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Report: FBI Raid of David Copperfield's Warehouse May Involve His Pick-Up Techniques
Fox News ^ | 10-24-07

Posted on 10/24/2007 10:46:31 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle

David Copperfield designed part of his show around "a system for picking up women," which may explain the FBI's interest in his camera system and hard drive, sources told TMZ.

Last week, the FBI raided Copperfield's Las Vegas warehouse and seized digital camera equipment and a hard drive to a computer after a Seattle woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in the Bahamas.

During his show, Copperfield goes into the audience and chooses women to come on stage. If he likes a woman, he'll use code words with assistants like "mama" and "secrecy," TMZ reported.

Click here to read the TMZ report

The assistants mark the women on a map of the inside of the Hollywood Theater at MGM Grand. After the show, the women are brought backstage, and told that Copperfield may use them in his show when he comes to their hometown.

They are then photographed with a digital camera, asked questions like, "What is your favorite men's cologne?" and "Where do you like to vacation?"

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: copperfield; crime; rape
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TMZ link halfway down

So Zeigfried and Roy, are they still performing? Michael Jackson is insane, so he can't do Vegas. Vegas is going to be real quiet with all these people in jail.

1 posted on 10/24/2007 10:46:35 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: yankeesdoodle

That is not of course to say that Seigfried or Roy has done anything worthy of jailtime, didn’t want to lump them in with Jackson and Copperfield. One of the poor fellas got mauled by that tiger. But my point being, the “talent” is disappearing.


2 posted on 10/24/2007 10:47:53 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: yankeesdoodle

Picking up?

or levitating?


3 posted on 10/24/2007 10:48:27 AM PDT by SmithL (I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
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To: yankeesdoodle

“So Zeigfried and Roy, are they still performing?”

I don’t think jail was what put them out of business.


4 posted on 10/24/2007 10:49:06 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: yankeesdoodle
Talent is disappearing from magic in Vegas? Hardly.

In fact, the best magic show in Vegas is someone you have likely never heard of. Mac King.

5 posted on 10/24/2007 10:49:18 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: yankeesdoodle

I still think this is outrageous. Why on earth is the FBI investigating an crime allegedly committed in a foreign country, which the alleged victim never reported in that country?


6 posted on 10/24/2007 10:50:28 AM PDT by montag813
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To: yankeesdoodle

bttt


7 posted on 10/24/2007 10:50:47 AM PDT by amigatec (Carriers make wonderful diplomatic statements. Subs are for when diplomacy is over.)
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To: yankeesdoodle
The photograph below reveals his secret for picking-up women.



8 posted on 10/24/2007 10:51:32 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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The assistants mark the women on a map of the inside of the Hollywood Theater at MGM Grand. After the show, the women are brought backstage,


My magic 8 ball says “I see conspiracy charges being handed down”.


9 posted on 10/24/2007 10:52:41 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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"But my point being, the “talent” is disappearing."

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

"This is my town, beyotch!"

10 posted on 10/24/2007 10:53:21 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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>The assistants mark the women on a map of the inside of the Hollywood Theater at MGM Grand. After the show, the women are brought backstage, and...

"Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

"Again?"

11 posted on 10/24/2007 10:53:54 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: yankeesdoodle

Heck...the Rapist used to have Secret Service pick-up the girls he wanted.


12 posted on 10/24/2007 10:54:23 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: SmithL
I don't get it. So the guy's a hound? And uses technology in his pursuits.
That gives the stinking feds the right to steal his cash?
There has to be a lot more to this story than this.
13 posted on 10/24/2007 10:54:28 AM PDT by trickyricky
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To: yankeesdoodle

If that is what this is about, then they don’t have much of a case. The fact that some woman can describe his pickup technique doesn’t come close to proving she was raped.

One question I have is why the US authorities are involved in this at all if it’s a Bahamas case.


14 posted on 10/24/2007 10:55:20 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Copperfield won’t be the first to use his gig to pick up women.

Isn’t that why people tour in the first place? At least that’s why Phlorescent Leech and Eddie toured. “Wanna see the inside of our tour bus?”


15 posted on 10/24/2007 10:55:44 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: yankeesdoodle

Steve Martin, (who was a Vegas magician for a short time) had a great comment. He said, if you want to perform in Vegas but have absolutely no talent, become a magician.


16 posted on 10/24/2007 10:55:50 AM PDT by joebuck
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To: montag813

If a woman goes back stage to see a performer at his request and then on a vaction on one of his islands, she must know he is looking for sex. That she did not report a rape in the Bahamas indicates she is looking for a paycheck.


17 posted on 10/24/2007 10:58:36 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: yankeesdoodle

Every time a woman accuses a man of something, he is assumed guilty.
Does she actually happen to have evidence?


18 posted on 10/24/2007 10:58:42 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: L98Fiero
Robert Goulet Awaits Lung Transplant

Wayne will have a lot of extra work

19 posted on 10/24/2007 10:59:01 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle
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To: montag813

I think you will find out somewhere down the road that the FBI and IRS have been watching this guy for several years...moving promisary notes and cash in and out of the country. The fact that he has this house down in the Bahamas....is a strong hint of financial causes. Go back and research Don Johnson and his Germany trip from five years ago (he was caught with a billion dollars in his car...various banking notes, promisary notes, and bonds...which the Germans copied and sent to the IRS...and Don had alot of explaining to do later with his “clients” and the IRS). I think Copperfield is doing the same stuff. A successful magician in Vegas can amass a sizable fortune....like Siegfried and Roy....but Copperfield is worth alot more than those two....so you have to wonder how he acquired his wealth.


20 posted on 10/24/2007 10:59:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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