Reported by nbc News, On Sept. 8 some employees at a tow lot reported a strange smell coming from a car which was identified as a Tesla with Texas license plates linked to David Anthony Burke who is a well known artist that performs as D4vd. When police investigated the car they found a body in a state of decomposition and dismembered in a bag.
The body has been identified as missing 15 year old Celeste Rivas. The coroner has not yet identified the cause of death but is considered a homicide. A source said the singer is cooperating.The police are examining her connection to the artist and on Wednesday night the police had searched a home in the Hollywood hills that D4vd stayed at collecting a computer and had multiple evidence bags. The house was being rented by D4vd’s manager. Celeste had been missing since April of last year. The initial report was she was 5-foot-1 with wavy black hair and had on a tube top, black leggings, a yellow metal bracelet and metal stud earrings, the coroner also said she had a tattoo on her right index finger that said “shhh…” it is noted the singer has a matching tattoo with the victim.
The car was first reported abandoned in the Hollywood hills after neighbors reported it had been sitting in front of the house D4vd was staying at and two other places on the street but hadn’t moved in over a month. “It’s a little weird to see a car that I haven’t seen here for a long time. It had a big dent on it, had a Texas plate on it. So, all a little odd, but at the same time, you know, people could be hanging out with friends for a long time,” said a neighbor. The community in Lake Elsinore held a vigil on Sept. 21, to honor the 15 year old Celeste Rivas.
D4vd has cancelled the rest of his U.S. tour and Universal Music Group the owners of his record label Interscope, and Sony Music Publishing has halted all music promotion of his music including the deluxe to his debut album that was meant to be released on Sept 19,. A lot of photos and clips of D4vd and Celeste are going around on the internet including messages in D4vd’s discord server and a leaked song he made about Celeste. There’s speculation that multiple people had access to the Tesla at the time.
Multiple collaborators have unfollowed him on socials including singer Kali Uchis who stated in the comments of a post she made that a song they made together is being taken off streaming platforms, writing “not my friend I did a song with him which is currently in the process of being taken down.”
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/d4vd-tesla-body-hollywood-hills-house-search/3780208/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-18/teenage-girl-missing-found-dead-singers-tesla
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/kali-uchis-d4vd-collab-crashing-taken-down-1236069800/
