COPPERFIELD NOT LIABLE FOR TOURIST’S INJURIES

LAS VEGAS Illusionist David Copperfield was found negligent but not financially responsible for a British tourist’s injuries during a vanishing act that used participants from the audience of a Las Vegas Strip show in 2013, a jury said Tuesday.

Gavin Cox alleged negligence by the multimillionaire magician, the MGM Grand hotel, two Copperfield business entities and a construction firm that was renovating the hotel.

Jurors found no liability for each of those named, and instead found Cox responsible for his own injuries.

Gavin Cox testified that he suffered brain and other injuries in a fall while stagehands urged him and others to run during an illusion that appeared to make as many as 13 audience volunteers disappear onstage and reappear moments later, waving flashlights in the back of the theatre.