70’s Songwriter Becomes ‘An Hero’
Joseph Brooks was best known for writing “You Light Up My Life,” a horrible pop song in the 70’s; a song that 30-something baby boomers praised as awesome as they exchanged carkeys with their friends’ spouse while it played on the radio. Did Brooks keep pumping out number one hits? Nope, he turned his apartment into a rape station, luring women into his grip with the promise of stardom before he attacked them. He took his own worthless life to avoid jail.
From the NYDaily News here:
The Oscar-winning “You Light Up My Life” composer, who was awaiting trial for rape while his son faced a murder rap, killed himself Sunday in his upper East Side apartment.
Joseph Brooks, 73, was found dead with a plastic dry-cleaning bag over his head near a hose attached to a tank of helium gas.
In a rambling, three-page suicide note, Brooks said he would be exonerated of rape but complained about his failing health and a woman who had abused him and taken his money.
In 2009, he sued 22-year-old ex-fiancée Joaly Gomez, claiming he spent $2 million on her before learning she was already married.
The apartment was where he lured a string of young actresses with promises of movie roles – and then jumped them, prosecutors said in 2009. He was awaiting trial on 82 counts of sex crimes.
His son’s murder trial is unaffected. Nicholas Brooks, 25, is awaiting trial for strangling his girlfriend, swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay, at the posh Soho House club last year.
Brooks’ 1977 ballad “You Light Up My Life” was the biggest hit of the 1970s. He never again saw such success.
I never read stories about suicide notes being well composed and succinct. They are always described as “rambling, long and unintelligible.” And that 22 year old fiancée who fleeced him? I hope she did it for the lulz.
Musta been that fantastic comb over that lured the women to his shag pad, not just promises of stardom.
Joaly Gomez and her husband Miguel hemenegildo
Cruz were in this money scam together from day one … Joaly met Joseph Brooks by hanging around her sleazy friends that work for a independent escort agency that would stiff vulnerable old guys with lots of money in a marriage dreams to lure there riches to them and extort the money back to Dominican republic were miguel hemenegildo family would buy cars and properties and live like royalty … While Joseph would take trips with joaly her sleazy husband would travel and stay in near bye hotels and meet with her at night while mr brook slept unaware of the plot Mr brook would wake and see joaly dead asleep and would have to deal with ms Gomez sleeping most of the day away ,, talk about a roller coaster ride. Back home all she did was to Bragg to her friends about all the things he would buy her and all she had to do was please his sexual desire , while maintaing a healthy relation with her husband Miguel Cruz that she married for his immigration status in the united states In the coming months she grew tired of Mr Brooks and just would do sexual things to keep him at bay, and right about that time he gave her a lump sum of money that was transfer to her bank account ,she then came up with a clever idea to place her marriage licensee in her purse so that mr brook would accidentally come across the paper work and hopefully end all relation with her .She then confessed to her friends that he no longer had any real money to satisfied her and that she had weekly check up at the doctors due to mr brooks uncontrollable lifestyle. Joaly and her husband now have numerous business and properties in the Dominican republic in what I call a real story to the saying ,, (you light up my life)
omg…he was telling the truth??? i feel sorry for him now…what a witch and a ho…geez