Alleged messages, pictures counsel D4vd and Celeste Rivas met as early as 2022 when she was 12

Celeste Rivas might have been as younger as 12 when she allegedly started speaking D4vd, the 21-year-old pop star charged for her homicide, prosecutors claimed Monday.

Web sleuths and former followers took a deep dive into attainable on-line interactions between the 2, with the primary alleged clue surfacing in 2022.

“Celeste in right here??” Dv4d allegedly wrote in a fan chatroom, in keeping with an alleged screenshot of the change.

“HI DAVID BARKKK” a person claiming to be Celeste replied.

That could be the primary trace of the alleged high-flying, clandestine romance that ended with the 14-year-old’s dismembered physique within the trunk of D4vd’s automobile final September.

The next 12 months, Dv4d — whose authorized identify is David Burke — reportedly created a track that leaked during which he croons a few woman named “Celeste.”

Rumors started to swirl amongst followers that D4vd was relationship a 13-year-old named Celeste, in keeping with screenshots of messages posted on fan chatrooms in 2024.

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The identical 12 months, followers on Discord mentioned rumors that he was certainly relationship a woman with that identify.

At residence, Celeste — who lived in Lake Elsinore,  two hours from LA — started speaking a few new boyfriend named “David” and got here residence with a tattoo matching the singer’s, her mother instructed TMZ final September.

Across the similar time, Celeste began working away: Her household reported her lacking 3 times in 2024, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Workplace instructed the Los Angeles Instances.

Even earlier than cops had ID’d Celeste’s physique, two totally different Reddit customers got here ahead with accounts of D4vd relationship a woman of their native center faculty. The Redditors equipped no additional proof, however one person recognized the sufferer as “C.”

“My sister who’s now in ninth grade instructed me that [D4vd] was relationship an eighth grader (let’s name her C) and he or she would go on journeys with him to LA,” wrote the person, who didn’t present his identify to The Submit however claimed to hail from Lake Elsinore.

An undated picture circulated on-line confirmed the artist standing in a car parking zone lower than a mile from Celeste’s home.

Officers have recognized not one of the above, nor every other particular proof aside from that her physique was present in D4vd’s automobile in a Hollywood tow yard.

However the mounting physique of alleged proof from followers and web sleuths has but to contradict the DA’s narrative: D4vd drew a younger woman her right into a sordid romance and killed her earlier than she might discuss.

Extra pictures and screenshots appear to depict their whirlwind tryst.

D4vd was seen with a woman resembling Celeste on a reside stream, at a video arcade, backstage at a live performance, and at a swanky get together.

A lacking individuals poster describes Celeste as carrying Whats up Kitty Sandals; a photograph allegedly posted by D4vd on social media reveals his ft subsequent to a different set of ft in Whats up Kitty-patterned Crocs.

The picture additionally reveals a lady’s hand holding a Whats up Kitty doll clipped to D4vd’s belt.

Later, D4vd posted a photograph with he similar doll, captioned: “when your card declines at remedy and so they usher in that good day kitty woman you met in 2021.”

In 2021, Celeste would have been 11 or 12 years previous, at most.