Actor who was accused in overdose deaths for a Los Angeles Model and her friend as a designer has been charged now with assaulting four women.
David Pearce (39), is facing two counts each of forcible and unconscious rapes, as well as one count of raping an asleep or incoherent person, and one count sexual penetration of foreign objects. These incidents took place in Los Angeles between October 2010 and Oct 2020.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office released a statement saying that Pearce has been accused of sexually attacking a woman in 2010. He is also charged with raping another woman 2019 and two additional women last February and October.
Pearce, a self-professed movie producer, amateur actor and club promoter, is scheduled to appear in court for an arraignment and possible plea deal on Wednesday.
He was charged with the sexual assault claims on Friday and is being held on a $3.4 million bond, as he also awaits charges for the overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and interior designer Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.
In a statement, District Attorney George Gascon explained that the case was still in development and that he continues to collaborate with law enforcement on evidence for other crimes.
Information about sexual assault charges was not publicly made available. DailyMail.com reached out to District Attorney’s Office in order to obtain more details.
David Pearce (39), was taken into custody last week for manslaughter in the death of Christy Giles, a model, and Hilda Marcela Cabrales–Arzola. They were at Pearce’s East Los Angeles warehouse party hours before they died on November 13th. Additional charges are being brought against him for sexually assaulting the four women he allegedly has.
David Pearce and Mike Ansbach are seen left with Hilda Marcela Cabrales–Arzola. This was the night Christy Giles and Mike Ansbach went out partying in East LA.
Pearce’s sexual assault allegations were filed just two days following his arrest on suspicion for felony offenses.
According to phone location data, Giles and Arzola returned with three other men to Pearce’s Beverly Hills apartment in the wee hours of November 13, after a East LA warehouse party.
The text messages between Giles and Arzola showed Giles sending Arzola a message at 5:30am, when Arzola was at their apartment. This message read: “let’s get.” Hilda replied: ‘Yes. The two of them were not picked up.
Twelve hours later, the cold bodies of the women were dumped at hospitals by two men wearing balaclavas and driving a black Toyota Prius without plates. This was captured on CCTV, according to Jan Cilliers who was visiting Giles’s father in San Francisco at the time.
Pearce captured a Prius-like car parked on his driveway following the incident.
Giles was declared dead by the Southern California Hospital in Culver city around 5:15pm on that day. Cabrales – Arzola spent the night in Kaiser Permanente West L.A. in a coma until her family released her on life-support November 28, just before her 27th birthday.
Pearce was charged with manslaughter. Pearce was taken into custody by the LAPD West Bureau at 11 am last Wednesday.
DailyMail.com has obtained booking records from the LA Sheriff’s Department indicating that he was currently being held under $1million bail.
Ansbach, however, was taken into police custody last Wednesday at 11:10AM. Osborn (42), was taken into custody shortly afterwards at 12:20pm that day. He was released on $100,000 bail.
The men were both charged with accessory-to-manslaughter. However, Osborn was later dismissed by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and his arrest was reduced down to a detention.
According to police, both women are believed to have been given drugs in Pearce’s apartment.
According to an LAPD statement, it is believed the women overdosed on drugs at the residence located in 8600 Block Olympic Boulevard.
“West Bureau Homicide Detectives” responded to the case and are continuing their investigation.
They also said that they brought in the FBI for assistance.
Jan Cilliers, Giles’s husband was visiting him in San Francisco when his wife was killed.
The text messages between Christy and Hilda showed that Christy had sent Hilda a message at 5:30am while they were still at their apartment. It read: “Let’s go.” Hilda replied: ‘Yes. Hilda replied: “Yes, I will call Uber” – but the two weren’t picked up.
At 5:36am, Eddie, a close friend who had been at the afterparty where the girls planned to attend, texted Christy asking: “Where are you?” But that message wasn’t read
Cabrales-Arzola and Giles were in SoHo Friday, November 12th when they went to a warehouse party. Giles’ husband stated that he tracked her phone to an apartment complex, before dropping the women off at their hospitals.
In the aftermath, Scarface actor Steven Bauer told DailyMail.com he witnessed Pearce allegedly raping a woman, and former Scorpions bassist Ralph Rieckermann told DailyMailTV that Pearce kept a stack of women’s IDs in his apartment which he handed out to young girls, as well as dozens of credit cards not in his name and several high-end laptops.
Bauer was the Cuban drug lord Manny Ribera’s character in Scarface. In 1983, Pearce said several times that Pearce made comments about women being drugged to have sex. At a Beverly Hills party, a girl stated to Pearce she had been locked in a bedroom and raped by him.
Pearce, the actor claimed that she was with a Latina girl at a party in 2008. Her friend became suspicious.
Bauer stated that the time he was looking for the missing woman along with his female friend, she started sobbing and soon followed Pearce.
‘He was trying to hustle me out of the party so that nobody else would hear,’ Bauer told DailyMail.com. ‘He said, “Don’t listen to her. This is a stupid party, let’s get out of here… Get in the car, get in the car”.’
Steven Bauer, Scarface’s actor, said that he saw Pearce apparently rape a woman. Pictured at an October movie screening
Bauer claimed that he instructed Pearce not to take the women home. Pearce was speeding off when Bauer said that they were seated in the back and both crying. The other asked him what had happened. Then, she made an ingenious accusation.
‘She said “he cornered me and he locked the door. He told me that he had cornered me and locked the door. I did not like him. He said, “Yes you like me.” And he forced himself on me.”
‘I said, “Did he hurt you?” And she said, “He raped me.”
‘So I asked him straight out… I said “Answer me. What she’s saying is that you raped her.”
‘He goes, “She’s a liar. You’ll believe her, what? She’s a f***ing maid. She’s gonna brag about this later.”
‘He goes, “Stop being a p***y. It’s a lie. She’s a housekeeper or something.”
‘I said, “I’m going to start walking, and I’m going to tell the police where you live. If you don’t let the girl out, I’ll get her home.”
‘He called me all kinds of names. He called me a p***y and that I was a party pooper and I was a hypocrite and that I knew all along what was going on.
‘He would do that, he would deflect and spin whatever worked for him.’
Bauer claimed that Pearce was driving through Beverly Hills at the time, while he was sipping an alcoholic beverage in a tumbler from the party. When Bauer asked him to stop, Pearce said that he had thrown the glass out of the window.
‘I was going to strangle him while he was driving,’ Bauer said. ‘I just lost my temper. I grabbed him by the hair and I said, “Listen, you’d better focus right now. You can pull over. And he said, “Oh, you’re a girl, you pulled my hair.” And that was probably the last time I saw him, or hung out with him.
‘I told him I wanted to get all my clothes out of his apartment, that I was done. I didn’t want to see him anymore.’
DailyMail.com heard from the Scarface actor, that Pearce first met him at a party just after he moved back to LA. Bauer was looking for a place to rest when he learned of Pearce’s spare room.
Bauer said Pearce was on his ‘best behavior’ for the first week or so, but that he began to make dark and troubling comments about drugging women in order to sleep with them.
‘He didn’t show his colors until he finally basically lost his patience with me,’ the actor said.
David Pearce and Scarface actor Steven Bauer attended the 2008 function at Les Deux Nightclub Hollywood. Bauer stated that they were both roommates
Former Scorpions bassist Ralph Rieckermann, left, said that about 15 years ago he would regularly see Pearce at parties at the Playboy Mansion and other celebrity house parties in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Rudolf Schenker is pictured with Rieckermann at a concert.
David Pearce is pictured with Paris Hilton and Ron Jeremy, adult film stars in 2007, 2009
‘He was always implying that he had either Quaaludes or date rape drugs.
‘He would say, “What do you think I’m going to do with her?” And I’d say, “Yeah, but you can’t just scam your way past all young females, and he said “You want to bet? I have other ways – as if you don’t know what I’m talking about.”
Ralph Rieckermann said he saw a stack of 50-70 credit cards on Pearce’s desk not in his name, which Pearce refused to explain to him.
‘I’d say, “Don’t even joke about that around me. That’s something I won’t accept. I hope you’re kidding. And he’d say, “Watch me.”
Bauer claimed that Pearce didn’t elaborate when Bauer inquired about the drug his temporary roommate would use on females.
‘He’d say, “Forget it. You’re not being truthful. You’re liable to go crazy and turn me in or something.”’
In another interview with DailyMailTV Rieckermann stated that he saw Pearce about fifteen years ago at Playboy Mansion parties and other celebrity houses parties in Hollywood.
The former Scorpions bassist said he once visited Pearce’s apartment to meet Bauer, his close friend, but was instead greeted by Pearce and shown around.
‘He had extremely large televisions, which was unusual for an apartment at that time, and a lot of electronics standing around, like 3-5 laptops,’ Rieckermann said.
‘All of a sudden he came out of the bedroom, which by the way, had porn playing in the late afternoon. I was shown a stack of IDs from several girls by him when he came out.
‘He said “these are the IDs I use to get girls into the clubs.” I said, “Why do you need IDs to get girls in clubs?” “Well a lot of the girls we’re hanging out with are underage.” I said, “Why are you hanging out with underage girls?”
‘That was an extremely weird, big red flag to me.’
Rieckermann said he also saw a stack of 50-70 credit cards on Pearce’s desk not in his name, which Pearce refused to explain to him.
‘Then a few girls started showing up and they were very, very young, and very insecure. My gut feel was they were definitely underage,’ the 59-year-old retired rock star said.
‘He said he was going to go out with them later and he was passing out all these IDs to these girls. Then I replied, “Okay, I’m done.” I gotta go.’
Rieckerman said he wanted to speak out to encourage witnesses to come forward and for police to investigate all possibilities in Christy and Hilda’s case.
He said he later discovered Pearce had been ‘blacklisted’ from further house parties after a host allegedly caught him on security cameras stealing a laptop.
According to court records, Pearce was convicted in April 2015 of a petty crime. However it’s not known if the case was connected with any theft at a house party.
In 2015, he was charged with illegal possession of controlled substances. However, the case was dismissed in March 2015.
In 2018 Pearce made a hoax call to police claiming ‘there were men with guns in his hotel room and they weren’t letting him leave.’