Following on from the recent police raid on magician David Copperfield's warehouse, we are now told that the raid came about following an allegation of sexual assault.

The assault allegedly happened in the Bahamas, following a trick that Copperfield apparently uses routinely for picking up women.

The trick goes like this:

Copperfield goes into the audience and selects women to come up on to the stage. If he is particularly taken with a girl, he uses code words like ‘mama’ or ‘secrecy’ and his assistants mark the women on a map of the inside of the theater .

Once the show is over, the selected women are taken back stage and photographed using a digital camera. I suppose the assault happens when he forgets the magic word. Obviously, not everybody is fooled by the Copperfield magic. He just has to hope that the police are.

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