LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A Hollywood producer who was convicted of first-degree murder for the drug overdose deaths of a model and her friend , along with charges that he sexually assaulted seven other women, was sentenced Wednesday to 146 years to life in prison.

Jurors deliberated about 2 1/2 days before finding David Brian Pearce, now 43, guilty Feb. 4 of the two murder charges stemming from the deaths of 24-year-old model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her 26-year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, who were taken to separate Southland hospitals about two hours apart on Nov. 13, 2021.

Giles was already dead when she was taken to Southern California Hospital in Culver City, while Cabrales-Arzola, an architect, was alive outside Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospita

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