The famous illusionist now stands accused of grooming minors. Some of the claims bear eerie similarities to those against his old pal Jeffrey Epstein.
On Wednesday, the outlet reported that 16 women shared allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior by Copperfield, spanning from the 1980s to 2014, and that more than half of the women were under the age of 18 at the time.
Copperfield also allegedly directed his employees to scour the audience for attractive young women and invite them to the stage or for a post-show meeting in his limousine, hotel, or penthouse multiple times a week. Epstein, as has been widely reported, ordered his own assistants to recruit young women and girls into his trafficking scheme.
And in another parallel to the Epstein scandal, in 2007, the FBI was investigating a woman named Lacey Carroll’s claims that Copperfield sexually assaulted her at his Bahamas private island. The FBI evenCopperfield’s warehouse and theater in Las Vegas, seizing $2 million in cash, a computer hard drive, and a digital camera memory chip, but dropped the probe two years later without explanation.
A second accuser, Brittany Lewis, spoke to the FBI around that time too. She claimed she was 17 in 1988 when Copperfield drugged and assaulted her after she competed in a modeling contest where he served as a judge, The Wrap “I’ve lived with years of news reports about me being accused of fabricated, heinous acts, with few telling the story of the accuser getting arrested, and my innocence.” Another lawyer, Katherine Ezell, questioned Kellen about the men's relationship and whether they recruited girls for each other.
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