Kiersten Cerveny's Party Buddies Reportedly Arrested on Drug Charges

By PAIGE MCATEE

MANHATTAN, NY — Two men who were seen with a former Brooklyn dermatologist the night before she died in October now reportedly face federal drug charges.

Emmy-nominated HBO producer Marc Johnson, 51, and James Holder, 60, were arrested for cocaine distribution Tuesday, according to ABC 7. They men do not face charges related to the death of Kiersten Cerveny, 38, of Manhasset, the publication reports.

The men, however, 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, two men were caught on surveillance footage carrying Cerveny down the stairs, according to Newsday.

Cerveny was found unconscious and unresponsive in the the doorway of the 223 West 16th St. building at 8:32 a.m. She was later pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village. Cerveny was married with three children.

Johnson told investigators that Cerveny “turned blue” and he attempted to give her CPR before calling 911, the New York Daily News reports.

The medical examiner ruled Cerveny’s death an accident by acute cocaine and alcohol intoxication, according to ABC 7.

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, the announcement said.

Before moving her practice to Manhattan, Cerveny worked for many years at Brooklyn Hospital in Fort Greene.

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.”

Another reader, a former patient of Cerveny’s in Brooklyn, told Patch: “She was very sweet friendly and caring. I will miss her as a doctor I trusted very much.”

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