“Vicious Murder”
Prosecutors say surveillance video, text messages, Tesla data, photographs, Amazon deliveries, and DNA evidence link singer to the murder of 14-year-old girl
Platinum-selling singer D4vd allegedly stabbed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas to death in his Hollywood Hills home on April 23, 2025, then later dismembered her body with a chainsaw in a blue inflatable kiddie pool in his garage before stowing her remains in his Tesla and lying to friends who noticed “the strong smell of decay.”
That’s the damning narrative Los Angeles prosecutors laid out over nine pages of a preliminary hearing brief filed today and released to the public over the objection of D4vd’s defense team. Prosecutors claim surveillance video shows the singer driving his Tesla on July 29, 2025, before he parked it around the corner from his rental house and left on a concert tour. The Tesla was later towed and impounded, with investigators finding Rivas’ dismembered and badly decomposed remains in the front truck on Sept. 8, 2025.
“For several weeks, or possibly months, defendants left the victim’s body to decompose inside his Tesla. He lied to friends, business associates, and others who noticed the strong smell of decay in and around his home and vehicle,” the blockbuster brief, obtained by Rolling Stone, claims.
