Copperfield battles in court to make sex challenge disappear
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Magician David Copperfield has won a six-month stay in a lawsuit filed in July by a Seattle woman who contends Copperfield sexually assaulted her while she was a guest on his private island in the Bahamas.
US District Judge John Coughenour stayed the case so the US attorney's office in Seattle can complete a criminal investigation. Copperfield has denied the allegations.
The magician said he is being put in the untenable legal position of having to provide information in the civil case that may be used against him in a criminal prosecution.
The woman, a former Miss Washington USA contestant, says she met Copperfield during a performance in her state and was invited to visit his island in July 2007. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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