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The Man With 80 Wives is a British documentary that aired on Channel 4 on 19 July 2006. It featured journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya, trying to find the whereabouts of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leader, Warren Jeffs.

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