The Hollywood producer who fatally drugged two young women and raped several others was a fanatic for disgraced porn star Ron Jeremy and even called him his “dad” during an argument with his real father, newly released police evidence and interviews suggest.
David Pearce — convicted last month of two first-degree murders in the overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola and seven rapes — was reportedly a personal friend of the infamous X-rated actor and filled his apartment with signed memorabilia and “trophies for pornography,” a search warrant obtained by the LA Times revealed.
But his friendship with Jeremy — who faced dozens of sexual assault charges of his own before a judge deemed the 72-year-old unfit for trial due to “incurable neurocognitive decline” — at some point became a sick obsession, according to family members.
In a fight with his father, Pearce, 42, once shouted, “You’re not my Dad anymore. Ron Jeremy is my Dad!” his sister Allison Pearce told the outlet.
Police had investigated multiple rape allegations against Pearce in the years before he lured Giles, 24, and Arzola, 26, to his Los Angeles apartment, where he gave them fentanyl-laced cocaine and spiked cocktails, let them die when they overdosed, and then dumped their bodies on the curb outside two different hospitals in 2021, according to prosecutors.
Police brought at least three different rape cases against Pearce — who maintained an image as a Hollywood big shot despite middling success — to county prosecutors between 2007 and 2020, according to public records obtained by the Times.