SLAY RAP: Nick Brooks will appear today in court, where he’ll be charged with murdering gal pal Sylvie Cachay (above). (
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Finally, today, they’ll see the man accused of strangling and drowning their sister as she struggled for air in a hell of overflowing bath water.
The anguished brothers of tragic swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay plan to be in Manhattan Supreme Court this morning to watch as her stoner ex-boyfriend is formally charged with murder and speaks the words “not guilty.”
Nick Brooks, the son of accused serial-raping composer Joseph Brooks, allegedly choked the life out of the beautiful designer early last month, leaving her partially clothed in an overflowing bathtub at the pricey Soho House in the Meatpacking District.
The last time Cachay’s brothers, Patrick and David Orlando, had come to court, Manhattan prosecutors announced Brooks had been indicted, but Brooks himself was a no-show.
“Since last time he wasn’t in the courtroom, this will be the first time they see him,” said family lawyer Susan Karten.
“Not that they’re looking forward to it,” she added. “It’s going to be a difficult morning. A very difficult experience.”
The murder case had initially proven tricky for prosecutors.
Cachay had checked in to the hotel with Brooks on the night of Dec. 8.
Investigators and Soho House staff had said Cachay, 33, complained as she checked in of being exhausted after taking the prescription drug Xanax. She had difficulty walking across the lobby, investigators said.
All immediately available forensics — the bruises on her neck, the bleeding in her eyes, damage to her lips, water in her lungs — pointed to a combination of strangling and drowning, investigators said at the time.
Still, Brooks could not be charged with murder until last week, after time-consuming toxicology tests ruled out Cachay having caused or aided in her own death.
Brooks — whose Facebook pages were filled with photographs of him guzzling whiskey and smoking what appears to be a pot pipe — has remained jailed since his arrest following some 36 hours of interrogation.
He is the son of the Oscar-winning composer of the ’70s shlock classic, “You Light Up My Life,” who himself is facing charges that he lured 13 young women to his Upper East Side apartment under the pretense of giving them movie roles — only to pounce on them in attacks ranging from rape to attempted sexual abuse and forcible touching.
