Hollywood producer and convicted serial rapist David Brian Pearce has been sentenced to 146 years to life in prison for his role in the drug overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, as well as a string of violent sexual assaults spanning more than a decade.
Pearce was found guilty in February of first-degree murder in connection with the women’s deaths, along with multiple sex crimes, including forcible rape, rape of an unconscious person, sexual penetration by force, and sodomy by force, according to ABC7 Los Angeles.
Prosecutors said Pearce met Giles and Cabrales-Arzola at an after-hours rave, where he allegedly drugged them to facilitate sexual assault.
The tragic events unfolded on November 13, 2021, when 24-year-old Christy Giles, a model and aspiring actress, was found dead outside Southern California Hospital in Culver City. Two hours later, 26-year-old Cabrales-Arzola, an architect, was discovered unconscious outside Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital. She later died after her family made the heartbreaking decision to remove her from life support.
An autopsy revealed that Giles died from a lethal mix of cocaine, fentanyl, GHB, and ketamine, while Cabrales-Arzola succumbed to multiple organ failure after ingesting cocaine, ecstasy, and other substances.
Investigators said Pearce and his roommate, Brandt Walter Osborn, were responsible for dumping the victims’ bodies at separate hospitals after they overdosed inside Pearce’s apartment.
Though Pearce denied supplying the drugs, the jury found him guilty on all major counts after two and a half days of deliberation.
Osborn, 46, faces two counts of being an accessory after the fact and is awaiting a possible retrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision in his case.
Following the sentencing, Giles’ mother, Dusty Giles, thanked prosecutors for securing justice, saying she was “so proud” of the legal team and relieved that Pearce’s victims had “finally had their day in court.”
The case, which drew national attention, uncovered Pearce’s long history of sexual violence and marked a long-awaited victory for the victims and their families.
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