Conjurer David Copperfield accused of sexual violence by sixteen women

The American edition of the “Guardian” publishes a vast investigation discussing acts committed between the 1980s and 2014.

The famous American conjurer David Copperfield is accused of sexual violence by sixteen women, some of whom were minors at the time of the facts they denounce, reported Wednesday, May 15, the British newspaper The Guardian. Three of these women assure that the famous magician drugged them before having sex, to which they believe they could not have consented.

The American edition of the British media claims to have spoken to more than 100 people and consulted police and court files during its investigation, which covers a period from the late 1980s to 2014. David’s lawyers Copperfield, 67, responded to the newspaper that their client denied any offense and had “never behaved inappropriately with anyone, let alone a minor.”

The illusionist is particularly known for making the Statue of Liberty disappear, and for his relationship with German model Claudia Schiffer in the 1990s.

In 2018, he was accused of sexual assault by former American model Brittney Lewis. The latter, who also spoke to Guardian claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted three decades earlier, when she was a minor. David Copperfield denied these accusations when they were revealed.

Other women interviewed by The Guardian accuse the magician of touching on stage during his shows. Another, cited under a pseudonym, says she met David Copperfield when she was 15. In subsequent years, he would call her late at night and send her gifts, she said, saying he was thus “conditioned”. When she turned 18, they had consensual sex, she said. The conjurer’s lawyers denied “firmly rejects any idea of ​​conditioning or any other misconduct”.