David Pearce’s former roommate Rachel Ann Mullins sat in front of late model Christy Giles’ grieving relatives as the disgraced Hollywood producer’s sentencing was read on Oct. 29.
While there were sniffles and tears coming from the gallery, the actress looked over at the man with whom she once shared the same living space, but he appeared stoic and just nodded.
‘In his sick, twisted mind, he’s going to appeal, he’s going to get out. He’s going to overcome this somehow. In his sick, twisted mind, he still thinks he can beat this,’ Mullins exclusively told the Daily Mail Friday.
A Los Angeles judge ruled that the disgraced Hollywood producer would be sentenced to 146 years in prison for the first-degree murders of Giles, 24, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, who died in November 2021.
The women met Pearce at a warehouse party and were then taken to the producers’ Beverly Hills, California, home, where they ingested a deadly cocktail that included GHB and fentanyl. Pearce then dumped the bodies in separate hospitals – with the alleged help of his co-defendant, Brandt Osborn, whose own verdict as an accessory after the fact is still pending following a mistrial.
Mullins – who rented a room in Pearce’s party pad-turned-house of horrors more than a decade prior – told the Daily Mail she was not shocked to learn of her ex-roommate’s crimes – and even suspected he may have secretly committed others.
The model, now 37, said that the ‘methodical’ way in which the wannabe Hollywood hotshot seemingly knew exactly how to dispose of Giles and Cabrales-Arzola’s bodies raised suspicions for her.
‘The thing about sexual predators is that they have a process and once they get their process done, they just keep repeating it. I don’t think this is a first-time occurrence for him. I think he’s done it before and gotten away with it,’ she explained.
David Pearce’s former roommate Rachel Ann Mullins speaks out after Hollywood producer is sentenced to 146 years in prison
Mullins (left) lived with Pearce (second from right) for a year when she was 20 after meeting him when she was just 19 years old
‘He put a mask on. He took the plates off the Prius, dumped their bodies later … He had all of these other ass-covering tactics in place, and I think it’s because he’s done it before.’
Mullins confirmed she has no concrete evidence or leads that point to Pearce being behind any other murders, but said it ‘wouldn’t surprise’ her if those links eventually came out.
The ‘Happy Endings’ actress met Pearce when she was only 19 years old through a mutual friend.
She said the producer rubbed her the wrong way from the start, as he exhibited many manipulative tendencies.
However, Mullins said she found herself in a bind when, at age 20, about $7,000 to $8,000 had been robbed from her beach house while she was away in Tokyo for a modeling trip. Their mutual friend suggested she move in with Pearce, who had an extra room to spare in his three-bedroom duplex.
‘Had I not lived with him, I would not have really known the full extent of his monstrous ways,’ she added of Pearce, noting she often saw random women go in and out of her roommate’s bedroom.
Mullins recalled thinking these women seemed too intoxicated to be able to give consent to sexual intercourse.
‘You don’t really know somebody until you live with them,’ the actress added.
Disgraced Hollywood producer David Pearce (pictured in 2018) will be behind bars until 2171 after he raped and killed two models, a judge ruled on Wednesday
Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola (right) 26, and her model friend Christy Giles (left), 24, from Alabama, were plied with fatal cocktail drugs by Pearce on November 13, 2021 before being dumped at separate hospitals
He allegedly recruited his actor friend Brandt Osborn, 42, to help him dispose of the bodies
Mullins said Pearce would attract a lot of women in part due to his close proximity to celebrities such as the late Verne Troyer, Ryan Phillipe, reality star Justin Bobby of ‘The Hills’ and DJ Paul of Three Six Mafia.
There’s no suggestion any of those men knew what Pearce was up to.
She insisted, though, that the ‘strange cast of characters’ would only ‘pop in and out’ of their home and not be around for the alleged sexual assault that transpired after the parties, and she never witnessed any of them commit any crimes.
‘Everybody was so great – except [Pearce’s] dumbass,’ she said. ‘The only people that I’ve ever seen him be even decent to were famous people.’
Mullins said she was able to avoid being another one of Pearce’s victims because she led a clean lifestyle so she was ‘always the designated driver’ and quipped, ‘Apparently, that worked out well for me because you can’t drug your “DD” … in the days before Uber.’
However, there was one instance in which Mullins claimed Pearce tried to make a move on her.
‘David barged into the VIP bathroom of Avalon nightclub and tried to kiss me,’ she alleged.
‘I pinned him against the door and he never physically bothered me after that. Thank God I had big stripper shoes on because we had just come from the Playboy Mansion.’
The model said she wanted to report Pearce’s behavior to the authorities but a friend who worked in law enforcement discouraged her, saying ‘if the victim doesn’t want to talk [and] they’re so tight-lipped and scared,’ it would be difficult to get a charge.
Mullins said many of the alleged victims likely felt uncomfortable coming forward because ‘it’s not a supportive, helpful process’ and they often get victim-shamed.
The ‘League actress’ claimed Pearce’s bad rap sheet also included toxic fights with an on-again, off-again girlfriend. She claimed she witnessed the former couple often having loud spats, making her grow tired of the constant fighting.
‘In my personal opinion, I think he’s a sociopath,’ the model opined. ‘I think underneath it all, he knows that what he’s done was f***ed up – and that’s why I think he enjoyed it.’
Mullins was finally able to move out of Pearce’s home after a year, when a friend found her a new place.
Then, a decade later, her phone started to buzz with incoming messages when Pearce was arrested for Giles and Cabrales-Arzola’s deaths, with friends texting her, ‘Isn’t that the guy you used to live with?!’
The actress said she immediately thought ‘he did it’ given her history with him. She also claimed she had alerted law enforcement that Pearce was a ‘problem’ more than a year before he committed the murders.
Mullins exclusively told the Daily Mail that in August 2020, 15 months before Giles and Cabrales-Arzola died, she testified in front of a grand jury for Ron Jeremy’s sex crimes case – and mentioned Pearce’s name in court. She claimed at the indictment hearing that she was introduced to the controversial porn star by Pearce.
She clarified to the Daily Mail that while Pearce and Jeremy, 72, were acquaintances who hung out on occasion, the former was more of a fanatic of the X-rated flick star.
‘Cut to Dave getting arrested some time later, when I talked to the LAPD, I was like, “Go pull the transcripts from the Ron Jeremy case because I named [Pearce] on the record.”‘
Noting that ‘knowledge is power,’ Mullins said she decided to take all she knew about her former roommate to Giles’ family and investigators to help put Pearce in prison.
Aside from murder, the disgraced producer, 43, was also found guilty of various sex crimes against women, including three counts of forcible rape, two counts of sexual penetration by use of force and one count each of rape of an unconscious person and sodomy by use of force.
The Daily Mail has reached out to his attorney for comment but did not immediately hear back.
Mullins concluded, ‘I’ve learned a lot about regret and choices.
‘Just because you can’t achieve justice at the time of the crime or you can’t get traction on someone who is obviously living a life of harm and criminal conduct, doesn’t mean that they won’t get their comeuppance at some point – but you do have to stay on it.’
