Hollywood Producer Sentenced to 146 Years in Prison for Murdering Two Models and Raping Seven Women

A Hollywood film producer, David Pearce, has been sentenced to 146 years in prison for the murders of two young models and the rape of seven other women in a shocking case that has gripped the United States entertainment industry.

The 42-year-old producer was found guilty in February after a lengthy trial that exposed a dark pattern of predatory behaviour stretching over more than a decade. Pearce will serve his sentence until the year 2171, effectively spending the rest of his life behind bars.

According to prosecutors, Pearce met 24-year-old Christy Giles and 26-year-old Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola at a Los Angeles warehouse party on November 13, 2021. He later invited them to his Beverly Hills apartment, where the women were allegedly given a deadly mix of drugs.

Hours later, both women were dumped outside separate hospitals in Los Angeles by two masked men. Giles was declared dead on arrival, while Cabrales-Arzola, a Mexican native, was revived but left brain dead. She passed away nearly two weeks later, just days before her 27th birthday.

During the trial, witnesses revealed that Pearce told a friend, “Dead girls can’t talk,” suggesting he intended to silence his victims permanently. Investigators also linked him to a series of sexual assaults dating back to 2007, with at least seven women testifying that he raped or abused them in similar circumstances.

Judge Eleanor Hunter, who presided over the case, delivered the maximum sentence allowed by law. In her statement, she described Pearce as manipulative, calculating, and entirely without remorse. “You’re the worst kind of criminal, Mr. Pearce,” she said. “You fit the role perfectly—charming, intelligent, a manipulator, and completely without compassion.”

Evidence presented in court showed that Pearce and his friend, actor Brandt Osborn, waited more than 11 hours before abandoning the women’s bodies outside hospitals. Surveillance footage later captured them eating at a restaurant shortly after leaving the crime scenes. Osborn, who pleaded not guilty to being an accessory after the fact, has not been convicted after the jury failed to reach a verdict.

The Los Angeles Times reported that police had received several rape complaints against Pearce between 2007 and 2020, but none led to charges. Each case shared disturbing similarities with the murders of Giles and Cabrales-Arzola.

Cabrales-Arzola’s sister, speaking to the Daily Mail, said the justice system failed to protect women from Pearce’s long history of violence. “The system failed first the women who came forward, then those who followed, and ultimately my sister and Christy,” she said. “Had the authorities acted when they should have, he never would have crossed paths with them.”