Batman star Ben Affleck hid his family's slave-owning past in TV documentary

By Michael Idato
Updated April 19 2015 - 11:08am, first published 10:53am

Hollywood actor Ben Affleck asked the producers of a TV documentary about his family to omit details of an ancestor who was a slave owner in the American south, it has been revealed.

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