Hollywood producer sentenced to 146 years in fatal overdose case, report says

A Hollywood producer has been sentenced in connection with two overdose deaths, according to a recent report from ABC7 News.

David Brian Pearce, 43, was sentenced on Wednesday, Oct. 30 to 146 years to life in prison over the deaths of Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, according to the report.

Pearce, a Hollywood producer, had been convicted of all charges faced in this case, including two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the two women.

He was also convicted of rape and other sexual assaults against seven different women between 2007 and 2021, as stated in a release by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

A jury was previously unable to reach a decision, however, on Brandt Walter Osborn, 45, an actor and former Staten Islander who was charged as an accessory.

Back in 2021, Osborn was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact in the deaths of Giles and Cabrales-Arzola.

On Nov. 13, 2021, at approximately 3 a.m., Los Angeles prosecutors allege Osborn, Pearce, and Michael Ansbach met Giles and Cabrales-Arzola at a party in East Los Angeles. A couple of hours later, the two women accompanied the men back to Pearce’s Beverly Hills apartment.

There, prosecutors say Pearce provided Giles, Cabrales-Arzola and Ansbach with gamma-hydroxybutyrate, also known as GHB, and fentanyl, resulting in the fatal overdoses of both women.

Police said they believed the victims were given the drugs and overdosed in a residence on the 8600 block of Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office stated that within about 35 minutes of their arrival, Cabrales-Arzola called a ride-share service to leave the location, but neither woman left the scene until Pearce lifted Giles out of the apartment approximately 11 hours later. Cabrales-Arzola was carried out about an hour and a half after Giles, prosecutors said.

According to the LA District Attorney’s office, Pearce dropped each woman off at a different hospital.

Giles was deceased when she was dropped off; Cabrales-Arzola was resuscitated, but died 11 days later, just a day short of what would have been her 27th birthday, according to authorities.

While the women were being dropped off, prosecutors alleged that Osborn accompanied Pearce in a Toyota Prius without license plates to the hospitals, as detailed in a report by Eyewitness News.

Court case information shows that Osborn is out on $40,000 bail. A source previously told the Advance/SILive.com that Osborn had recently been working as a bartender on Staten Island.

A hung jury could not reach a decision on Osborn and Los Angeles prosecutors previously considered retrying the case.

Michael Artan, Osborn’s attorney, told the Advance/SILive.com in early July that it is still “unclear” whether there will be a retrial as discussions with the prosecution were ongoing. He declined to provide further comment on the matter.

According to his IMDb page, Osborn was born on Staten Island.

He attended Curtis High School where he performed with the “Curtis Players” in several productions.

As a teen, he worked as a print model for various illustrations.

Osborn later attended SUNY Albany and the College of Staten Island where he graduated with a communications degree, according to his IMDb page.

While in college, Osborn worked as an intern at K-ROCK radio on the “Howard Stern Show.”

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