Seattle Adult Entertainment: Oscar winner accused of rape

Posted on June 24th, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

Joseph
Brooks, who won an Oscar in 1978 for the song “You Light Up”, was arrested
Tuesday and charged with sexually assaulting 11
women.
According to Manhattan District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau, Brooks, 71, used Craigslist and a talent web site to lure his
victims by promising private auditions at his Manhattan apartment. Brooks
pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday and was freed on bail of $500,000.
Morgenthau said that Brooks would pay for the women to travel to New
York from the Seattle and Portland areas to audition for a role as a boozy
prostitute trying to seduce a man. Once in his apartment Brooks forced them to
drink a large glass of red wine, which may have been drugged.
“He
may very well have drugged them,” Lisa Friel, chief of the District Attorney’s
sex crimes unit, told the New York Daily News. “But he certainly forced them to
drink quantities of wine that left them incapacitated.”

See the full article from “Times of India”




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