D4VD: The Murder Case Of Celeste Rivas Hernandez

D4vd Celeste Rivas Hernandez lawsuit — the family's civil case expands the focus from David Anthony Burke to the adults, companies, money, and logistics around him. The complaint asserts 12 causes of action and names Burke along with his mother Colleen Burke, management figures, live-in security guard Sheldon Jacques, and business entities tied to his career. 

The family's allegation is broader than simple proximity. The complaint says people in Burke's orbit knew or should have known Celeste was a minor and failed to protect her. It accuses Jacques of helping remove Celeste from her family home and transport her to Burke's Hollywood Hills residence, where he lived during part of the period described in the suit. 

The money trail creates a second line of civil scrutiny. The complaint alleges Colleen Burke managed significant parts of her son's finances and approved business expenses. Burke's former financial manager testified during the criminal preliminary hearing that the singer generated about $10 million to $11.5 million in gross earnings from 2023 through 2025. Records reported after Celeste's remains were discovered showed two Texas homes transferred into his mother's name. 

Burke has pleaded not guilty in the criminal prosecution. He was ordered to stand trial after a five-day preliminary hearing in July and remains held without bail. His private legal team later withdrew, he qualified for public-defender representation, and an October 19, 2026 status conference is scheduled. 

Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to connect the two legal tracks. The criminal case asks whether prosecutors can prove the charges against Burke beyond a reasonable doubt. The civil suit can probe a wider circle through records, depositions, and financial discovery, potentially answering a different question: what did the people around him know, and what did they allegedly do with that knowledge? 

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The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez against D4vd goes far beyond the artist himself. The complaint names his personal manager, his day-to-day manager who lived at the same residence, his mother Colleen Burke, his recording company, and his publishing company. Each is accused of playing a role in what the family alleges was a system of concealment.

The lawsuit describes a bodyguard who allegedly drove Celeste back and forth to Burke's Hollywood Hills home. It describes a concealed phone Burke allegedly provided to maintain contact without her parents' knowledge. It describes company funds allegedly used for the house and the security that kept the arrangement hidden.

David Anthony Burke faces criminal charges of first-degree murder, ongoing illegal conduct with a person under 14, and mutilation of remains. Prosecutors allege the relationship began in November 2023 when Celeste was 13. Her remains were found in the trunk of Burke's Tesla at a Hollywood impound lot in September 2025. She was 14.

Burke's former legal team, including celebrity attorney Blair Berk, withdrew from the criminal case before his arraignment. He is now represented by a public defender. He has pleaded not guilty.

The lawsuit does not specify a damages amount, asking instead for the figure to be determined at trial. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke examines the psychology of enablement, what it means when an entire support system allegedly participates in concealment, and how fame creates the conditions for an inner circle to rationalize silence.

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Human trafficking. False imprisonment. Aiding and abetting. The wrongful death lawsuit names ten defendants — the allegations against the people around d4vd match the charges against Burke himself.

Filed the day after Celeste Rivas Hernandez's sixteenth birthday. The complaint names Colleen Burke, Josh Marshall, Sheldon Jacques, and their companies.

Jacques — Burke's live-in security guard — faces the sharpest claims. The lawsuit says he helped remove Celeste from her family and arranged Burke's continued access to her.

Celeste was reported missing three times. Deputies went to Burke's door on a welfare check. He told them he'd met her once at the beach.

Colleen Burke allegedly managed her son's finances. Josh Marshall booked international tours. Prosecutors say Celeste traveled with Burke to Las Vegas, London, and Texas.

He pleaded not guilty August 31 — despite testimony he earned ten to eleven and a half million dollars between 2023 and 2025.

Next court date: October 19.

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D4vd and JP Miller — a musician and a pastor. The connection between them is not obvious until you hear it from a former FBI agent.

David Anthony Burke faces murder charges with special circumstances and is held without bail. His former financial manager testified to earnings exceeding ten million dollars. Weeks after fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were discovered, Burke transferred two Texas homes to his mother. The family filed a twelve-count wrongful death lawsuit on September 8, 2026, naming Burke, his mother, manager, and security guard.

JP Miller faces federal trial in October 2026 for cyberstalking Mica Miller. Before the marriage, he led her youth ministry, officiated her first wedding, and employed her.

Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer identifies the through line: positions of trust allegedly weaponized for access.

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Celeste Rivas Hernandez wrongful death lawsuit — on the week Celeste would have turned sixteen, her family filed a lawsuit reaching beyond the man charged.

Filed September 8, 2026, twelve causes of action. Nine target David Anthony Burke. Three target the adults around him: his mother Colleen Burke, manager Josh Marshall, security guard Sheldon Jacques, and business entities. The family alleges Burke used his wealth to gain access to Celeste and that surrounding adults knew and did nothing.

Burke's former financial manager testified to earnings exceeding ten million dollars. In October 2025, weeks after Celeste's remains were discovered, he transferred two Texas homes to his mother to shield assets. Burke fired his attorneys and uses a public defender. He is held without bail.

Former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines what this lawsuit could mean for the criminal case.

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D4vd made over ten million dollars between 2022 and 2025 according to testimony at his preliminary hearing. On August 31, a Los Angeles court determined he's indigent. His celebrity defense team — led by Blair Berk, the attorney who's represented Harvey Weinstein, Mel Gibson, and Britney Spears — withdrew, and the LA County Public Defender's Office stepped in. Benjamin Greger, Burke's former finance director, testified that nearly all financial decisions were handled by Burke's mother Colleen. After Celeste Rivas Hernandez's remains were found in Burke's Tesla, Greger testified he told Colleen to transfer property titles out of Burke's name. He testified they tried to assemble two million for bail and that the management team switched to encrypted apps. Interscope terminated his contract in December 2025 — zero income since. Burke was paying twenty thousand a month for a rental. His mother, his management, his lawyers, and the IRS all took their share before Burke touched a dollar. Now the public defenders are the ones standing between Burke and a possible death sentence. DA Nathan Hochman says he's "ready to prove all three charges beyond a reasonable doubt." This episode follows the money and asks whether the system can handle what's coming.

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An executive from Interscope Records testified under oath that d4vd's recording contract was worth up to nineteen million dollars. His financial manager put his total earnings above ten million. Prosecutors allege that Celeste Rivas Hernandez — fourteen years old — was threatening to expose their relationship and that the money is the motive for her death.

The five-day hearing produced the full evidence picture for the first time: chainsaws bought under an alias, an inflatable pool with cuts matching the victim's clothing, eleven air fresheners in a Tesla where remains sat for months, bodycam from February 2024 where a deputy said she was thirteen, Uber records placing her at his door the night she vanished, texts about pregnancy and abortion when she was thirteen, and a notarized consent form from her parents allowing international travel with him.

Tony takes on the ten questions this audience will not stop asking. The money. The bodycam. The parents. The platforms. The missing chainsaw. The Uber records. The defense strategy. Everything the hearing revealed and everything it left unanswered.

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Everything connected to the d4vd murder case is moving fast, and this covers exactly where it stands. David Anthony Burke, known to millions as d4vd, has been held to answer on first-degree murder with special circumstances in the death of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, plus charges tied to illegal conduct with Celeste and unlawful mutilation of her remains. 
The hearing has surfaced two very different stories. LAPD Detective Corey Farell testified that both families knew about the relationship — a notarized consent form, a Las Vegas trip with Celeste's sister, VIP concert seats, even church together. Celeste's father has since told reporters he never had any contact with Burke at all, a claim that doesn't match what's now on the record. 
Then came the defense. Attorney Blair Berk pressed the medical examiner on whether Celeste's wounds could have happened after she was already dead, and had a detective read messages where Celeste referenced harming herself, an early look at how Burke's team plans to fight this at trial. 
The physical evidence sits in the middle of it all. Prosecutors have mapped a twenty-one-minute window between Celeste's Uber arrival and her phone going permanently silent. Three chainsaws recovered from Burke's home tested negative for blood and were never collected by LAPD. His Interscope deal was reportedly worth up to nineteen million dollars. 
Burke faces the death penalty and has pleaded not guilty to everything. Arraignment is set for August 31st. For anyone following this case closely, the next hearing is where the real fight over evidence begins. 
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What d4vd allegedly removed from Celeste Rivas Hernandez's hand is a detail sitting in a prosecution court brief that most people following this case still haven't seen. Two of her fingers, prosecutors wrote, were removed because of what was inked on them. That's where this breakdown starts. 
Work backward from there. At 12:04 in the morning, from an empty road off Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County, a call went out from David Burke's phone to Celeste's number, hours after prosecutors say she was already dead. An LAPD criminalist testified about Bluestar reactions on rubber mats in Burke's garage, the bricks underneath, a rowing machine, a tarp, a cord, and a bag of wipes, all presumptive positive. Defense attorney Blair Berk got her to admit she can't call it definitively blood, and pointed to two chainsaws never swabbed for touch DNA. 
Then the hearing's final session. A medical examiner testified Celeste died from two sharp-force wounds and had been dead for weeks before she was found. A detective walked the court through her phone, messages tracing back to when she was eleven, close to fifty images labeled illegal material involving a minor, and texts from January 2024 indicating she was thirteen and pregnant. 
Her mother cried in the gallery. Her father looked at the floor. Burke has pleaded not guilty to every count. A judge now decides whether this case reaches a jury, and we go through what the record actually shows. None of it is settled. A judge still has to decide if a jury ever hears it. 
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Before the arrest, before the garage, before any of it, d4vd filmed a music video of his character dragging a body and loading it into a car. That video exists on the internet right now, and prosecutors allege he later did the real version to a fourteen-year-old girl. 
David Burke's rise started small and fast. A homeschooled kid recording on an iPhone in his sister's closet, building an audience inside Fortnite lobbies, a record deal and a billion streams four years later. Prosecutors say he met Celeste Rivas Hernandez online through gaming, both of them still teenagers, and the connection never drew the attention it should have from anyone around them. 
At seventeen, newly signed to Darkroom and Interscope, Burke built an alter ego named Itami, the Japanese word for pain, describing him as an agent of chaos who wears a blindfold, a concept from a manga about a detective whose double commits the murders he then investigates. He compared it to Tyler Durden. The character held a bloody knife in one video and took a woman's arm in another. 
Then came the forensic testimony. A trace analyst matched cuts on a garage pool to fragments recovered on Celeste's leggings. DNA from the Tesla and the home matched her. A criminalist described blood scrubbed from the garage near shelves stocked with fake blood. Cell tower records tracked the Tesla to Santa Barbara County three times in the weeks after Celeste allegedly died. 
She was fourteen when she went to Burke's Hollywood Hills home on April 23, 2025. Her remains were found in his Tesla months later. Burke has pleaded not guilty. We go through the persona he built, the machine around him, and the physical evidence now in front of a judge. 
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