The Hollywood producer who fatally drugged two young women and raped several others was a fanatic for disgraced porn star Ron Jeremy and even called him his “dad” during an argument with his real father, newly released police evidence and interviews suggest.
David Pearce — convicted last month of two first-degree murders in the overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola and seven rapes — was reportedly a personal friend of the infamous X-rated actor and filled his apartment with signed memorabilia and “trophies for pornography,” a search warrant obtained by the LA Times revealed.
But his friendship with Jeremy — who faced dozens of sexual assault charges of his own before a judge deemed the 72-year-old unfit for trial due to “incurable neurocognitive decline” — at some point became a sick obsession, according to family members.
In a fight with his father, Pearce, 42, once shouted, “You’re not my Dad anymore. Ron Jeremy is my Dad!” his sister Allison Pearce told the outlet.
Police had investigated multiple rape allegations against Pearce in the years before he lured Giles, 24, and Arzola, 26, to his Los Angeles apartment, where he gave them fentanyl-laced cocaine and spiked cocktails, let them die when they overdosed, and then dumped their bodies on the curb outside two different hospitals in 2021, according to prosecutors.
Police brought at least three different rape cases against Pearce — who maintained an image as a Hollywood big shot despite middling success — to county prosecutors between 2007 and 2020, according to public records obtained by the Times.
Given the plethora of red flags, critics argued cops should have bagged the pervert producer before he took the lives of his two latest victims.
“This is exactly the type of predator that sexual assault investigators and prosecutors are looking for, these are the kind of people they want to hunt down and stop … it’s kind of like the whole job,” Joshua Ritter, a victim’s rights attorney for Giles’ husband, told the Times.
Pearce and a wingman met Giles and Arzola at a drug-fueled warehouse party in Los Angeles. The four went back to Pearce’s apartment, where he fed the two women fentanyl-laced cocaine and drugged the drinks of all three of his guests.
His wingman, who became violently ill, managed to stumble home, but the two women passed out and never woke up. Pearce’s roommate testified that when he suggested calling 911, Pearce said “Dead girls don’t talk” and let them die.
Pearce and his roommate then loaded the women’s bodies into his car, pulled off the license plate, and dumped them on the sidewalk in front of two different hospitals.
After his arrest, 12 different women came forward to accuse the Hollywood producer of assaulting them between 2007 and 2020 — often using date rape drugs.
Pearce faces a sentence of life in prison for two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of rape, although he has fired his defense and said he will seek a new trial.
