Copperfield sex claims

MAGICIAN David Copperfield has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old.

Model Brittney Lewis claims the alleged incident – which the star denies – happened in 1988.

Miss Lewis, now in her 40s, says Copperfield, then 32, invited her to one of his shows in California. He checked them both into a hotel and, after the show, she saw him pour something into her glass, she told entertainment website The Wrap.

She admits the rest of the night was hazy.

“I remember my clothes being taken off,” she said, claiming he began kissing her and she “blacked out”.

Before she left the next day, he made her write a letter saying she was all right, she said.

Copperfield, 61, tweeted yesterday in support of the #MeToo campaign by victims of sex abuse, adding: “Please... don’t rush to judgment.”

In 2007, former beauty queen Lacey Carroll claimed Copperfield sexually assaulted her on his Bahamas private island. The case was dropped.

Copperfield yesterday said he had been the victim of false allegations in 2007 and was having to “weather another storm”.

“I’ve lived with years of news reports about me being accused of fabricated, heinous acts, with few telling the story of the accuser getting arrested, and my innocence,” he said.