{"id":714342,"date":"2026-07-27T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:44:08","slug":"us-singer-d4vd-to-go-on-trial-for-murder-in-death-of-celeste-rivas-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714342\/","title":{"rendered":"US singer D4vd to go on trial for murder in death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burke&#8217;s arraignment is scheduled for 31 August. The trial is to start within 90 days of that date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutors have alleged Burke stabbed the teen before dismembering her body after years of alleged sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They allege he killed her because the teen had threatened to reveal his relationship with a minor and destroy his multi-million dollar music career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evidence read in court on Monday showed threats Celeste made to Burke on 22 April 2025, stemming from arguments about his friendship with another girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I swear to GOD I will kill u&#8221;, one expletive-laden text said, followed by a threat to strangle him and tell her dad lies about him. &#8220;i will end ur career and ur life I will damage anything&#8221;, one text said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The following day, Hernandez went to Burke&#8217;s Hollywood home in an Uber he had sent to pick her up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutors alleged that Burke stabbed her once she arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burke&#8217;s arraignment is scheduled for 31 August. The trial is to start within 90 days of that date.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}