Magician

David Copperfield

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Age 67
Birthday September 161956
Birth Sign Virgo
City NJ
Country United States
Profession Magician

David Copperfield is a famous Magician, born on September 16, 1956 in United States. As of December 2022, David Copperfield’s net worth is $1 Billion. He owned a chain of eleven resort islands in the Bahamas.

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Children(s) Sky Copperfield

David Copperfield Biography

High-profile magician who became famous for making the Statue of Liberty disappear and walking through the Great Wall of China. By 2013, he had won more than 20 Emmy Awards. David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, 1956), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history..

His parents were named Rebecca and Hyman Kotkin. He began dating Chloe Gosselin in 2006, and they later welcomed a daughter named Sky.

Copperfield was born David Seth Kotkin in Metuchen, New Jersey, the son of Jewish parents, Rebecca, an insurance adjuster, and Hyman Kotkin, who owned and operated a men’s haberdashery in Warren, New Jersey, called Korby’s. Copperfield’s mother was born in Jerusalem while his paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the USSR (present-day Ukraine). In 1974, Copperfield graduated from Metuchen High School.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Copperfield’s career in television began in earnest when he was discovered by Joseph Cates, a producer of Broadway shows and television specials. Cates produced a magic special in 1977 for ABC called The Magic of ABC, hosted by Copperfield, as well as several The Magic of David Copperfield specials on CBS between 1978 and 2001. There have been 18 Copperfield TV specials and 2 documentaries between September 7, 1977, and April 3, 2001.

David Copperfield Net Worth

David Copperfield is one of the richest Magician & listed on most popular Magician. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Copperfield‘s net worth $1 Billion.

Net Worth $1 Billion
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House Living in own house.

He began practicing magic under the name Davino the Boy Magician in his neighborhood and became the youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians when he was 12.

Copperfield’s career in television began in earnest when he was discovered by Joseph Cates, a producer of Broadway shows and television specials. Cates produced a magic special in 1977 for ABC called The Magic of ABC, hosted by Copperfield, as well as several The Magic of David Copperfield specials on CBS between 1978 and 2001. There have been 18 Copperfield TV specials and 2 documentaries between September 7, 1977, and April 3, 2001.

Copperfield also played the character The Magician in the 1980 horror film Terror Train and had 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. His illusions have included the disappearance of a Learjet (1981), the vanishing and reappearance of the Statue of Liberty (1983), levitating over the Grand Canyon (1984), walking through the Great Wall of China (1986), escaping from Alcatraz prison (1987), the disappearance of an Orient Express dining car (1991) and flying on stage for several minutes (1992).

In March 1982, Copperfield founded Project Magic, a rehabilitation program to help disabled patients regain lost or damaged dexterity skills by using sleight of hand as physical therapy. The program has been accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association, and is in use in over 1100 hospitals in 30 countries. Copperfield made an appearance on Oprah Radio in April 2008 to talk with host Dr. Mehmet Oz about how magic can help disabled people.

Who is David Copperfield dating?

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While doing a rope trick at a show in Memphis in 1989, Copperfield accidentally cut off the tip of his finger with sharp scissors. He was rushed to the hospital and the fingertip was reattached.

David Copperfield Height

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Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Magician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. David Copperfield celebrates birthday on September 16 of every year.

On March 11, 1984, while rehearsing an illusion called “Escape From Death” where he was shackled and handcuffed in a tank of water, Copperfield became tangled in the chains and started taking in water and banging into the sides of the tank. He was pulled from the water after 80 seconds, hyperventilating and in shock, taken to a Burbank hospital, and found to have pulled tendons in arms and legs. He was in a wheelchair for a week and used a cane for a period thereafter.

What is the story behind David Copperfield?

The story follows the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, England, six months after the death of his father. David spends his early years in relative happiness with his loving, childish mother and their kindly housekeeper, Clara Peggotty. They call him Davy.

How did David Copperfield become a billionaire?

Over the course of his career, Copperfield has claimed 11 Guinness World Records, including one for the most tickets sold by a solo performer, trumping Madonna, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. Combined, his world tours and Vegas shows have grossed $4 billion and counting.

Is David Copperfield based on a real person?

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How did David Copperfield do Niagara Falls?

In the Niagara Falls stunt, Copperfield was chained to a burning raft and pushed into the Niagara River. In less than 60 seconds, the raft tumbled 173 feet over the brink of the falls. Moments later Copperfield emerged, dangling from a rope attached to a helicopter that then flew him to safety.

Who is the world’s highest paid magician?

David Copperfield boasts a net worth of $875 million, the world’s largest collection of magic memorabilia and the title of world’s highest-paid magician—now for the fourth consecutive year—yet the 63-year-old is hardly ready to disappear.

David Copperfield’s Magic Underground was planned to be a restaurant based on Copperfield’s magic. At Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, a sign on Hollywood Boulevard during the late 1990s indicated the restaurant was coming soon. Signs also appeared around Pleasure Island and outside Disney-MGM Studios. A Magic Underground restaurant was also to open in New York’s Times Square. Plans included eventual expansion into Disneyland in Anaheim, California, as well as Paris and Tokyo. The restaurants were to have magic props and other items on the walls; magicians would go around to tables doing sleight of hand tricks. There was also to be a larger stage for larger stunts. The restaurant in Times Square was 85% completed, but amid disputes between the creative team and the financial team and enormous cost overruns, finances dried up from the investors, the project was canceled, and Disney canceled the lease. Copperfield was not an investor in the project; the investors reportedly lost $34 million, and subcontractors placed $15 million in liens.

Copperfield owns the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, which houses the world’s largest collection of historically significant magic memorabilia, books and artifacts. Begun in 1991 when Copperfield purchased the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, which contained the world’s largest collection of Houdini memorabilia, the museum comprises approximately 80,000 items, including Houdini’s Water Torture Cabinet and Metamorphosis Trunk, Orson Welles’ Buzz Saw illusion, and automata created by Robert-Houdin. Copperfield’s 1991 Mulholland purchase, which formed the core of his collection, engendered criticism from some magicians. One told a reporter, “David Copperfield buying the Mulholland Library is like an Elvis impersonator winding up with Graceland.” In 1992, Copperfield agreed to purchase the largest private magic collection in the world from Dr. Robert Albo to add to the museum. It houses the world’s largest collection of “Houdiniana” (the second largest being Houdini Museum of New York).

In 1993 at a Berlin celebrity gala Copperfield met German supermodel Claudia Schiffer when he brought her on stage to participate in a mind-reading act and his flying illusion, and in January 1994 they became engaged. During the engagement, Schiffer sometimes appeared on stage with Copperfield to act as his special guest assistant in illusions including being sawn in half. She also appeared alongside Copperfield in David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (1994), a documentary in which she played the role of a reporter interviewing him, and at the end of which they reprised their performance of the “Flying” illusion. After a nearly six-year engagement, in September 1999 they announced their separation, citing work schedules. Adam Sandler as Operaman on Saturday Night Live mocked the relationship, calling Copperfield “il dorko.”

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