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Monday, May 23rd 2011, 10:18 PM
Singer Debby Boone spoke out Monday about the suicide of songwriter Joseph Brooks, asking fans to separate the rape charges he went to his grave with from the hit song that launched her career.
"My only real association with Joe was in 1977 for a couple of hours in a New York recording studio when I recorded his beautiful song, 'You Light Up My Life,'" she said in a statement to The Daily News.
"That recording ...has meant so much to so many people. I will continue to sing it proudly and hope that people will be able to separate the song from Joe's severely troubled life."
The 73-year-old, who was charged in the rapes of 13 women, died from asphyxiation with a helium-gas filled plastic bag over his head at his upper East Side home. His death was officially ruled a suicide yesterday.
The case against Brooks died with his suicide, but charges live on against the personal assistant who allegedly arranged trysts with the women he is accused of raping.
Shawni Lucier is due in a Manhattan court Wednesday for a pretrial hearing on criminal facilitation charges.
She is accused of procuring beautiful young women from Oregon, California, Florida and Washington State for her boss.
She told cops she knew that Brooks had sex with some of the women and plied them with wine but was in the dark about the rape claims, court papers say.
She said she was working on a screenplay titled "Struck by Lightning" with Brooks and that the women were brought to the apartment to audition for the project.
Brooks' son, Nicholas, 25, is in jail on murder charges for the drowning death of his girlfriend, swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay in the SoHo House club last year.
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