Joseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning songwriter, has been indicted on sexual assault charges in NYC, reported New York Daily News. 70-year-old Joseph Brooks who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the 77’s ballad You Light Up My Life, allegedly lured several aspiring actresses to his upper East Side home through posting advertisements on Craiglist. It was said Brooks gave the women drugs-spiked drinks and then sexually assaulted them when they come to audition for movie roles. Joseph Brooks is a suspect in two rapes, a sodomy case and two sexual assaults, which happened during 2006-2008.
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