The body found in the 2023 Tesla registered to D4vd (real name David Anthony Burke) on Sept. 8 has been identified as a 15-year-old girl named Celeste Rivas.
According to NBC News Los Angeles, Rivas’ decomposed body was identified through forensics. She was last seen in April 2024 in Riverside County, and had been reported missing. Her remains were discovered when police were alerted to a “foul odor” coming from the impounded Tesla’s trunk in the Hollywood Tow lot in Los Angeles.
Officials relayed to NBC News that her remains weren’t intact and she had been dead for an “extended period of time.” The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office described Rivas as having “wavy black hair,” and she weighed about 71 pounds with a “Shhh…” tattoo on her right index finger.
The 20-year-old singer has reportedly been “fully cooperating” with authorities throughout the investigation.
Billboard has reached out to reps for D4vd, the medical examiner’s office and LAPD for comment.
D4vd is currently trekking across North America on his Withered World Tour, and he’s slated to perform on Wednesday night (Sept. 17) in Seattle at the Showbox SoDo, but it’s unclear if the show will still take place.
The Houston singer had additional tour dates lined up in San Francisco and Los Angeles to wrap up the North American leg, before heading over to Europe in October, where he’s scheduled to hit Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, the U.K., France, Switzerland, Austria and Poland.
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