By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH | City News Service

A Hollywood producer who was convicted of first-degree murder for the drug overdose deaths of a model and her friend, along with charges that he sexually assaulted seven other women, was sentenced Wednesday to 146 years to life in prison.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter — who imposed the maximum sentence on 43-year-old David Brian Pearce — said the defendant was “the worst kind of criminal,” saying that he had been called several things including a con artist, a manipulator and a wolf during victim impact statements and telling Pearce that “all of them apply to you.”

Jurors deliberated about 2 1/2 days before finding Pearce guilty Feb. 4 of the two murder charges stemming from the deaths of 24-year-old model and aspi

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