D4vd's Tesla Held a Decomposing Body for Months

The 21-year-old singer behind the viral hit "Romantic Homicide" was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murdering a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his Tesla seven months ago.

D4vd's Tesla Held a Decomposing Body for Months

David Anthony Burke was touring the country with a casket greeting fans at his concerts when police were trying to figure out whose body was rotting in the trunk of his impounded Tesla. The 21-year-old artist known as D4vd is now being held without bail after LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division arrested him Thursday in Hollywood for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

The horrifying discovery came in September when a tow yard employee noticed a foul odor coming from Burke's Tesla, which had been impounded from a Hollywood Hills street. Inside the trunk: the decomposing, dismembered remains of Hernandez. Burke had been on his "Withered" tour at the time—a death-themed concert experience where fans walked past an actual casket to enter the venue. He canceled the remainder of the tour after the body was found.

Burke's "Romantic Homicide" became a TikTok sensation in 2022, racking up hundreds of millions of streams with lyrics like "I'm scared it'll happen again." His lawyers insist he's innocent, but the case heads to the L.A. County District Attorney's office Monday for formal charges.

Gobble's Take: We separate the art from the artist, but sometimes the art was telling us who the artist was all along.

NFL Reporter Fired for Calling Out Colleague's Alleged Affair

Crissy Froyd watched fellow NFL reporter Dianna Russini resign amid cheating allegations and decided to twist the knife on social media. It cost Froyd her job, but she says she'd do it again. USA Today fired Froyd days after she publicly dragged Russini, who had been caught in photos holding hands and poolside with married New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel.

When Russini posted her resignation letter from The Athletic following an internal investigation, Froyd unleashed on X: "Don't let the door hit you on the way out. We know who you really are and what you've been up to for years." Froyd later revealed she'd once declined a mentoring offer from Russini because she "knew what she was about and her track record."

USA Today terminated Froyd's contract, citing her failure to uphold "principles of ethical conduct." Froyd has zero regrets: "I would never say anything I didn't stand behind because I know the potential consequences." Russini maintains her interactions with Vrabel were innocent and involved a larger group.

Gobble's Take: The group chat just went public, and now everyone's looking for a new job.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner: Better Apart Than Together

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner finalized their divorce in 2018, meaning they've now been exes longer than their 10-year marriage lasted. Plot twist: they're better at being divorced than most couples are at being married. The pair are constantly photographed together at school events, holidays, and coffee runs, creating Hollywood's most functional post-divorce partnership.

Their split wasn't painless. Garner mourned losing "the dream of dancing with my husband at my daughter's wedding," while Affleck called their divorce his "biggest regret." But they've built something new from the wreckage. Garner even supported Affleck through his messier split from Jennifer Lopez, proving their co-parenting bond transcends romantic drama.

"I'm able to co-parent at this point in time with peace and equanimity and a partnership that I didn't know I would ever get back to," Garner recently said. They set out to raise three kids together and ended up redefining what family looks like after everything falls apart.

Gobble's Take: They're the celebrity equivalent of your parents who are better friends now that they don't share a bathroom.

TMZ Invades Washington, Congressional Aides Study Producer Headshots

Harvey Levin's celebrity ambush machine just opened a three-person D.C. bureau, and congressional staffers are reportedly memorizing TMZ producer faces to warn their bosses. The gossip outlet that perfected the airport parking lot takedown is now hunting senators in Capitol Hill bathrooms, and Washington is equal parts terrified and thrilled.

The move came after TMZ's tip line caught lawmakers vacationing during a government shutdown—Senator Lindsey Graham at Disney World, Ted Cruz at a Florida airport—while federal workers went unpaid. Levin wants to show politicians "how the public feels about them" by contrasting D.C. politics with real-world consequences. Translation: your $174,000 Disney trip is about to become primetime content.

Some staffers are "stoked" for the disruption, believing TMZ will hold politicians accountable in ways traditional media won't. Others are coaching their bosses to treat TMZ cameras like town halls, not C-SPAN hearings. The D.C. playbook just got rewritten by the outlet that made Britney Spears' 2007 meltdown appointment television.

Gobble's Take: Your elected officials are about to find out that a C-SPAN camera is a lot less scary than a TMZ camera asking about their bubble wand at Disney World.

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