Magician David Blaine is being accused by a second woman of sexual misconduct.
The woman, a magazine editor, spoke with officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command after she came forward as another alleged victim, according to Daily Mail.
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The alleged victim, who requested not to be named, told the investigators that the entertainer exposed himself and masturbated in front of her during an interview.
“In December 1998, I was sent to interview David Blaine…per his request we met at a Japanese restaurant on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village,” she said. “The restaurant was extremely loud, and my tape recorder wasn’t picking up the conversation even holding it very close to him,” the woman said.
“A private detective friend of mine lived a few blocks away. I called and asked if he was home and, if so, could Blaine and I do the interview in his living room,” she continued. “He said he was there and invited us to use his space. I was hoping Blaine would be willing to do a few of his signature magic tricks for him.”
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The woman said that Blaine and her friend drank bourbon while she opted for water once at the apartment.
“I recall very clearly that Blaine was annoyed by this and tried to get me to have bourbon with them, but I demurred because I’ve never had a drink and I didn’t intend on starting that night,” she said. “David Blaine performed a few sleight of hand tricks which amused my friend to no end.”
“After probably about a half hour of tricks and chit-chat my friend retreated to his home office and left David Blaine and myself alone in the living room to conduct the interview,” she said. “I was frustrated because Blaine wasn’t giving me much that was useful. He was mumbling and slurring and increasingly just out of it. I can’t remember what he sent me to the kitchen for but it was either to get one or both of us a refill.”
“When I returned to the living room, Blaine was still on the couch where I’d left him, but now his pants were open, his penis was in his hand, and he was masturbating,” she said.
“I think the first thing I said was, ‘You need to put that away right now,’ and he asked something along the lines of, ‘Maybe you could give me a hand’ or ‘Don’t you want to give me a hand?’ To which I replied, ‘The guy in the next room thinks of me as family, and he’s packing. Are you insane?’ And the next thing out of his mouth was some version of ‘Just suck my d–ck for a few seconds.’
“I told him if he didn’t stop immediately I was going to scream and that he wouldn’t like the results,” she said. “The next several minutes are such a blur but in short order he’d zipped or buttoned up, and I pulled on his arms to get him to his feet and I dragged him to the elevator in the hall.”
“Once down in the lobby, I pushed him out onto the sidewalk, I hailed a cab, then after one stopped I opened the back door, pushed him in (he was so completely out of it at this point), then I gave the taxi driver $20 and told him to take Blaine wherever he asked to go,” she said.
“That night, I told three people what had happened: my friend, my boyfriend at the time and my editor at the magazine,” she said.
“I do know that his publicist and or manager was informed by I believe my editor. This is secondhand but I was told her response was something along the lines of ‘Godd–t, I told him not to do that again.’”
The woman is the second in the recent months to accuse Blaine of sexual assault. British model Natasha Prince claims that he attacked her in 2004 when she was just 21.
“I have no idea if Natasha is telling the truth or the other woman, but maybe there is a problem here,” she said. “All I know is what he did to me and that for sure happened. But if you had told me that it would lead to rape, I would have been shocked.”
