Brooks, 73, was discovered in his apartment in the Upper East Side about 12: 30 a.m. by a friend with whom he had planned to lunch, said police spokesman Paul Browne. It was not immediately clear how long the body had been there. The door of the apartment was ajar, said police.
Death of Brooks comes five months after his son was arrested in an unrelated case, high - profile. The son is accused of the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found in December in a tub overflow in a hotel after in SoHo.
The elder Brooks was discovered on the sofa in the lounge with a dry cleaning plastic bag around his head and a towel coiled around his neck, said Browne. A hose attached to a helium tank was connected to the bag, he said.
The medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Police said a suicide note was found, but they reveal its contents.
in this June 23, 2009 file photo, Oscar composer and Director Joseph Brooks shows in New York. Brooks was found dead Sunday, May 22, 2011, a suicide manifest in his apartment in Manhattan, said police.The helium is difficult to detect in autopsies. The use of killing oneself is described in a manual of suicide more sold by British author Derek Humphry.
Brooks was awaiting trial on allegations that he molested women who were lured to his apartment for the hearings of the supposed acting. He pleaded not guilty.
Counsel and counsel for Manhattan Brooks made no immediate comment on the death of Brooks.
Brooks won the Oscar for best original song for the Ballad of Debby Boone 1977 "you Light up my life" and directed a film of the same name. He is an actor who has a one - night stand with a Director. Brooks also won a Grammy Award for the song.
He pleaded not guilty in 2009 for rape, sexual abuse and other charges in the attacks on 13 women. His trial date has not been set.
Prosecutors say, he has attracted women in his apartment through an advertisement online offering auditions for a movie role, and then their sexually assaulted after to make drinking wine apparently drugged as part of an "interim exercise."
Brooks suffered a stroke in 2008, and his lawyer had said that the deterioration of the health of the songwriter during the judgment of the Court. It seemed to Ghent and random slowly because he came to the recent dates of the Court.
Son of Brooks, Nicholas, is accused of murder in the death of her friend, designer of swimsuit Peruvian-American Sylvie death. She was found dead, dressed in half and face-up, in a tank at home of Soho, a club of the elite and the hotel, after the start of the water through leaks to the floor below.
Nicholas Brooks pleaded not guilty and is detained without bail at the Rikers Island prison complex.
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