Donald Trump And Women

 

According to Donald Trump's own sayings, this is what he has done to real women, someone of flesh and blood, so to speak. Obviously enough it's a grave insult, overstepping whatever boundaries there are for a woman's free will, her dignity as a fellow human being, and all forms of social conventions. As we know, that kind of conventions have the purpose of securing peace without any skirmishes where two different groups of people interact. Without some kind of rules, it would very often end in chaos and that's something that nobody wants because it disrupts a productive and pleasant life for both parties. Still, Donald Trump doesn't follow rules, especially when it comes to women whom he seems to think are there "for the grabbing".

Well, that's not quite as easy or acceptable as he thinks. For instance, many women and some teenagers have accused him of rape, some of them being very young indeed. 

Maybe this scenery is something that went too far, maybe not: 

It's obvious that Donald Trump has his own private system of labelling women according to their usefulness for him. First there are "trophies", like e.g. his wives, but only up to a point, namely until he divorces them. When his third wife, Melania, wanted to have a child, he made her promise that the pregnancy wouldn't ruin her looks, which are what makes her a trophy. Her trophy-value only lasts as long as she keeps her looks. I remember an interview about why he left his first wife, Ivana, and he said something about how her three pregnancies had made her "slack down there". Besides, she had become more like a business colleague than a wife which was something he obviously resented very much, maybe because she was good at what she was doing. Pretty and sexually useful, that was her role in his life, and when that wasn't what it had been he left her.

The photo of a mature Ivana (to the left) as compared to the one to the right tells a story of how age changes the looks of people naturally, but to Trump that may seem like a kind of betrayal: When he looks at her value as a trophy she is not as much of a catch as what she was when she was young, namely in the eyes of the world. When her "career" as a Trump-wife ended, she became something that might be called a "tool", and that is what happens to all women who are not trophies. These women he often makes an effort to humiliate, no matter who they are, and the humiliation will most likely go on their looks, like in the case of the young female journalist he called "Piggy", although he was the most pig-like of the pair of them. 

His favorite word for the non-trophy-category of women is "nasty". The "nastiness" comes from their not conforming to him and his needs of establishing his status as the "king of the hill". He simply hates those who challenge him by not assuring him of this assumed higher status, maybe because they themselves hold an equally high status, don't let him get away with categorizing them after looks or simply are self-assured in a manner he sees as threatening. To him, it's an awful situation when women compete with him - or maybe just with some man who doesn't have to be him. He has a very stereotype image of women, and if they "step out of line" he tries to put them back in place. Women are for looks and sexual consumption.

  

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-piggy-reporter-psychology-1516134 

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-female-reporters-ugly-piggy/ 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mary-trump-exposes-why-her-uncle-donald-keeps-attacking-female-reporters/ 

 

The Monster Drawing

Who is this, and whom is he trying to strangle? It looks like some kind of monster, but as we know the one who is a monster to someone, may be an angel to someone else. That makes it quite difficult to define anybody as a genuine and stable monster: There is no water-proof, staying definition that excludes all shades of doubt. For instance, it has been a weird experience to see someone like e.g. Adolph Hitler changing from monster-status into someone being extolled as a kind of idol. I always saw him as the king of monsters, although he himself isn't unparalleled: History speaks of many evil and cruel people, and he is just one out of many. Who knows what the artist painting this gruesome scenery - Sergey Kolesow - had in mind, was it someone specific or was he out to picture cruelty as such?

https://designyoutrust.com/2016/03/to-the-vanishing-point-the-obscure-broken-worlds-of-artist-sergey-kolesov/

https://awesomerobo.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-art-of-sergey-kolesov.html

When The Mother Becomes One's "Child"

Screen legend Rita Hayworth undoubtedly was very beautiful. She had made her name after what was reputed to have been a very troublesome childhood with a father who may/may not have abused her. She had been married to and had a daughter with one of the movie geniuses of that time: Orson Welles. They look like an ill-fitted couple and the marriage didn't last long: 1943–1947. 

Their daughter, Rebecca Welles, was the spitting image of her father, but they didn't see much of each other after the split up of the Hayworth-Welles marriage. For instance, it seems that he never knew that she had given birth to a son at the age of 21, and that he was set up for adoption right after birth. Young Rebecca may not even have seen him when he was born, but it's obvious that he too took after Orson Welles, and not Rita Hayworth as to looks:

Marc McKerrow, the illegitimate son of Rebecca Welles

Being the firstborn child of Rita Hayworth didn't bring mother and daughter close. Rebecca didn't understand that her mother, who had become a heavy drinker also suffered from Alzheimer. They were not close, but her younger half-sister, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, who stemmed from the much publicized marriage of the screen legend and the very well-known, charismatic Islamic playboy, Prince Aly Khan became her mother's fierce champion when she found out what her problem was. 

As a young woman Yasmin looked like she might be her mother's twin, but to many people she may first and foremost have been a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter, Fatima. 

Yasmin went into a fierce fight for Alzheimer-patients. She founded The Rita Hayworth Gala and is recognized as a strong force behind the global research in and treatment of this grave illness. When her mother died in 1987 that didn't put a stop to her enthusiasm for the cause. However, at that time she herself had become a mother, namely to a dashing son, Andrew Embiricos, who was a young man who had his own problems. 

This handsome young man apparently was a troubled soul who had engaged in the business of making porn. Most probably that was how he had contracted HIV which may be the reason for what happened when he was no more than 25 years old: He was found dead in what appears to have been a suicide. Much in his life looks rather shady, but it's not quite confirmed what happened when he died. Was the plastic bag over his head for suicide, or was it for some kind of autoeroticism? It may even have been something worse, like e.g. homicide, but it has never been found out exactly what happened. He was the only child of his mother, but it seems that they weren't close, and that she may not have known what was going on in his life. She was so very engaged in the Alzheimer cause that she had no eye for HIV or Aids: Her life was so tied up with the concern for the older generation of her family, that she seems to have forgotten the younger one. I suppose that in a way her mother became "her child", who overshadowed her son which I find sad.

 

https://nypost.com/2011/12/06/hayworth-grandson-suicide/ 

 

https://people.com/celebrity/rita-hayworths-grandson-andrew-embiricos-dead/  

 

https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/a-to-z-of-islam/f/fatima/ 

 

https://wellesnet.com/recalling-rebecca-welles-daughter-of-rita-hayworth-and-orson-welles-10-years-after-her-death/ 

 

Wikipedia 

Cruel Execution

 

Much as I despise this disgusting individual, I think (hope?!!!) I would curb my (in my opinion) fully understandable lust for revenge or just the wish to "blot him out". I see him as one of the most despicable creatures of this century, both because of what he does, has done and plans to do and for being whom he is: An egomaniac, a pedophile, rapist, cheat, embezzler, grifter and - in my opinion - a criminal, yes, maybe even a murderer of several people. For instance, Epstein died at a very convenient time, as did Ivana, and both of them had wounds that didn't fit the story of their death.

What happened in that, by now, very famous prison cell with the 11 sheets? Nobody knows for sure, but the guesses are many and persistent: If it wasn't a suicide, then what happened, and who did this to him if he didn't do it himself?

I'm one of those who think that these two men had a business relationship of some art and not only a friendship: Actually, I, for one, suspect that The Orange Menace was more than a friend and customer of Epstein. If the allegations of one of the victims, Maria Farmer, are trustworthy then his then wife, Ivana, may have been into trafficking herself for a while which also makes her husband a suspect. In my opinion there are details in the tRump-Epstein-relationship that hasn't been seen - or seen for what they are - as Maria Farmer has told of how she, Ivana and her friend, Ghislaine went out scouting for underage girls to the Epstein-trafficking-business. If that's true, then it opens up to many new questions about the real nature of the relationship of tRump and Epstein. That should make it clear that I don't in the least like him, but what would I be, or become, if I took out my revenge in one of the cruel manners that have been used up through history? Well, I would become someone I don't want to spend time with, so to speak: There are, and should be, limits to cruelty and revenge. 

 

No matter what, I wouldn't allow myself - or others - to do to Don the Con what some people in the past have done to their enemies. Actually, there are several instances of something that might be called "over-kill" where someone in power takes it upon him-/herself to punish an individual they feel deserves the worst of the worst. Some of these "over-kill"-instances sort of turn grotesque for what is the use of this extreme cruelty? For instance, one may find it awful that the leader of the Dutch revolt, William the Silent of the House og Orange was murdered by Balthazar Gérard (c. 1557–1584), but the fact that it led to an extremely brutal and painful execution of his murderer doesn't bring him back, and this torture just is too much. Not even the orange Menace would deserve something like e.g. "drawing and Quartering".

Balthazar Gerard 

Wikipedia: To read what was done to him makes it obvious that he must have looked forward to the last stage of the torture when he was quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart was torn out and flung in his face before his head was cut off. I often said that I think Don the Con owes Old Sparky a date for high treason in stealing documents, and other grave crimes, but to see his heart - if he has one, which is debatable - flung into his face is too much. Many people would love to kick his butt, but not something like that. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_G%C3%A9rard 

 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/drawing-and-quartering 

 

"Caressed in Life": Poem by Else Cederborg

 

 

"Caressed In Life": Poem by Else Cederborg

Cornered in by walls of misery

is that your given place in life?

I don't think so, never shall

no walls can blot out your existence

not even those made of misery

You live, reluctantly, but you do

something within carries you along

you even float without realizing it

Believe my word: Next you're going to soar

To make you reach that star you call yours

tender hands support you and caress you

lovingly they stroke your cheek, support your feet

don't ever think they don't because they do

caressed and loved in life are you - yes, YOU .…

Stalking Young Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria, 20 years old 

She was not considered a beauty, but the idea of someone that young becoming the Queen of England, thus gaining a lot of power, even though she is a woman, did set "flies in the bonnet" of some of her male subjects. Some tried to shoot her for reasons best known to themselves, but which we may guess at. Others courted her in futile attempts to attract her attention for romance. In her teens she herself was infatuated by Lord Melbourne, who undeniably was a handsome man.

Lord Melbourne instructs the young Queen Victoria.

Victoria might adore the Lord, but I've never heard anything about him being in love with or just attracted to her. However, she didn't lack suitors as several men did have some kind of feelings for her, either of a non-romantic, mercenary art or something else: Sexual attraction. One of these "men" was a teenager who has gained everlasting fame by stalking her in a special and somewhat weird manner. The name of this teenager was Edward "Boy" Jones (1824– c. 1893 or 1896), and he didn't in the least belong to her social circles: He was a chimney sweep who several times broke into Buckingham Palace in order to steal her underwear, letters and whatever items he could get his hands on. That can't have been an easy exploit, as the palace of course was heavily guarded and she was protected in any way possible, so one wonders at his bravery in doing something like that to get what he wanted. By the way, it seems he stole her underwear and carried it out of the palace stuck into his trousers which I find both funny as well as kind of suggestive.

When he was caught - and that also happened several times - he received a sentence of hard labor for some months, but that didn't make him stop his habit of stalking the Queen so he was sent to Australia for 10 years. When he came back he just went on as a burglar for some time, before he decided to go back to Australia.
 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-12342921 

 

Wikipedia 

 

Turning One's Back On The Patriarchy

 

Yup, and the Korean women who started the 4B-Movement really mean business: No men, no dating, no sex, no marriage and no babies. The declining Korean birth rate tells a true story of women who have had enough. However, they don't fight the Patriarchy in the same manner as e.g. the feminists of the 1970's which had an element of ongoing discussion: The women believed in men's ability to listen and learn, but the 4B-women have given up on the male gender altogether.

The movement has been spreading for quite some time, and after the American 2024 election of the ultra male chauvenist, the blatant misogynist, and women abuser, Donald tRump, American women also have become interested in the movement: The incels may lament their situation as men who can't get a date, using the old tricks of "seduction" and living by the outdated rules for how the sexes make an interaction work. Not so long ago  women were caught in a web of sex roles that didn't give them much room for designing their own, independent lives. They have had to suppress themselves for a long time to fit into the pre-conceived ideologies that kept them in a fierce stronghold of suppressive ideas about womanhood, and they have become fed up with that system.

Actually, The 4B-movement has spread globally from South Korea to the US, China, and Australia - perhaps even more. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it has gained access to Muslim countries which uphold a grotesquely twisted system of gender control. If not I'm sure it will come.  

Wikipedia

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/15/4b-south-korea-feminist-movement-donald-trump-election-backlash 

 

https://theconversation.com/a-woman-is-not-a-baby-making-machine-a-brief-history-of-south-koreas-4b-movement-and-why-its-making-waves-in-america-243355 

 

https://www.service95.com/4b-movement-explainer 

 

https://studybreaks.com/culture/womens-bodies-the-4b-movement-and-eradicating-men/ 

 

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/2738770 

  

Video: https://youtu.be/x2PCugCIyyY?si=XDRdI_yEDDejcRPB 

 

 

 

The Dead Man Who Never Existed

 

Some lives look normal, but are anything but ordinary. For instance there is/was the man who checked into the Irish Sligo City Hotel in June 2009. Presumaby his name was "Peter Bergmann", and he was an Austrian with a non-disclosed reason to visit Ireland. For the next couple of days he was caught on various business cameras throughout the town, busy distributing some of his belongings. Some days after checking at the hotel his dead body was found on a popular beach, and this started a lengthy investigation about him, his identity and his reasons for visiting Ireland. However, nothing came of this police investigation, except one thing: He didn't exist and never had existed, as there are no records of him anywhere. People didn't forget about this weird case of non-existence, and in 2013 there was a documentary, "The Last Days of Peter Bergman", about it. The interest and fascination was such that it has become very popular with the members of some websites. They still discuss the strange case of a man who died in Ireland, presumably, without having been alive anywhere else ....

Saved???

Well, it seems that I succeeded in saving my Boobytrap-blog, but I don't know why it, all of a sudden, acted crazy, so it may not be for long. Disasters happen, but I hope there will not be too many for either of in 2026.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you

A New Blog???

As I for some time have had some WEIRD problems with my blog, BOOBYTRAP, I may close it and start another one, either here or somewhere else. If I do, I shall leave the link here.

The Liar's "Game"

Alas, not only Joseph Goebbels, but also our modern days piece of vermin, Donald Trump, has given his evidence that the same method of lying as the Nazi one is working just fine. Lying is an art, and some, like e.g. Goebbels, master it. As to Trump, he went too far, and have been found out too many times. That's why I find that he as a liar doesn't score as high as Goebbels. 

A special situation: The teacher caught the student in the lie of having done his homework. But WHY lie about something that obviously was a blatant lie? It's embarrassing to be found out so why risk that? Well, according to many/most psychologists lies are a natural kind of protection: This particular liar chose to chance it to keep on good terms with the teacher in order to protect  himself. 

Lying seems to be part of the human make-up, and young children of three years or so seem to have grasped the art of lying, because at that time the start to understand some of the more advanced intricacies of human societies. Something I find quite amazing. Even so, there is no doubt that both Goebbels and tRump has gone much too far in their lying habits.

A Few Broodings About Faith

 

As is well-known it's a historical fact that breeds of deities have followed upon breeds of deities. Beliefs have changed with social circumstances, and humans have accepted new deities as their best friends whom they may turn to in the days of need. Actually, humans have proven over and over again that what they expect from their gods is the same as they would expect from the neighbouhood thug whom they befriendied in order to gain influence or just protection in a dangerous world. Sometimes the needy humans feel that this system works, sometimes not, but the main point is that all of them resort to ideas about invisible powers outside of themselves which control their life. It's a crazy notion,  but still it can't be ignored as part of the general human make-up as it seems to be part of the general idea of humans all over the planet. The gods may differ, but not the human wish for them and the help they want from them.

 

The Queen Who Became An Author

Elizabeth of Wied (1843-1916), was born a German princess, and many found it very appropriate for her to marry the British prince who became King Edward Vii. I'm not sure when they met, but it seems to have been something his family set up for the young people. However, after being introduced to Elizabeth, young Edward declined to go further with the family plans of a marriage. Maybe he already had met his future bride, the American socialite, Wallis Simpson, at that time. Anyway, he didn't have eyes for Elizabeth, so she found another bridegroom, namely the first king of Romania, Carol I (1839–1914).

The couple only had one child, namely the princess Maria. Unfortunately, the child fell ill and died, only four years old. I suppose the loss of her daughter made Elizabeth even more inclined to follow her artistic dreams than before, simply to fill her days and bring meaning to her life. (However, that's me interpreting what happened, and I may be wrong). 

In her case that meant writing and publishing books, using the rather exotic pseudonym of Carmen Sylva. Actually, she was quite prolific, writing not a few works:  

           https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1660504.Carmen_Sylva 

I must admit that I haven't read her books, but it's safe to say that her main theme is of a spiritual kind. She is preoccupied with the issue of suffering, and use the fairy tale genre.

 

New Forms of Misogyny

  

 

These years we seem to be drowning in floods of new forms of misogyny. Maybe the best term for it would be "The War of the Worlds", namely the male and the female worlds. As we know, they hold different ideologies, etc.. When I visit sites as e.g. Reddit I'm surprised at the fierce male hatred  of women and the blatant misogyny in young men. I've seen it in the older generations too, but didn't know that the younger ones are even worse. On some websites there seems to be a general male demand that more women - which means their own generation, sisters, wives, etc. - stop their feminism and instead return to the sex roles of their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers or so: ONE sexual partner - namely them - and they must not lose their much prized virginity to anyone else, but these male "prizes". These men are considered able to satisfy them in any way possible simply by being who they are. On the other way, they should be free to roam the streets of whatever "love city" they fancy while women stay at home, tending the children. Strangely enough, these men have no suggestions as to how the women are to be provided for by male labor.

One might try to laugh off such naive delusions in modern times, but it's quite obvious that this is their genuine opinion. It may look liked children's fantasies, but to them it's "The Truth" - which it's not .... Sadly enough, the ideological climate has changed, and this new ideology is becoming "normalized".

Female Sex-Murderer

They exist, but there are not as many as male sex-murderers. One of the most baffling cases is the one of the Hungarian Piroska Jancso-Ladanyi (1934-1954). She didn't kill men, but women, and her inclination to do so allegedly was her strong sexual drive. The author Szilard Rubin described her life extensively in the novel "Little Saints". 

Szilard Rubin 

The crimes of Piroska Jancso-Ladanyi were gruesome: She killed - and raped - five very young girls between 1953 and 1954. Her rape consisted of "rubbing herself against the corpse of the murdered girl". I take it that she was a sort of "misplaced lesbian" who tried to find her sexual way in a bewildering situation without ever being able to do so. That may not be so very surprising when considering her family background, which was pitiful to say the least. Not that it excuses what she did, but it may explain the pattern of her actions, at least up to a point

She was the daughter of a totally penniless woman who, at the age of 16, started to offer sexual favors to male farmers as part of her working for them as a maid. She had five children by four different men, one of them the biological father of Piroska and her brother Jozsef. He was forced to pay the sum of 600 forints as a "once and never again"-alimony for his daughter, not wanting to deal with her again. At that time she had followed in the footsteps of her mother, becoming a prostitute at a very young age. Her mother's customers were mostly Hungarians, whereas she often serviced Soviet soldiers from the nearby garnison. I suppose that's how she learnt to speak fluent Russian, which was something that was noticed when she was arrested for theft. At that time she wrote poetry, loved to wander around by herself, and most likely got more and more confused about who and what she was. All of that confusion ended when she was arrested as a female serial-killer and was hanged on December 12, 1954, leaving her son, Mihaly, motherless. Her last wish, namely to see him, was not granted. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piroska_Jancs%C3%B3-Lad%C3%A1nyi  

 

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2025/03/woman-who-killed-for-lust.html 

Myths of Sexual Organs

 

There are loads of vaginal myths out there in the public. One of these that I've seen before is this one about the "one hole" vagina. Although it's tempting to laugh it off as some crazy guys trying to be funny, or a hillbilly who doesn't know much after years in what I call "thoughts-and-prayers"-schools, it would not be fair on the guys and others like them. By now, I suspect that it's the individual teachers who don't feel obliged to see to it that the children they are set to educate aren't being taught basics. They feel embarrassed by the subject, or they simply didn't learn about it themselves. Now and then, it looks like there are some new, healthy, unbiased approaches toward the issue of biology and science, and that not everything is blotted out by religious fruitcakes, but then one may see hefty discussions like the one above and realizes that that's not the case: Biology and sex are still buried in myths, some sexist, and some simply proofs of extreme ignorance.

Surprisingly enough, even UK women need some biology lessons as well - yeah, maybe even many more people of all sexes all over the world don't know how to count entrances and outlets "down there" when it comes to women. As men have been "the normal" for ages, some may even hate the  truth that women have one more "hole" than men. It's crazy and not at all as it should be, but it seems very likely.

When it comes to men and their genitals, it shouldn't be that difficult to count what there is and what's what, but the working of the "gear" presents some problems because of the many myths surrounding the male sexual organ. Also, there may be some considerations about "not scaring the men of females" which give rise to some stupid mistakes. However, the truth is that females are much more developed "down there" than males. That shouldn't come as a surprise, but often does, as the key to the matter is visibility. In the days of Shakespeare the female organ was nicknamed "Nothing", because women don't sport something that makes itself gain a surplus visibility through erections.  

 

When it comes to sexual organs, men are like the Platupus which are Monotrema and thus belongs to the group of ancient living mammals. Being monotrema these animals are primitive, and it may be tempting to some to use that fact in jokes about the male sex and their worshipping their penis and its symbolical value in male legends of grandeur and power.

 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1635139/

 

https://www.iflscience.com/nearly-half-of-uk-women-dont-know-how-many-holes-they-have-down-there-survey-finds-59888 

 

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20170831/5025-of-men-struggle-to-identify-a-womans-vagina-correctly-on-a-diagram-Survey.aspx 

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pussy-bites-back-vagina-dentata-myths-from-around-the-world/ 

Wikipedia

 

Britannica

 

Stealing out of "love" for the stolen objects or out of greed?

 

It's a very strange experience for a writer to see how one of the worst leeches of the world of books, Filippo Bernardini, got away with his theft of unpublished works, e.g. by a well-known author like Margaret Atwood. By pretending to be a legitimate publisher/employee he got access to many unpublished scripts of both newbie authors and established ones, and he is supposed to have stolen more than 1000 manuscripts. HOW did he avoid prison for something like that??? To me, that is something quite incomprehensable because each script represents work by an author: Time spent, ideas, and the writing itself don't float around in a workless sphere, but takes dedication and stamina, just like e.g. harvesting by a farmer. The sentence of Filippo Bernardini only was for a much deserved deportation as well as restitution money to the biggest name in publishing, Penguin House: $88,000.

To be able to steal the unpublished manuscripts he impersonated publishing professionals, which also makes him an "identity thief". It's amazing - as well as scary - that he succeeded in this scheme for quite a long time: From 2016 until his arrest in 2022. In my opinion committing aggravated identity theft should have landed him in jail, and the theft should have kept him there: Both the stealing of manuscripts and the identity theft should have been punished by the law, and I feel that the authors and the publishing world as such were let down by the judicial world.

https://www.vulture.com/2023/03/book-thief-filippo-bernardini-gets-no-jail-time-deported.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59893035



https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/book-thief-filippo-bernardini-claims-love-of-reading-drove-him-to-steal/



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/24/book-fraudster-filippo-bernardini-spared-jail

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64197625

 
 

Wikipedia

 

Bad Genes: Joseph and Nicholas Brooks

 

Joseph Brooks doesn't exactly look like the picture of a "cover-boy" of romantic music. Nonetheless, he wrote the hit song "You Light Up My World", besides producing and directing the 1977-drama of the same name, all of which brought him fame and wealth. Also, he composed e.g. "Blue Balloon" as well as jingles for e.g. Pepsi and Maxwell House. However, somewhere along the road he seems to have turned from a well-known and appreciated song-writer into a detestable criminal: A serial rapist. The winner of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award ended up committing suicide before his trial for rape in 2011. When that happened, his son, Nicholas, was also facing prison for a serious crime, namely murder.

Nicholas Brooks

Looking quite cute, the son of Joseph Brooks, Nicholas, led a happy-go-lucky playboy-life. He never had any kind of career after he dropped out of college, and didn't seem to want to commit himself to anything but drugs. They were the true "love of his life", but in 2010 the charming, young man (24 years old) caught the eye of the Peruvian-American swimsuit designer, Sylvie Cachay (1977-2010). They bonded after one of her dogs was hit by a car, and he comforted and helped her after the accident. Contrary to him, she was a successful woman with a fine career as a fashion designer. She was the one who headed the swimsuit designing team of Victoria's Secret, which was one of her many achievements that cemented her fame in the world of fashion. 

They became a couple in 2010, but their relationship met with many difficulties, and it seems to have been an off-on affair for most of the time. She was a success - as well as somewhat older than him - but he was a failure, with economic problems and no real plans of solving them. He didn't have a good relationship with his father, even though he was the one who paid for his volatile life-style. 

On December 9, 2010, Sylvie was found strangled and drowned in a bathtub at the Soho House where the couple was staying at the time. At that time, they had been together for six months, but she may have made it clear to him that she wanted out of their relationship, which could be the trigger that turned him into a murderer. Anyway, he was convicted of murdering her, and on September 23, 2013, he was sentenced to 25 years to life. 

What went wrong with this father and son? That's anybody's guess ....

 

https://nypost.com/tag/nicholas-brooks/ 

 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112072/  

 

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