A WOMAN who lived with Hollywood predator David Pearce has described him as a “nightmare housemate” who was raping women in the bedroom next to her.
Former producer Pearce, 43, was sentenced to 146 years to life in Los Angeles this week following a lengthy trial.
He was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2021 fentanyl overdose deaths of model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.
Giles and Cabrales-Arzola died after overdosing on the date rape drug GHB and fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Pearce failed to get them help, and they were later dumped at separate hospitals in Los Angeles.
Shamed Pearce was also found guilty of the string of sex offenses that occurred between 2007 and 2020 involving seven other women.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter imposed the maximum sentence, calling Pearce “the worst kind of criminal”.
Producer Rachel Ann Mullins, a former actress and model, was among the women who gave an emotional impact statement on Wednesday.
“He came in while I was using the bathroom and tried to kiss me.”
Following the sentencing, she gave an exclusive interview to The U.S. Sun and lifted the lid about her year living with Pearce in a shared house in Beverly Hills back in 2010.
She claimed he would have a constant rotation of women he brought home who ended up inebriated before spending the night and being ushered out the next day.
Mullins believed the women were being drugged and sexually assaulted and has worked with the authorities and several victims to help bring him to justice.
Rachel said, “It took two women losing their lives for his literal, lifelong crime spree to be put to an end.
“There was no way that one individual, any of us, was going to move the needle so much as a millimeter.
“It took this many of us, plus the media, to just wail on this case over and over again, and be like, ‘We’re not going away. You can’t flush this. There’s no wiggling free because there’s more of us, there’s more and more. We’ll just keep going down the line.”
Mullins, who was 20 when she first met Pearce, described him as a well-connected party friend who offered her a room after she was burgled and needed a place to stay.
She had her own bathroom and private entrance, and said another female friend was also living in the house.
Mullins described Pearce as the “nightmare housemate” who was often in trouble but never faced any real consequences for his actions.
She claimed he would “steal anything” from cans of tuna to their housemate’s handbag, and they didn’t know how to deal with him.
“Just a never-ending barrage of crime. He would get drunk and crash his Mercedes in Beverly Hills, just constantly,” she alleged.
One of the major red flags was when Mullins said he tried to force himself on her after a night out partying at the Playboy Mansion.
They went to a club, Avalon, with DJ Paul from 36 Mafia and Justin Bobby from The Hills, who were in Pearce’s orbit but have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
“He came in while I was using the bathroom and tried to kiss me, and I put him against the door,” she said.
‘POWERLESS TO HELP’
“I had really big stripper shoes on. We had just come from the Playboy Mansion, so I was effectively towering over him, and he didn’t try any more physical stuff with me after that.
“But he was always trying to manipulate or get his way. I don’t even know what his real goal was, other than feeling like he got one over on people.”
She was concerned he may be sexually assaulting girls in the house and told a friend who was a police officer, but was told it was unlikely the case would even make it to court.
Mullins, who is now turning 37, said many people told her at the time, “That’s how guys are, that’s how LA is, that’s how Hollywood functions.”
Describing the girls she would see at the house, she said, “They were way too drunk, way too high, absolutely incoherent on drugs, alcohol, or both.
“He would never listen to anybody about anything. Even to this day, he’ll never take a single ounce of responsibility. It’s always everyone else’s fault.”
As a younger woman, Mullins didn’t know how to handle the situation.
She said, “I’d be like, ‘This is getting out of hand,’ and even my own roommate would be like, ‘Well, you know, that’s how he is. This is it.’”
Mullins reached out to friends for help to try and find a new place to live and eventually managed to move out of the apartment and cut contact with Pearce.
She admits she wasn’t shocked when she heard news of his arrest following the deaths of Giles, a model, and her friend Cabrales-Arzola, who was an architect.
“I was in Florida, working on my house, and my phone blew up,” she said.
‘NO ACCOUNTABILITY’
“People being like, ‘Didn’t you live with this dude?’ And I was like, ‘Yep, whatever he’s being accused of, I guarantee you he did it, and worse.’ I already knew.
“I got in touch with the girls’ families, sort of through the Instagram grapevine, and then they put me in touch with the head of homicide and the head of sex crimes at LAPD.”
She said her initial interview with the police was three hours long, and she continued to keep in touch with everyone throughout the trial.
Mullins came face-to-face with him again in court and was glad to finally see justice served after years of fighting.
She said, “He wouldn’t look at anyone. We spent all morning doing these statements, and he was literally doodling [with] his little pen.
“He refused to read his statement. He made his attorney read it, even though the judge urged him to read his own statement.”
She described the statement as “more classic Dave lies,” as he took no accountability and spoke of wanting to go to Congress and demand better access to fentanyl testing kits, start a non-profit, and donate to the victims’ families.
“It was absolutely wild. Again, I wish I could say that I’m shocked. I’m not.”
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/15420417/hollywood-david-pearce-roommate-house-of-horrors/