Hollywood Producer Sentenced to Life for Fentanyl Deaths of Two Women

In a Beverly Hills courtroom, a judge sentenced Hollywood producer David Brian Pearce to 146 years to life for the fentanyl deaths of two young women and a pattern of sexual violence spanning fourteen years — a reckoning that arrived more than three years after two friends left a party and never came home. The case is a sobering reminder that predation rarely announces itself, and that the lives of Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola were not the first endangered, only the last. Justice, when it finally arrives, cannot restore what was taken — but it can name what happened, and hol