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Swimsuit designer found dead in posh Soho house bathtub. The scandal death of the year…

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who as of print has not being charged with any wrongdoing.

Nicholas Brooks, the 24-year-old son of “You Light Up My Life” songwriter Joseph Brooks, was seen leaving the hotel earlier and then returned a few hours after police arrived, said the official. In an unrelated case, the father is fighting charges that accuse him of molesting would-be actresses in his Manhattan apartment.

The younger Brooks has not been charged, and it wasn’t clear if he had an attorney.

Of course if you are going to look at the cause of death you are going to look at what motives would predicate death. But when you’re a tabloid journalist perhaps you’ll be prone to look more at the character of those closely related to the death. Back to Gawker again…

Gawker: Beautiful and successful, she seems an unlikely match for 24-year-old Nicholas Brooks, whose main accomplishment appears to be graduating from his private school in the Bronx and producing an impressive gallery of intoxicated Facebook photos during a stint at the University of Colorado.

But what did the hotel guests see. Perhaps that will guide us…

Wednesday night, Cachay checked into room 19 at the Soho House with Brooks, and a source tells the New York Post that she proceeded to dump him. Cachay was found dead in the room’s bathtub Thursday morning, wearing only a sweater and panties. Cops say there was “no obvious trauma”. But the couple staying next door reports some strange happenings early Thursday morning:

“I heard her speaking Russian. She said (in Russian) ‘Stop! Don’t do it. Stop! I just thought it was people having a good time.”

Which begs the ultimate question- how did Ms Cachay die, was it through her own negligence, (would that surprise us?), emotional distress (prescription pills were littered on the floor) or dare we wonder at the hands of what’s been described to us in the media a meandering young man too often disposed to excesses and disregard for social convention (something a healthy income and or status can afford various members of society)?

As much what’s up for inspection is the cause of death, what has now come up for inspection is the behavior of a privileged class of folk, perhaps too used to being rewarded for skirting social convention and running amok. Which is to say if it is found that somehow Nicholas Brooks is complicit in Ms Cachay’s death, should we wonder for a moment Ms Cachay’s own complicity in believing herself beyond reproach and untimely death?

Nicholas Brooks Arrested Under Suspicion of Sylvie Cachay’s Strangulation

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Sylvie was a beautiful, talented person. I am not priviledged and she took the time to know me. I wish I was there for her. Damn, this sucks. I’m going to miss you so much.

  2. if all the machu pichus stayed in peru……..this wouldn’t happen…….. i’ll bet she shaved her poo-naa-nee naa-neemmmmmm

  3. OK, from what i’m reading from the article, so it’s her fault she decided to socialize with a murderous douchebag?! yeah of course, because it’s never the white man’s fault. i’m going to call it right now, he killed her. case closed, sayonara, you all suck!

  4. Please, leave my friend in peace. She was kind, beautiful, creative, vivacious, talented, generous. It is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends. Please be respectful by not making assumptions, speculations and pronouncing judgments about someone you don’t know at all, citing things like “complicity” “privilege” “negligence” while lacking any context or compassion. I appreciate your respectfulness.

  5. Under the American justice system we hold to the principle “innocent until proven guilty”, however, Nicholas Brooks is not just the son of “well to do” composer Joseph Brooks who composed “You Light Up My Life” and other sorted tales of romantic obsession that borders on disturbing and perhaps reveals stalkerish tendencies. Joseph Brooks is the “MONSTER OF CARNEGIE HILL” a veritable predator who used his station in life and Hollywood Success to lure unsuspecting actresses to his lair where he and an assistant manipulated, coerced and molested over 11 women, that is you believe the indictments for RAPE that were issued against him. See my blog entitled: “You Light Up My Life & Can’t Pay the Bill”: http://christopherlondonblog.com/2009/10/25/you-light-up-my-life-but-now-you-cant-pay-the-bill/ wherein I discuss the disturbing undercurrent of his prose, the charges against him and his attempt to extort the return of funds from an ex-fiance Joaly Gomez and paint her as a golddigger so that he could in essence reverse the dialogue in the media and on his accussers to paint them similarly. Nicholas Brooks may just in fact be another American Psycho who strangled his girlfriend and then calmly went downstairs at the exclusive SOHO HOUSE to have a drink and conveniently returned upon the Police’s arrival. It is truly like a scene out of the Brett Easton Ellis nove. The irony of the Soho House’s Policy restricting professional types like bankers in favor of the “creative class” is that you in effect have to co-brand Members Only bodybags for some of your guests.

    Christopher London
    link: http://christopherlondonblog.com/2009/10/25/you-light-up-my-life-but-now-you-cant-pay-the-bill/

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