# Whatever happened with the rape allegations against illusionist David Copperfield?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 11, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-with-the-rape-allegations-against-illusionist-david-copperfield/480768 "2009-01-11T05:25:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-with-the-rape-allegations-against-illusionist-david-copperfield/480768/1 "2009-01-11T05:25:35Z")

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[I checked wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(illusionist))and googled it but there doesn’t seem to have been a mention of this for almost a year. Did it get resolved?

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**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-with-the-rape-allegations-against-illusionist-david-copperfield/480768/2 "2009-01-11T07:26:21Z")

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He made them disappear?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-with-the-rape-allegations-against-illusionist-david-copperfield/480768/3 "2009-01-11T07:48:44Z")

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> [@Fubaya](#):
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> He made them disappear?

Maybe he disappeared the courthouse of the jurisdiction in question just like he disappeared the Statute of Liberty?  
That’d make for a confused DA.  
“Where the hell do I file these papers now? Darn those magicians…”

In all seriousness, I just used my best Google-Fu, and I had the same result the OP did.  
This story is vanished like an Ipod mailed to a mysterious Nigerian businessman you met on Craigslist…

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**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-with-the-rape-allegations-against-illusionist-david-copperfield/480768/4 "2009-01-11T08:23:28Z")

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[This](http://www.lvrj.com/neon/36741614.html) Dec. 26, 2008 review of his show briefly mentions it and indicates that the case was dropped. “an FBI raid on the magician’s Las Vegas warehouse, part of a sexual assault investigation that produced no charges.”