FBI Memos Said David Copperfield Had a Very Close Epstein Relationship, Then MGM Grand Ended a 25-Year Residency
David Copperfield pasó un cuarto de siglo vendiendo maravilla en el MGM Grand. El 5 de marzo de 2026, el hotel y el mago acordaron la última actuación sería el 30 de abril. Tiene 69 años. Nunca ha sido acusado en el caso Jeffrey Epstein. Niega mala conducta sexual. Sus abogados pasaron años reduciendo la relación con un puñado de reuniones entre conocidos. La marquea todavía descendió, y descendió después de que los memos federales usando una sentencia diferente fueron arrojados a Internet público: Copperfield, un oficial del FBI escribió, apareció a tener una relación muy estrecha con Epstein.
That clash, guest list versus handful, is the only angle that does not require a jury. A casino does not need a conviction to stop printing a name next to families on holiday. It needs a reason. The Justice Department’s Epstein production supplied one in the investigators’ own words. Whether those words prove a crime is a separate question from whether MGM Grand wanted the act through another summer. Mike Neubecker, the property’s president, issued the ritual thank-you and wished Copperfield well on «the next chapter.» The company did not answer when reporters asked whether the files had anything to do with the calendar. Automatic refunds went out for seats after April 30. USA Today counted about 120 shows left in the eight weeks that remained. The room kept the lights. It did not keep the illusionist.
What agents wrote when they still had badges
The 2026 file dump did not invent Copperfield’s name. Civil records had already placed him in Epstein’s rooms. What the dump added was agents talking to each other. A December 12, 2007, memo from FBI agents in Seattle told counterparts in Miami that the connection needed more work «to determine if they both shared a predilection for minors» and «if they engaged in referring possible victims to each other.» The memo described a «business list» of women, with notations that two were a «Jeff Epstein guest» and that one was «not loyal, doesn’t play the game.» Message pads in the files show calls to Epstein in 2004 and 2005 from a man sometimes logged as «Magic David.»
A 2019 email, written after Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail, was blunter. The Copperfield investigation, the official wrote, «showed that Copperfield trained his employees to identify young females (teens to early twenties) in the audience of his shows.» Those women were «separated from their boyfriends, families and husbands and brought backstage.» Staff kept a notebook on how to deliver them. Copperfield kept his own, with contact information, whether he had sex with them, and a photograph. «I don’t know if any of his victims were underage,» the official added. «There were allegations that he drugged some of the females. I recall Epstein’s name coming up in our investigation a number of times and Copperfield appeared to have a very close relationship with Epstein.» The Guardian printed the lines. CNN later found photographs: Copperfield in a bathrobe with four women, and Copperfield with Ghislaine Maxwell, both in white robes, on Epstein’s island, Little St. James.
Tickets, an island, and a case that died rich
Complimentary seats are not a dinner coincidence. The Seattle memo and later interviews describe Epstein handing women tickets to Copperfield’s show in Las Vegas and in Florida. One witness told the FBI she flew to Las Vegas, met both men, and concluded they had to be friends. An internal email after an October 19, 2007, search of Copperfield’s Las Vegas warehouse called him «Epstein’s favorite cohort.» A September 5, 2008, note between prosecutors said they were «still working on Copperfield.» No charge followed. In a 2015 email Epstein bragged that Copperfield got engaged to model Claudia Schiffer «on my island.» The pair never married. The sentence is not a marriage license. It is a man showing off access.
El archivo criminal más antiguo es el que los nuevos PDF arrastraron a la luz del día. Desde 2007 el FBI investigó la alegación de una mujer de que Copperfield la violó después de un espectáculo, un viaje y una invitación a su retiro privado de Bahamas en Musha Cay. Nunca fue acusado. Le dijo a Oprah Winfrey que era la víctima en esa historia. Agentes más tarde escribió un postscript agrio: un Estados Unidos La oficina del abogado describió como débil e intimidado por su dinero, además de peleas por el autor y la jurisdicción. Un caché separado incluye un intercambio 2015 en el que una mujer envió a Epstein un enlace sobre Musha Cay y preguntó cuándo Copperfield lo compró. Su respuesta, reportada en la cobertura europea de los archivos, fue que Copperfield lo compró después de que Epstein lo dijera. La aparición en un PDF no es una acusación. Una orden federal de búsqueda y un archivo multianual de crimen sexual tampoco son un truco mágico.
Johanna Sjoberg’s testimony in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial sits beside those memos for a reason. She described a gathering at Epstein’s house where Copperfield asked if she was eighteen and asked to see her breasts. She said she was twenty-two. In other accounts of her testimony she said he also asked whether girls were paid to find other girls. Copperfield has denied sexual misconduct. His lawyers told the Guardian in 2024 that calling him Epstein’s friend was «totally false and a mischaracterization made by the media,» and that the two men met on a «handful» of occasions. A handful does not produce message pads, guest notations, island photographs, and a warehouse search. A guest list does.
A congressman read the name out loud
El 31 de agosto de 2026, representante republicano. Thomas Massie estaba en el piso de la casa y nombró catorce personas que dijo que el Departamento de Justicia debería investigar y procesar como co-conspiradores de Epstein. David Copfield era el cuarto nombre, entre Les Wexner y Lapo Elkann. la lista también incluía león negro, Jes Staley, y Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Massie no tiene pluma de carga. Tiene un micrófono y los mismos memos que cualquiera puede leer. Abogados para el mago no respondió solicitudes de comentarios. The Guardian recorded the silence. Massie paired the roll call with a second discharge petition for an Epstein Files Transparency Act, arguing that millions of pages were still unreleased nearly a year after the first transparency law. Naming is not a verdict. Refusing to answer a floor speech that uses your name next to «prosecute» is a choice.
The AEGIS Alliance tratará una carga real, si alguna vez se presenta, como su propia historia. Esta historia es una marquea, un memorando y un congresista. Los lectores que quieren la pelea de documentos alrededor del mago pueden empezar con el admission that less than one percent of the files had been released, el SDNY flight-log letter, and the fight over deadlines the department kept missing. One object in the portal is an agent email. Another is noise. The Copperfield pages are the first kind.
What the paper does not do
No prueba que Copperfield trafica a niños con Epstein. No prueba la denuncia de las Bahamas. No convierte el discurso de Massie en información. Muestra que los agentes en dos oficinas exteriores pensaron que los dos hombres compartían más que una tabla de asientos, que el personal tenía un sistema escrito para sacar a las mujeres jóvenes de un público, y que el nombre de Epstein seguía navegando dentro de esa investigación. Son hechos sobre un archivo federal. No son hechos sobre un formulario de veredicto.
El crime desk has watched the same network move money and hide property. Leon Black’s wires sit inside the Bank of America survivors settlement. Maxwell’s path sits in the record of her detención and in later banking stories about where she waited. Copperfield sits in the entertainment column: access, young women, complimentary tickets, island photographs, and a legal team that has spent years pulling «very close» back down to «handful.» The hotel did not wait for the shrinking to finish. April 30 passed. The act went dark. The memos did not.
