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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

D4vd BOLTS From Hollywood Hills Mansion & Spends Weekend Gaming on Roblox and Fortnite

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Singer D4vd has abruptly bolted from his Hollywood Hills mansion just days after LAPD spent 12 hours searching the home for “blood evidence.” Detectives seized multiple items, including a laptop, in their investigation into the shocking case of Celeste Rivas Hernandez – a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of D4vd’s Tesla earlier this month.

The discovery raised disturbing questions about D4vd’s connection to Celeste, who vanished from Lake Elsinore more than a year ago. While police have not filed charges, and the cause of death remains undetermined, the singer canceled the rest of his tour, broke his $20,000-a-month lease, and has stayed silent publicly.

Now, reports suggest he’s spending his time gaming on Roblox and Fortnite as the internet explodes with speculation, Reddit threads, and resurfaced videos that appear to show him with Celeste.

In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield unpacks the timeline, the police raid, and the singer’s silence — with exclusive insight from TMZ’s Charles Latibeaudiere, former prosecutor Matt Murphy, and criminal defense attorney Sara Azari.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead serious. I'm telling you, every day

0:12.8

something else happens. Another shoe drops. And if I were David, the up and coming-coming R&B singer, I'd be shaking in my boots right now,

0:26.4

and I'd be hiring a phalanx of lawyers. Things keep developing in this mystery, even though

0:35.0

we're not finding out anything official from the LAPD.

0:38.8

And hey, I get it.

0:43.5

Detectives from the robbery and homicide unit are supposed to stay quiet.

0:44.5

They are.

0:45.9

That's their job.

0:47.1

Shut up.

0:48.7

Investigate.

0:53.0

Give good stuff to the prosecutor to mount a case.

0:56.3

And don't screw up the prosecution, right? So I get it.

1:03.3

They don't talk. They shouldn't. But that doesn't mean that the internet and a worldwide phalanx of sleuths isn't working out a lot of details on their own. And maybe even maybe helping those

1:09.4

detectives find connections, right?

1:11.9

You got millions of eyes going over all sorts of Reddit posts, etc.

1:15.7

It can only help detectives with a couple of leads.

1:19.2

Maybe they're even calling in leads.

1:20.6

But let me tell you what happened today.

1:23.2

Because today was yet another sort of vomiting of developments in the whole David's story.

1:28.5

Like, we now know a lot more about where he is and where he isn't.

1:34.1

That's all coming in a second.

1:35.2

But when David spelled D4VD went on tour in early August, that dude could not have imagined that he would have so much time on his hands in September.

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