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12.09.2010

Swimsuit designer strangled in chi-chi private club in Manhattan

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12.09.2010

Sylvia Cachay, a 33-year-old Peruvian American fashion designer who headed the swimsuit design team for Victoria’s Secret, was found strangled and drowned in a bathtub at the uber-chic Soho House private club in Manhattan. Nicholas Brooks, the hard-partying son of “You Light Up My Life” songwriter Joseph Brooks and her on-again-off-again boyfriend, was convicted of second degree murder for the crime. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Photo: NY Daily News via Getty Images
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