Oscar Winner Charged In 82
Rapes
Joseph Brooks Is A Famous Song
Writer
American Idol Contestant
Loretta Spruell Is One Of Many Victims
Izzie Was Hollywood Gold
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Joseph Brooks
Joseph Brooks is a 70 year old Jewish-American screenwriter,
director, producer and composer. He composed the the song You Light Up
My Life for the film of the same name that he also wrote, directed and
produced.
The song reached #1 on the US popular charts and earned Brooks an
Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award and an
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award.
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Oscar-winning composer, 71, 'raped 11 women using Craigslist to lure
victims with promise of film role'
The women read an online ad placed by director, Joseph Brooks, applied
for the audition 'and thought this was their chance to become a big
star,' prosecutor Lisa Friel said.
Instead, once the women were in Brooks' Manhattan apartment, he plied
them with wine and forcibly raped them or used threats and coercive
behavior to make them have sex with him, prosecutors said.
5 He said Brooks' scheme, which ran from at least 2005 to
2008, was enabled by his personal assistant, Niomi Lucier, who helped
pick the victims, interviewed them, arranged their travel and made
them feel comfortable.
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The Rapist Had An Assistant
Niomi Lucier, 42, was indicted on nine
counts of criminal facilitation and is expected to return from
Washington state and surrender to authorities in New York City next
week, the DA said.
She has no attorney in New York and didn't immediately return a
telephone message seeking comment Tuesday. When she arrived in New
York last March, she said, the assistant escorted her to the
director's Upper East Side apartment and left them alone.
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A Naive Gentile Girl
When she arrived in New York last March,
she said, the assistant escorted her to the director's Upper East Side
apartment and left them alone. Spruell said she grew uncomfortable as
Brooks became increasingly intimidating. "I was scared and I was
trapped. I said, 'I can't do this.' But he tore off my clothes."
Spruell said she, fearing for her life,
finally relented and was raped.
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A Second Girl Testifies
"At one point, he said, 'I don't like your
tights, take off your tights,' " she said. When the director tried to
rip off her clothes, she said, she pushed him off.
"I don't remember leaving," she said. "It
was a close call and it was terrifying."
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Maxine Rosenthal Is The Prosecutor
Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal, the lead prosecutor,
said she found other victims by searching Brooks' and Lucier's
computers and cold-calling women whose names she saw.
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The ADL Is Silent
They would love to see this become page six.
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