David Blaine may soon learn all the escape artistry in the world won’t help you get away from actual police, despite what the acclaimed documentary Now You See Me may have told you.
The celeb street magician is reportedly under investigation for two sexual assaults in New York City!
A “senior NYPD official” told The Daily Beast on Monday detectives from the Special Victims Unit have taken statements from two women.
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Not much yet is known about the allegations as Blaine has not yet been charged. The senior official did reveal one of the women claimed Blaine sexually assaulted her inside his apartment — however, that was way back in 1998 and therefore may fall outside the statute of limitations.
Can someone please explain to us why there even is a statute of limitations on violent crimes like rape?
Officially, the NYPD is not commenting on the Blaine investigation. Chief Spokesman Phil Walzak did release a statement saying:
“The NYPD 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.”
Will more women come forward? Unfortunately we wouldn’t be surprised.
See, these are not the first accusations against the sleight of hand artist.
In 2016, a model named Natasha Prince came forward with a claim Blaine raped her back in 2004.
She recounted meeting Blaine and being invited to have drinks with him at his friend’s apartment in Chelsea. There, she says, he got her a vodka and soda and invited her into the bedroom.
“So I was thinking maybe we would have a sort of intimate conversation somewhere else for five or ten minutes. But he spun around quite quickly and said, ‘Kiss me.’ I did kiss him. And then he said, ‘Finish your drink’ and took the glass from me and put it on the table, and that’s really the last thing I remember…
At some point, I was on the bed, face-forward, and he was behind me. I think it woke me up a little bit, because I’d never had that [anal sex] done to me before. I remember moving around a lot. I was limp, and I was very floaty; I was in and out of a deep sleep.
When I woke up, I was very relaxed — very stoned. The lights were on, and I was naked. He was shirtless at the end of the bed. And when I looked at him, he said, ‘You have really nice tits.’ He was just folding clothes, walking around. He didn’t kiss me or anything.”
Blaine claimed the two had consensual sex, denying any drugging had occurred.
His lawyer, Marty Singer, released an official statement at the time:
“My client vehemently denies that he raped or sexually assaulted any woman, ever, and he specifically denies raping a woman in 2004. If, in fact, there is any police investigation, my client will fully cooperate because he has nothing to hide.”
Scotland Yard investigated for months, eventually deciding there was not enough evidence to charge Blaine.
And just like that he escaped prosecution like it was a spinning gyroscope suspended above Times Square.
After Prince’s accusation, another woman came forward to describe misconduct by Blaine — this time of the Louis CK variety.
It was a magazine editor who was meeting with Blaine in a professional setting — an interview conducted at her friend’s home out of convenience — when she says he whipped it out and started masturbating in front of her:
“I think the first thing I said was, ‘You need to put that away right now’ and he asked something along the lines of, ‘Maybe you could give me a hand’ or ‘Don’t you want to give me a hand?’
To which I replied, ‘The guy in the next room thinks of me as family, and he’s packing. Are you insane?’
And the next thing out of his mouth was some version of ‘Just suck my dick for a few seconds.’
I told him if he didn’t stop immediately I was going to scream and that he wouldn’t like the results. The next several minutes are such a blur but in short order he’d zipped or buttoned up, and I pulled on his arms to get him to his feet and I dragged him to the elevator in the hall. Once down in the lobby, I pushed him out onto the sidewalk, I hailed a cab, then after one stopped I opened the back door, pushed him in (he was so completely out of it at this point), then I gave the taxi driver $20 and told him to take Blaine wherever he asked to go.”
Clearly we don’t have the details on these latest accusations, but they are really starting to stack up.
What do YOU think of the claims against David Blaine??
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