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Prosecutors ‘Light Up’ composer Joe Brooks with news of a dozen more sex accusers

The creepy composer of “You Light Up My Life” — already on the hook for alleged casting couch attacks on 13 wanna-be starlets in his Upper East Side apartment — has at least 12 more women accusing him of audition audacities, prosecutors said this morning.

Oscar-winning tunesmith Joseph Brooks, 72, learned after hobbling into court with his cane this morning that his cross-country roster of sex-assault accusers is double the original number.

The additional accusers will not be added to his already lengthy, 90-plus-count indictment because their cases are too old to prosecute, among other reasons, said assistant district attorney Maxine Rosenthal.

But Rosenthal told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon that she still hopes to call them as witnesses against Brooks when the massive case goes to trial, possibly by years’ end.

Brooks is accused of advertising for movie auditions on Craigslist, flying the beautiful young prospects to New York, then having them try out “scripts” that sometimes required they undress and drink wine laced with knock-out drugs. His attacks ranged from forcible touching to outright rapes, prosecutors allege.

For now, prosecutors are keeping the victim names in today’s newly-revealed, unindicted cases hush-hush, as with the names of the 13 “Jane Does” already officially accusing Brooks — a secrecy that Brooks lawyer, Jeffrey Hoffman, complained leaves him ham-strung.

“I don’t know of any law, rule, or case that allows [the prosecution] to redact information on potential witnesses who may be defense witnesses,” Hoffman said.

When the case eventually does go to trial, Brooks may call to the stand still other wanna-be starlets who answered his ads, auditioned in his E. 63rd St. apartment, and left without a word of complaint, Hoffman said.

“There are many people who went through exactly the same or similar situation — Craigslist, came to New York, interviewed for parts, etc. — [and] nothing happened,” the lawyer said. “Those are very significant witnesses.”

Retorted Rosenthal, “That’s like a rapist calling every other woman he had sex with to say, well, he didn’t rape me.”

“I don’t think someone becomes a relevant witness by saying ‘He didn’t rape me,” she added. “What — therefore he isn’t a rapist?”

Brooks is back in court for more pretrial discussions on March 4. His son, Nicholas Brooks, returns to court Feb. 8 as the accused murderer in the alleged Soho House bathtub strangle of his ex-girlfriend, glamorous swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay.