No hard feelings after split with wife, Vegas magician says..
By Norm Clarke – Las Vegas Review-Journal
The magic went missing in a flash from the marriage of magician Murray Sawchuck and his British wife and stage assistant Chloe Crawford.
“For me, it came out of the blue,” Sawchuck said Tuesday. “It happened overnight. It was like an avalanche.”
The split, after a three-year-plus marriage, came last week when they jointly filed for divorce in Las Vegas. Crawford is 27, Sawchuck 42.
Crawford, who has appeared in his Tropicana show and as a topless dancer in “Fantasy” at the Luxor, flew to New Jersey this week, he said.
“I know she definitely wanted to push her career forward,” he added.
She got a huge career break in June when she became the first female magician to reach the semifinals of “Britain’s Got Talent.”
“I hope this is the start of me being a magician in my own right,” she told the London Mirror. “I love the dancing, but there’s only so long I can carry that on for.”
Her disappearing motorcycle act was a hit, and her appearance generated a lot of headlines in her homeland.
“The taste of fame can be a bit like a drug,” Sawchuck said. read more…