Writer of You Light Up My Life, who was awaiting trial on sexual assault charges, apparently took his own lifeJoseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning songwriter and film-maker accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women during fake movie auditions at his New York apartment, has been found dead after apparently taking his own life, police said.Brooks, who won the Academy Award for best song in 1977 for You Light Up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM on May 23, 2011