Posts with tag "Joseph Brooks"

Joseph Brooks, 'You Light Up My Life' Songwriter, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

Posted May 22nd 2011 at 04:08 PM by PopEater Staff

Joseph Brooks, the Oscar-winning songwriter awaiting trial on sex crime charges, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his New York City apartment, police say. The 'You Light Up My Life' songwriter, 73, pleaded not guilty to rape, sexual abuse and other charges in 2009. A police spokesman told reporters that at around 12:30 p.m., a friend found Brooks at his home with a plastic ...

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Oscar Winner's Son Arrested in Soho House Murder of Sylvie Cachay

Posted Dec 11th 2010 at 03:40 PM by Christine Fenno

Nicholas Brooks, the 24-year-old son of Oscar-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks, was arrested Friday, according to the Associated Press, on charges of attempted murder and strangulation in the death of 33-year-old Sylvie Cachay -- the swimwear designer he was dating until they broke up not long before the shocking crime scene was discovered. Around 3 a.m. on Thursday, Cachay's half-clothed body ...