The head of D4vd’s record label and touring company allegedly admitted Monday that he “didn’t call police” after Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s decomposing body was found in the trunk of the musician’s car because he “just wanted to continue with the tour.”
A handful of people gathered in the hallway where a Los Angeles grand jury listened to Mogul Vision general manager Robert Morgenroth give lengthy testimony on Monday allegedly overheard him relay to his lawyer that Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman “was very pushy on why (he) didn’t call police.”
“I said I feel like I didn’t have the responsibility to do that, and just wanted to continue with the tour,” Morgenroth, also the president of Zara Brothers Travel, reportedly told his attorney, according to TMZ.
The dismembered remains of Rivas Hernandez, 15, were discovered in the trunk of 20-year-old D4vd’s impounded Tesla in L.A. on Sept. 8, just as the Queens-born singer — real name David Anthony Burke — was kicking off his world tour. By the end of the month, those dates had been canceled and he’d reportedly put the deeds to two Houston-area homes in his mother’s name.
The exact nature of the relationship between the “Romantic Homicide” crooner and Rivas, a runaway last seen by her family in early 2024, remains murky.
Rivas’ mother told TMZ that her daughter had a boyfriend named David, and the two reportedly sported matching “Shhh…” tattoos on their right index fingers.
News broke in mid-November that D4vd was considered a suspect in the case.
Days later, TMZ founder and lawyer Harvey Levin and criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos said on their “2 Angry Men” podcast that L.A. authorities had identified a second suspect. That person is not believed to have killed Rivas, but likely has knowledge of what happened before, during and after her death — and may have assisted in the dismemberment of her remains.
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