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The FBI raided magician David Copperfield's warehouse earlier this week and seized a computer hard drive, digital camera system, and nearly $2 million (�.4 million) in cash, a local television station reported.

Copperfield's lawyer and the FBI confirmed there was an investigation in Las Vegas and that investigators had been in contact with the magician, but declined to release further details.

Copperfield uses the warehouse ― which he has referred to in the past as the International Museum & Library of the Conjuring Arts ― to store tricks and memorabilia from around the world. Local station KLAS-TV reported that 12 FBI agents raided it Wednesday. It cited an anonymous source close to the raid.

"I can say that there was investigative activity yesterday and yesterday evening in Las Vegas," Seattle FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs told The Associated Press. He said the investigation was related to a case in Seattle.

Copperfield's Las Vegas attorney, David Chesnoff, confirmed only that his client had been contacted by investigators.

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"We understand there is an investigation, are in touch with the investigators, and are respecting the confidentiality of the investigation," he said.

Copperfield has been a longtime performer at the Hollywood Theater at the MGM Grand casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, where he has performed in six-to-eight week stints several times a year, said MGM Mirage Inc. spokeswoman Yvette Monet.

On Wednesday night, Copperfield performed two regularly scheduled shows, which were at the end of his most recent run, she said, adding he was next scheduled to perform in Jakarta, Indonesia.

For David Copperfield the illusionist, see David Copperfield (illusionist).
David Copperfield
Author Charles Dickens
Cover artist Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Bradbury & Evans
Publication date 1849-1850 (serialised)
David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to be published on any account)[1] is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form (published in monthly installments). Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. It is also Dickens' "favourite child."

Contents
1 Background
2 Analysis
3 Plot summary
4 Characters in David Copperfield
5 Film, TV and theatrical adaptations
6 Publication
7 Release details
8 Allusions
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links



[edit] Background
Dickens worked on David Copperfield for two years between 1848 and 1850, carefully planning out the plot and structure. Seven novels precede it, and seven novels would come after it, Copperfield being his mid-point novel.


[edit] Analysis
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to do so.

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman and would be influential in the genre which included Dickens's own Great Expectations (1861), Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

As a bildungsroman, it has one major theme throughout, the disciplining of the hero's emotional and moral life. We learn to go against "the first mistaken impulse of the undisciplined heart", a theme which is repeated throughout all the relationships and characters in the novel.

Characters in the novel generally belong to one of three categories: Those who have disciplined hearts, those who lack disciplined hearts, or those who develop disciplined hearts over time. Characters who fall into the first category include the mature and caring Agnes Wickfield and the selfless and forgiving Mr. Peggotty. The greedy, scheming Uriah Heep and the egotistic and inconsiderate James Steerforth are examples of characters who belong in the second category. Members of the third category include David Copperfield himself, who learns to make wiser choices in his relationships through personal experience, and his aunt Betsy Trotwood, who lacks consideration for others early on, but becomes less inconsiderate over time. Dickens uses characters and events throughout the novel as comparisons and contrasts for each other in terms of wisdom and discipline. A good comparison is Agnes Wickfield and Dora Spenlow: Dora lacks maturity and is unable to handle stressful situations, often breaking out in tears, while Agnes remains calm and collected even when troubled, yielding to her emotions only rarely. Another good comparison is Ham and Mr. Peggotty, and Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle: The latter two become distraught at the loss of Steerforth, allowing it to trouble them their whole lives, while the former two bear the loss of Emily with dignity and reservation. Despite the premise of this work, Dickens does not give David Copperfield a stiff or unnatural feel, making this novel a supreme display of his genius at work.[citation needed]Tolstoy regarded Dickens as the best of all English novelists, and considered Copperfield to be his finest work, ranking the "Tempest" chapter (chapter 55,LV - the story of Ham and the storm and the shipwreck) the standard by which the world's great fiction should be judged. Henry James remembered hiding under a small table as a boy to hear installments read by his mother. Dostoevsky read it enthralled in a Siberian prison camp. Franz Kafka called his first book Amerika a "sheer imitation." James Joyce paid it reverence through parody in Ulysses. Virginia Woolf, who normally had little regard for Dickens, confessed the durability of this one novel, belonging to "the memories and myths of life". It was Freud's favorite novel.


[edit] Plot summary

"I make myself known to my aunt". Etching by Phiz.The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David is born in the England of the 1810s. David's father dies before he is born, and about seven years later, his mother marries Mr. Murdstone. David dislikes his step-father and has similar feelings for Mr. Murdstone's sister Jane, who moves into the house soon afterwards. Mr Murdstone thrashes David for falling behind with his studies. During the thrashing, David bites him and is sent away to a boarding school, Salem House, with a ruthless headmaster, Mr. Creakle. Here he befriends James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles who, in true Dickens style, leave and then reappear later on.

David returns home for the holidays to find out that his mother has had a baby boy. Soon after David goes back to Salem House, his mother and her baby die and David has to return home immediately. Mr. Murdstone sends him to work in a factory in London of which he is a joint owner. The grim reality of hand-to-mouth factory existence echoes Dickens' own travails in a blacking factory. His landlord Wilkins Micawber is sent to a debtor's prison (the King's Bench Prison) after going bankrupt and David escapes the factory.

He walks all the way from London to Dover, to find his only known relative - his eccentric Aunt Betsy Trotwood - who agrees to bring him up, despite Mr. Murdstone visiting in a bid to regain custody of David. David's aunt renames him Trotwood Copperfield, soon shortened to "Trot", and for the rest of the novel he is called by either name. One effect of this double-naming is to divide the secondary characters according to when and through whom they got to know him.

The story follows David as he grows to adulthood, and is enlivened by the many well-known characters who enter, leave and re-enter his life. These include: his faithful nurse, Peggotty, her family, and the orphan Little Em'ly who lives with them and charms the young David; his romantic but self-serving schoolfriend, Steerforth, who seduces and dishonours Little Em'ly, triggering the novel's greatest tragedy; and his landlord's daughter and ideal "angel in the house," Agnes Wickfield, who becomes his confidante. The two most familiar characters are David's sometime mentor, the constantly debt-ridden Mr. Wilkins Micawber, and the devious and fraudulent clerk, Uriah Heep, whose misdeeds are eventually discovered with Micawber's assistance. Micawber is painted as a sympathetic character, even as the author deplores his financial ineptitude; and Micawber, like Dickens's own father, is briefly imprisoned for indebtedness.

In typical Dickens fashion, the major characters get some measure of what they deserve, and few narrative threads are left hanging. Mr. Peggotty safely transports Little Em'ly to a new life in Australia; accompanying these two central characters are Mrs. Gummidge, and the Micawbers. Everybody involved finally finds security and happiness in their new lives in Australia. David first marries the beautiful but na?ve Dora Spenlow, but she dies after succumbing to a lethal malady early in their marriage. David then does some soul-searching and eventually marries and finds true happiness with Agnes, who had secretly always loved him. They have several children including a daughter named in honour of his aunt and another named Dora.


[edit] Characters in David Copperfield

"I am married". Etching by Phiz.David Copperfield � the protagonist; later called "Trotwood Copperfield" by some ("David Copperfield" is also the name of the hero's father, who died before he was born). He has many nicknames: James Steerforth nicknamed him "Daisy", Dora called him "Doady", and his aunt referred to him, as a reference to his would-be sister (if he had been born a girl), as "Trot" - as in Betsey Trotwood Copperfield.
Clara Copperfield � David's kind mother, described as being innocently childish, who dies while David is at Salem House, just after the birth of her second child, who dies along with her.
(Clara) Peggotty � The faithful servant of the Copperfield family and a lifelong companion to David (referred to generally as simply "Peggotty"; referred to at times as Mrs. Barkis after her marriage to Mr. Barkis). Inherited ￡3,000 - a vast sum in the mid 19th century - when Mr. Barkis died. After his death, she became Betsy Trotwood's servant.
Betsey Trotwood � David's eccentric and temperamental yet kindhearted aunt; she becomes his guardian after he runs away from Grinby and Murdstone's warehouse in Blackfriars (London). She was present on the night of David's birth but left after hearing that Clara Copperfield's child was a boy instead of a girl.
Mr Chillip � a shy doctor who assists at David's birth and faces the wrath of Betsy Trotwood after he informs her that Clara's baby is a boy instead of a girl.
Mr Barkis � an aloof coachman who eventually marries Peggotty and leaves her a then astronomical ￡3,000 when he dies about ten years later. His last words were, "Barkis is willin'!"
Edward Murdstone � Young David's cruel stepfather, who caned him for falling behind in his studies. David reacted by biting Mr Murdstone, who then sent him to Salem House, the private school owned by his friend Mr. Creakle. After David's mother died, Mr Murdstone sent him to work in a factory, where he had to clean wine bottles. He appeared at Betsy Trotwood's house after David ran away. Mr Murdstone appears to show signs of repentance when confronted with Copperfield's aunt, but later in the book we hear he has married another young woman and applied his old principles of "firmness."
Jane Murdstone � Mr. Murdstone's equally cruel sister, who moved into the Copperfield house after Mr. Murdstone married Clara Copperfield. She was the "Confidential Friend" of David's first wife, Dora Spenlow, and encouraged many problems that occurred between David Copperfield and Dora's father, Mr. Spenlow. Later, she rejoined her brother and his new wife, in a relationship very much like the one they had with David's mother.
Daniel Peggotty � Clara Peggotty's brother; a humble but generous Yarmouth fisherman who took his nephew Ham and niece Emily into his custody after each of them was orphaned; after Emily's departure, he travels around the world in search of her. He eventually finds her working as a prostitute in London, and after that they emigrate to Australia.
Emily (Little Em'ly) � A niece of Mr. Peggotty. She was a childhood friend of David Copperfield, who loved her in his childhood days. She leaves her uncle and fiance, Ham, for Steerforth, but returns to them after Steerforth deserts her. She emigrates to Australia with Dan after being rescued from a London brothel.
Ham Peggotty � A good-natured nephew of Mr. Peggotty and the fiance of Emily before she leaves him for Steerforth; later loses his life while attempting to rescue a sailor (who happens to be Steerforth) from a shipwreck. His death was hidden from his family due to the fact that David did not want them to worry at the brink of their journey.
Mrs. Gummidge � The widow of Daniel Peggotty's partner in a boat; a self-described "lone, lorn creetur" who spent much of her time pining for "the old 'un" (her late husband). After Emily had ran away from home with Steerforth, she changes her attitude to better comfort everyone around her and tries to be very caring and motherly. She too emigrates to Australia with Dan and the rest of the surviving family.
Martha � a young woman of a bad reputation who helps Daniel Peggotty find his niece after she returns to London. She seemingly has been victim to the idea of suicide.
Mr. Creakle � The harsh headmaster of young David's boarding school, who is assisted by Tungay. Mr. Creakle was a friend of Mr. Murdstone. He singles out David for extra torment. Later he became a Middlesex magistrate, but was considered enlightened for his day.
James Steerforth � A close friend of David of a romantic and charming disposition who has known David ever since his first days at Salem House; though well-liked by most, he proves himself to be lacking in character by seducing and later abandoning Emily. He eventually drowns at Yarmouth with Ham Peggotty, who was trying to rescue him.
Tommy Traddles � David's friend from Salem House.
Wilkins Micawber � A genteel man who befriends David as a young boy; suffers from much financial difficulty and even has to spend time in a debtor's prison. Eventually emigrates to Australia where he enjoys a successful career as a magistrate. Is based on Dicken's father
Mr. Dick (Richard Babley) � A slightly deranged, rather childish but amiable man who lives with Betsy Trotwood. His madness is amply described in as much as that he claims to have the crown of King Charles I in his head.
Dr. Strong � The headmaster of David's Canterbury school, with whom he makes acquaintance on different occasions
Anne Strong � The young wife of Dr. Strong; though she remains loyal to him, she fears that he suspects that she is involved in an affair with Jack Maldon.
Jack Maldon � A cousin and childhood sweetheart of Anne Strong; he continues to bear affection for her and tries to seduce her into leaving Dr. Strong for him.
Mr. Wickfield � The father of Agnes Wickfield and lawyer to Betsy Trotwood; prone to alcoholism.
Agnes Wickfield � Mr. Wickfield's mature and lovely daughter and close friend of David since childhood; later becomes David's second wife and mother of their children.
Uriah Heep � A wicked young man who serves as partner to Mr. Wickfield. He is finally discovered to have stolen money and is imprisoned as a punishment. He always talks of being "'umble" and nurtures a deep hatred of David Copperfield and many others.
Mrs. Steerforth � The wealthy widowed mother of James Steerforth. She herself is incredibly like her son.
Miss Dartle � A strange, vitriolic woman who lives with Mrs. Steerforth; has a secret love for Steerforth and blames others such as Emily and even his own mother for corrupting him. She is described as being extremely skinny and displays a visible scar on her lip caused by Steerforth. She is also Steerforth's cousin.
Mr. Spenlow � An employer of David's during his days as a proctor and the father of Dora Spenlow. Dies suddenly of a heart attack while driving his phaeton home.
Dora Spenlow � The delightful but childish daughter of Mr. Spenlow; She is described as being impractical and with many similarities as David's mother. David's first wife. She dies of illness in the same day as her dog, Jip.

[edit] Film, TV and theatrical adaptations
David Copperfield has been filmed on several occasions:

1911, directed by Theodore Marston
1922, directed by A.W. Sandberg
1935, directed by George Cukor
1969, directed by Delbert Mann
1999, shown on BBC - 25/26 December 1999
David Copperfield (2006), play adaptation. Shown in theatres.
The numerous television adaptations of the novel include a 1966 version with Ian McKellen as David and a 1999 version with Daniel Radcliffe (better known as the actor of Harry Potter) playing the younger David. In this latter version, McKellen returns, this time playing the horrendous schoolmaster Creakle. There was a musical animated version in 1993, where the cast was animorphic animals (not unlike Disney's Robin Hood) and starred Julian Lennon as the voice of David (a cat). A 2000 American TV film version featured Sally Field, Anthony Andrews, Paul Bettany, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Richards and Nigel Davenport with Hugh Dancy and Max Dolbey as the adult and boy Copperfield, respectively.

A play adaptation by Andrew Halliday was warmly approved by Dickens himself, and enjoyed a long run at Drury Lane.


[edit] Publication
Like most of Charles Dickens's novels, David Copperfield was published in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Phiz, with the last being a double-number:

I - May 1849 (chapters 1-3);
II - June 1849 (chapters 4-6);
III - July 1849 (chapters 7-9);
IV - August 1849 (chapters 10-12);
V - September 1849 (chapters 13-15);
VI - October 1849 (chapters 16-18);
VII - November 1849 (chapters 19-21);
VIII - December 1849 (chapters 22-24);
IX - January 1850 (chapters 25-27);
X - February 1850 (chapters 28-31);
XI - March 1850 (chapters 32-34);
XII - April 1850 (chapters 35-37);
XIII - May 1850 (chapters 38-40);
XIV - June 1850 (chapters 41-43);
XV - July 1850 (chapters 44-46);
XVI - August 1850 (chapters 47-50);
XVII - September 1850 (chapters 51-53);
XVIII - October 1850 (chapters 54-57);
XIX-XX - November 1850 (chapters 58-64).

[edit] Release details
1850, UK, Bradbury & Evans ?, Pub date 1 May 1849 and 1 November 1850, Serial (first publication as serial)
1850, UK, Bradbury & Evans ?, Pub date ? ? 1850, Hardback (first book edition)
1981 (Reprinted 2003) UK, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-812492-9 Hardback, Edited by Nina Burgis, The Clarendon Dickens (considered the definitive editions of Dicken's works) 781 pages
1990, USA, W W Norton & Co Ltd ISBN 0-393-95828-0, Pub date 31 January 1990, Hardback (Jerome H. Buckley (Editor), Norton Critical Edition - contains annotations, introduction, critical essays, bibliography and other material.)
1994, UK, Penguin Books Ltd ISBN 0-14-062026-5, Pub date 24 February 1994, Paperback
1999, UK, Oxford Paperbacks ISBN 0-19-283578-5, Pub date 11 February 1999, Paperback
and many many others

[edit] Allusions
'David Copperfield' is often used in other situations or texts to refer to a lengthy biographical story.

In J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, the first sentence, as narrated by Holden Caulfield, is "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it."
In the TV series Black Books, a grumpy Bernard Black is reluctant to hear too much back-story from new employee, Manny, about his past ― halting him just as he starts to say where he was born with, "Stop right there, David Copperfield. If you're going back that far we need popcorn or something."
In an Home Improvement episode, "This Joke's For You", Brad manfully undertakes to read David Copperfield in order to impress a girl, but his efforts are stymied by the book's length.

[edit] Notes
^ Dicken's invented over 14 variations of the title for this work, see "Titles, Titling, and Entitlement to", by Hazard Adams in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 7-21

[edit] References
Jeffers, Thomas L. (2005). Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana. New York: Palgrave.
David Copperfield (Major Literary Characters series). Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom. 255 pages. 1992 New York: Chelsea House Publishers
Graham Storey: David Copperfield - Interweaving Truth and Fiction (Twayne's Masterworks Studies). 111 pages. 1991 Boston: Twayne Publishers
Approaches to Teaching Dickens' David Copperfield. Edited by Richard J. Dunn. 162 pages. 1984 New York: The Modern Language Association of America
Barry Westburg: The Confessional Fictions of Charles Dickens. See pages 33 to 114. 1977 DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press
Catcher in The Rye, J.D. Salinger; Penguin 1951
Black Books -TV Series/DVD - Assembly Film and Television/Channel 4, 2002; Episode 2, Series 1 - 'Manny's First Day.'

[edit] External linksDavid Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin) is a multi Emmy Award winning, American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of illusions and storytelling. His illusions include making the Statue of Liberty "disappear", "flying", "levitating" over the Grand Canyon, and "walking through" the Great Wall of China.

Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 Achievements and Awards
4 Television specials
5 Filmography
6 See also
7 References
8 External links



[edit] Biography
Copperfield, born on September 16, 1956, began practicing magic at the age of 12, and became the youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians.[1] By age 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University.[2] At age 18, he enrolled at Fordham University, and was cast in the lead role of the Chicago-based musical The Magic Man (directed by Holland, MI's John Tammi) three weeks into his freshman year,[citation needed] adopting his new stage name "David Copperfield" from the Charles Dickens book of the same name. At age 19, he was headlining at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.[3]

David Copperfield played the character of Ken the magician in the 1980 horror film Terror Train. He also made an uncredited appearance in the 1994 film Prêt-à-Porter. Most of his media appearances have been through television specials and guest spots on television programs.

In 1982, Copperfield founded Project Magic,[4] a rehabilitation program to help disabled patients regain lost or damaged dexterity skills by using sleight-of-hand magic as a method of physical therapy. The program has been accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association, and is in use in over 1,100 hospitals throughout 30 countries worldwide.

Copperfield was engaged to the supermodel Claudia Schiffer, but the couple parted ways in 1999 after a six year relationship.

David Copperfield at one time was ready to open a "Theme" restaurant called "Magic Underground." There were to be two locations, one in New York City and one in Walt Disney World (built in the shape of a Hidden Mickey). These locations would allow "D.A.V.I.D" (Digital Audio-Video Interface Device) to remotely interact with the guests in the restaurant. It was basically a high tech videophone system. Other things such as the very table you were sitting at might "Float" around the room and even the waiters were to be involved performing magic as they brought your order to you. Eventually the New York project ran into trouble and it as well as the Walt Disney World location was aborted.

In 1996, Copperfield joined forces with Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury and others for "David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible," an anthology of original fiction set in the world of magic and illusion. A second volume was later published in 1997, called "David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination."

Copperfield has also attempted to preserve the history of the art of magic for present and future generations by providing a safe, permanent home for antiquarian props, books, and other historical ephemera related to conjuring. His vast collection, known as the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, is housed in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Forbes Magazine reported that Copperfield earned $57 million in 2003, making him the tenth highest paid celebrity in the world. It also estimated that he made $57 million in 2004 (35th) and $57 million in 2005 (41st) in merchandise and tour revenue.[5] Copperfield performs over 500 shows per year throughout the world.[6]

According to Copperfield's official website, his tour schedule shows that throughout 2007, he will perform at the MGM and Hollywood Theater every night.

On October 18, 2007, TMZ reported that David Copperfield is being investigated by the FBI. The raid reportedly stems from an ongoing case in Seattle. Eyewitness News in Las Vegas is reporting that 12 agents "stormed the warehouse," seizing a computer hard drive, a digital camera system and nearly $2 million in cash. [7]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal printed a story confirming the raid at the Las Vegas warehouse of magician David Copperfield in an investigation of possible sexual misconduct by the illusionist, attributing a source with knowledge of the investigation. Copperfield's accuser said the misconduct occurred outside the country, but the case came under the FBI's jurisdiction because the accuser was a U.S. citizen, the source said. [8]


[edit] Personal life
In February 2006, David's father, Hy (who often accompanied David on his many tours around the world), died in San Diego, CA. David set up a website, Remember Hy, so fans and friends could pay tribute.

In April 2006, Copperfield and two of his female assistants were robbed at gunpoint after a performance in West Palm Beach, Florida. His assistants gave the robbers their money, passports, and a cell phone. However, according to his police statement, Copperfield did not hand over anything. (He later claimed to have used sleight-of-hand to hide his possessions.[9]) One of Copperfield's assistants wrote down most of the license plate number, and the suspects were later arrested.[10] Terrance Riley, 17, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison for three counts of robbery with a weapon and one count of attempted robbery. Riley was also ordered to testify against his two co-defendants, his brother Dwayne Riley, 18, and Markeith Jones, 17.[11]

David Copperfield said in August 2006 that he has found the "Fountain of Youth" in the southern Bahamas, amid a cluster of four tiny islands called Musha Cay, which he had purchased on July 14th of that year. He claims that the water brings dead leaves back to life, and brings near dead insects back to life. He said he has hired biologists and geologists to examine its potential effect on humans. [2] [3] This claim echoes the precursor to many of his previous illusions and seems to predict what his next illusion will be.

FBI agents have seized nearly $US2m in cash from a Las Vegas warehouse owned by illusionist David Copperfield, local media reported on October 18th, 2007. The agents also took a computer hard drive and a memory chip from a digital camera system during the late-night operation. The reports said the raid stems from an investigation in Seattle. "We understand there is an investigation, are in touch with the investigators, and are respecting the confidentiality of the investigation," Copperfield's attorney David Chesnoff said in a statement cited by Las Vegas broadcasters.[12]





[edit] Achievements and Awards
David Copperfield's success has been recognised by a number of awards. The illusionist has been nominated 35 times and won 21 Emmy awards.

The Guinness Book of World Records has calculated that he has sold more tickets in his career than any other solo entertainer. Other Guinness World Records held by Copperfield include being the most awarded magician in history and being the first living magician to receive a star on the Hollywood 'Walk of Fame'.

Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London created a wax likeness of Copperfield.

David Copperfield has a French knighthood, received the Living Legend Award from the Library of Congress and appears on postage stamps in 6 countries.

He is the founder of The International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, the largest museum of its kind.

He starred in "Dreams and Nightmares," the Broadway show that set box-office records[13], including the most tickets sold in a week.

He has been featured on the cover of Forbes[14], Architectural Digest[15] and Esquire[16] .[Cite]


[edit] Television specials
The Magic of ABC Starring David Copperfield (1977)
The Magic of David Copperfield (1978)
The Magic of David Copperfield II (1979)
The Magic of David Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (1980)
The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (1981)
The Magic of David Copperfield V: Vanishing the Statue of Liberty (1983)
The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon (1984) (with special guest Bonnie Tyler theme Holding Out For A Hero)
The Magic of David Copperfield VII: Familiares (1985)
The Magic of David Copperfield VIII: Walking Through the Great Wall of China (1986) (with special guest Ben Vereen)
The Magic of David Copperfield IX: Escape From Alcatraz (1987)
The Magic of David Copperfield X: The Bermuda Triangle (1988)
The Magic of David Copperfield XI: Explosive Encounter (1989)
The Magic of David Copperfield XII: The Niagara Falls Challenge (1990) (with special guest Kim Alexis)
The Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery On The Orient Express (1991) (with special guest Jane Seymour)
The Magic of David Copperfield XIV: Flying - Live The Dream (1992) (with special guest James Earl Jones)
The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires Of Passion (1993) (with special guest Wayne Gretzky)
David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (1994)
The David Copperfield: The Great Escapes
The Magic of David Copperfield XVII: Tornado Of Fire (2001) - Filmed at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee
The Magic of David Copperfield XVII: Tornado of Fire (2001) - European Edition