09-23-2013, 10:52 PM
Effed-up father and son
Nicholas Brooks, 27, was convicted in July of murdering 33-year-old Sylvie Cachay in December 2010. Today, he was sentenced to 25 years to life.
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Sylvie Cachay and Nicholas Brooks
Prosecutors contend that Brooks strangled Cachay, a designer for Marc Jacobs, Victoria's Secret and Tommy Hilfiger, in the bathtub of their SoHo hotel room because she was going to dump the unemployed college drop-out (who was living off his father's money).
His father, Joseph Brooks, won the Academy Award for best original song in 1977 for "You Light Up My Life," sung by Debby Boone. Brooks wrote and directed the romantic comedy of the same name.
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Joseph Brooks, in his heyday and just before his death
The 73-year-old Brooks killed himself in his apartment 2011, while he prepared for his Manhattan trial and his son was in jail awaiting his own.
Prosecutors said the songwriter lured the women to his Manhattan 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, Sr. pleaded not guilty. But four days after his death, his former assistant pleaded guilty to criminal facilitation, admitting she had helped him meet 10 of the women.
Nicholas Brooks, 27, was convicted in July of murdering 33-year-old Sylvie Cachay in December 2010. Today, he was sentenced to 25 years to life.
Sylvie Cachay and Nicholas Brooks
Prosecutors contend that Brooks strangled Cachay, a designer for Marc Jacobs, Victoria's Secret and Tommy Hilfiger, in the bathtub of their SoHo hotel room because she was going to dump the unemployed college drop-out (who was living off his father's money).
His father, Joseph Brooks, won the Academy Award for best original song in 1977 for "You Light Up My Life," sung by Debby Boone. Brooks wrote and directed the romantic comedy of the same name.
Joseph Brooks, in his heyday and just before his death
The 73-year-old Brooks killed himself in his apartment 2011, while he prepared for his Manhattan trial and his son was in jail awaiting his own.
Prosecutors said the songwriter lured the women to his Manhattan 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, Sr. pleaded not guilty. But four days after his death, his former assistant pleaded guilty to criminal facilitation, admitting she had helped him meet 10 of the women.