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

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

(PHOTO:BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESERVICES NEVADA PROPERTIES)

Illusionist David Copperfield has paid $17.55 million for a Las Vegas home complete with a movie theater and nightclub—and made an old price record disappear in the process.

The sale, which closed in late June, represents the highest price ever paid for a Las Vegas home, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

Ivan Sher of Berkshire HathawayHomeServices Nevada Properties represented both Mr. Copperfield and the seller, health-care executive Kevin Hooks.

Mr. Hooks bought the land for $2.575 million in 2005 and built the house, completing it around 2011. The contemporary home wasn’t officially on the market, and Mr. Hooks said he hadn’t planned on selling it for another few years when he was approached by Berkshire Hathaway.  Read more..

http://www.wsj.com/articles/david-copperfield-buys-las-vegas-home-for-17-55-million-1467836031?mod=e2fb

Criss Angel has had ‘one hell of a year’ with son’s cancer and magic production..

Criss Angel has had ‘one hell of a year’ with son’s cancer and magic production..

(Criss Angel production… courtesy)

This August, we’ll re-launch an entire new look for the Best of Las Vegas celebrating its 35th anniversary. We hope to be able to web-broadcast those awards for the first time this fall and follow with a new weekly magazine.

Who better to kick off our new “magic” than the “Magician of the Decade” Criss Angel. Just hours before this Thursday’s premiere of his new Mindfreak Live show at the Luxor he poignantly penned our first guest column.  

I’ve already seen his incredible show from warehouse preparation through to previews and it is without doubt ” “The No. 1 Magic Show Of All Time!” Criss is also getting ready to return to A&E network television this Halloween with the one-hour special “Trick’d.”— Robin Leach

Read more at:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/robin-leach/criss-angel-has-had-one-hell-year-son-s-cancer-and-magic-production

Local female magician wants to break gender stereotypes..

Local female magician wants to break gender stereotypes..

(ON HER OWN: (Above) Miss Adeline Ng is, to her knowledge, the only solo professional female magician here.PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA )

US actress Lizzy Caplan plays the sole female member in magician quartet Four Horsemen in the Hollywood caper Now You See Me 2.

And in the movie, which is showing here, Caplan’s character crushes the stereotype that women are primarily assistants in the world of magic.

And so does full-time local magician Adeline Ng, 28.

“I would go to an event, talk to the producer… and after talking, he’d ask, ‘So, where’s your magician?’” she told The New Paper.

Miss Ng, who has performed in Australia and India, added that she has experienced such encounters “enough times”. Read more…

http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/local-female-magician-wants-break-gender-stereotypes#sthash.5WJXpCBN.dpuf

Britain’s Got Talent star dumped by Criss Angel after less than year together..

Britain’s Got Talent star dumped by Criss Angel after less than year together..

The magic is over for a former Playboy bunny and the millionaire American illusionist she hopped off with after finding fame on Britain’s Got Talent.

Sexy Chloe Crawford, 28, has been dumped by US superstar Criss Angel, 48, less than a year after falling under his spell.

Portsmouth-born Chloe was dubbed BGT’s hottest ever contestant as she swept to the semi-finals with her levitation act last year while still married to Las Vegas magician Murray SawChuck, 42.

Canadian Murray, who got to the same stage on America’s Got Talent in 2010 when he produced a Ferrari from thin air, is credited with helping Chloe make the transition from nude model to ­accomplished illusionist. Read more… (Photo of Chloe Crawford and Murray Sawchuck)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/britains-talent-star-dumped-millionaire-8282479