Joseph Brooks Dead, Wrote 'You Light Up My Life'

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Joseph Brooks, in 1978

Joseph Brooks, a one-time ad-jingle bard whose 1977 song "You Light up my Life" won him an Oscar, a Grammy and a mark on the cocktail charts, killed himself in his Manhattan unit Sunday, according to mixed news reports.

Brooks was 73 and confronting hearing on 82 counts of passionate abuse for allegedly raping eleven immature actresses whom he reputedly lured to his Upper East Side chateau with the guarantee to try-out them for shade roles.

In addition, his disloyal son, Nicholas Brooks, 25, was available hearing for allegedly slaying his girlfriend, swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay, in a bathtub inside of the in isolation club Soho House final year.

A crony who was to have lunch with Joe Brooks on Sunday alerted police, who found the songwriter with a cosmetic dry cleaning bag and a towel over his head. A hose trustworthy to a tank of helium gas was near his routine body, reports new York's Daily News. A self-murder note was also left behind.

Debby Boone won a Grammy for her cover chronicle of Brooks's ballad "You Light up my Life" from the film of the same name – a romance that Brooks wrote, destined and produced. It starred Joe Silver and Didi Cohn and was panned by critics.

Undaunted, Brooks subsequent wrote and destined – and, despite a conspicuous stammer, starred in – the 1978 If ever I see You Again, which fast left from theaters.

In 2005, Brooks took his act to Broadway, with a multi-million-dollar low-pitched for which he wrote the words and score, called in my Life and about a songwriter with Tourette syndrome. It ran 61 performances.

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