David Copperfield. Gary Gershoff/Getty Photographs
David Copperfield is dealing with a lawsuit from a New York Metropolis apartment board after he allegedly allowed his unit to devolve into “a state of utter disrepair.”
Based on court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, the board of managers of the Galleria Condominium alleges the magician “trashed” his unit within the constructing earlier than abandoning it in 2018.
After leaving the unit, Copperfield, 67, allegedly “failed to take care of the valves, pipes and different mechanical gear servicing his unit.” In consequence, former neighbors and different components of the constructing confronted injury.
In court docket paperwork, the apartment board included photos from Copperfield’s property that seemingly showcased extreme injury to the unit’s carpeting, partitions, ceiling, bathtub and extra.
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“The images contained within the criticism converse for themselves, and no additional elaboration is basically required,” Joshua Stricoff, an lawyer for the board of managers of the Galleria Condominium, informed Us Weekly in an announcement on Monday, August 12. “The board hopes that Mr. Copperfield does proper by the constructing and does proper by his unit, and we’ll pursue the lawsuit within the meantime.”
A rep for Copperfield, nonetheless, mentioned this case is a “easy insurance coverage declare.”
“The images included within the lawsuit don’t replicate the present state of the condominium,” his rep informed Us. “This can be a court docket matter and shall be dealt with in court docket.”
The Galleria Condominium is a luxurious high-rise positioned on East 57th Road in New York Metropolis. Based on the lawsuit, the condominium prides itself on being one of many metropolis’s basic and preeminent luxurious residential condominium buildings.
Copperfield’s unit is described as a multilevel penthouse on the condominium’s 54th flooring. The magician bought the property in October 1997 for almost $7.4 million.
Based on court docket paperwork, Copperfield has been a “far cry from a mannequin resident.” The board alleged that Copperfield “notoriously jam packed the unit with novelties resembling fortune telling machines, basic arcade video games and different, more strange objects like ‘hazing gadgets’ apparently utilized by numerous fraternities in the course of the flip of the century.”
The plaintiffs imagine Copperfield is now residing in Nevada the place he has a magic and phantasm present at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Resort. They hope the lawsuit will propel Copperfield to make a change and act.
“To say that he trashed the unit is an understatement,” the plaintiffs alleged in court docket paperwork. “The images of the unit are appalling and converse for themselves.”
