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BumRushDaShow

(168,521 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 08:40 PM 8 hrs ago

David Copperfield announces last Vegas show, weeks after Epstein ties revealed

Source: The Guardian

Fri 6 Mar 2026 14.18 EST
Last modified on Fri 6 Mar 2026 14.21 EST


David Copperfield has announced that he is performing his last show at MGM Grand in Las Vegas next month, an announcement that comes weeks after documents released in the Epstein files revealed new details about how the FBI viewed the illusionist’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender.

The announcement that the 69-year-old illusionist’s last show would be held on 30 April appears to have been made suddenly. In a statement praising and thanking Copperfield for his 25-year stint at MGM, the company said in a statement that it would automatically refund tickets for shows that were booked after that date.

In a statement on social media, Copperfield said he would soon be announcing “what’s next”, saying it would be the largest project he had ever tackled.

Copperfield has previously faced controversies, including a criminal investigation from 2007 to 2009 in which he was accused of raping a woman he had met in the audience of a show and invited to his private Bahamian island. Copperfield was never charged and said he was innocent of any wrongdoing. In a nationally broadcast cable show with Oprah Winfrey he said he was the victim in that case.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/david-copperfield-last-vegas-show

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David Copperfield announces last Vegas show, weeks after Epstein ties revealed (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago OP
He could skip the show and do his disappearing act right now... preferably in a jail cell. chowder66 8 hrs ago #1
He could make the statue of liberty seem to disappear, but not the Epstein files. While Trump... thesquanderer 8 hrs ago #2
Epstein's ties with Copperfield were revealed more than a decade ago... Wiz Imp 8 hrs ago #3
More consequences for a Vegas entertainer not fooled 7 hrs ago #4
lol-Wikipedia has a list of these perverts jfz9580m 6 hrs ago #5
Putin got his money's worth out of this honeytrap. Blumancru 5 hrs ago #6

thesquanderer

(12,962 posts)
2. He could make the statue of liberty seem to disappear, but not the Epstein files. While Trump...
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 09:01 PM
8 hrs ago

...followed up by making much of what the statue stands for disappear.

jfz9580m

(16,841 posts)
5. lol-Wikipedia has a list of these perverts
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:59 PM
6 hrs ago

A wikipedia editor has nominated this list for deletion. Wonder why..usually Wikipedia is factually accurate. But I next expect these moronic social engineers to deliberately flood trusted sources with bullshit to “test critical thjnking skills” but actually just muddy the truth. Because deception is not a good research methodology. It is all this garbage - “cultural anthropology”, “lie and emotion detection”, “bot or not tests”, sanity checks.

Anything but acknowledge that these methods in data science, ai research etc are just a scam and this shit doesn’t need to be studied just checked and stopped.

Basic science research has become too gate kept except for this shitheads and that garbage proliferates. Fuck that. For 14 years I have seen no legitimate use case that wasn’t forced and torture filled (with collateral damage like me), with the added nuisance avoiding that beaglegate bullshit (totally fake concern by people who cheerfully eat factory farmed meat) when it is an attack on Dr.Fauci.

Dr.Fauci is cool..I know how overworked people like those are. It is not like this “i have no principles and am a creep” crowd. To hell with these creeps and anyone like them.

Of course those people who actually tortured beagles should face charges for criminal malpractice and criminal misconduct (both a metaphor and literal as it applies).

If I hear one more time that “oh we just had business ties”. Plausible deniability much?

Who would allow these Ambanis or influencer mobs control of their home or street? Look at the criminally misogynistic culture.

If these details are true (not sure why a Wikipedia editor nominated this for deletion..Maybe he is in it..lol..jk…but this is a useful list. I hope it is accurate. None of these people should ever be. accepted into decent society. It is a planet of 8 billion people..who needs these creeps?)

Anil Ambani
Anil Ambani and Epstein were introduced by Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Ambani seeking White House connections.[10] In March 2017, Epstein offered a tall Swedish blonde woman to Anil, who agreed.[11] The day Modi secured re-election in 2019, Ambani visited the townhouse.[10]

Some sleazy bullshit/other academics:

Dan Ariely: Dan Ariely had a longstanding relationship with Epstein. In one email from 2012 Ariely asked Epstein for the name and email of a "redhead" he met earlier.

Richard Axel
Richard Axel is professor of biology at Columbia University who met Epstein in the 1980s.[20] They corresponded from 2010 until 2019. Axel and his wife were invited to Epstein's island multiple times.[21][22] Axel stepped down from his role at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist whose MIT Media Lab research has been subsidized by Epstein. Bach wrote to Epstein in 2016 that "black kids in the US have slower cognitive development" and that women "tend to find abstract systems, conflicts and mechanisms intrinsically boring". Bach stated he kept connected to Epstein after his conviction because academics recommended him as a funding source and vouched for his reformation.

(Of course the ever creepy MIT Media Lab)

Edward Boyden
See also: Edward_Boyden § Association with Jeffrey Epstein
Edward Boyden is an American-French MIT neuroscientist. In August 2015, Reid Hoffman hosted a dinner in Palo Alto for Boyden. Epstein emailed Peter Attia about the event, and sent himself a photo with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan. In an email to Tom Pritzker, Epstein described the dinner as.

(Ewww this guy is a hard scientist..shocking..what a creep. He should never be accepted by academia after this).

Boyden is the worst. He is some kind of actual scientist. He should be blacklisted. Ol’ jfz9580m cannot catch a break and this pervert adjacent guy is okay?

Blumancru

(255 posts)
6. Putin got his money's worth out of this honeytrap.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:44 PM
5 hrs ago

I just can’t imagine why prominent, successful people in so many fields fell for it. It is classic KGB. Must have cost billions but they got the goods on a whole lot of people.
Wouldn’t you think that academics would be smarter? Wouldn’t you think that entertainers would be more careful?
There was something that made everyone feel safe, like they would never be caught.

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