The Soho House Murder: How Sylvie Cachay's Breakup Turned Deadly

Sylvie Cachay was a 33-year-old Peruvian-American fashion designer found dead in a bathtub at New York City's Soho House on December 9, 2010. The homicide investigation revealed Nicholas Brooks, her 24-year-old boyfriend, strangled and drowned the swimwear designer in what prosecutors called a staged crime scene. The murder trial in 2013 exposed intimate partner violence, financial exploitation, and a twisted family legacy involving Brooks's father, Academy Award-winning composer Joseph Brooks, who was awaiting trial for sexually assaulting 11 women

This is the story of a woman who survived the 2008 financial crash and was rebuilding her fashion empire when she met a trust fund kid with no job, no ambition, and a family tree rotting from the inside out. Sylvie was days away from cutting him off completely when everything went wrong in a flooded hotel room. The forensic evidence tells a story of violence that couldn't be hidden by running water and prescription pills. This case has everything: a fire that might not have been an accident, a seven-minute window that destroyed an alibi, and a turtleneck sweater that became the most damning piece of evidence in a Manhattan courtroom.

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