Who is Brittney Lewis? David Copperfield Accused Of Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Minor

A former model accused American illusionist David Copperfield of drugging and assaulting her when she was 17 years old, Wednesday.

The model identified as Brittney Lewis revealed the details regarding the incident to the Wrap. She said she first met Copperfield in Atami, Japan, while participating in a modeling contest named “Look of the Year,” held by Elite Model Management in September of 1988. Copperfield was a judge at the event.

Lewis said after the competition she returned home to Utah. Soon, Copperfield invited her to one of his shows in California. As she was a minor at the time, Lewis took her grandmother’s permission to attend the show, the Wrap reported.

The former model revealed after the show Copperfield took her to a bar where he poured something into her glass.

“I asked, ‘What are you doing?’ and he said, ‘Oh, I’m just sharing,'” she told the Wrap.

She claimed after having the drink she “blacked out,” but remembers him being in her hotel room, kissing her while laying on top of her.

“I remember my clothes being taken off. He was kissing my face and then I remember him starting to go down on my body with his face, and then, as soon as he started going down, I just completely blacked out,” she said.

The next morning when she regained consciousness, Lewis said Copperfield re-entered her room to tell her “nothing happened because I was underage.” She said after the supposed incident, she cut her California trip short by a few days. However, before she left for Utah, Lewis asserted Copperfield made her write and sign a letter saying “she was ok,” which her therapist later told her was a contract for her silence.

Although Copperfield has not responded to the new set of allegations, he did issue a statement Wednesday calling the #MeToo movement “crucial and long overdue,” along with urging people to be wary of allegations.

“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. Knowing that false accusers can negatively impact the believability of others and are a true disservice to those who have been victims of sexual misconduct, I didn’t draw attention to it. So while I weather another storm, I want the movement to continue to flourish. Always listen, and consider everything carefully, but please for everyone’s sake don’t rush to judgment,” his statement read.

Lewis said she gathered the courage to report the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) only after former beauty queen Lacey Carroll accused the magician of sexual assault in 2007.

Carroll claimed she met the illusionist in Kennewick, Washington, during one of his shows in January 2007 after which she visited him at his Bahamas home over the summer where he purportedly attacked and sexually assaulted her.

After Carroll launched her complaint, FBI investigated her case for two years and even raided Copperfield’s Las Vegas warehouse before closing it in January 2010 for unknown reasons. Carroll was later charged with prostitution and allegedly making a false accusation of rape against another man, in which she pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing a police officer in 2010 and was ordered: “to pay a $953 fine, complete 30 hours of community service and attend an alcohol-awareness class.”

As of now, Lewis said she does not plan to pursue a criminal or civil suit against Copperfield.