Joseph Brooks Dead: Academy Award Winner Facing Rape Charges Dies Of Apparent Suicide

New York - Joseph Brooks, author of the Oscar-winning of "You light up my life", who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead Sunday from an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.
He said police spokesman Paul Browne discovered Brooks (73 years) in his apartment at 12:30 Upper East Side from a friend who was planning to eat. Was not immediately clear when his body was there. Police said the apartment door was locked.
Brooks death came five months after the arrest of his son in the case of unrelated, high-level. The boy accused of killing his girlfriend, fashion designer, whose body was found in December in the tub full of flavor in a hotel in Soho.
He said Brown was found on the old man Brooks collapsed on the couch in the den, and fully dressed, with a bag of plastic dry cleaning on the head and a towel wrapped around his neck. He said that the hose offline aan'n helium tank was hooked in a bag.
According to police, Porter said Brooks in his apartment that a friend who was meeting for lunch, and had permission to enter the building. Police believed that Brooks was open until the apartment of his friend and can be obtained.