Artist D4vd is being investigated for murder, according to newly unsealed court documents that reveal the body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas was found badly dismembered in a Tesla belonging to the singer.
A grand jury has launched a probe into the 20-year-old star — whose legal name is David Anthony Burke — “wherein [Burke] may be involved in having committed … one count of murder,” according to documents first obtained by The Post.
D4vd is being investigated for the murder of Celeste Rivas, whose body was discovered in his abandoned car last September in Hollywood. Getty Images
The body found in a Tesla car belonging to music star D4vd had been identified as Celeste Rivas, pictured. Handout
LAPD discovered the decomposing remains of Celeste Rivas in the front trunk of D4vd’s abandoned Tesla after workers at a Hollywood tow yard reported a foul stench coming from the car. KTLAThe documents, unsealed via motion by a Texas court, reveal horrifying new details of how police officers discovered Rivas’ heavily decomposed remains in two different cadaver bags in the trunk of D4vd’s Tesla, which had been abandoned and brought to a Hollywood Hills tow lot in September.
Cops found Rivas’ head and torso in one bag and several body parts in a second bag with insects swarming over the remains, the horrifying documents reveal.
Workers at the impound lot had called the police due to a foul odor emanating from the car, which had been there for several days.
The car had been left for weeks just around the corner from the Hollywood Hills home where the artist was living.
D4vd hasn’t been formally charged for any crimes.
A black granite gravestone for Celeste Abigail Rivas Hernandez, born 2010, died 2025, engraved with religious imagery and text, lying on green grass. David Thompson
D4vd performing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS via Getty ImagesDownload The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters
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Rivas was discovered on September 8th, the day after she would have turned 15.
She ran away from her home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., and was reported missing in 2024; authorities have confirmed the singer had a relationship with the teen.
The documents also reveal that D4vd’s father Dawud Burke had been called in to testify earlier this month.
D4vd’s pal, streamer Neo Langston, 23, was also subpoenaed and arrested last month for failing to appear, court documents obtained by KTVH revealed that he was booked for dodging a mandated appearance as a witness in a homicide probe in Los Angeles.
