Ricky Jay, the master-showman magician, actor, scholar, special effects consultant and author who was called “the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive” by writers for the most prestigious ...

Even in death, Ricky Jay continues to amaze. The actor, author, scholar and fabled magician who died in 2018 was a popular visitor on local stages and an energetic collector of all things strange, ...

Ricky Jay, master sleight-of-hand magician, actor and author, died on Saturday (11/24) at his home in Los Angeles. He was 72. His skill with card tricks and other up-close magic made him a regular on ...

Now you see it, now you don’t: Such was the spirit of an epic, 634-lot, two-day auction of the famed late magician Ricky Jay’s collection of ephemera at Sotheby’s New York this week. The take totaled ...

Master magician Ricky Jay has died. Throughout his career, he amazed audiences with card tricks and even consulted on some Hollywood films including Ocean's Thirteen and The Prestige. The world got a ...

Ricky Jay, a magician, historian of oddball entertainers and actor who appeared in "Boogie Nights" and other films, has died. He was 72. Jay died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, ...

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The noted sleight-of-hand artist, who died in 2018, was also a scholar of con games and oddities. This week, Sotheby's auctioned off part of Jay's 10,000-item collection. Originally broadcast in 1998.

Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. By David Segal Illusionists, ...

Jay's manager, Winston Simone, told The Hollywood Reporter he died Saturday in Los Angeles of natural causes. “He was one of a kind,” Simone said. “We will never see the likes of him again.” Jay was ...

Ricky Jay, a magician, historian of oddball entertainers and actor who appeared in "Boogie Nights" and other films, has died. He was 72. Jay died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, ...