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Sean Penn claims El Chapo references are “bald-faced lie.”

Hollywood star's protests are giving Netflix doco extra publicity.

Sean Penn’s concerns over Netflix doco The Day I Met El Chapo may at the very least be giving it some extra publicity.

The doco, which debuts today, is a biographical account by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo (Ingobernable) and her meetings with one of the world’s most notorious drug lords, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and Penn.

The doco reportedly suggests that Penn alerted US authorities to the fugitive drug lord’s location after Del Castillo arranged a meeting for the two in September 2015. Guzman was arrested about three months after the meeting and is now serving time in the US.

Penn has accused del Castillo of fabricating elements of the story to gain attention for the series. His lawyers have implored Netflix to “at the very least, eliminate any references to their client contacting (the Justice Department) prior to meeting Chapo.”

“It is reprehensible that, in their ongoing, relentless efforts to gain additional attention and publicity, Ms. del Castillo and her team (who have zero firsthand knowledge) have sought to create this profoundly false, foolish, and reckless narrative,” lawyer Mark Fabiani said. “The notion that Mr. Penn or anyone on his behalf alerted DOJ to the trip is a complete fabrication and bald-faced lie. It never happened, nor would there have been any reason for it to have happened.”

El Chapo co-executive producer David Broome, previously told Variety that he reached out multiple times to Penn without response.

Netflix declined to comment.

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