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NEW YORK (Reuters) – carpenter Brooks, the Oscar-winning composer of the hit "You Light Up My Life" and who was awaiting trial on ravishment charges, was institute dead in his New royalty housing on Sun having ostensibly killed himself, personnel said.

The embody of Brooks, 73, was discovered at his housing on Manhattan's Upper East Side around 12.30 p.m. by a someone with whom he had designed to hit lunch, personnel said.

Brooks had a impressible bag enwrapped around his head. A helium tank with a tubing attachment was also institute at the scene and may hit been used in the manifest suicide, personnel said.

They said they institute a slayer state but would not handle its contents. An authorised autopsy will be done on the body.

Brooks was awaiting trial after pleading not blameable in 2009 to charges he raped and sexually abused at small 11 women.

According to the borough regularise attorney's account, Brooks, a director and scriptwriter as substantially as a composer, tricked aspiring actresses into coming to his housing in the belief they were auditioning for a role.

In some cases, the women had responded to an audition notice that Brooks had posted on Craigslist, the online categorised ads service, and flew to New royalty from crossways the land at Brooks' expense, according to the account.

Brooks won his Academy Award in 1977 for arrangement the Debby backwoodsman lay "You Light Up My Life," which featured in the flick of the aforementioned name that Brooks also wrote and directed.

Brooks' son saint was live with second-degree remove in December after his ex-girlfriend, Sylvie Cachay, a 33-year-old swimwear designer, was institute dead in a bathtub at an upscale New royalty hotel. He has pleaded not guilty.

(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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