'You Light Up My Life' songwriter in suspected suicide

Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of You Light Up My Life who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

'You Light Up My Life' songwriter in suspected suicide

Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of 'You Light Up My Life' who was awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.

Brooks, 73, was discovered in his Upper East Side apartment by a friend with whom he had planned to have lunch, police spokesman Paul Browne said.

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