With her husband visiting family in San Francisco, Los Angeles-based model Christy Giles was looking forward to a night out with her friend, interior designer and architect Hilda Cabrales-Arzola. On the evening of Nov. 12, 2021, Giles, 24, and Arzola, 26, started out at an art exhibition reception at Soho House in West Hollywood before moving on at 1 a.m. to an all-night dance party at an East L.A. warehouse where their favorite DJ was playing. Upbeat and fun-loving, Giles “knew how to live in the moment,” her husband, Jan Cilliers, 44, a visual-effects supervisor, told People. Just before 5 a.m. the women headed to the Olympic Boulevard apartment of two men they met at the warehouse, presumably to keep partying. But something seemed amiss. “Christy and Hilda tried to leave,” says Cilliers. “They called an Uber. And whatever happened in the following 12 hours left them dead.”
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