Director Charged with Raping Eleven Women

[God of War]

The Oscar-winning composer and director of "You Light Up My Life" is alleged to have raped eleven women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, reports TimesOnline.

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The women read an online ad placed by the director, Joseph Brooks, then applied for the audition "and thought this was their chance to become a big star," prosecutor Lisa Friel said at his arraignment yesterday.

Instead, once the women were in Brooks' Manhattan apartment, he allegedly plied them with wine and forcibly raped them or used threats and coercive behavior to make them have sex with him, prosecutors said. Brooks, 71, has denied the accusations. He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, where he was arraigned on a 91-count indictment charging him with rape, criminal sexual act, sexual abuse, assault and other charges. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of first-degree rape.

Brooks won the Oscar for Best Original Song for the 1977 ballad "You Light Up My Life." He also wrote and directed the "You Light Up My Life" movie, about a comedian who has a one-night stand with a director.

Source: Worstpreviews

[echo_bravo]

If its indeed true...

Then "off with his dick"

[The Postmaster General]

This sounds kind of phony, but who knows maybe the light in his life burned out. I don't know. All I can say is that God of War, your disapproving thumbs down at this article really answered a lot of questions I had about you, as in, if GoW invited me to his apartment to audition for a movie, would he rape me. I see now it's a definitive NO.

[Imsomuchbetter]

Dude will be polishing a different kind of Oscar in prison...

[Abbie Normal]

It's not rape. It is called the casting couch. Get with the program bitches. Everything has a cost.


I am joking of course. Rape is a disgusting crime. But this kind of stuff has been going on since the 30's.

[Highspeed]

The picture of him in this thread has me torn. On one hand seeing the look on his face is enough to convince me that every word of that is true. Yipes. Then on the other hand that's probably the look I would have if I was just wrongly accused of raping 11 women. So damn. If he did though...fuck him toss him to the wolves we all know how much rapists are favored in prison. :mad:

[xseanymacx]

Ok I'll bite...who the fuck is this guy?

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

I doubt that he actually 'raped' them. If you ask me he probably said "Hey, you want to star in a movie?" and the girls were already unbuckling his jeans. Either way, it really is an ugly display of character. :(

[adamjohnson]

I also love rape.

[aerocrystallake]

This one goes to eleven...

[Smiert Spionam]

Abbie beat me to the casting couch joke.

Anyway, this shit's pretty fucked up. Good thing I'm not that all familiar with his work...

EDIT: Anybody else thing the guy kindof look like Bill Nighy?