David Copperfield was lately accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate habits by 16 totally different ladies.
Could 15 2024, Printed 4:00 p.m. ET
Famed magician David Copperfield was lately accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate habits by 16 totally different ladies, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
In a surprising improvement to come back roughly six years after Copperfield, 67, confronted related allegations, the magician and entertainer confronted recent accusations this week.
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Copperfield, 67, confronted related allegations in 2018.
Based on an investigation launched by the Guardian, the 16 purported incidents occurred as early because the Nineteen Eighties and as lately as 2014.
Additionally regarding was the revelation that not less than half of Copperfield’s accusers claimed that they have been youthful than 18 when the alleged incidents unfolded. A few of Copperfield’s accusers claimed that they have been simply 15 on the time of the alleged misconduct.
Copperfield was accused of “drugg[ing] three ladies earlier than he had sexual relations with them, which they felt they have been unable to consent to.”
4 extra accusers alleged that they have been groped or have been made to the touch the famend illusionist “in a sexual method throughout stay performances on stage.”
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Based on an investigation launched by the Guardian, the 16 alleged incidents occurred as early as 1988 and as lately as 2014.
“I’d by no means simply say this to any person if I didn’t really, trustworthy to God imagine that I used to be drugged at the moment,” one alleged sufferer advised the Guardian throughout their investigation.
One other accuser alleged that Copperfield “squeezed her breast” after calling her on stage throughout a efficiency on the MGM Grand in January 2014.
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Though that accuser reported the purported incident to MGM and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division, legislation enforcement in the end closed the case due to “inadequate proof.”
A rep for Copperfield has since denied the most recent allegations towards the magician in a prolonged assertion launched on Wednesday morning.
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A rep for Copperfield has since denied the most recent allegations towards the magician.
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Copperfield “denied wrongdoing of any form” and his rep insisted that the accused “by no means acted inappropriately with anybody, not to mention anybody underage.” Copperfield’s rep additionally stated that the recent allegations have been “not solely utterly false, but additionally completely implausible.”
“Everybody that is aware of David Copperfield will inform you that these latest allegations from one newspaper are the precise reverse of who David is,” the entertainer’s Copperfield rep acknowledged. “In reality, David has a document of risking his profession to assist defend ladies from highly effective predators.”
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“Most of those historic accusations have been made earlier than, and all of them are as false now as they have been then,” the rep continued. “David requested the ‘proof’ upon which these false allegations declare to rely and this has not been supplied.”
“In contrast, each time US legislation enforcement has seemed into such issues, they’ve been investigated totally and it has been discovered that there’s merely no case to reply,” the magician’s rep added. “The Guardian’s characterization isn’t who David is, and he continues to assist anybody who has skilled any type of abuse or discrimination.”
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Copperfield “denied wrongdoing of any form.”
“The motion should succeed, however false accusations should cease for it to flourish,” Copperfield’s rep concluded. “David can be contemplating the place along with his authorized group and can take such steps as could also be acceptable over these false and scurrilous allegations.”
As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, Copperfield confronted related sexual misconduct accusations on the outset of the #MeToo motion again in 2018.
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Copperfield’s accuser alleged that the magician drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1988 when she was nonetheless 17 years previous.
The entertainer denied these allegations in a statement posted to social media in January 2018.