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Joseph Brooks Dies: You Light Up My Life Oscar Winner's Apparent Suicide

The writer-director of You Light Up My Life, dead of an apparent suicide, was awaiting trial for allegedly raping 11 actresses he lured on Craigslist, and his son, Nicholas, has been charged in the strangulation death of swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay, writes Jacob Bernstein.

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