Academy Award-winning composer and accused serial sexual assaulter Joseph Brooks is even a jerk in death, it seems. In his recently read will he deliberately made no provisions for any of his four kids. But you know who he did leave $250,000 to? His 30-year-old personal trainer. more ›

Joseph Brooks, the 73-year-old Academy Award-winner and alleged serial rapist who killed himself yesterday, insisted on his innocence until the end, reportedly using his "rambling" three page suicide note to boast how he would have gotten off and blame his choice to take his life on failing health and financial troubles. "He was facing serious charges and had nothing to live for. I'd have done the same thing," a neighbor told the News. more ›

Joseph Brooks, the 73-year-old Academy Award-winning songwriter accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday, police said. Brooks was found with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head and a towel wrapped around his neck, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. A hose attached to a helium tank was hooked up to the bag. more ›

The autopsy of Sylvie Cachay, the clothing designer found dead at Soho House last December, is complete but its findings have been sealed while her accused killer Nick Brook's defense has its own experts examine the report. At question is if drugs were in Cachay's system. According to Brooks, Cachay had taken Xanax before he left her alone in her room on her last night alive. more ›

Seventy-two-year-old songwriter, film director and one-time Oscar winner (for penning schmaltzy '70s pop tune "You Light Up My Life") Joseph Brooks was previously indicted on 91 counts for allegedly luring at least 13 young women to his apartment via Craigslist ads and raping and sexually assaulting them. And now prosecutors claim that's just the tip of the iceberg. more ›

Last year, 72-year-old songwriter, film director and one-time Oscar winner (for penning "You Light Up My Life"), Joseph Brooks was charged with a 91-count indictment after luring girls to his apartment via Craigslist ads. He conned many into taking cross country trips to his casting couch, with promises of stardom and a part in his next movie. Except there was no movie, and when the young girls would arrive he would allegedly sexually assault and rape them. more ›

Songwriter and film director Joseph Brooks was charged with a 91-count indictment yesterday for using his status as a onetime-Oscar winner to lure women with dreams of stardom into his apartment so that he could allegedly rape and sexually assault them. Brooks, 71, primarily used craigslist to advertise parts in "his next movie" that led to sexual assaults on at least 11 women at his apartment on East 63rd Street, mostly over the last two years. An investigator told reporters, “The Oscar was used as a prop. This could be you, this could be you holding this Oscar. If you do what I say.” more ›