As notorious sperm donor Jonathan Jacob Meijer rejects Netflix’s claim that he has fathered a thousand kids, saying the true figure is no more than 600, a new and even stranger claim has emerged
A new claim about serial sperm donor Jonathan Meijer may be the most bizarre yet. The Dutch travel blogger and musician has donated sperm to fertility clinics worldwide, as well as entering into an unknown number of private arrangements with childless couples, fathering as many as 1,000 children.
According to one woman, Meijer secretly mixed his sperm sample with that of another donor sample to see which was most fertile – playing what the woman described as “sperm roulette.” Meijer has angrily rejected that accusation, describing it as “complete b******s.”
The woman, named Patricia, told Netflix documentary The Man With 1000 Kids that Meijer had poured some of his own sperm sample into one provided by another donor to “see which genes were strongest.” But Meijer denies her accusation, and says he intends to take legal action against Netflix who, he says, “have no evidence at all” that he adulterated another man’s sperm.
But Meijer has undeniably sired more children than any other man alive, and quite possibly any man in history. As a result, his hundreds of children risk unknowingly running into each other as adults and committing “accidental incest” – leading to significant potential birth defects in their own kids.
The mum of one child conceived with help from the notorious sperm donor told how her daughter “fell in love” with her own brother.
The woman, named Nicolette, explained on the Netflix documentary that she had no idea just how much Meijer was donating elsewhere. But after she had contacted the mums who had borne the 42-year-old blogger’s kids and organised a meet-up, the issue became very real: My daughter knows a lot of her brothers, and she really liked one of them,” she said.
Nicolette said the two children really hit it off: “They have the same interests, they have the same humour, they have the same little silly traits… so they really connect. My daughter was saying ‘I really like him,’ and I said ‘that’s not an option, he’s your half-brother’.”
But the girl, who was aged 10 or 11 at the time, insisted, telling a shocked Nicolette: “But I really like him, maybe I’m in love with him..”
Meijer, who maintains that the “Man with 1,000 Kids” title is unfair, and that he has fathered no more than 600 babies, told the Daily Mail that he had been unable to resist the“rewarding” feeling of helping other people start a family: “I don’t like to use the word ‘addiction,’ but you feel so rewarded, it’s absolutely wonderful,” he said.
“’It’s a blessing if you can experience it only once in a life, but I was experiencing it on many days, and still am, because people update me about what is happening with their children.”
Meijer says that the feeling led to him getting “carried away” with his donations. Many recipients of his sperm sample say they were misled about exactly how many donations he was making, but Meijer says he has a precise list of every family he has helped, which he keeps “locked away in a safe.”
After being warned by numerous officials and private citizens that he should stop making sperm donations, Meijer says he does now intend to slow down – but for his own reasons: “ I really need to settle down and have my own family.”
He hasn’t met the lucky woman yet, though, he admits. He has in the past started two serious relationships with women he initially met through his sperm donation activity, but “they didn’t work out.”
He explains: “I would like to meet someone, and she will have to be strong to understand everything that has happened and be ok with it.”
Netflix have been contacted for comment.
