The household of Celeste Rivas Hernandez is taking authorized motion in opposition to the singer D4vd.
A civil lawsuit in opposition to the singer, whose actual identify is David Anthony Burke, has been filed by the teenager’s household and accepted and stamped by Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom, ABC Information has confirmed.
The lawsuit alleges wrongful demise, deadly stabbing, sexual battery, childhood assault, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional misery and human trafficking, amongst many different claims.
D4vd seems at Selection’s Energy of Younger Hollywood in Los Angeles on Aug. 8, 2024.
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The lawsuit is in search of damages for the lack of Rivas Hernandez, her alleged abuse and the emotional misery her dad and mom say they suffered, together with punitive damages. The grievance doesn’t specify a greenback quantity, as an alternative asking for damages to be decided at trial.
The civil lawsuit in opposition to D4vd additionally names his members of the family and enterprise associates, together with the top of the music-management enterprise that represented the singer who additionally served as his private supervisor; the singer’s “day-to-day” supervisor who lived on the singer’s Hollywood Hills residence; and a live-in safety guard.
The singer’s mom, Colleen Burke, can be named within the go well with. The lawsuit says she served as her son’s private finance director.
An legal professional for Colleen Burke declined to touch upon the lawsuit.
D4vd’s principal recording and leisure firm and his music-publishing firm are additionally named within the go well with.
Makes an attempt by ABC Information to achieve the companies and different people named within the lawsuit weren’t profitable.
In September 2025, Rivas Hernandez’s badly decomposed, dismembered stays had been found within the trunk of a Tesla registered to D4vd at an impound lot in Hollywood. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner recognized the physique as belonging to Rivas Hernandez.
A makeshift memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose physique was discovered inside a automobile owned by singer D4vd, is displayed outdoors her residence in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on April 21, 2026.
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D4vd was arrested and charged in legal court docket in April for the homicide of Rivas-Hernandez, after a months-long investigation. He’s now being represented in court docket by a public defender.
Prosecutors allege that D4vd and Rivas Hernandez started a sexual relationship in 2023, when he was 18 and she or he was 13, and that he killed her after she threatened to show their unlawful relationship and smash his profession.
Simply as tickets for his world tour had been set to go on sale, it’s alleged that the “Romantic Murder” singer ordered an Uber that introduced Rivas Hernandez to his Hollywood Hills residence on April 23, 2025, prosecutors mentioned. That was the final time she was seen alive, in response to prosecutors.
Prosecutors allege that the singer killed Rivas Hernandez after which took a collection of “ghoulish” steps to dismember her physique.
The singer has pleaded not responsible to expenses that embody first-degree homicide, sexual abuse of a kid and illegal mutilation of human stays.
Rivas Hernandez’s household’s lawsuit comes days after what would have been her sixteenth birthday.
A vigil was held on Sept. 7 to recollect the late teenager.
