LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles event promoter David Pearce, 37, known professionally as David or Dave Bryant, who booked mainstream and adult talent at nightclubs, and two other men were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection to the deaths of two women, 24-year-old model Christy Giles and 26-year-old architect Hilda Cabrales Arzola, who were allegedly given an overdose of drugs while partying and dropped off at hospitals by masked men last month, according to an LAPD report released today.
Pearce was arrested along with 42-year-old Brandt Osborn and 47-year-old Mike Ansbach.
“According to police reports, homicide detectives began investigating after masked men dropped Giles off at a hospital in Culver City on Nov. 13 and sped away in a black Toyota Prius with no plates,” the Los Angeles Times reported today.
“Giles was unconscious at the time, and soon pronounced dead,” the Times report continued. “Arzola was dropped off at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles hospital a short time later. She was in a coma and in very critical condition. She died Nov. 24 having never regained consciousness, according to investigators.”
Approximately 12 hours before they were dropped at the West side hospitals, the two women were last seen at a warehouse party on the east side of Los Angeles.
The LAPD now alleges that between those locations both women were partying at a home on Olympic Blvd. near Beverly Hills, where police believe they overdosed.
Text messages between the women indicate they were trying to leave Pearce’s house and may have called an Uber.
The LAPD said that based on their investigation, the are concerned that “there could be other victims in our community who could have been drugged by one or more of these men.”
Pearce was being held on $1 million bail. Ansbach and Osborn’s bail was set to $100,000.
A Party Promoter With Ties to the World of Adult
A source confirmed to XBIZ today that David Pearce (aka Dave Bryant) booked adult entertainers to host parties and/or feature dance, and he worked at or with several notable nightclubs.
Pearce is listed as the CEO of All Access Entertainment, an El Segundo event organizing company. A Facebook page — last updated in 2016 — for the company reads as follows: “We produce some of the biggest events, Get Access into all the hottest Night Clubs and Day clubs Events in Las Vegas with VIP/Express entry.”
News reports and photo agency shots list him as a “producer” of events at major clubs in Vegas and other markets.
Pearce was often photographed at nightlife events he organized, like his 2008 birthday party and premiere of the show “Pimp My Wheelchair.” He was photographed with Ron Jeremy and other Los Angeles nightlife regulars at the 2009 premiere of Jeremy’s mainstream film “One Eyed Monster.”
The Long Shadow of the Violet Rain Case
The case presented by the police against Pearce and his associates — with women OD’ing at a second private location after being picked up at a public party, and their bodies being dropped at local hospitals — has striking parallels with the March 2019 death of 19-year-old adult performer Violet Rain.
Rain remained in a coma for 10 days before passing. The investigation into Rain’s overdose was conducted by Detective David Meza, from the Hollenbeck Community Police Station. XBIZ spoke with Meza while Rain was unconscious between March 4 and March 14, and the detective informed us of her passing via text message.
A reliable source close to the investigation told XBIZ that accounts had placed the young performer at the Hollywood celebrity nightclub Nightingale Plaza until closing time, and after that at a private party at a home in the Pasadena Hills.
That case remains unsolved and the last communication from authorities was an autopsy report that only surfaced in Sept. 2019, after they told XBIZ in late May that the release of the results had been inexplicably “deferred.”
When it quietly surfaced, the coroner’s report established the cause of death as Cause A, “Anoxic encephalopathy” and a related Cause B, “Combined effects of cocaine, ethanol and other undetermined factors.”
Rain’s manner of death was described as “undetermined” by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office.
Main Image: 2016 photo of David Pearce (Source: All Access Entertainment/Facebook)