Men Accused of Covering Up South Jersey Beauty Queen's Death Arrested on Drug Charges: Reports

By ANTHONY BELLANO and PAIGE MCATEE

Two men, including an HBO producer, who were seen with a dermatologist from South Jersey the night before she died in October now reportedly face federal drug charges.

Emmy-nominated producer Marc Johnson 51, and James Holder, 60, were arrested for cocaine distribution Tuesday, according to philly.com.

Kiersten Rickenbach Cerveny, 38, a Washington Township High School graduate and former South Jersey beauty queen, was unconscious and unresponsive in the the doorway of an apartment building in New York in October.

She was later pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village. Cerveny was married with three children.

She was reportedly left there by the two men, and died of “acute cocaine and alcohol intoxication,” according to the report.

Johnson and Holder are accused of trying to cover up that they were with Cerveny on October 4 by moving her body out of Holder’s apartment after she overdosed, the New York Daily news reports.

After a reported night of partying with Johnson and Holder, the two men were caught on surveillance footage carrying Cerveny down the stairs, according to Newsday.

Residents in the building told the Daily News that Cerveny has been “coming and going” for the past year.
Cerveny, formerly Rickenbach, married Dr. K. Andrew Cerveny in Dec. 2009, according to the couple’s New York Times wedding announcement.

Cerveny graduated magna cum laude from Duke and received a medical degree from Tulane, according to the announcement.

A reader told Patch that she and her daughter went to see Cerveny as their doctor a few times. She said Cerveny was “sweet and kind to her patients."