LA model whose body was dumped outside hospital after she was ‘spiked by Hollywood producer’ was buried with wedding dress she never got to wear, her parents reveal
- Dusty and Leslie Giles, parents of Christy Giles, 24, said they buried their daughter in the wedding gown she never got to wear
- They said Christy meant to wear the dress at a wedding ceremony for family and friends after she and her fiancé, Jan Cilliers, eloped in 2019
- Christy was found dead of a drug overdose outside a California hospital in November, 2021
- She was buried in Alabama where her parents live, the same state the wedding had been planned for
A model who died after overdosing on a cocktail of drugs allegedly given to her and her architect friend by a Hollywood producer was buried with the wedding dress she never got to wear, her devastated parents have revealed.
In an emotional interview with The New York Post, Dusty and Leslie Giles said they made the decision about a month after their daughter, Christy Giles, 24, was found dead outside a California hospital in November, 2021.
The parents said Christy was meant to wear the dress at a wedding ceremony for family and friends after she and her fiancé, Jan Cilliers, eloped at the 2019 Burning Man festival.
‘I asked Jan if I could please have it so we could bury her in her wedding dress,’ her mother Dusty said through tears, according to The Post, ‘It won’t be on her but I didn’t want anyone else to wear it. It’s hers and she unfortunately never got to have her wedding.’
She was buried in Alabama where her parents live, the same state the wedding had been planned for.
Christy Giles, 24, was found dead of a drug overdose outside a California hospital in November, 2021
Christy’s parents, Dusty and Leslie Giles, said they decided to bury their daughter with her unworn wedding gown
Christy’s parents also recounted how her body had begun to decompose by the time she was buried, and that her once perfect face had begun to collapse on one side.
Dusty said she asked the mortician to angle her daughter’s face so they could hold an open casket wake.
The sight was so devastating that her father Leslie opted not to view his daughter.
‘I couldn’t look at her… I didn’t see her at all,’ he said. Overcome with grief recounting the memory, he then had to leave the interview according to The Post.
‘He made a decision not to see her because it was too much,’ Dusty said of her husband, ‘She was a ‘daddy’s girl. This is all still too much. How are we coping? We are broken, we are trying to bear an unbearable burden.’
The wedding gown Christy never got to wear. She and her parents were planning a ceremony in Alabama, but she was buried there instead
A box containing Christy’s wedding gown and a number of other items, which was buried alongside Christy
Giles was found the sidewalk at Southern California Hospital in Culver City on November 13, 2021. She died a short time later from what was determined to be an overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs.
A few hours later, her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, was left at Kaiser West Los Angeles. She remained in a coma until she died on November 24 from organ failure and intoxication from cocaine, MDMA and possibly other drugs.
Their deaths were ruled as drug-induced homicides.
Surveillance video showed their bodies being dumped by three masked men driving a Toyota Prius with no license plates, and one month later Hollywood producer David Pearce, 39, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
Also arrested was his roommate, actor Brandt Osborn, 42. Both men now face homicide charges.
Pearce also faces unrelated rape and sexual assault charges from seven women, a number of whom allege they were drugged when they were with him.
In addition to the homicide charges related to Christy’s death he also faces two more felony counts for selling or offering to sell the women a controlled substance leading up to their drug-induced homicides. If convicted on all of the charges, Pearce could face up to 120 years in prison.
Giles (left) and Cabrales-Arzola (right) were found overdosed after being dumped outside two separate hospitals in LA on November 13
Pearce was pictured partying with Cabralez-Arzola hours before her death. The young architect was also snapped having a good time with Giles in haunting photos depicting the final hours before their tragic killings.
The Times reported that he and the women had met up at the warehouse party in LA that night, where Cabrales texted Giles around 4 a.m. asking whether she wanted cocaine, according to a search warrant affidavit by Det. Jonathan Vander Lee.
‘I’m in the kitchen,’ Cabrales responded to Giles, ‘Let’s do a line.’
Surveillance cameras at the warehouse captured Cabrales and Giles leaving the party with the three men: Pearce, Ansbach and Osborn in Osborn’s Hyundai. They were at Pearce’s apartment around 5 a.m.
About twenty minutes later, Giles texted her friend: ‘Let’s go,’ along with a wide-eyed emoji.
‘Yes,’ Cabrales responded. ‘I’ll call an Uber. 10 min away.’
Pearce also faces a slew of felony sexual assault charges for a series of unrelated cases – as the LA DA warned he may have other victims (pictured in 2018)
Pearce, 40 and Brandt Osborn, 42, (pictured) face homicide charges in the November 13 deaths of Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26
According to video footage, a car believed to be the Uber, arrived at the apartment and then was seen leaving after waiting for five minutes.
‘One glaring fact is that both Giles and Cabrales wanted to leave Pearce’s residence, as is evident by their texts and ordering an Uber,’ Vander Lee wrote. ‘The next time they are seen, they’re dead.’
Cameras later captured Pearce carrying Giles’ body to his Prius and driving to a hospital, where she was left on the sidewalk, Vander Lee wrote. The same thing was done with Cabrales.
Vander Lee recalled in his affidavit that detectives spoke to a ‘visibly nervous’ Osborn, who said he didn’t see Giles or Cabrales take any drugs.
‘I didn’t give them anything, OK, I don’t live like that,’ Osborn said. He said ‘they were making noises, but I figured give them a couple hours and they’ll come out of it, but it seemed like they were getting progressively worse.’
Osborn said he panicked because he’d never been in this situation before.
‘We didn’t know them,’ he added, saying he didn’t bring them to the same hospital because ‘we didn’t know how that would look.’
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