The David Copperfield rape story is sounding worse by the minute, with allegations that Copperfield configured his stage show as a gigantic, over-elaborate pick-up machine to pluck gullible young women from the audience. Much worse is one woman’s charge that Copperfield forced himself on her at his Bahamas hideaway, and she has the bruises and the cellphone pics to prove it.
That’s one way to get girls, I guess. At the other end of the pathological ineptitude spectrum, Defamer stumbled across a post on Craigslist from an anonymous LA bigshot who wanted “to hire a writer to send emails on his behalf on personal dating websites.” Honestly, you get the impression that nobody in the entertainment business even went to high school, much less stepped into a bar. Why can’t they get the attention of eligible women with witty, scintillating pick-up lines, like comparatively normal males?
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I dunno, I think I could make “what do you like for breakfast” work. Not as an opener though.
This Copperfield thing is kind of ridiculous, but probably not that much worse (aside from, you know, the raping) than what rock bands do with backstage passes. If the guy’s single and horny, is it reasonable to not expect him to nail women he meets doing the show? We can all roll our eyes and say it’s pathetic, but put yourself in his shoes. Would YOU go pick up women in a bar?
That said, telling her there was a party and flying her to the Bahamas and having her find that there IS no party — that’s creepy as hell, even if he didn’t rape her. So it sounds like he crossed the line somewhere.
I just saw a news item
Video: Woman says Copperfield hit on her
I’m all for investigating a rape, but I really hope there is never a reason to put every woman I’ve ever hit on on television. For one thing, there’d be nothing else on for weeks.
I guess being a muti-millionaire celebrity who dates supermodels and owns several islands in the Bahamas doesn’t get you tail like it used to.