The Magic Newswire - Magic News

According to the New York Post:

An award given to magician David Copperfield disappeared into thin air, the old-fashioned way, from his Midtown penthouse. Copperfield recently received a “King of Magic” honor, bestowed by the Society of American Magicians, at a reception at his apartment. After an evening of toasts, cake and champagne to celebrate - (snip) Copperfield followed the crowd out the door and enjoyed a late dinner on the town. But when he got back home -- presto chango! -- he discovered his front door was wide open, and the cherished plaque was nowhere to be found. The magic man is now offering a $50,000 reward for its safe return.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but where was David's favorite "masked magician" at that time? ;-)

From the NY POST's previous reporting on the birthday party itself:

"Another eerie moment occurred during the tour of Copperfield’s pad when a mystery man was discovered inexplicably dancing in the tub in the bathroom adjoining the bedroom. The stranger was immediately ordered to disappear."

Another report on the party from WWD:

One almost felt a little badly for David Copperfield on Wednesday evening at his birthday-cum-Fantastic Man launch party in his Park Avenue penthouse.

“Has nobody heard of coasters?” Copperfield moaned in fake-exasperation that might have belied some real frustration. “This is our first party here, and I think maybe our last. I keep racing after people to pick up their glasses. I restored all these arcade machines, painstakingly. For years.”

Copperfield tilted his head at an angle and handed back a Champagne flute that had been resting atop a wood-framed fortune telling machine to a partygoer who had been rooting around in her crocodile clutch. Though the scene was unfolding on Manhattan’s east side, it was impossible not to think of Las Vegas — not necessarily because of the glassed-in rooftop pool with balmy interior temperature and large, rearing terra-cotta horse statue above it, or the 360-panoramic views from any of the terraces or even the arcade games, which fill the entire first floor and line both levels of the living room — but because the look shot by Copperfield at an errant Champagne flute was one of those featured on Vegas’ billboards and buses.