D4vd has not been on the rosters of Sony Music Publishing or The·Team (formerly Wasserman) for some time, Billboard has learned, following the singer’s arrest on suspicion of murdering Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenage girl whose dismembered body was found in his car last fall.
The “Romantic Homicide” singer-songwriter, who was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday (April 16), was previously represented by Sony for publishing and The·Team for touring. It’s not clear when exactly he was dropped from the two rosters. Reps for his labels, Interscope and Darkroom Records, did not immediately return inquiries as to whether D4vd is still signed, though he’s been scrubbed from both companies’ websites.
D4vd’s name has been connected to Rivas since September, when Los Angeles police discovered her partial, decomposed remains in the front trunk of an impounded Tesla registered to the singer. Rivas had gone missing from her home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., at the age of 13 in April 2024. It’s unclear how old she was at the time of her death.
D4vd has not yet been officially charged with any crime. He is currently being held without bail at a Los Angeles jail on suspicion of murder, and police say the case will be presented to the District Attorney’s Office for possible charges on Monday (April 20).
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Three attorneys representing D4vd — Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter — said in a statement Thursday: “Let us be clear — the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death. There has been no indictment returned by any grand jury in this case and no criminal complaint filed. David has only been detained under suspicion. We will vigorously defend David’s innocence.”
D4vd’s career took off in 2022 after his first single, “Romantic Homicide,” went viral on TikTok and eventually hit No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. After releasing two EPs and opening for SZA’s blockbuster SOS tour in 2023, D4vd dropped his debut album, Withered, last April. The album debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200, and he embarked on a headlining tour in August.
But the tour was cut short, and a deluxe version of Withered shelved, after Rivas’ remains were found in D4vd’s Tesla in September. After police responded to reports of a “foul odor” coming from the car in a Hollywood tow lot, they discovered two black bags containing severed, decomposed body parts that were later identified as Rivas — including a head, torso and limbs.
A grand jury in Los Angeles spent many months reviewing the case. D4vd was confirmed as a suspect in the investigation in February, when the singer’s family members filed public court petitions seeking to avoid testifying before a grand jury.
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