David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

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David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Doug Thornton » July 7th, 2016, 2:25 pm

Just ignore the comments after the article. (I'm surprised those people read the WSJ; perhaps they're just "celebrity seekers.")

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Postby I.M. Magician » July 7th, 2016, 4:02 pm

Like they say: Rich or poor, it's good to have money.

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Postby AJM » July 7th, 2016, 4:16 pm

As somebody once said 'Money doesn't bring you happiness - I've been sad when I was poor and I've been sad now that I'm rich and the latter is far better'.

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Postby Dustin Stinett » July 7th, 2016, 5:00 pm

I'd like to have the chance to prove that money can't buy happiness.

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Postby Richard Kaufman » July 7th, 2016, 5:12 pm

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Rick Ruhl » July 7th, 2016, 5:30 pm

I think everyone keeps forgetting that this took David over 40 years to accomplish. Remember back in 1974 he was starving in New York and Chicago

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby John LeBlanc » July 7th, 2016, 5:36 pm

He's traded away more of his life than most everyone else -- including me -- and in return for his efforts he can acquire this (as well as other material things.) I have no intellectual or moral issues with this. I am happy for him.

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Postby erdnasephile » July 8th, 2016, 10:14 am

Congrats--sounds like Copperfield and his family finally got the house they wanted. (Although it does seem a bit pricey compared to some of the other super deluxe properties in the "Mansion" section of WSJ).

Perhaps we'll see an article/photospread on the house in Genii?

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Postby Joe Mckay » July 8th, 2016, 11:24 am

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

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Postby Brad Jeffers » July 8th, 2016, 3:15 pm

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Bill Marquardt » July 8th, 2016, 4:02 pm

Seventeen and a half million dollars? Wow. That's more money than I make in a year.

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Brad Jeffers » July 8th, 2016, 4:12 pm

Rick Ruhl wrote:I think everyone keeps forgetting that this took David over 40 years to accomplish. Remember back in 1974 he was starving in New York and Chicago

Yeah, after 40 years this magic thing in finally beginning to pay off.

I can remember just ten years ago when he could barely afford to buy those eleven islands in the Bahamas. (He really wanted twelve, but when times are tough you have to make due as best you can.)

In 1974, Copperfield was 18 (same as me) and had the lead role in The Magic Man and then headlined at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu for several months ... the poor starving sap.

I on the other hand, was lucky enough to have a real job. Making sandwiches at Subway. You'll never starve if your work involves lunch meats.

Seriously, I doubt that David ever missed a meal.

And that's a nice house.

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Rick Ruhl » July 8th, 2016, 10:12 pm

http://www.in-biography.com/2014/11/bio ... field.html

At that time, David was 18 years old. "While participating in the musical, I have to do a magic show and sing. The longer the duration of the play, the longer the magic I play and they want me menyanyi.Aku not much flavor, I'm not gifted to be a singer, "recalls David. When the show The Magic Man was finished, David to continue his studies at Fordham University.

However, he faces a problem. After it expires musical slot, he unemployed. She had no money and was forced to rely on submissions from his father to make a living. Lucky, bad luck changed after a year did not have a clear purpose in life. "When the show was over, I had to starve for a year in New York. My father sent money so I can pay her rent. Every day I sat in my apartment, learn and improve skills while sulapku find the right music for the show.

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Roger M. » July 8th, 2016, 10:45 pm

I wouldn't put much faith in that particular article, or the website it came from!

Its owner and chief writer seems to be a chap from Sumatra.
Likely not a believable source of accurate historical information on DC's personal life.

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Postby Rick Ruhl » July 9th, 2016, 12:40 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hU7B-0nYU

at 12:48 to 13:12

From his own mouth.

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Re: David Copperfield Buys Las Vegas Home for a Record $17.55 Million

Postby Roger M. » July 9th, 2016, 3:02 pm

I don't think he "starved" in the sense that poor people starve ... or "starved" at all for that matter.

In the capacity he used the word in the interview you referenced, I'm going to guess it was simple overstatement designed to express that the road to the top wasn't always easy.

It's kind of hard to "starve" or be so low that you're in serious trouble when you've got two parents less than an hour away, both small business owners and both obviously well off enough to give David whatever he needed money wise, whenever he needed it.

As well, he had just come off a lengthy run earning a salary in Chicago, so ..... I would posit that his reference to "starving" is likely more one referencing being a bit short on cash.

Suffice it to say D.C. came from humble beginnings, to become the most well known, and most handsomely rewarded magician in modern history.
I'm sure we'd all agree that he deserves all his various blessings in life to date.

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Postby Richard Kaufman » July 9th, 2016, 11:19 pm

There is certainly no one who works harder for his money.
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