Seventy-two-year-old songwriter, film director and one-time Oscar winner (for penning schmaltzy '70s pop tune "You Light Up My Life") Joseph Brooks was previously indicted on 91 counts for allegedly luring at least 13 young women to his apartment via Craigslist ads and raping and sexually assaulting them. And now prosecutors claim that's just the tip of the iceberg.
According to prosecutors, Brooks promised the would-be starlets fame and a part in his next movie, but is accused of sexually assaulting and raping them (this is the man who once wrote, "it can't be wrong when it feels so right"). Today, on the eve of his trial in Manhattan Supreme Court, prosecutors say that they have evidence that Brooks attacked at least a dozen more women in years past.
The statute of limitations means he can't be tried for those assaults, but prosecutors want the women to testify as character witnesses. His son, Nicholas Brooks, is accused of killing his fashion designer girlfriend at the Soho House.
