- David Copperfield is called in newly unsealed court docket paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein’s intercourse ring.
- In a deposition, Johanna Sjoberg, a sufferer of Epstein, mentioned she met the magician at Epstein’s home.
- Copperfield requested if she “was conscious that ladies have been getting paid to search out different ladies,” she mentioned.
Movie star magician David Copperfield was conscious that a few of the “ladies” in Jeffrey Epstein’s circle have been paid to recruit others, Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg mentioned in a 2016 deposition.
Copperfield is one in all about 170 Epstein associates whose names seem in a batch of newly unsealed paperwork within the lawsuit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one other Epstein accuser, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
As a part of her deposition within the lawsuit, Sjoberg, who beforehand alleged that Prince Andrew fondled her at Epstein’s mansion, mentioned she met Copperfield at a dinner on the financier’s home.
The magician appeared to be a buddy of Epstein, Sjoberg mentioned, and requested her if she “was conscious that ladies have been getting paid to search out different ladies.”
Sjoberg mentioned Sarah Kellen, who labored for Epstein and Maxwell, and one other lady have been additionally current.
“She appeared younger to me,” Sjoberg mentioned concerning the different lady. “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 one in all his buddies.”
Representatives of Copperfield didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
Copperfield is without doubt one of the world’s highest-paid magicians, incomes $46 million in 2020, based on Forbes. He has a long-standing residency on the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and owns 11 non-public islands within the Bahamas, which he rents out.
The deposition was performed by Sigrid McCawley, an legal professional for Giuffre. In an announcement Wednesday, McCawley mentioned the unsealed paperwork make clear “how Epstein operated his huge, world intercourse trafficking enterprise and obtained away with it for many years.”
Maxwell, a former girlfriend and longtime affiliate of Epstein, was discovered responsible of trafficking ladies and of sexual abuse in a 2021 legal trial. She is serving a 20-year sentence.
The newly unsealed court docket paperwork are being launched on a rolling foundation, with extra anticipated to be made public Thursday.
