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Oddball illusionist David Copperfield is being eyed on allegations he raped a woman in the Bahamas – a crime that spurred an FBI probe and a raid of his Las Vegas warehouse, where agents found $2 million in mystery cash, investigators said yesterday.

More than a dozen FBI agents searched the 51-year-old’s Sin City storage space, seizing a computer hard drive, a digital camera memory card and the cash – the source of which remains unknown, investigators said.

The raid comes after police received a report from a Seattle woman that Copperfield raped her last summer. Police would not detail the allegations, but referred to the woman as a “victim.”

“Due to the seriousness of the alleged incident, we documented it,” a police spokeswoman said.

No criminal charges have been filed.

Sources said the woman did not report the incident to Bahamian police, and no rape kit was taken.

The case falls within the FBI’s jurisdiction because the accuser is a U.S. citizen.

FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs confirmed agents were investigating a Seattle-based case when they raided Copperfield’s property.

Copperfield, whose real name is David Kotkin, is famed for such illusions as making the Statue of Liberty disappear and walking through the Great Wall of China.

“It is important these allegations be put into perspective,” his attorney, David Chesnoff, said in a statement.

“An unidentified woman has made serious allegations against David Copperfield,” he said. “Although authorities have not revealed her identity to us, we know these allegations are false because David Copperfield has never forced himself on anyone.”

Copperfield’s warehouse – known as the International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts – is a climate-controlled archive holding more than 80,000 pieces of magic memorabilia.

The Metuchen, N.J., native, who earns an estimated $57 million a year and was once engaged to supermodel Claudia Schiffer, enters his warehouse through a secret door in a sex shop.

In interviews last year for the film “The Prestige,” actor Hugh Jackman said Copperfield had taken him and his wife on a tour of the space.

“We pull up outside this sex shop and David gets out, pulls out a set of keys and walks in, and we’re thinking, ‘Oh my God, what have we got ourselves into here?’

“He says, ‘Push the nipple on that mannequin over there,’ so I pushed it and these doors slid open and we walked into this room the size of four football fields filled with magic memorabilia,” Jackman told Handbag.com.

In July 2006 Copperfield paid $45.5 million for Musha Cay – a collection of four private islands in the Bahamas. Celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and Steve Martin reportedly have stayed at the secluded resort, where rental rates start at $24,750 a day and only 24 guests are permitted at one time.

Copperfield said he had discovered “the fountain of youth” in his private paradise after drawing lines between Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Easter Island statues.

“I’ve discovered a true phenomenon . . . You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again.”

austin.fenner@nypost.com