The Soho House Murder: How Sylvie Cachay's Breakup Turned Deadly
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Joe
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:32.1 | December 9th, 2010, a Soho house in Manhattan's meatpacking district. A 33-year-old fashion designer is found dead in an overflowing bathtub, fully clothed in a black turtleneck sweater. |
| 0:45.3 | The scene looks like an accidental drowning, but there's a seven-minute window that tells a completely different story. |
| 0:52.3 | This is the murder of Sylvie Keshe collected bikinis when she was a kid. |
| 1:22.2 | She saw them as these tiny engineering problems waiting to be solved. |
| 1:26.4 | How do you make something that stays in place in the |
| 1:28.6 | ocean while also making someone feel beautiful? That's a very particular way of looking at the world. |
| 1:35.3 | She was born in Arlington, Virginia, on January 7, 1977, to Antonio Cache, a prominent surgeon, and |
| 1:42.9 | Sylvia, a painter. |
| 1:45.5 | That combination of scientific precision and artistic expression showed up in everything she |
| 1:50.9 | later created. |
| 1:52.5 | She grew up between McLean, Virginia, and Lima, Peru. |
| 1:55.8 | She had dual citizenship, spoke four languages fluently, and moved through international circles with this ease that made people gravitate toward her |
| 2:04.4 | After studying fashion design at Merrimount College, she worked her way up through the industry |
| 2:09.2 | Mark Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger, and eventually Victoria's Secret, where she became the head swimsuit designer. |
| 2:16.6 | She learned how to marry commercial appeal |
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