Greater than half of the ladies talked regarding have been presupposed to be minors on the time the acts came regarding, some weren’t even 15 years previous. The instances are dated from the late Nineteen Eighties to 2014.
Three of the sixteen girls say Copperfield drugged them and compelled them to have intercourse. Due to the narcotics, they might not defend themselves and say no. He promised a number of girls careers as fashions or jobs in present enterprise, writes the newspaper Bild.
The police proposed to indict the coach from Prague for sexual coercion
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One of many girls allegedly abused is Brittney Lewis. She first spoke in regards to the well-known magician’s accusations in 2018. She claims that Copperfield drugged and sexually abused her in 1988, when she was 17 years previous and a mannequin.
One other lady advised The Guardian she had an identical expertise. She claimed that she and her girlfriend have been drugged and that neither of them was capable of consent earlier than he had intercourse with every of them, writes The Guardian newspaper.
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David Copperfield (middle) was a pair for a number of years with German supermodel Claudia Schiffer.
“I’d by no means have advised anybody if I did not actually, truthfully consider I used to be on medicine on the time,” stated a girl named Gillian. In 1993, she agreed to fulfill Copperfield for a drink following one in every of his exhibits.
The previous magician denies all of the allegations. His attorneys denied Gillian’s allegations, saying no such claims or complaints had been made towards him on the venues he was performing on the time. The attorneys additionally stated medicine have been “not a part of his world”.
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“Anybody who is aware of David Copperfield will say that these newest allegations are the precise reverse of who David is. Most of those allegations have been made earlier than and all are as false at present as they have been then,” the attorneys stated.
Some girls have alleged that Copperfield groped them or compelled them to the touch them sexually throughout dwell performances on stage. Three of them have been youngsters on the time of the alleged incidents.
Relations of a then 15-year-old woman who was sitting within the viewers say they witnessed him touching her breasts. Copperfield’s attorneys stated the claims have been “not solely fully false, but additionally fully implausible”.
In France, a fee can be created to research sexual violence within the movie business
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