Victim says magician asked if she knew girls were paid to find girls for Epstein
Magician David Copperfield is alleged to have asked one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims if she was aware “that girls were getting paid to find other girls” for Epstein, according to the latest release of court documents.
In her May 2016 deposition, Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg described going to a dinner at one of Epstein’s homes also attended by magician David Copperfield.
She said Copperfield did magic tricks before asking if she was aware “that girls were getting paid to find other girls” for Epstein. One of the key allegations against Epstein and Maxwell was that some of the girls Epstein paid for sex acts then acted as recruiters to find him other victims. Sjoberg said Copperfield didn’t get more specific about what he meant.
There is no suggestion those listed, including Copperfield, either knew about his crimes or participated in any criminal behaviour.
David Copperfield made his name as a performer and illusionist (Getty Images)
Esptein killed himself in jail (Corbis via Getty Images)Sjoberg also made claims about an April 2001 trip to New York in which she said Prince Andrew touched her breast while they posed for a photo at Epstein’s Manhattan town house. Prince Andrew has always strenuously denied all the claims and any wrongdoing.
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In the testimony, some of which appeared as excerpts in previous court filings, Sjoberg said she and Giuffre had flown with Epstein to New York on his private jet. Maxwell and Prince Andrew met them there.
At one point, she testified, Maxwell called her to an upstairs closet where they pulled out a puppet of Prince Andrew that had been made for a television program.
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Show goes on for the magician just an hour after bombshell documents were released with details of connection to Jeffrey Epstein (Brian Prahl / SplashNews.com)“It looked like him,” Sjoberg said. “And she brought it down and presented it to him; and that was a great joke, because apparently it was a production from a show on .”
“And they decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch. They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo.” Andrew has repeatedly denied all allegations of sexual impropriety made against him.
The claims come from a new batch of previously secret court documents which were unsealed late on Wednesday. They are related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Epstein was a convicted pedophile with connections to some of the world's most powerful people (New York State Sex Offender Regi)Social media has been rife in recent weeks with posts speculating the documents amounted to a list of rich and powerful men who were Epstein’s “clients” or “co-conspirators.”
There was no such list. The first 40 documents in the court-ordered release largely consisted of already public material revealed through nearly two decades of newspaper stories, TV documentaries, interviews, legal cases and books about the Epstein scandal.
The documents being unsealed are related to a lawsuit filed in 2015 by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre. She is one of dozens of women who sued Epstein for abusing them at his homes in Florida, New York, the US Virgin Islands and New Mexico. This suit was against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend who is now serving a 20-year prison term for helping recruit and abuse his victims.
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