ALERT: Child pornography content found in the smartphone of singer D4vd, accused of murdering a teenager
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Damning new revelations for D4vd. On Thursday, the Los Angeles prosecutor’s office indicated that it had found “a significant quantity of child pornography content” on the smartphone of the singer, suspected of having murdered a teenage girl. The 21-year-old artist, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, faces life imprisonment, or even the death penalty, for the macabre murder of Celeste Rivas, a young girl with whom he allegedly had “obscene and lascivious” sexual relations according to the accusation. Arrested last week after seven months of investigation, he pleaded not guilty and appeared Thursday in a Los Angeles court, in an orange detainee outfit. During this preliminary hearing, prosecutor Beth Silverman explained that the singer’s iPhone was one of the pieces of evidence in this case. This iPhone “contains a significant amount of child pornography”, she declared. The magistrate did not specify whether this content concerned only photos or videos of Celeste, or whether it concerned images of other children. No comment from her lawyers At the end of the hearing, D4vd’s lawyers refused to make any comments. The body of Celeste Rivas was discovered putrefied and in pieces on September 8. Originally from Lake Elsinore, southeast of Los Angeles, the teenager had been reported missing in 2024, when she was 13 years old. According to the prosecution, D4vd would have killed the young girl in the spring of 2025, because she threatened to reveal their sexual relations, which risked ruining his musical career. He would then have cut her body into pieces, before placing it in bags which would have rotted for four months in the trunk of his Tesla parked in the Hollywood Hills. This macabre murder aroused a lot of interest in the United States, particularly because D4vd’s work seemed to echo it. The R&B singer rose to fame in 2022 when his track “Romantic Homicide” became a huge hit on TikTok.
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