Joseph Brooks, the Oscar-winning and songwriter available hearing upon sex crime charges, was found passed Sunday of an strong self-murder in his New York City apartment, military say. The ‘You Light Up My Life’ songwriter, 73, pleaded not guilty to rape, passionate abuse as well as alternative charges in 2009.
A military orator told reporters that during around 12:30 p.m., a crony found Brooks during his home with a cosmetic dry-cleaning bag around his conduct as well as a towel wrapped around his neck. A helium tank was circuitously with a blood vessel joining it with a bag.
The friend, whose name has not been released, was during a Upper East Side unit since a dual had programmed a lunch. The rep, Paul Browne, pronounced an post-mortem contingency be conducted prior to a means of genocide can be determined.
A self-murder note was found though a essence have not been revealed.
The composer (most important for his 1977 Debby Boone strike ‘You Light Up My Life,’ that won an Academy Award as well as a Grammy) was charged in 2009 with 82 counts of passionate assault, as well as is now available trial. Brooks allegedly solicited “auditions” from starlets upon a internet, doped victims with date-rape drug as well as assaulted them.
His hearing date had not been set as well as his counsel as well as prosecutors have not commented upon his death.
In an additional unhappy twist, Joseph Brooks’s son Nicholas was arrested final year upon attempted murder charges in a genocide of 33-year-old Sylvie Cachay — a swimwear engineer he was dating until they pennyless up not prolonged before. He is available trial.
