Posted on 10/27/2007 9:21:48 PM PDT by bahblahbah
A Seattle federal grand jury is investigating allegations by an aspiring model from Washington who said she was raped, assaulted and threatened by magician David Copperfield at his private island in the Bahamas in July, at least three federal law-enforcement officials have confirmed.
The Washington woman has told law enforcement that she and her family were approached at a Jan. 25 performance in the Tri-Cities area by a member of Copperfield's entourage almost as soon as they entered the auditorium. They were led to special seats, and Copperfield selected the woman to come on stage as part of his act, the federal sources said.
Sources confirmed that the woman told investigators Copperfield later promised he could help with her modeling career and invited her to his isolated $50 million private retreat at Musha Cay, in a tiny string of white-sand islands 85 miles southeast of Nassau, Bahamas.
She told investigators Copperfield assured her that there would be other guests at the 150-acre resort, which is restricted to a maximum of 24 guests and rents for up to $50,000 a night. From Nassau, the retreat is accessible only by charter plane and then private boat.
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David CopaFeel
Copperfield may or may not be guilty; I have no idea.
But after the Duke lacrosse case I will never trust what a Grand Jury says again.
They are just rubber stamps for prosecutors. (I’d just go ahead and abolish the whole procedure.)
‘Copperfield selected the woman to come on stage as part of his act’
That old trick of hiding the sausage?
Ask Martha Stewart, Michael Vick, etc., etc., etc.
Google "american revolution" "vice admiralty" FOR AN EDUCATION.
First I’d heard this got started here, in the Tri-Cities.
I vaguely remember he did the show here.
That Seattle DA must be one powerful SOB for his jurisdiction to include the Bahamas!
“I swear he was here, officer, but he just disappeared!!!”
But does Copperfield have Clinton powers, to make the evidence disappear...
Hey, if he can make the Statue of Liberty vanish...
Copperfield ought to be able to make this disappear. This looks like a pretty flimsy pretense to me, probably just enough to hoodwink a judge so they could ransack his warehouse in a fishing expedition.
They may not have the evidence, but dang — women have been warned not to fly off to his private mansion in a foreign country. IF the story is out presumably other woman may have had the same experience and will come forward.
I have no opinion as to his guilt or innocence, but it is the FBI investigating it, not some local DA out to get reelected.
Yeah, play the old rape ticket. That works, evidence or not.
I just laugh when I see the words “grand jury” now.
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