The lone survivor of the cocaine-fueled final hours of the lives of two models who died after taking drugs in a Hollywood producer's apartment has revealed what really happened that night.
Michael Ansbach, 50, recalled the moment David Brian Pearce, 40, handed him a vodka drink that tasted “terrible” and made him “instantly dizzy,” leaving him sick for hours at the producer's apartment in November 2021.
He also recalled the moment Pearce released the “good stuff” – which he thought was merely cocaine – which he, along with victims Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola, 26, took together.
Ansbach later recalled that he was terrified that something was wrong with the women, who lay like stones on the ground, and he feared that Pearce would do nothing to help them, especially after telling him, “Dead girls don't talk.'
Daily Mail exclusively revealed what Pearce said in December. Now the jury in his murder trial will hear Ansbach's testimony for the first time.
It all started at a nightclub in Koreatown, where the two men went after a long day of filming for a documentary Pearce was reportedly producing, he told the jury, according to The Los Angeles Times.
They eventually moved to a warehouse rave in East Los Angeles, where they met Giles and Arzola. Pearce generously handed out pops of coke before they all headed back to his apartment on Olympic Boulevard after hours of consuming the narcotic.
That's where things got weird, Ansbach recalled.
Michael Ansbach, 50, (pictured) recalled the moment David Brian Pearce handed him a vodka drink that tasted “terrible” and made him “instantly dizzy,” leaving him sick for hours at the producer's apartment in November 2021.
He also recalled the moment Pearce (pictured) released the “good stuff” – which he thought was just cocaine – which he, along with victims Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola, took together.
Ansbach recalled being terrified that something was wrong with the women (pictured), who lay like stones on the ground, and that Pearce would do nothing to help them, especially after telling his friend: “Dead girls don't talk
After taking the 'good' Coke, Ansbach immediately knew that something was wrong. His nostrils burned and he was overcome with pain, he told the jury.
“I felt incredibly weak… like it was taking over me… it was like a tranquilizer,” he told the court.
When he asked Pearce what he gave them, his friend just laughed and looked like “the devil personified right before my eyes,” Ansbach claimed.
Ansbach vomited for hours before noticing that Giles “didn't seem to be alive anymore” and that Arzola wasn't moving either.
He began to beg the producer for the women's help, but he remembered Pearce shrugging his shoulders.
“Dead girls don't talk,” Pearce, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, is said to have replied.
“It is a sentence that echoes in my nightmares and disturbs me,” Ansbach said in court. '[He was] really just worried about himself.'
Pearce was reportedly concerned about his prior criminal history and told Ansbach, “This can't happen to me.”
Hours after arriving at Pearce's apartment and taking drugs, Giles (pictured) and Arzola were dropped off at various hospitals in a car with no license plates. A toxicology report found the common date-rape drug, gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), in Giles' system
Giles would be pronounced shortly afterwards, while Arzola (pictured with Pearce) was in a coma for 15 days
Ansbach claimed he checked Giles' pulse and found nothing, but insisted Pearce continued to do nothing to help them.
The women were eventually dropped off at two different hospitals almost twelve hours later in a car without a license plate.
A toxicology report found the common date-rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) in Giles' system.
Giles was pronounced dead shortly after she was found. Arzola died 15 days later after being in a coma.
Pearce and his roommate Brandt Osborn are accused of dumping the women at hospitals after they overdosed.
Prosecutors alleged Osborn helped transport the women and destroyed evidence in the apartment.
Both men have denied wrongdoing. Their lawyers also pointed out that Ansbach's story changed from the time he was taken in for questioning to the time he sat before a jury.
In his first interview with police, he said he never saw Giles and Arzola use drugs and painted a different picture of Pearce.
He admitted that he lied to the police because he was “scared.”
“I've never been in that situation before and I had no idea what to do,” he told the court.
Pearce (pictured) has denied any wrongdoing. But Ansbach recalled that the producer laughed menacingly when he asked what he was giving them to snort and was “just worried about himself.”
Ansbach has not been charged with any crimes, despite admitting he lied to police in his first interview, claiming he had not seen the girls using drugs and painting a different picture of Pearce.
“So you lied?” asked attorney Jeff Voll.
“Yes,” he replied.
Ansbach has not been charged with any crimes.
Pearce also faces seven charges of sexual assault he allegedly committed between 2005 and 2021, according to The Los Angeles Times.
In 2014, prosecutors initially declined to file sex abuse charges against him, but after the deaths several women came forward with stories.
Some women claimed they became ill after Pearce served them a drink and later woke up to him sexually assaulting them, according to The Los Angeles Times.
