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Parents of Sylvie Cachay say breaking up with boyfriend may have resulted in her death

The grief-stricken parents of the swimsuit fashion designer found dead and half naked in a Soho House hotel bathtub are convinced she was “murdered” — saying she never took baths to begin with.

“I feel that my daughter was murdered,” her father Antonio Cachay told The Post inside the McLean, Va., home about 10 miles outside of Washington, DC. “She was like a lot of New Yorkers — always on the go.”

Nick Brooks, 26, who she broke up with a day before her death, is being questioned by police in connection with Cachay’s death. No charges have been filed.

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Sources told The Post that an initial autopsy was inconclusive. Police have ordered another round of toxicology reports to try and find the exact cause.

Cops are also holding Brooks in anticipation of getting a warrant to do a physical examination to see if there is any evidence that links him to her death.

“There’s foul play here and I want justice applied,” Cachay’s father said.

Cachay said his 33-year-old daughter — who was found early Thursday morning after overflowing water cascaded to rooms below — would have never taken a bath.

“She was not the type of girl who would sit in the tub. She would take a shower and be on her way. Something really bad happened here,” he said.

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Cachay’s parents, both wearing bathrobes during their interview with The Post, clearly had not slept all night.

Cachay had told them during a vacation in Cancun over Thanksgiving weekend that she was going to break it off with Brooks.

The parents said the breakup was amicable — although they admit they never cared much for him.

Cachay’s mother Sylvia said her daughter no longer wanted to date Brooks because he had no job.

“He gets a job — then he drops out,” her mother said of Brooks, who claimed to work for his dad.

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Brooks’ father Joseph — the composer of “You Light Up My Life” — was indicted this year on 82 counts of sexually abusing 11 starlets.

At one point, Sylvia Cachay, an artist, broke down into tears when speaking about her daughter. She also said her daughter loved to party, but “she didn’t drink or do drugs” — ruling out that she may have overdosed on something.

The parents also said Brooks and their daughter were friends for about a month when they began to date.

“No, she was like, ‘We are not boyfriend and girlfriend. We are friends. You can call me, you can visit me, but we are not in a relationship until you clean up. She thought he had potential,” Cachay’s mother added.

The parents said the four-month relationship began earlier this year after Cachay’s poodle Pepper was hit by a car — and Brooks was there every day to comfort her and stay with the dog while he was in the hospital.

“She was devastated,” Sylvia Cachay said of her daughter when the dog died. “It was the end of the world.”

The Post reported that Cachay and Brooks arrived together at the Soho House at around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Sources said Cachay accused her beau of accidentally setting fire earlier in the night to her West 10th Street apartment by leaving lit candles behind her bed.

“He’s a stoner,” she told the front-desk clerk, according to police. “He’s always stoned. Who puts candles behind the bed?”

Brooks told a hotel worker that during the apartment blaze, he came out of the bathroom to find Cachay’s hair and the bed on fire, sources said.

The couple put out the blaze, but wanted to stay somewhere else because of the smoky smell.

Cachay’s Soho House membership gave her privileges to rent rooms whenever she wanted.

She told the front-desk clerk that she was “really tired” and couldn’t stay awake after downing Xanax. She was so drugged, the concierge had to help her to her room.

As the clerk was leaving the room, she heard Cachay shouting at Brooks before going abruptly quiet.

Video footage shows that Brooks went in and out of the room repeatedly in the hours that followed, but was inside from 1:45 a.m. to 2:16, at which time he left to have food and drinks with a pal, sources said.

Five minutes before he left, the front desk received its first water complaint.

When staffers arrived in the room, he was gone, and Cachay was in the 6½-foot oval tub wearing just a black T-shirt and panties. They immediately made efforts to revive her before calling 911.

She was declared dead at the scene.