Accused rapist, Oscar-winner Joseph Brooks 'attacked many more women'

Already accused of raping and sexually assaulting 13 women, Joseph Brooks, an Oscar-winning composer attacked at least a dozen other women, prosecutors said Friday.

Although the DA's office is barred by statute of limitation rules from lodging charges related to the additional victims, prosecutors want the women to testify against the aging composer.

The allegations come after Brooks' son was charged for the murder of swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay last fall.

"I've interviewed these women," the New York Daily News quoted assistant district attorney Maxine Rosenthal as saying.

She added that she'd talked to as many as 50 women who had contact with Brooks in recent years.

If the judge allows their testimony, the women would be called to show the jury that Brooks, 72, is a predator who used his fame to lure young women into assaults at his upper East Side apartment.

The names of the women were found in 17,000 emails from Brooks' computers, which were seized after his 2009 arrest.

"These could be significant witnesses," said defence lawyer Jeffrey Hoffman to the judge.