Illusionist David Copperfield among big names in unsealed Epstein-related court docs

An illusionist recognized for making objects disappear has discovered his alleged associations with Jeffrey Epstein showing in courtroom paperwork, as have some others.

David Copperfield was named in paperwork unsealed in a lawsuit by Virginia Guiffre in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell. The small print got here in a deposition (interview for a courtroom submitting) made by Johanna Sjoberg on Might 18 2016 in Fort Lauderdale, the notes from which had been in one of many courtroom filings.

Sjoberg, like Guiffre, had been recruited to work at Epstein’s compound at Little St. James Island within the US Virgin Islands.

“David Copperfield was at a dinner at Epstein’s and there was one other lady current who seemed younger and Johanna requested what faculty she went to and Johanna didn’t acknowledge the college identify as being a school and she or he stated it was doable it was a highschool aged lady,” notes from the deposition defined.

“Johanna stated Copperfield ‘questioned me if I used to be conscious that ladies had been getting paid to search out different ladies.’”

The Daily Mail reported Copperfield visited Little St James as early as 1994, 4 years earlier than Epstein bought it from enterprise capitalist Arch Cummin for $8 million. Copperfield rented the island to trip with mannequin Claudia Schiffer and suggest to her. The couple broke up in 1999 with out ever getting married.

Sjoberg stated she met Copperfield at Epstein’s home.

“Somebody known as me from the home and stated that he can be there, and if I wished to return have dinner, then I might meet him,” she stated.

Copperfield was not on the home when she arrived, so she waited with one other lady she had not met who appeared very younger.

“I requested her what faculty she went to, form of prodding to see if she went to one of many space faculties and I didn’t acknowledge the identify of the college,” she stated.

“So I believed she could possibly be youthful than faculty age, however I needed to assume for my very own sanity that she was a daughter of considered one of his mates.”

Sjoberg stated Copperfield did magic tips on the dinner and he gave the impression to be a buddy of Epstein. Extra paperwork might be unveiled within the coming days and the magician is considered one of tons of of individuals talked about within the ones already revealed.

Sjoberg stated she was a school scholar when Maxwell recruited her to be a masseuse on Epstein’s island. She stated Epstein wanted three orgasms a day and Maxwell didn’t have the time or curiosity to fulfill him that a lot.

In response to the deposition, Sjoberg met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s home in Palm Seashore. She stated she didn’t give him a therapeutic massage. Upon questioning, she stated she didn’t therapeutic massage George Lucas or Donald Trump, both. She stated Epstein had instructed her concerning girls that Invoice Clinton “appreciated them younger.”

Sjoberg stated Epstein additionally claimed to have cellphone conversations with individuals reminiscent of Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Bruce Willis. Requested if she met Cameron Diaz, Sjoberg stated no.

The paperwork allege that Epstein pressured a minor often known as Jane Doe 3 to “have sexual relations” with Dershowitz.

“Along with being a participant within the abuse of Jane Doe #3 and different minors, Dershowitz was an eye-witness to the sexual abuse of many different minors by Epstein and a number of other of Epstein’s co-conspirators,” rad the paperwork.

The lawyer stated he needs all of the paperwork revealed. Dershowitz instructed Folks Journal, “The girl [Guiffre] who initially accused me subsequently said that she might have misidentified me and she or he withdrew her lawsuit in opposition to me.”

Within the paperwork, Giuffre stated she slept with billionaire Hyatt lodges inheritor Tom Pritzker. His cousins are Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker and the governor’s sister and Harvard board member Penny Pritzker. She was instrumental within the appointment of Claudine Homosexual as faculty president. Homosexual resigned on Tuesday after plagiarism and anti-Semitism allegations.

Giuffre stated, and affirmed repeatedly below oath, she had been “with Tom as soon as” when requested if she had intercourse. Pritzker has angrily denied the declare.

Billionaire hedge fund supervisor and philanthropist Glenn Dubin was the primary individual Maxwell instructed Giuffre to therapeutic massage, she stated.

“Once they say therapeutic massage, meaning erotic, okay? That is their time period for it,” she stated below oath.

“And I am telling you that Ghislaine instructed me to go to Glenn Dubin and provides him a therapeutic massage, which implies intercourse.”

Dubin supplied proof to Vanity Fair that they declare contradicts these claims.

Guiffre’s deposition stated she massaged different well-known individuals, such because the late New Mexico Governor Invoice Richardson, Prince Andrew, and former US Senator George Mitchell. The late French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel was additionally named often within the paperwork, having allegedly procured greater than 1,000 females for Epstein to sleep with.

The case was settled in 2017, however paperwork have slowly trickled out since 2019 following courtroom motion by the Miami Herald. The present batch of paperwork has 250 information, with solely 40 of them launched on January 3 and the remaining to observe within the coming days.

US District Decide Loretta A. Preska, who ordered the paperwork unsealed, stated in her December order that she was ordering the disclosure as a result of a lot of the knowledge inside them is already public.

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