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Michael Ansback said he snorted cocaine for hours with David Pearce but knew something was wrong with his last pump.

After spending a day shooting material for a documentary Pierce was reportedly making, the pair went to a Koreatown nightclub, then an East LA warehouse rave, where Ansbach said they met two young women — Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola.

Both women later died of drug overdoses, and Pierce is now on trial, charged with murder in their deaths, along with multiple rapes prosecutors say he committed between 2007 and 2021.

Ansback testified Friday that Pierce was liberally giving the women coke, and the group eventually drove back to Pierce's Olympic Boulevard apartment.

At some point, Ansback testified, Pierce gave him a vodka drink that tasted “bad” and made him “immediately faint.” Later, he said, according to Ansback, Pierce considered a block of Coke “good stuff.” He joined Giles and Arzola in trying the new supply, but in an instant, his nostrils flared and he said he was in severe pain.

Ansback said he asked Pierce what he snored. In response, Ansback said, Pierce started laughing and looked like “the devil had formed in front of me.”

Hours passed. Ansbach said he lost count of how many times he vomited. He noticed that neither woman was moving and Giles “didn't look alive.” Ansback says she begged Pierce to take the girls to the hospital, but was thrown away.

“'Dead women don't talk,'” Pierce said, according to Ansback's testimony Friday. “It's a phrase that echoes in my dreams and haunts me.”

Pearce pleaded not guilty while his defense argued there was no evidence he supplied the drugs that caused the women's deaths.

Originally arrested in connection with the murders of the two women — who were dumped outside hospitals that night in November 2021 — Ansbach became a key trial witness, the only survivor of the drug overdose that prosecutors say killed Giles and Arzola.

Pierce faces two counts of murder and seven counts of rape in the women's deaths. Prosecutors previously declined to pursue sexual assault charges against Pierce in 2014, but after the deaths of Giles and Arzola drew headlines, several women came forward with allegations dating back to 2005.

Lawyers said During opening arguments last week Pearce presents himself as a well-connected Hollywood star and lures women back to his apartment. In some cases, the women alleged that they felt sick or “paralyzed” after Pierce served them drinks.

Brandt Osborne, Pierce's roommate at the apartment where Giles and Arzola overdosed, is facing two counts of accessory after the fact after the women's deaths. Prosecutors said Osborne helped Pearce transport the dying women and destroy evidence in the home.

Ansback said he was running out of time because he was sick in the apartment, but urged Pierce to take the women to the hospital.

“I felt incredibly weak … it was like it was taking over me … it was like a calmness,” Ansbaugh said of her reaction to the drink Pierce offered her. A toxicology screen found gamma-hydroxybutyrate — the date-rape drug commonly referred to as GHB — in Gilles' system.

After checking Giles' pulse — Ansback said she couldn't feel any — she worried Pierce wasn't going to do anything to help the women.

Ansback said Pierce “really only cares about himself,” and noted his fear of jail time because of a past criminal record.

According to Ansbach, Pierce said, “I've had it before, and this is not going to happen to me.”

Court records show the women were taken to medical facilities and nearly 12 hours later were picked up in a car with no license plates, which Ansbach said was seen removing Pierce.

Pierce and Osborne have denied any wrongdoing, and their attorneys pointed out that Anspach's description of events inside the apartment changed significantly after his arrest in December 2021.

Prosecutors did not grant Ansbach immunity in exchange for his testimony. A few months after his arrest along with Pierce and Osborne, he issued a statement through a lawyer implicating the other men.

Ansbach was never charged, and it was not immediately clear whether the LAPD ever brought a case against him. The district attorney's office did not respond to inquiries about the case, including a request for public records that set out the reason why any charges may have been denied.

On cross-examination, Ansback admitted during his first interview with Los Angeles police that he never saw the women doing drugs and that he nowhere drew a portrait of Pierce the way he described it Friday.

Ansbach said he didn't have a lawyer at the time and was alarmed by what he described as a “SWAT team.”

“I was scared,” Ansbaugh said. “I've never been in that situation before, and I don't know what to do.”

“So you lied?” Vol asked.

“Yes,” Ansbach said at last.

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