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MAGICIAN DAVID BLAINE denies sexual assault allegations under investigation in New York City and intends to cooperate with authorities, his publicist said in a statement today.
New York police confirmed yesterday that the magician is under investigation, following a Daily Beast report that the department had taken statements from two women accusing Blaine of sexual assault.
Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea, speaking at an unrelated news conference, declined to discuss any details about Blaine’s case and wouldn’t say whether police had sought to interview him.
“David denies the accusations that have been reported and he takes these allegations seriously,” the statement from Blaine’s publicist said. “He intends to cooperate with any investigation.”
The Daily Beast, citing unnamed sources, said one of Blaine’s accusers alleges he attacked her inside his Manhattan apartment in 1998, which may fall outside the statute of limitations.
The Daily Beast had previously reported that a former model alleged Blaine raped her in London in 2004, an allegation he denied. Scotland Yard detectives later declined to take further action after investigating her claim, the news website said.
Blaine, 45, is known for stunts like being buried underground for a week without food or water in New York in 1999. He also lived in a plexiglass case suspended 9 metres above the Thames River in London for more than 40 days in 2003.
Blaine is scheduled to start a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in June, according to his website.
In a separate statement about the New York City case, the NYPD said yesterday it “takes sexual assault and rape cases extremely seriously, and urges anyone who has been a victim to file a report so we can perform a comprehensive investigation, and offer support and services to survivors”.
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So the police investigate this allegation from 2004 and they decide to take no further action?, cue the guilty verdict by social media 15 years later then.
@Uncle Montys oaf: welcome to the Real World. You should have chosen the red pill
Come to think of it, he is fond of boxes…
Shazam! You’re pregnant
FFS another one
@DavidOReilly: no great loss
I wouldn’t worry.. He won’t be long making them disappear
Least his Not one of the few famous people who are dead and unable to fight for their good name and reputation to be restored after sexual assault allegations
@liam ward60: ya, poor Jimmy Saville getting his name dragged through the dirt. Disgrace!
@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: i think he means more like wako jako, nobody defending Sicko Savile!!!
@Brian Kelleher: i know. Takin the pish. Although…id actually be in the aul anti wacko camp tbh. Sick puppy!
@Brian Kelleher: are you seriously defending Jackson? You think the abusers are lying? If they are they deserve an Oscar. And look at culkin, he turned out great
@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: you’re in the whacko camp? You realise you’ve other yourself I presume?
@andyearley: *outted… damn
@5hbeZh0I: there is a story breaking that the director of Leaving Neverland agrees that one of the victims’ alleged assaults couldn’t have happened as the place where it happened hadn’t been built until 2 years after he claimed the abuse stopped.
@Jackie Carvill Caruana: yeah, it sounds like he got the year of when the abuse stopped wrong. He was 10 years old, easy mistake to make
I’ll only believe it if he perpetrated these assaults while tied up, wrapped in transparent plastic, and suspended from a crane.
@Gerry Quinn: it’s not abuse if you’re submerged in ice cold water in a straight jacket and have an anvil tied to your laces?
I came for the comments
@David Malone: dirty fecker
Get out of that one
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