FBI Memos Said David Copperfield Had a Very Close Epstein Relationship, Then MGM Grand Ended a 25-Year Residency
David Copperfield a passé un quart de siècle à vendre des merveilles au MGM Grand. Le 5 mars 2026, l'hôtel et le magicien ont convenu que la dernière performance serait le 30 avril. Il a 69 ans. Il n'a jamais été inculpé dans l'affaire Jeffrey Epstein. Il nie l'inconduite sexuelle. Ses avocats ont passé des années à réduire la relation avec une poignée de rencontres entre des connaissances. Le marquis est toujours descendu, et il est tombé après que les mémos fédéraux utilisant une phrase différente ont été jetés sur Internet public: Copperfield, un fonctionnaire du FBI a écrit, semble à avoir une relation très étroite avec 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 Aujourd'hui 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. » Le gardien 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.
L'ancien dossier criminel est celui des nouveaux PDF traînés à la lumière du jour. En 2007, le FBI a enquêté sur l'allégation d'une femme selon laquelle Copperfield l'avait violée après un spectacle, un voyage et une invitation à sa retraite privée aux Bahamas à Musha Cay. Il n'a jamais été inculpé. Il a dit à Oprah Winfrey qu'il était la victime de cette histoire. Les agents ont ensuite écrit un postscriptum aigre: un États-Unis Bureau de l'avocat qu'ils ont décrit comme faible et intimidé par son argent, plus les combats sur le plaignant et la juridiction. Un cache séparé comprend un échange 2015 dans lequel une femme a envoyé Epstein un lien sur Musha Cay et demandé quand Copperfield l'a acheté. Sa réponse, rapportée dans la couverture européenne des dossiers, était que Copperfield l'a acheté après qu'Epstein lui a dit. L'apparence en PDF n'est pas un acte d'accusation. Un mandat de perquisition fédéral et un dossier de crimes sexuels pluriannuels ne sont pas non plus un tour de magie.
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
Le 31 août 2026, repr. Thomas Massie se tenait à l'étage de la Chambre et a nommé quatorze personnes qu'il a dit que le ministère de la Justice devrait enquêter et poursuivre en tant que co-conspirateurs d'Epstein. David Copperfield était le quatrième nom, entre Les Wexner et Lapo Elkann. la liste comprenait également leon noir, Jes Staley, et andrew montbatten-windsor. Massie n'a pas de stylo. Il a un micro et les mêmes mémos que tout le monde peut maintenant lire. Les avocats du magicien n'ont pas répondu aux demandes de commentaires. Le gardien 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.
L'Alliance AEGIS traitera une accusation réelle, si une a déjà été déposée, comme sa propre histoire. Cette histoire est une marque, un mémo et un député. Les lecteurs qui veulent que le document se batte autour du magicien peuvent commencer par le admission that less than one percent of the files had been released, les 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
Il ne prouve pas que Copperfield a fait la traite d'enfants avec Epstein. Elle ne prouve pas l'allégation des Bahamas. Il ne transforme pas le discours de Massie en information. Il montre que les agents de deux bureaux locaux pensaient que les deux hommes partageaient plus qu'un tableau de sièges, que le personnel avait un système écrit pour éplucher les jeunes femmes hors d'un public, et que le nom d'Epstein n'arrêtait pas de faire surface dans cette enquête. Ce sont des faits au sujet d'un dossier fédéral. Ce ne sont pas des faits concernant un formulaire de verdict.
Les 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 arrestation 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.
