Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual assault by sixteen women

Sixteen women. These are sixteen women, according to the British newspaper The Guardianthey accuse the famous magician David Copperfield of sexual violence. More than half were minor at the time of the events they reported, while three of them ensured that the magician was 67 years old drugged and then rapedincapable of consenting to sexual intercourse.

Women were touched on stage

As part of the development of this survey published on Wednesday 15 May, The Guardian met more than one hundred peopleand that it consulted numerous police and court files during the course of its investigation, which covered a period from the late 1980s to 2014.

Some witnesses accuse the magician of touching the stage during his shows. Another woman claims to have met Copperfield when she was 15 years. In later years, he called her late at night and sent her gifts, she said, saying she was like that “conditioned” have sex with him. When she turned 18, while he was 35, they had consensual sexual intercourse, she said.

Four more women he claimed that Copperfield had done so touched their private parts without their consent, or forced to do so during live performances on stage. Three of them were teenagers at the time of the alleged events. Family members of a 15-year-old girl who was sitting in the audience say they saw him groping her breast.

A first accusation in 2018

Nearby Caretaker, David Copperfield denied any wrongdoing. Through his lawyers, he claims he “didn’t do it He has never acted inappropriately with anyone, much less a minor “. His lawyers also said that “numerous false accusations” had already been made against him.

Reference is then made to an accusation of sexual assault by the former American model Brittney Lewis, in 2018. The latter, who also testified to the newspaper, claims to have been drugged and sexually assaulted thirty years ago, when she was underage. David Copperfield denied these allegations when they were revealed.

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