doc is Both Testament and Antidote to Media Manipulation – Toronto"
"$ $ $ for lies!"
"Photographic image of Western Union payment docket"
"John McAfee: Showtime's 'Gringo' Documentary Is Fiction"
Bloomberg
"More Testimony from People Lied to and Paid by Showtime"
YouTube

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