David Copperfield

Born	David Seth Kotkin, September 16, 1956, Metuchen, New Jersey1
Occupation	Stage magician and illusionist1
Relationship to Epstein	Epstein, asked under oath in 2010 whether he had a social relationship with Copperfield: “yes, I do know Mr. Copperfield”2 Copperfield’s lawyers, to the Guardian in 2024: he “was not a friend of Jeffrey Epstein” and the two were “at most, acquaintances”3
Documents cited here	2005 to 2026456

David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin, September 16, 1956) is an American stage magician and illusionist.¹ He appears in the released files across several kinds of record described below: message pads and grand jury subpoenas from 2005 to 2007, an FBI sexual-assault investigation opened in Seattle in 2007, filings and testimony from Epstein’s own 2009 to 2016 litigation, 2015 correspondence about ticket purchases and his private islands, a 2025 FBI name index, and 2026 congressional remarks. A search of the released files’ machine-read text for “Copperfield” returns several hundred pages, and this page draws on twenty-four documents. That search is a floor rather than a count: the machine-read text of these files is unreliable, and one of the documents cited here is not among its results at all, because on the page that matters the surname is not legible to it. CNN has reported that the files separately contain photographs of Copperfield and FBI witness-interview forms naming him that are not itemized here.⁷ Palm Beach detectives collected telephone message slips from Epstein’s house recording calls from him, and a federal grand jury subpoenaed a Fort Lauderdale theatre and a theatrical presenter in 2007 for records of his performances and of tickets taken in Epstein’s name.⁸⁹¹⁰ The FBI’s Seattle division opened a separate investigation of Copperfield in August 2007 on a sexual-assault allegation, searched his premises that October, and asked in December to interview two women it described as already being, or possibly being, witnesses in the Epstein case; that investigation closed in January 2010 without charges.¹¹¹²¹³ Bradley Edwards, acting for Epstein’s civil claimants, gave notice in 2009 that he intended to depose Copperfield, and Epstein sued him partly for doing so.¹⁴¹⁵ And Epstein’s own office continued to buy tickets to Copperfield’s Las Vegas show as late as November 2015, while Epstein exchanged emails with others about Copperfield’s Bahamian islands.¹⁶¹⁷

Copperfield’s lawyers told the Guardian in 2024 that he “was not a friend of Jeffrey Epstein”, that the two men were “at most, acquaintances” who met on a “handful” of occasions, and that “Our client did not know about Epstein’s horrific crimes… Like the rest of the world, he learned about it from the press.”³¹⁸ They also said he had never been charged with a crime, and CNN reported in April 2026 that he has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and that representatives for him did not respond to its request for comment.¹⁸⁷ On August 31, 2026 he was one of fourteen people named by Representative Thomas Massie in a one-minute statement on the floor of the House; that statement is a member’s remarks and is not a charge, a finding or evidence of anything.⁶

Message pads and the Palm Beach investigation

Palm Beach police seized carbon-copy telephone message pads from Epstein’s house at 358 El Brillo Way in 2005. In a deposition taken on March 19, 2010 in the civil cases against Epstein, Detective Joseph Recarey of the Palm Beach Police Department was shown exhibits made from those pads. Asked about one message, he read its text as “Magic David called,” agreed that this was David Copperfield the magician, and answered “Yes” when asked whether he had found a number of messages from Copperfield to Epstein when he went through the pads.⁸ Shown a second exhibit, he read the message as “It’s Jackpot,” said he had never learned what it referred to, and gave the date on the pad as January 22nd, 2005.⁸ Copperfield’s lawyers told the Guardian in 2024 that he had not left “multiple messages” for Epstein, that any messages left would have been left by his office in response to a request by Epstein for tickets to a show, that he “never” called Epstein personally, and that, asked about his direct number appearing on the messages, they declined to comment.³

Recarey was also asked whether he had become aware during the investigation of the allegation against Copperfield in Washington State. He said he recalled reading in the media that search warrants had been executed “either at his home or hotel room, one or the other,” that he had learned of it during the Epstein investigation, and that he could recall no conversations with federal authorities about Copperfield. Asked whether Epstein and Mr. Copperfield were, in fact, sharing underage girls for sexual acts, he answered, “I do not know.” Asked whether they were sharing information about girls for sexual acts, he answered, “That I don’t know.” He said he had never interviewed Copperfield.⁸

Alfredo Rodriguez, who worked at Epstein’s Palm Beach house, was deposed in the same litigation on July 29, 2009. Asked what Copperfield did when he was in town, Rodriguez said, “He came to the house, played tricks and he leave.” Asked how often Copperfield and Epstein talked, he answered: “When I was there he was maybe two or three times in the house.”¹⁹ In the same run of questions Rodriguez was asked whether he had ever known Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton or Copperfield to be involved with any of the girls who came to the house; to each he answered “No.”¹⁹ At the continued session on August 7, 2009 he agreed that a person whose name is redacted had once stayed for dinner with Copperfield, and, asked whether that person and Copperfield had ever been in a bedroom together, answered: “I don’t think Mr. Copperfield went upstairs.”²⁰ Copperfield’s lawyers told the Guardian in 2024 that Rodriguez, who was convicted in 2012 of obstruction for failing to disclose and trying to sell one of Epstein’s phonebooks, and who died in 2015, “lacks any credibility.”³

The 2007 grand jury subpoenas

On June 13, 2007 the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued a grand jury subpoena, printed on its face as FGJ 07-103(WPB)-Tues./No. OLY-61 (the attachment’s own header reads it as FGJ 07-103 OLY-61), to the custodian of records of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Its attachment demanded a copy of a Playbill or programme for any performances by Copperfield at the venue between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2005, and all records of tickets or reservations made for or by Epstein and members of his household staff over the same period.⁹ A parallel subpoena, OLY-67/2, issued on June 27, 2007 to Live Nation Theatrical/Broadway Across America on the application of Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Marie Villafaña, demanded “The will call list(s) dated February 1 and 2, 2005 pertaining to the David Copperfield performances.”¹⁰ An employee of the Performing Arts Center Authority, in the position of HR/PR Administrator, certified a production of business records under penalty of perjury on June 21, 2007; the material produced includes the theatre’s own front-of-house managers’ reports for the Copperfield performances at the Au-Rene Theater on February 1, 2005 (5:30 and 8:30 p.m.) and February 2, 2005 (5:30 and 8:30 p.m.).⁴

The Seattle investigation, 2007 to 2010

An internal email of October 19, 2007, in a thread about the appointment of a special master in the Epstein matter and whose sender and recipients are blacked out, reports: “FBI Seattle and FBI Las Vegas executed a search today on a warehouse owned by Epstein’s favorite cohort, David Copperfield, in connection with allegations that Copperfield raped an adult female.” The same paragraph adds that “Copperfield spoke with the girls at Epstein’s home on several occasions and tickets with ‘backstage passes’ were a favorite ‘birthday gift’ for Epstein to give the girls,” and that the writer had asked a colleague to contact the case agent and stay in touch.¹² The email’s author is not identifiable from the copy cited here, and its assertions about Copperfield are not attributed in it to any source. Copperfield’s lawyers told the Guardian in 2024 that he and Epstein were “at most, acquaintances” who met on a “handful” of occasions, that he believed he had attended the Palm Beach house once for around fifteen minutes, and that he had also visited Epstein’s New York house.³ Rodriguez, asked how often the two men talked, answered that Copperfield had been at the house two or three times while he was working there.¹⁹

On December 12, 2007 the FBI’s Seattle division sent an electronic communication to its Miami division seeking authority for two Seattle agents to travel to Miami to interview witnesses. It is captioned “COPPERFIELD, DAVID / AKA KOTKIN, DAVID SETH” and records that Seattle was “investigating allegations of sexual assault committed by David Copperfield”. Two of the anticipated interviews, it says, were with women who were or might be witnesses in the Miami investigation of Epstein, and both were “contained in Copperfield’s ‘business list’ which appears to be a compilation of females that he targeted for sexual conquest.” It states that evidence seized under search warrants at Copperfield’s residence, warehouse and at the MGM Grand Hollywood Theater showed occasions on which he had provided complimentary tickets to Epstein and his guests, that “Epstein’s name and information is contained within Copperfield’s personal telephone list,” and that “A clear connection between Copperfield and Epstein exists that requires further investigation to determine if they both shared a predilection for minors.” It adds that the agents hoped the interviews would be “probative of whether the relationship between Epstein and Copperfield included illegal activities.” The identities of everyone named in it other than Copperfield and Epstein are redacted.¹¹ Copperfield has denied wrongdoing of any kind; his lawyers told the Guardian in 2024 that he had “never acted inappropriately with anyone, let alone anyone underage,” that claims he touched women inappropriately were “not only completely false but also entirely implausible,” and that drugs were “not a part of his world,” and a spokesperson told CNN, of the broader body of accusations against him including this one, that “most of these historic accusations have been made before, and all of them are as false now as they were then.”¹⁸⁷

The two prosecutors’ offices corresponded about the two investigations through 2008. In August 2008 an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Washington wrote to a colleague in the Southern District of Florida under the subject line “sex criminals”: “Well I’m still working on the Copperfield matter but some of the higher ups are very very uncomfortable with it. One question came up about his connection with Epstein. Do you think Epstein would ever talk or cooperate ?”²¹ On September 5, 2008 the Washington prosecutor wrote again: “Any chance you could send me a copy of Epstein’s guilty plea? And do you think he would ever talk about copperfield?… We’re still working on Copperfield – lots of acts but concerns about applicable law!”²² The Florida prosecutor replied that Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement carried a confidentiality provision, that “Epstein will not talk to anyone,” and that “he would just never turn in one of his friends unless it meant a big benefit for him,” before asking: “Any chance that either Copperfield or the victim flew to the Bahamas via South Florida (Miami, Ft Lauderdale or West Palm)? Then I could pitch in.”²² On September 8 the Washington prosecutor answered that “they ALL flew through Ft Lauderdale, changing plans there for the Bahamas.”²² A Florida prosecutor’s email of May 21, 2008 had already noted, in a postscript: “I just heard from the ausa in seattle and the copperfield investigation is continuing.”²³ No response from Copperfield to this correspondence between the two prosecutors’ offices appears among the documents cited on this page; his lawyers’ later, more general denial to the Guardian, that he had “never acted inappropriately with anyone, let alone anyone underage” and had “no knowledge or belief that anything improper was going on,” is not addressed to this exchange specifically.³

The BBC reported on January 13, 2010 that the two-year rape investigation had been closed without charges. It reported that the complainant had said she was assaulted on Copperfield’s private island in the Bahamas in 2007; that his lawyers “have previously dismissed her claims as an attempt at ‘extortion for money, plain and simple’”; that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said the decision “should not be perceived as a comment on guilt or innocence”; that her own lawyer called the outcome disappointing but not wholly unexpected given the difficulty of prosecuting in Washington something said to have happened on a private island abroad; and that Copperfield’s lawyers made no immediate comment on the closure.¹³

Almost twelve years after the Seattle field office opened its investigation, on November 26, 2019, an email headed “Copperfield and Epstein” was sent within the FBI; its sender and recipients are blacked out. It recounts that Seattle opened its investigation in August 2007, that the investigation “showed that Copperfield trained his employees to identify young females (teens to early twenties) in the audience of his shows” and that they were separated from companions and brought backstage, that his employees had access to “a notebook that instructed them how to provide Copperfield with females”, that he kept a notebook recording contact information, whether he had had sex with them and a photograph, that “There were allegations that he drugged some of the females”, and that the writer did not know whether any of them were underage. It says Epstein’s name came up “a number of times” and that “Copperfield appeared to have a very close relationship with Epstein.” It gives the writer’s account of why the matter ended: “Our case was eventually closed because our USAO was weak and intimidated by the financial resources of Copperfield. Admittedly the victim had issues and the jurisdictional issues were challenging.”²⁴ The Guardian reported in 2024 that, asked about the claims it put to him, Copperfield denied wrongdoing of any kind, and that his lawyers said he had “never acted inappropriately with anyone, let alone anyone underage”, that claims he touched women inappropriately were “not only completely false but also entirely implausible”, and that drugs were “not a part of his world”; no response from him to this particular email appears among the documents cited on this page.¹⁸

Epstein v. Edwards and the deposition that was noticed

A privilege log dated February 23, 2011, filed by the firm Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman, lists documents it withheld from Epstein in the litigation between him and Bradley Edwards. Among them are two records of August 3, 2009 from Edwards to his investigator Michael Fisten described as “Setting Up Copperfield Depo”, a further record of the same date from investigator Ken Jenne to Edwards described as “Copperfield Depo”, and a record of September 9, 2009 to Edwards described as “Copperfield Subpoena”.¹⁴

Epstein sued Edwards in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, and one of his complaints was that Edwards had noticed depositions of well-known people with no connection to the claims. Edwards answered in a declaration signed on September 21, 2010 under penalty of perjury. Paragraph 17 gives his four reasons for noticing Copperfield: that Rodriguez had testified Copperfield was a guest on several occasions at Epstein’s house; that “according to the message pads confiscated from Epstein’s house, Copperfield called Epstein quite frequently and left messages that indicated they socialized together”; that “Copperfield himself has had similar allegations made against him by women claiming he sexually abused them”; and that “one of Epstein’s sexual assault victims also alleged that Copperfield had touched her in an improper sexual way while she was at Epstein’s house.” He concluded that on that basis he believed Copperfield “might have relevant information to provide in the cases against Jeffrey Epstein and accordingly provided notice of a possible deposition.”¹⁵ The contemporaneous statement of undisputed facts filed with the declaration carries the same four points.¹⁵ The Guardian put that allegation to Copperfield’s lawyers in 2024 and reported that they declined to comment on it, and that Edwards declined to elaborate; the Guardian describes the allegation as made in a legal filing of April 2011, where the source cited here is Edwards’s declaration of September 21, 2010.³ None of the documents cited on this page records that a deposition of Copperfield ever took place. Edwards listed him as a trial witness, with “current address unknown”, in a witness list filed on August 31, 2016.²⁵

Epstein himself was deposed in that case on March 17, 2010, on video, and was asked about the men named in his own complaint. Asked whether he had had a social relationship with Copperfield, he replied that the names in the complaint were a reaction to “the abusive discovery process of bringing in names of people that have absolutely nothing to do with any of Mr. Edwards’, Mr. Rothstein’s or their clients’ claims” and to an attempt “to stress my relationships, imperil my business relationships,” and then said: “I’m going to say, yes, I do know Mr. Copperfield.” Asked whether he had ever socialized with Copperfield, he said the question was “a typical Edwards/Rothstein strategy of trying to involve well-known people in maliciously fabricated cases”, and added: “Did I socialize with David Copperfield? The answer is, yes.” Asked whether he had ever socialized with Copperfield in the presence of females under the age of 18, he asserted his Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as he did to the same question about several other men.²

An undated and unsigned first-person narrative in Epstein’s files, written in his voice and setting out his account of the Rothstein affair, says of the lawyers acting for the claimants: “They contacted Bill Clinton, Donald Trump , David Copperfied. Innocent bystanders with no knowledge of any of my actions whatsoever.” The spelling is the document’s own.²⁶

Deposition testimony about a dinner at Epstein’s house

Johanna Sjoberg, who worked for Epstein and Maxwell and who has spoken publicly under her own name, was deposed on May 18, 2016 in Giuffre v. Maxwell. She testified that she was invited to a dinner at Epstein’s house at which she could meet Copperfield, that “He did some magic tricks,” and, asked whether she had observed him to be a friend of Epstein’s, answered “Yes.” Asked whether Copperfield had ever discussed Epstein’s involvement with young girls with her, she answered: “He questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls.” Asked whether he had given any specifics, or said whether they were teenagers, she answered “No” and “He did not.”²⁷ Her deposition was summarised in a motion of her counsel filed in the same case, which names her; the filing spells her surname “Sjorberg”.²⁸ The transcript was among the records unsealed in January 2024.³

Copperfield’s lawyers told the Guardian that he had “heard a rumor about girls being paid to bring other girls to the Epstein residence”, that he did not recall from whom, that he asked her about it “out of surprise (and concern for her)”, and that when she said nothing to reinforce the rumour he dropped it and “would have seen no reason to contact law enforcement or to raise the matter with others”. They said he had “no knowledge or belief that anything improper was going on.”³¹⁸ Sjoberg told the Guardian in 2024 that she believed Copperfield had been “trying to figure out what was happening” with Epstein and that he “was nothing but kind to me”.³

Tickets and islands after 2005

The documents cited here record Epstein’s office buying tickets to Copperfield’s shows, and Epstein discussing Copperfield’s islands with third parties. None of them is a communication between the two men.

On March 24, 2015 a request from an Apollo Global Management sender, whose email address is redacted and who is identified only by the confidentiality footer on the message, asked a contact at a Las Vegas casino operator to help with tickets to “the David Copperfield show in Vegas on the 25th”, saying Epstein was asking. The requester wrote that Copperfield appeared to be performing at the MGM Grand and that the show on the 25th looked to have been cancelled; the contact answered that Copperfield was “not performing at our casino” and that she would ask a contact of hers at Caesars. The exchange records no ticket being obtained.²⁹ In November 2015 an assistant reported to Epstein’s bookkeeper that new tickets were being purchased for that night’s Copperfield show on Epstein’s card, after being asked to move the booking to the earlier performance; the tickets had been bought through the site Vegas.com against an itinerary in Epstein’s name.¹⁶

On October 5, 2015 a correspondent whose email the file identifies only as “Nadia” sent Epstein a link to the Musha Cay resort under the subject line “Copperfield’s island” and wrote, “Ha, when did he get this?” Epstein replied: “after i told him about it.”¹⁷ On November 20, 2015 Alireza Ittihadieh, negotiating with Epstein over an island purchase, told him, “I met with the David Copperfield people and they also thought they could buy it for $20M and the Estate stone walled them.” Epstein answered: “give david my regards. he got engaged to claudia shiffer on my island”. The claim, and the spelling, are Epstein’s; the cited documents do not identify the island or the date he had in mind.³⁰ Copperfield bought the Bahamian island group Musha Cay in 2006 and renamed it the Islands of Copperfield Bay; his relationship with Claudia Schiffer ran from 1994 to 1999.¹

The FBI’s 2025 index of names

On July 22, 2025 an FBI employee in New York forwarded a colleague a list headed “Names in JE file”, attached to an updated case index. The list divides names into “Positive case hits” and “No hit” and carries the note “*Highlighted contains salacious information”. Copperfield’s name appears among the positive case hits. It is not one of the six entries the email highlights.⁵

Named in the House record, 2026

On August 31, 2026 Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky used a one-minute floor statement, headed “Bring Epstein Perpetrators to Justice”, to announce the Epstein Files Transparency Act II and to say that “we want perpetrators of these crimes to be investigated and prosecuted, men like:” followed by a list of thirteen men and one woman. Copperfield is the fourth name on the list. Massie added: “Perhaps hearing these names will shame the Department of Justice into delivering justice.”⁶ The statement is a member’s remarks in the House. It is not a charge, a referral or a finding, and nothing in it is evidence about any person named.

Statements

• January 2010, through his lawyers, as reported by the BBC: they “have previously dismissed her claims as an attempt at ‘extortion for money, plain and simple’”; they made no immediate comment on the closure of the investigation.¹³
• May 2024, through his lawyers, to the Guardian: he had “never acted inappropriately with anyone, let alone anyone underage”; claims that he touched women inappropriately were “not only completely false but also entirely implausible”; drugs were “not a part of his world”; he had never been charged with a crime.¹⁸
• May 2024, through his lawyers, to the Guardian, on Epstein: he “was not a friend of Jeffrey Epstein”; the two were “at most, acquaintances” who met on a “handful” of occasions; any suggestion that they were friends “is totally false and a mischaracterization made by the media”; “Our client did not know about Epstein’s horrific crimes… Like the rest of the world, he learned about it from the press.”³¹⁸
• May 2024, through his lawyers, to the Guardian, on the message pads: they denied that he had left “multiple messages” for Epstein and said “Any messages that were left would have been left by our client’s office in response to a request by Epstein for tickets to a show,” and that he “never” called Epstein personally; asked about his direct number appearing on the messages, they declined to comment.³
• April 2026: CNN reported that representatives for Copperfield did not respond to its request for comment.⁷

Official records

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida, June 2007. Grand jury subpoenas for records of Copperfield performances and for the will-call lists of February 1 and 2, 2005.⁹¹⁰
• FBI, Seattle to Miami, December 12, 2007. Request for authority to interview witnesses in the Miami division, captioned in Copperfield’s name.¹¹
• U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Western District of Washington and Southern District of Florida, 2008. Correspondence between the two offices about the two investigations.²¹²²²³
• Jane Doe civil cases against Epstein, S.D. Fla., 2009 to 2010. Depositions of Alfredo Rodriguez and of Detective Joseph Recarey.¹⁹²⁰⁸
• Epstein v. Rothstein, Edwards and L.M., Fla. 15th Jud. Cir., 2010 to 2016. Epstein’s own deposition; Edwards’s declaration explaining the deposition notice; the firm’s privilege log; the trial witness list.^2151425
• Giuffre v. Maxwell, 2016. Deposition testimony about a dinner at Epstein’s house, unsealed in January 2024.²⁷²⁸
• FBI, July 22, 2025. Index of names in the Epstein file.⁵

Related

• People: Brad Edwards; Alfredo Rodriguez; Jack Scarola; Scott Rothstein; Ghislaine Maxwell; Virginia Giuffre; David Blaine; A. Marie Villafaña.
• Cases: Palm Beach Police investigation; 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
• Topics: Operation Leap Year; Celebrities in the Epstein network; Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Coverage

• The Guardian, Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women”, May 15, 2024.¹⁸
• The Guardian, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Lucy Osborne, “‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein”, May 17, 2024.³
• CNN, MJ Lee and Nicky Robertson, “Epstein files show extent of his unsavory relationships with magicians David Blaine and David Copperfield”, April 27, 2026.⁷

Footnotes

1. Wikipedia, “David Copperfield (illusionist).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(illusionist) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Videotaped deposition of Jeffrey Epstein, Mar 17, 2010, Epstein v. Rothstein, Edwards and L.M., No. 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG, Tr. 92-93. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01076611 p.25. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Lucy Osborne, “‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein”, The Guardian, May 17, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/david-copperfield-jeffrey-epstein ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

4. Certification of business records executed Jun 21, 2007 by the Performing Arts Center Authority, with the front-of-house managers’ reports for the performances of Feb 1 and 2, 2005. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00006085 pp.2, 4-7. Pp.4-5 are the two Feb 1 reports (5:30 and 8:30 p.m.); pp.6-7 are the two Feb 2 reports. ↩ ↩²

5. Email of Jul 22, 2025 forwarding a list headed “Names in JE file”, with an updated case index attached; correspondents’ names redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00161528 p.1. ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. Congressional Record, August 31, 2026, p.H5349, “Bring Epstein Perpetrators to Justice” (Mr. Massie). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2026-08-31/html/CREC-2026-08-31-pt1-PgH5349-3.htm ↩ ↩² ↩³

7. MJ Lee and Nicky Robertson, “Epstein files show extent of his unsavory relationships with magicians David Blaine and David Copperfield”, CNN, Apr 27, 2026. https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/politics/david-blaine-david-copperfield-epstein-files ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

8. Deposition of Detective Joseph Recarey, Palm Beach Police Department, Volume II, Mar 19, 2010, Jane Doe No. 2 v. Epstein, No. 08-CIV-80119-MARRA/JOHNSON (S.D. Fla.) and related cases. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00298293 pp.21, 22, 25 (Tr. 203-210, 219-222). The transcript prints “massage” for “message” at p.25; the error is the transcript’s own. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

9. Subpoena to testify before grand jury, printed FGJ 07-103(WPB)-Tues./No. OLY-61, issued Jun 13, 2007 to the custodian of records, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, with attachment. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00186947 pp.2-3. ↩ ↩² ↩³

10. Subpoena to testify before grand jury, FGJ 07-103(WPB) No. OLY-67/2, issued Jun 27, 2007 to the custodian of records, Live Nation Theatrical/Broadway Across America. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00178386 p.207. No other page of that production is cited here. ↩ ↩² ↩³

11. Federal Bureau of Investigation electronic communication, Seattle to Miami, Dec 12, 2007, captioned “COPPERFIELD, DAVID / AKA KOTKIN, DAVID SETH”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01718506 pp.62-63. This is a mixed production and no other page of it is cited here. ↩ ↩² ↩³

12. Email of Oct 19, 2007, 20:23 UTC, in a thread on the special master’s selection of an attorney representative; sender and recipients redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00214918 p.1. ↩ ↩²

13. BBC News, “David Copperfield ‘rape’ investigation closed”, Jan 13, 2010. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8456070.stm ↩ ↩² ↩³

14. Privilege log dated Feb 23, 2011, Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman, filed in Epstein v. Rothstein, Edwards and L.M., No. 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG (Fla. 15th Jud. Cir.). https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00602835 pp.68, 70, 71. The “Copperfield Depo” row on p.68 prints the date as 08/03/3009; this is the log’s own typo, in a run of 2009 entries, and is dated here from the two “Setting Up Copperfield Depo” rows on p.71, both printed 08/03/2009. ↩ ↩² ↩³

15. Declaration of Bradley J. Edwards signed under penalty of perjury Sep 21, 2010, ¶17, and the accompanying statement of undisputed facts, ¶74, filed with Edwards’s response in opposition to Epstein’s motion for summary judgment, Epstein v. Rothstein, Edwards and L.M., No. 502009CA040800XXXXMBAG. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00597791 pp.46, 64, 66. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

16. Email of Nov 9, 2015 forwarding an exchange of the same day about rebooking tickets to the David Copperfield show. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00335938 p.1. ↩ ↩²

17. Email of Oct 5, 2015, subject “Re: Copperfield’s island”, quoting the message it answers. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02486712 p.1. ↩ ↩²

18. Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women”, The Guardian, May 15, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/15/david-copperfield-investigation ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

19. Videotaped deposition of Alfredo Rodriguez, Jul 29, 2009, taken in the Jane Doe civil cases against Epstein (S.D. Fla.), Exhibit 4 to Doc. 21-5 in Giuffre v. Maxwell, 15-cv-07433. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02778751 p.10 (Tr. 202). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

20. Continued videotaped deposition of Alfredo Rodriguez, Aug 7, 2009. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01248167 pp.2, 42 (Tr. 433). ↩ ↩²

21. Email of August 2008, subject “sex criminals”, from an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Washington to a colleague in the Southern District of Florida; correspondents’ names redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00179797 p.158. ↩ ↩²

22. Emails of Sep 5 and Sep 8, 2008, subject “epstein”, between an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Washington and one in the Southern District of Florida; correspondents’ names redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00179797 pp.97-98. No number printed on either page is reproduced here. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

23. Email of May 21, 2008, 5:03 pm, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida, subject “Any word?”; sender and recipients redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00214470 p.1. ↩ ↩²

24. Email of Nov 26, 2019, subject “Copperfield and Epstein --- UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO”; sender and recipients redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00172840 p.1. ↩

25. Third Amended and Supplemental Witness List of Counterplaintiff Bradley J. Edwards, e-filed Aug 31, 2016. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00211187 pp.1-2. ↩ ↩²

26. Undated and unsigned first-person narrative in Epstein’s files setting out his account of the Rothstein litigation. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00583305 p.4. ↩

27. Deposition transcript of May 18, 2016, Exhibit 5 to Doc. 1320-12, Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 15-cv-07433 (S.D.N.Y.), filed Jan 3, 2024, Tr. 37-38. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02792145 pp.38-39. ↩ ↩²

28. Plaintiff’s Non-Redacted Motion to Exceed Presumptive Ten Deposition Limit, Doc. 1320-10, Giuffre v. Maxwell, filed Jan 3, 2024. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02792113 pp.13-14. ↩ ↩²

29. Emails of Mar 24, 2015, subject “Jeffrey Epstein/Tickets to David Copperfield in Vegas”; the requester’s name and address are redacted. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00350786 p.1 and https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00350788 p.1. ↩

30. Email thread of Nov 20, 2015 between Epstein and Alireza Ittihadieh. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00668060 p.1. ↩