From FOXNews:
A Seattle woman has made a rape claim against magician David Copperfield, law enforcement sources tell FOX News.
The woman told Seattle police the magician raped her while she was in the Bahamas, sources said. Because the alleged incident happened abroad and the woman did not report it until she returned to the United States, Seattle authorities turned over the case to the FBI.
On Thursday, FBI officials raided a Las Vegas warehouse used by Copperfield. Seattle FBI agent Robbie Burroughs said Thursday the case was related to one in Washington.
“The investigation is related to a Seattle case. The Seattle case is pending and that means we can’t say anything about it,” Burroughs said.
Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed.
Copperfield’s Las Vegas attorney, David Chesnoff, refused to give specifics about the charge. “If in fact those are the allegations, unfortunately false allegations are all too often made against famous individuals,” Chesnoff said. “But we are confident the investigation will conclude favorably.”
Well, naturally he’s confident.
I mean, his client once made the Statue of Liberty disappear. You think he’ll have a problem with a bit of bruising?
Plus, I read somewhere that his seed, when agitated, can take the shape of a scrunchy.
Poor woman may as well be accusing Aleister Crowley, or even the Devil himself.
(h/t Ace)
He pulled a what out of what?
Bullwinkle: Watch me pull a python out of my pants.
Rocky: Again?
Bullwinkle: Better get some new pants.
I don’t understand how you look for clues about a rape in the Bahamas in a warehouse in Seattle. The FBI should be more careful about releasing inane details without context or explanation cause I think less and less people think that they are being super-sophisticated investigators and more and more think they are likely being stupid.
You’re all missing David’s real trick here, that homoerotic master of manipulation. It wasn’t about rape; it was about getting probed by federal agents all along.
So. When does Peter Falk figure this out?
As soon as that lazy eye of his gets of its ass and does some @#$%ing detective work.
“even the Devil himself.”
Leave me out of this. Or I’ll get you, too.
I’m sure he can make the charges disappear.
Maybe he was the mystery man who assaulted Randi Rhodes and disappeared.
It all makes sense now, Aldo. He transformed himself into 14 bloody marys, entered Randi under false pretenses (rape under most any state’s laws), and caused her fall. Quo erat demonstratum.
Whenever anyone mentioned Copperfield I used to think of that high school teacher who forced Dickens on us.
Now even more so.
Poor woman may as well be accusing Aleister Crowley, or even the Devil himself.
Maybe Ozzy will immortalize her in a song.
Oh. The warehouse is in Vegas not Seattle. Gosh I’m grumpy and stupid today. Apologies to the FBI, I guess.
Come to think of it, watching magic on the tv has never clicked with me really, and I can’t think of ever having actually done that. It seems very … whatever the name of that new guys blog about the monkeys is.
#11 – Comment of the day
Copperfield’s real magic was to make Britney disappear from the news for at least one evening.
Well, y’know, the cops on Grand Bahama are pretty lax when it comes to rape. Better to wait a couple of weeks, then report it to the FBI. They’re the experts, after all.
(??)
– Don’t tell me. He made her virginity disappear…..again.
According to the two TV reports I saw, the FBI “seized [a miscellany that includes] $2 million in cash from Copperfield’s warehouse.”
So the source of his lawyer’s confidence may not be so magical.
Maybe HE was in Seattle when SHE claims to have been violated…?
Now that would be magic… Or maybe not. The IRS does this kind of thing all the time.
Since when does the FBI have jurisdiction over crimes allegedly committed in the Bahamas? They are their own frickin’ country, fer christ’s sake!
That two million dollars is gone, baby – “must be drug money, nobody legally keeps that much cash on hand!” High fives all around! New SWAT gear for everybody!
When you’ve been with Claudia Schiffer, it takes a lot to get that feeling again.
Christopher – I tell people that all the time, and they never believe me.