US magician David Blaine is CLEARED over 2004 rape of British model at London party
Detectives interviewed David Blaine under caution - and have decided to take no further action
MAGICIAN David Blaine has been cleared of raping a British model in a London flat, The Sun Online can reveal today.
The US star had been accused of attacking her in 2004.
The woman came forward with the claims in 2016, and they were strenuously denied by the illusionist, who claimed they had "consensual" sex.
Scotland Yard launched an investigation after she reported the allegations at Kensington police station.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police confirmed today that detectives interviewed Mr Blaine under caution - and have decided to take no further action.
The model was reported as saying that she met Blaine at a party at the Wellington nightclub in plush Knightsbridge, west London, in the summer of 2004 and that he invited her to a friend’s house the following evening.
She said Blaine ushered her into a living room, where another couple with cocktails were deep in conversation. He later handed her a vodka and soda “in a tall crystal glass”.
After exchanging pleasantries, she claimed Blaine asked to show her something in a bedroom.
She said she followed him into the room and he turned round and said, ‘Kiss me’.
She added: “I did kiss him. And then he said, ‘Finish your drink’ and took the glass from me and put it on the table, and that’s really the last thing I remember.”
She claimed that Blaine then raped her.
She said: “At some point, I was on the bed, face- forward, and he was behind me. I was in and out of a deep sleep."
The model said she did a photo shoot the following day but was still feeling groggy.
“The next thing I remember…I was sitting in the make-up chair getting my make-up done and thinking ‘what did I do last night? Did I have sex with ?’
“But I didn’t want to…I felt hazy, completely out of it.”
The model claimed Blaine called her a short while after and that she saw him the following year at a party.
He allegedly followed her into the bathroom and said: “You were really good in bed.”
She said she suffered murky flashbacks of the alleged incident as well as anxiety, a fear of men, low self-esteem and bouts of anger.
She said she drank to excess and stopped modelling.
She said she reported the incident to the police 12 years later after blaming herself and feeling “ashamed”.
She added: “My interpretation was that it was my fault. I didn’t think of it as rape. In my head, rape was being sober – pull her in a bush, pull down her pants and just ditch her…so I blamed myself. I did like him. I was interested in him. So I didn’t think about going to the police.”
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Blaine, who lives in New York has amassed a £10million fortune after staging mind-bending stunts.
The illusionist became a household name in Britain in 2003 after surviving 44 days without food while suspended in a glass box over the Thames in London.
He split from fiancée Alizée Guinochet in 2014. They have a seven-year-old daughter Dessa.
Responding to the allegations when they surfaced, Mr Blaine told the Daily Beast: "Wow...there’s absolutely nothing...that’s crazy.”
Sun Online have contacted Blaine for a response.
