Actor, 39, charged in deaths of LA model Christy Giles and Mexican designer friend is charged with sexually assaulting FOUR other women
An actor who was charged in the overdose deaths of a Los Angeles model and her designer friend has now been charged with sexually assaulting four other women.
David Pearce, 39, was charged on Friday, December 17, with two counts of forcible rape, one count of raping an unconscious or asleep person and one count of sexual penetration of a foreign object. The incidents all occurred in Los Angeles from 2010 to October 2020.
According to a news release from the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, Pearce is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2010, raping another woman in 2019 and raping two more women in February and October of last year.
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.
'This case is evolving and we continue to work with law enforcement in developing evidence of other possible crimes,' District Attorney George Gascon said in a statement.
More information about the sexual assault charges were not made publicly available. DailyMail.com has reached out to the District Attorney's Office for more information.
David Pearce, 39, right, was arrested last week on manslaughter charges for the deaths of model Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, right, who were with him at a warehouse party in East Los Angeles just hours before their deaths on November 13. He is now facing additional charges for allegedly sexually assaulting four other women
David Pearce, left, and Mike Ansbach, 47, right, are seen with Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola on the night she and Christy Giles went partying in East LA
The sexual assault charges against Pearce came just two days after he and two others - Brandt Osborn 42, and Mike Ansbach, 47 - were arrested on suspicion of felony offenses in connection with the shocking deaths last month of model Christy Giles, 24, and interior designer Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26.
Phone location data showed Giles and Arzola went back to Pearce's apartment near Beverly Hills with the three men in the early hours of November 13 after an East LA warehouse party.
Texts between the two women showed Giles sent a message to Arzola at 5:30am when they were at the apartment, reading: 'let's go.' Hilda replied: 'Yes. I'll call an Uber' - however, the two were never picked up.
About 12 hours later the women's cold bodies were dumped at two hospitals by men in balaclavas driving a black Toyota Prius with no plates, caught on CCTV according to Giles's husband, Jan Cilliers, who was in San Francisco visiting his father at the time of her death.
A car matching the Prius was photographed parked in Pearce's driveway after the incident.
Giles was pronounced dead at Southern California Hospital in Culver City around 5pm that day. Cabrales-Arzola was in a coma in Kaiser Permanente West L.A., until her family took her off life-support on November 28, the day before she would have turned 27.
Pearce has been charged with manslaughter. He was arrested at 11am last Wednesday by LAPD's West Bureau and is being held in a department jail.
LA Sheriff's Department booking records obtained by DailyMail.com show he was being held on $1million bail.
Ansbach, meanwhile, was arrested at 11:10am last Wednesday and held on $100,000 bail and Pearce's roommate Osborn, 42, was arrested shortly after at 12:30pm the same day and assigned $100,000 bail.
Both men were charged with accessory to manslaughter, but the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office later rejected the case against Osborn, and his arrest was reduced to a detention, the New York Post reports.
Police say they believe both women were given drugs at Pearce's apartment.
'It is believed that both women were given drugs and overdosed at a residence in the 8600 block of Olympic Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles,' an LAPD statement said.
'West Bureau Homicide Detectives responded and continue to investigate this case.'
The police added that they had brought in the FBI to help investigate.
Giles's husband Jan Cilliers was in San Francisco visiting his father when her lifeless body was dumped outside a hospital last month
Texts between the two women showed Christy sent a message to Hilda at 5:30am when they were at the apartment, reading: 'let's go.' Hilda replied: 'Yes. I'll call an Uber' - however, the two were never picked up
Four minutes later at 5:36am, a friend called Eddie who was at the official after party the girls had planned to go to texted Christy: 'Where you at?' - but that message was never read
Giles and Cabrales-Arzola were at SoHo on Friday, November 12, when they left for a warehouse party. Giles' husband said he traced her phone to an apartment complex before the women were dropped off at their respective 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, who played Cuban drug lord Manny Ribera in the 1983 movie Scarface, said Pearce repeatedly made comments to him about drugging women to have sex with them, and that at a Beverly Hills party the two men attended, a girl told him Pearce had locked her in a room and raped her.
The actor said that while at the house party around 2008, Pearce disappeared for a while with a young Latina woman, and her female friend became concerned.
Bauer said that as he and the female friend started looking for the missing woman, she burst out of a room sobbing, shortly followed by 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'.'
Scarface actor Steven Bauer told DailyMail.com he witnessed Pearce allegedly raping a woman. He is pictured at a movie screening in October
Bauer said he told Pearce to drive the two women home with them. He said as Pearce sped off, they sat in the back, one crying and the other asking her what happened. Then she made a startling accusation.
'She said 'he cornered me and he locked the door. And I told him I didn't want to do anything. I didn't like him. And 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. What, you're going to believe her? She's a f***ing maid. She's gonna brag about this later.'
'He goes, 'Stop being a p***y. She's a liar. 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 said that all the while, Pearce was speeding through Beverly Hills while drinking an alcoholic drink in a glass tumbler he took from the party, and when Bauer told him to put the drink down, Pearce threw the glass out 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. 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.'
The Scarface actor told DailyMail.com he first met Pearce at a party shortly after moving back to LA, and when the self-described movie producer learned Bauer needed a place to stay, he offered his 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, right, attended a function at Les Deux Nightclub in Hollywood with Scarface actor Steven Bauer in 2008. Bauer said the two were 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. Rieckermann is pictured at a concert with Rudolf Schenker
David Pearce is pictured at events with Paris Hilton in 2007 and adult film star Ron Jeremy in 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. You know I don't approve of that. I hope you're kidding. And he'd say, 'Watch me.'
Bauer said when he asked what drugs his temporary roommate intended to use on women, Pearce refused to elaborate.
'He'd say, 'Forget it. I'm not telling you. You're liable to go crazy and turn me in or something.'
And in another exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, Rieckermann 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.
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. He came out and showed me a whole stack full of IDs of girls.
'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. That's when I said okay, I'm out of here. 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.
Court records show Pearce was convicted of a petty theft in April 2015, though it is not clear whether the incident was related to any alleged theft from a house party.
He was also charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance in 2015, but the case was designated as dismissed or not prosecuted in March that year.
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.'
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