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Officials Looked Into Celeste’s Parents, Found No Wrongdoing
According to law enforcement sources, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into allegations of child neglect and abuse involving Celeste’s parents roughly a year before the alleged killing tied to D4vd. The inquiry began on April 27, 2024. This was a few weeks after her parents reported her missing from her home in Lake Elsinore, California, on April 5, 2024. That was also the last time they reported her missing overall.
Authorities say an unidentified person “expressed concern about a [runaway] juvenile.” And, it prompted deputies to visit Celeste’s parents’ home and speak with those present. However, officials ultimately found no evidence of child neglect at the time, clearing the parents in the probe. Deputies also noted they were unable to interview Celeste herself, as she had not yet been located. Therefore, it left police unable to determine whether a crime had occurred. Meanwhile, in the months after April 2024, 13-year-old Celeste allegedly traveled with D4vd to Las Vegas, London and Texas and even met the singer’s family. The pair allegedly split in November 2024, when she was 14, and she eventually returned home to her parents.
Prosecutors Say D4vd Used Celeste’s Classmate To Rekindle Contact With Her
Separately, prosecutors revealed that Celeste’s parents had first reported her missing in February 2024. During that period, prosecutors allege deputies contacted D4vd after finding his number in Celeste’s phone records. Furthermore, the singer reportedly stated he had last spoken to her in mid-February. He also claimed that he was unaware she was a minor or that she had been reported missing. Cops reportedly told him she was 13.
Two days after deputies spoke to D4vd in February 2024, Celeste returned home and her parents took away her phone. According to prosecutors, the singer later paid one of Celeste’s junior high classmates $ 1,000 to give her a phone so she could keep in contact with him. That contact seemingly later led to her second flight from home in April 2024.
Prosecutors allege Celeste Rivas Hernandez and D4vd first met in 2022 when she was 11. Their contact later became sexual when she was 13 and he was 18. Though these claims remain part of the ongoing legal case.
Prosecutors Claim D4vd Killed Teen To Silence Her Threats
The entanglement intensified a year later. D4vd performed at Coachella on April 11, 2025, and went viral after a failed backflip attempt that left him faceplanting on stage. A week after that, on April 22, he and Celeste argued in text messages as she expressed jealousy over other women. She had allegedly threatened to expose their relationship, putting his debut album release and tour at risk.
D4vd then allegedly arranged for Celeste to travel from Lake Elsinore to his Hollywood Hills residence via ride share on April 23, 2025. She reportedly arrived at his home at 10:10 p.m. that night and prosecutors believe she was dead by 10:30 p.m. At that time, he had texted Celeste’s phone asking about her whereabouts. Additionally, at 11:30 p.m., he texted her phone again about her whereabouts before he drove to a remote part of Santa Barbara. Two days after the alleged murder, the singer released his album, ‘Withered.’
All of this comes to light after new details surfaced in a court filing outlining prosecutors’ claims in the murder case involving D4vd. In the document, prosecutors allege that the singer stabbed Celeste, resulting in her death. Then, he attempted to conceal what happened. Investigators noted that certain materials recovered during the investigation, such as a shovel, a plastic pool and a burn cage, were purchased by the singer under an alias in the days and weeks after Celeste’s death.
