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Old 19th December 2008, 03:23 AM   #1
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David Copperfield Assistant Rushed to Hospital During Las Vegas Show

David Copperfield Assistant Rushed to Hospital During Las Vegas Show

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One of David Copperfield's magician's assistants was rushed to the hospital with a severe injury during the finale performance of his MGM Grand Las Vegas show Wednesday, a rep for Copperfield tells Usmagazine.com.

"During an illusion where David attempts to walk through the rotating blades of a 12-foot high industrial fan, the fan and its platform were being rotated by one of David's illusion technicians," the rep says. "Just prior to David himself walking through the fan, [the assistant] was accidentally pulled into the vortex of the moving fan blades, causing injury to his arm and face."

The Clark County Fire Department confirms that they received a call at 11:25 p.m. from the theater.

"It was reported that someone’s arm was stuck in a fan prop," Scott Allison, the fire department's spokesperson, tells Us. When paramedics arrived, the assistant's arm was free and had suffered severe bleeding.


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Old 21st December 2008, 01:39 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by greymatters View Post
David Copperfield Assistant Rushed to Hospital During Las Vegas Show





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I hope the assistant is OK. This is one of the illusions exposed by the masked
magician. Instead of going into a fan he went through a cargo container but it was the exact same platform and lighting technique.
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Old 27th December 2008, 11:30 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by greymatters View Post
If you're not familiar with the routine in question, here's how it looks when nothing goes wrong:
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Ha Oprah, nice.

Any update on the allegations of rape involving Copperfield from a while ago?
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Old 27th December 2008, 10:55 PM   #4
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Concerning the Copperfield rape allegations, the most recent news I could find was this video (Scroll down to "Vanishing Act?
Because You Asked: What happened to David Copperfield rape charge?", and click on the video link to watch it).

This segment was broadcast on June 2, 2008, at which time a grand jury was still considering the charges.

This page purports to be have Copperfield rape allegation news on November 17, 2008, but the news sounds too much like news from November of 2007. In addition, it claims the source of the news was "yesterday" (November 16, 2008, that is) in the Seattle Times, but I couldn't find any such info on the Seattle Times website that was anywhere close to that date.
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