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After a judge found the Hollywood producer guilty of the murder of two women and the rape and sexual abuse of seven others, David Pearce is currently serving the rest of his life behind bars.

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A disgraced Hollywood producer has been sentenced to almost 150 years behind bars after being found guilty of raping and killing two model. A judge ruled on Wednesday that David Pearce will die in jail after being told his sentence will run until 2171.

The notorious sentence comes after he was found guilty on November 13, 2021, for the overdose deaths of 24-year-old model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her 26-year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.

The disgraced star, 42, plied the women with fatal cocktail drugs at his Beverly Hills home after meeting at a warehouse party a few hours earlier. The pair were dumped and left for dead outside different Los Angeles hospitals by masked men.

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In February, Pearce was found guilty of the heinous crimes. Between 2007 and 2021, he also received a number of other sex abuse and rape convictions for seven other Jane Dos.

Judge Eleanor Hunter imposed a maximum sentence of 25 years to life for each murder in the 146-year sentence. Pearce’s rape victims received additional sentences, as well.

You’re the worst kind of criminal, Mr. Pearce, she claimed to be. You’re charming, smart, manipulative, and very goal-driven.

You fit the role, but I haven’t once witnessed any genuine apology. No empathy for Christie, Hilda, or anyone else.

After the ordeal, Cabrales-Arzola was able to recover from hospital care, but her brain was dead due to a lack of oxygen. Before going into a coma on November 24 and passing away, she remained there for almost two weeks.

Sadly, Giles had already passed away when she was taken to a hospital. Pearce allegedly told a friend that “dead girls can’t talk” during the trial. This, according to the prosecution, demonstrated Pearce’s desire for the victims’ deaths.

Pearce claimed that he didn’t personally witness “them take any drugs after they returned to his home and that he had not given the two women the drugs that killed them. His defense team also made an effort to make the suggestion that the drug may have been “unintentionally ingested” after being mistaken for cocaine.

Pearce also denied sexually assaulting the two women in the witness accounts. He also refuted the other seven sexual assault counts.

Fernanda Cabrales-Arzola, Cabrales-Arzola’s sister, had previously criticised Pearce for not having been sentenced before the crime. She claimed to the Daily Mail that she thought he ought to have been imprisoned “many years ago.”

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Pearce was accused of rape at least three times before the crime. It’s thought these were between 2007 and 2020.

The jury was unable to reach a decision on the charges against Pearce’s co-defendant Brandt Walter Osborn, 45, who was facing two counts of accessory after the fact. After jurors informed her that the case was deadlocked, Hunter ordered a mistrial.

David Pearce is facing the rest of his life behind bars after a judge convicted the Hollywood producer of the murder of two women and sex abuse and rape of seven others

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A disgraced Hollywood producer has been sentenced to almost 150 years behind bars after being found guilty of raping and killing two model. A judge ruled on Wednesday that David Pearce will die in jail after being told his sentence will run until 2171.

The huge sentence comes after he was convicted of the drug overdose deaths of 24-year-old model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her 26-year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola on November 13, 2021.

The disgraced star, 42, plied the women with fatal cocktail drugs at his Beverly Hills home after meeting at a warehouse party a few hours earlier. The pair were dumped and left for dead outside different Los Angeles hospitals by masked men.

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Pearce was found guilty of the horrific crimes in February. He was also sentenced for a series of other sex abuse and rapes on seven other Jane Does between 2007 and 2021.

In the 146-year sentence, Judge Eleanor Hunter ordered the maximum sentence of 25 years to life for each murder. Additional sentences were also handed out to Pearce for the rape victims.

She told the producer: “You’re the worst kind of criminal, Mr Pearce…You’re charming, you’re smart, you’re a manipulator, and you’re extremely goal-driven.

“You fit the role … Not once have I seen a genuine issuance of some sort of remorse. No sense of compassion for Hilda and Christie or anyone else.”

While Cabrales-Arzola was able to be revived in hospital after the ordeal, a lack of oxygen had left her brain dead. She remained in a coma for almost two weeks before dying on November 24.

Sadly, Giles was already dead when she was dropped off at hospital. It was claimed during the trial that Pearce had told a friend “dead girls can’t talk”. Prosecutors said this showed Pearce was wanting the victims to die.

Pearce denied giving the two women the drugs that killed them and said he “didn’t personally see” them take any drugs after they returned to his home. His defence team also tried to suggest that the drug may have been “accidentally ingested” after being mistaken for cocaine.

In testimony, Pearce also denied sexually assaulting the two women. He also denied the seven other counts of sexual assault.

Cabrales-Arzola’s sister, Fernanda Cabrales-Arzola had previously hit out at why Pearce wasn’t already jailed before the crime. She told the Daily Mail she felt he should have been behind bars ‘years ago.’

A report in the Los Angeles Times said the LAPD presented rape allegations against Pearce on at least three times prior to the crime. It’s thought these were between 2007 and 2020.

Pearce’s co-defendant Brandt Walter Osborn, 45, who faced two counts of accessory after the fact, saw the jury unable to reach a verdict on the charges against him. Hunter declared a mistrial after jurors told her they were deadlocked.

Busted star Matt Willis has candidly spoken about his time as King of the Jungle as he admitted it was all an attempt to promote his career as a solo singer that backfired

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Matt Willis has admitted he made ‘a bit of a mistake by signing up for I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! The singer, 42, competed in on Ant and Dec’s ITV1 reality survival series, which is just weeks away from returning to screens, in 2006, where he reached the final alongside fellow pop stars Myleene Klass and Jason Donovan before emerging victorious from the whole thing as King of the Jungle.

But nearly 20 years later, Matt, who has been married to former Big Brother host Emma Willis since 2008, has spoken candidly about how he felt after his time on the show. He recalled being encouraged to go on it in an attempt to raise his profile while trying to launch a solo career away from Busted, with whom he had enjoyed success with tracks like What I Go To School For and Year 3000 in the years prior.

He said: “I was thinking of a time when I lost my own narrative. And the one thing that springs to mind the most was leaving I’m A Celebrity. I was in a pretty bad place. The record company basically weren’t going to release my solo album… They said, ‘You’ve got to do something to raise your profile. Will you go on I’m A Celebrity? I went, ‘Yep, absolutely. Anything, please release my album!'”

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But the career move backfired in a sense, because once Matt returned from the jungle, he found that people were far more interested in his time on the reality show than the album he had hoped to promote.

Speaking on his On The Mend podcast, he added: “Once I came out of that show, I realised no one cared that I had a record out. Everywhere I went, they just wanted to talk about I’m A Celebrity. And it really bummed me out. Before I went on that show, I was only really famous to Busted fans. Then I came out and everyone knew who I was.

“When you’re in active addiction – which I was at the time – and you just want to hide, that’s the worst thing that can happen. Suddenly there were paps everywhere I went. I’d get in a cab and the driver would say, ‘Hello Matt’. It was such a weird experience. It was probably a bit of a mistake going on that show.”

Matt had released his solo album, titled Don’t Let It Go to Waste, while he was actually in the jungle in November 2006, and while his debut single Up All Night charted at number seven earlier that year, the album itself only made it to number 66. Following that, he carved out a career in theatre and starred in the musicals such as Footloose and Wicked before enjoying a short stint on EastEnders.

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More recently, he starred opposite former X Factor contestant Lucie Jones in a UK tour of Waitress. The musician has also returned to his roots and reunited with James Bourne and Charlie Simpson for various tours over the years, and they have staged concerts with fellow noughties boyband McFly as a supergroup known as McBusted.

He’s also known for fronting programmes like Netflix’s Love Is Blind and Change your Mind, Change Your Life with his wife. Amid his fame, Matt has been open and honest about his past struggles with addictions but felt that the notoriety that came with winning the jungle allowed others to access ‘areas of his life’ he would rather have kept private.

He added: I felt like I won the show but lost myself. I’d become known for being a celebrity rather than for my music. I was a sneaky little drug addict who didn’t want everyone poking their nose into his life. It was a really strange place to be. I had no privacy. People were looking into areas of my life I didn’t want them to.”

Busted star Matt Willis has candidly spoken about his time as King of the Jungle as he admitted it was all an attempt to promote his career as a solo singer that backfired

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Matt Willis has admitted he made ‘a bit of a mistake by signing up for I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! The singer, 42, competed in on Ant and Dec’s ITV1 reality survival series, which is just weeks away from returning to screens, in 2006, where he reached the final alongside fellow pop stars Myleene Klass and Jason Donovan before emerging victorious from the whole thing as King of the Jungle.

But nearly 20 years later, Matt, who has been married to former Big Brother host Emma Willis since 2008, has spoken candidly about how he felt after his time on the show. He recalled being encouraged to go on it in an attempt to raise his profile while trying to launch a solo career away from Busted, with whom he had enjoyed success with tracks like What I Go To School For and Year 3000 in the years prior.

He said: “I was thinking of a time when I lost my own narrative. And the one thing that springs to mind the most was leaving I’m A Celebrity. I was in a pretty bad place. The record company basically weren’t going to release my solo album… They said, ‘You’ve got to do something to raise your profile. Will you go on I’m A Celebrity? I went, ‘Yep, absolutely. Anything, please release my album!'”

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But the career move backfired in a sense, because once Matt returned from the jungle, he found that people were far more interested in his time on the reality show than the album he had hoped to promote.

Speaking on his On The Mend podcast, he added: “Once I came out of that show, I realised no one cared that I had a record out. Everywhere I went, they just wanted to talk about I’m A Celebrity. And it really bummed me out. Before I went on that show, I was only really famous to Busted fans. Then I came out and everyone knew who I was.

“When you’re in active addiction – which I was at the time – and you just want to hide, that’s the worst thing that can happen. Suddenly there were paps everywhere I went. I’d get in a cab and the driver would say, ‘Hello Matt’. It was such a weird experience. It was probably a bit of a mistake going on that show.”

Matt had released his solo album, titled Don’t Let It Go to Waste, while he was actually in the jungle in November 2006, and while his debut single Up All Night charted at number seven earlier that year, the album itself only made it to number 66. Following that, he carved out a career in theatre and starred in the musicals such as Footloose and Wicked before enjoying a short stint on EastEnders.

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More recently, he starred opposite former X Factor contestant Lucie Jones in a UK tour of Waitress. The musician has also returned to his roots and reunited with James Bourne and Charlie Simpson for various tours over the years, and they have staged concerts with fellow noughties boyband McFly as a supergroup known as McBusted.

He’s also known for fronting programmes like Netflix’s Love Is Blind and Change your Mind, Change Your Life with his wife. Amid his fame, Matt has been open and honest about his past struggles with addictions but felt that the notoriety that came with winning the jungle allowed others to access ‘areas of his life’ he would rather have kept private.

He added: I felt like I won the show but lost myself. I’d become known for being a celebrity rather than for my music. I was a sneaky little drug addict who didn’t want everyone poking their nose into his life. It was a really strange place to be. I had no privacy. People were looking into areas of my life I didn’t want them to.”

After the former Traitors star insisted the musician fathered her child, Charlotte Chilton and Conor Maynard engaged in a bitter paternity dispute.

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It was a battle that had appeared to be over, but Charlotte Chilton has once again revealed she is positive Conor Maynard is the father of her child. The former star of The Traitors is certain the musician fathered her daughter, despite DNA tests appearing to prove otherwise.

Ever since Charlotte’s pregnancy announcement and confessions that she believed Conor to be the dad, the duo have been embroiled in a bitter paternity battle. But how did the pair meet?

Conor, 32, is said to have met the 34-year-old reality TV contestant at a party for the BBC show. He had attended the shindig because his sister’s boyfriend, Harry Clark, had won the series.

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Conor and Charlotte are said to have had a one-night stand after meeting at the show’s wrap party. Charlotte insists that Conor gave birth to her child despite this.

However, subsequent DNA tests proved this was not to be the case. After the results, which were made clear in two separate tests, Conor made a snide swipe in Charlotte’s direction.

Conor said it was time to have his say after she claimed he was the father of her child. In a video shared last month, which appeared to promote a new single, as well as poking fun at the controversy.

Conor appears in it while holding a press conference with microphones displaying the words “Not My Sun,” “The Legal Guardian,” and “Traitor Times.” Then, a mock journalist steps up and asks: “Conor, do you still have to say no to women?” while another asks, “Roughly how much did you pay to change your DNA?”

He added the words “My turn on the mic,” along with “PREPARING “Cherry On Top” with the link in my bio.”

Charlotte continues to support her claims despite accusations and DNA tests that he isn’t the father. She wept as she discussed the “horrible” messages she’d received since Conor’s online posts about the results of their paternity test.

And Charlotte just so happens to say, “I have searched and looked everywhere for the answers because I know Conor Maynard is the only person who can be my daughter’s father.”

She continued, “I’ve talked to experts about what might have happened, which is that I could have had twins but had already lost one.”

Then, strange genetics emerge, allowing a twin to have taken a particular DNA to prevent her father from appearing on a paternity test. Chimerism refers to it.

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In her ongoing paternity drama with Conor Maynard, former Traitors star Charlotte Chilton has taken to social media to reveal one of the nasty comments she has received from a follower.

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Charlotte Chilton has revealed some of the trolling she has had to put up with on social media since insisting that Conor Maynard is the father of her child. The former Traitors star, 34, initially claimed that singer Conor was the father of her daughter after she was born in October 2024, but the Can’t Say No singer denied this and a DNA test confirmed he did not father the child in March.

Another was done in August, which gave the same result. However, in a recent interview, Charlotte has insisted that the results are wrong and that Conor is the father. Charlotte said: “I have researched and researched trying to find the answers because I know for a fact that the only person who can be my daughter’s father is Conor Maynard.

“I’ve talked to experts about the possibility that I could have had twins but had to lose one very early,” I’ve learned.

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“Then, strange genetics emerge, which could have caused a twin to have taken a particular DNA sample to ensure that her father is never identified on a paternity test. Chimerism refers to it.

She took a screenshot of one of the nasty messages her followers on social media received on Wednesday, posting it to Instagram. You are a truly horrific person, the message read. Nobody wants a better life than you do. I’m hoping it’s miserable. Charlotte merely wrote, “Lovely,” and then clintonized the sarcastic line with a hands-clapping emoji over the top of the screenshot.

During her initial chat with The Sun, Charlotte broke down in tears over the aftermath and said the way Conor acted was like a “kick”. She said he posted the results before she’d even seen them, and, as such, the “whole world knew” before she did.

The Sun conducted an interview that included the video. After the paternity results were made public, Charlotte claimed to have received “horrific” messages from online trolls. She continued, “Be kind to me, conor, but the hypocrisy hurt her,” she continued.

She continued, “He said be kind to me, but that felt like a kick because I thought, “You’ve done it this way not to me,” adding that it was difficult to see people applaud him for his words because she believed it was very different in the background.

Charlotte claimed that an “unidentified male was present” when Conor’s sample was taken five months after the paternity test returned negative. She continued to claim that the testing location had been changed in the last second. Despite this being a common practice to increase the test’s accuracy, she claimed that her own DNA was never taken.

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Charlotte was alleged to be requesting a court-ordered test in August to establish the child’s parentage. She was “blindsided” and “ready to fight” for him to take another paternity test, according to a source who spoke to The Sun.

The source added that Charlotte felt the previous test should be discounted because she felt it wasn’t done under the controlled conditions that they had agreed upon. The Mirror has contacted representatives for Conor and Charlotte for comment.

Earlier this month, Conor explained to us that the situation could have been dealt with in a private manner. While discussing his single Cherry On Top, which documents his views throughout the ordeal, he said: “I’ve pretty much always poured what I’m going through into my music, the good, the bad, and the ugly.”