According to court documents unsealed Wednesday, famed American magician David Copperfield allegedly dined with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a few of his victims.
Attorney Sigrid McCawley asked Johanna Sjoberg, an accuser of Epstein, and his former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell if she had ever met Copperfield.
“Yes,” she confirmed. The document is part of a deposition from May 2016.
“Someone called me from the house and said that he would be there, and if I wanted to come have dinner, then I could meet him,” Sjoberg said. “So when I arrived at the house, he wasn’t there yet … and there was another girl there which I had never met and never seen. She seemed young.”
David Copperfield “did some magic tricks” at dinner
Sjoberg then stated that Copperfield “did some magic tricks” at dinner and that he was Epstein’s friend. Copperfield, who was previously accused of sexually assaulting a teen model in 1988, allegedly asked Sjoberg if she “was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls,” according to the court document.
“Did he tell you any of the specifics of that?” McCawley inquired.
“No,” Sjoberg replied.
On the orders of a federal judge in New York, dozens of names previously redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, have been made public.
US District Judge Loretta Preska ordered their release in December but gave the Jane and John Does two weeks to appeal.
The names were revealed in a series of 40 documents posted to the docket without previous redactions that hid big names like former President Bill Clinton, his estranged longtime aide Doug Band, Prince Andrew, and the French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who died while awaiting trial, like Epstein.
