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Oscar-winning composer    Joseph Brooks    raped 11 women using Craigslist to attract victims with promise of film role



Posted by EU Times on Jun 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment

The Oscar-winning composer behind 'You Light Up My Life' raped 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, prosecutors said today.

The women read an online ad placed by director, Joseph Brooks, applied for the audition 'and thought this was their chance to become a big star,' prosecutor Lisa Friel said.

Instead, once the women were in Brooks' Manhattan apartment, he plied them with wine and forcibly raped them or used threats and coercive behavior to make them have sex with him, prosecutors said.

Brooks, 71, denied the accusations. He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, where he is being tried for 91-counts and charged with rape, criminal sexual act, sexual abuse, assault and other charges. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of first-degree rape.

Justice Charles Solomon set bail at $500,000 bond or $250,000 cash bail and gave Brooks until Thursday to post it. The judge told Brooks not to leave town without letting the court know.

'I feel like a weight has been lifted,' said victim Loretta Spruell, 23, who auditioned for American Idol, 'I'm glad he is going to be held accountable for all the lives he's destroyed and not hurt anyone else.'

Brooks won the Oscar for Best Original Song for the 1977 ballad 'You Light Up My Life.'

He also wrote and directed the "You Light Up My Life" movie, about a comedian who has a one-night stand with a director.  

District Attorney Robert Morgenthau    said Brooks used his Hollywood credentials on the Craigslist classified ads Web site to attract the victims, aged 18 to 30. He said Brooks' ad specified attractive young women for a starring role in a movie.

Morgenthau said nine of the 11 women were from the Portland, Oregon, and Seattle areas and the others were from California and Florida. He said Brooks paid to fly 10 of the women, who did not know each other, to New York.

He said Brooks' scheme, which ran from at least 2005 to 2008, was enabled by his personal assistant, Shawni Lucier, who helped pick the victims, interviewed them, arranged their travel and made them feel comfortable.

He said that when the women's mothers called, Lucier, of Federal Way, Washington state, would assure them their daughters were fine.

When Brooks was ready to strike, he said, Lucier would leave the apartment 'knowing what the end result would be.'

Brooks became a suspect after one woman went to a hospital and reported what had happened and another complained to authorities in February and March 2008, prosecutors said.

Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal, the lead prosecutor, said she found other victims by searching Brooks' and Lucier's computers and cold-calling women whose names she saw.

'We have records from his and his assistant's computers that connect him to these women,' she said.

There might be another seven or eight victims, she said.

Brooks' lawyer, Jeff Hoffman, said his client 'told me he didn't do any of these things.'

He said Brooks, who suffered a stroke in 2008, 'will have faith in the justice system.'

Lucier, 42, was indicted on nine counts of criminal facilitation and is expected to return from Washington state and surrender to authorities in New York City next week, Morgenthau said.

She has no attorney in New York and didn't immediately return a telephone message seeking comment Tuesday.

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Songwriter, accused rapist Joseph Brooks found dead of apparent suicide
Published: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 3:29 PM     Updated: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 3:36 PM

New York -- Academy Award-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

Brooks, 73, was awaiting trial on charges of molesting women who were lured to his apartment for supposed acting auditions. He pleaded not guilty to rape and other charges.

Police spokesman Paul Browne said Brooks was found in his Upper East Side apartment around 12:30 p.m. by a friend with whom he had planned to have lunch.

Brooks was found with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head and a towel wrapped around his neck, Browne said. A hose attached to a helium tank was hooked up to the bag, he said. It was not immediately clear how long Brooks had been there.

The medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Police said a suicide note was found but they didn't reveal its contents.

Brooks won the Academy Award for best original song for the 1977 Debby Boone ballad "You Light Up My Life" and directed a related movie. He also won a Grammy for the song.

He pleaded not guilty in 2009 to rape, sexual abuse and other charges in the attacks on 13 women. His trial date had not been set.

Prosecutors say he lured most of the women to his apartment through an online ad offering auditions for a movie role, then sexually assaulted them after making them drink apparently drugged wine as part of an "acting exercise."

Brooks' lawyer and Manhattan prosecutors didn't immediately return calls seeking comment Sunday.

Brooks' son, Nicholas, has also been charged in a high-profile criminal case in New York.

  Nicholas Brooks is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend, Peruvian-American swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay, who was found dead in an overflowing bathtub at the swank Soho House club and hotel in December. He has pleaded not guilty.  

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