Light Up His Life: Rape Rap for 71-Year-Old Tunesmith

Blogs

Top

blog

Stories

Somebody Got Murdered

Staten Island Slay Suspect "High As a Motherfucker"

By Graham Rayman

1
Urban Wildlife

Coyotes Invade Columbia University

By Roy Edroso

2
Exploring the Right Wing Blogosphere

Rightblogger Tributes to the Late John Murtha

By Roy Edroso

3
R.I.P.

War Critic Rep. John Murtha Dies

By Roy Edroso

4
Advertising

10 Best Super Bowl XLIV Commercials

By Mackenzie Schmidt

5
Exploring the Right Wing Blogosphere

Rightbloggers Share Tea Party Rage at Gov't Spending

By Roy Edroso

6
Weather

In New York, 'Sno Storm

By Julia

7
Transitions

13-Year-Old Recruited to USC: Day of the Tweens!

By Roy Edroso

8
Fashion

Project Runway: Ugly

By Stacey Anderson

9
Corruption

Seminerio Gets 6 Years

By Elizabeth Dwoskin

10
Studies in Crap

Rock 'n' Roll -- The Devil's Music!

By Alan Scherstuhl

11
Advertising

7 Extremely Weird Political Ads

By Roy Edroso

12
Hate Crime

Rush Limbaugh -- Assman!

By Roy Edroso

13
Q&A

Parks and Recreation's Aziz Ansari

By Araceli Cruz

14
Democracy

Poll: Paterson Hated (Not Because He's Black, Though)

By Roy Edroso

15

Crime

By Tom Robbins, Tuesday, Jun. 23 2009 @ 9:08AM

Comments (1)

Categories: Featured

Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau has called a 11:45 press conference to announce an indictment on rape and sexual assault charges for song writer Joseph Brooks, whose cotton-candy confection, "You Light Up My Life," went to the top of the charts for Debbie Boone and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1978.

Morgenthau's press advisory says that Brooks' personal assistant is also being charged with criminal facilitation.

The Daily News reported in January that Brooks was under investigation in five separate sexual assaults after allegedly using internet postings to lure women from the West Coast to his East Side apartment with promises of parts in movies. Victims claimed that Brooks spiked their drinks with knock-out drops.

Update: Brooks has turned himself in.