Famed American magician David Copperfield allegedly had dinner with the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and some of his victims, in accordance with court docket paperwork unsealed Wednesday.
Legal professional Sigrid McCawley requested an accuser of Epstein — Johanna Sjoberg — and his former lover and confederate Ghislaine Maxwell if she ever met Copperfield.
“Sure,” she mentioned. The doc is a part of a Might 2016 deposition.
“Somebody known as me from the home and mentioned that he can be there, and if I needed to come back have dinner, then I might meet him,” Sjoberg mentioned. “So after I arrived on the home, he wasn’t there but … and there was one other lady there which I had by no means met and by no means seen. She appeared younger.”
Sjoberg then mentioned Copperfield “did some magic methods” at dinner and mentioned he was a good friend of Epstein’s. Sjoberg mentioned Copperfield, who was beforehand accused of sexually assaulting a teen mannequin in 1988, questioned her whether or not she “was conscious that ladies had been getting paid to seek out different ladies,” the court docket doc learn.
“Did he let you know any of the specifics of that?” McCawley requested.
“No,” Sjoberg mentioned.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Copperfield for remark.
Dozens of names that had beforehand been redacted from court docket paperwork in a lawsuit in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and confederate Ghislaine Maxwell have been made public on orders of a federal choose in New York.
U.S. District Decide Loretta Preska ordered their launch in December however gave the Jane and John Does two weeks in case they needed to enchantment.
The names had been unveiled in a collection of 40 paperwork which were posted to the docket with out earlier redactions that hid large names, together with former President Invoice Clinton, his estranged longtime aide Doug Band, Prince Andrew, and the French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who like Epstein died whereas awaiting trial.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN LIST: COURT UNSEALS NAMES IN GHISLAINE MAXWELL LAWSUIT
Epstein had many high-profile connections, together with former U.S. presidents, international prime ministers and Britain’s Prince Andrew, in addition to Hollywood stars, main teachers, individuals within the modeling and style industries and different public figures. A number of the names had been beforehand recognized by different means regardless of having been withheld from the general public’s eye within the lawsuit.
Lots of the names belong to individuals who haven’t been accused of wrongdoing, together with Clinton, who additionally declined to ask the court docket to have his title stay sealed.
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
