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Half-sister may have killed self to destroy Julia Roberts’ Oscar chances

Julia Roberts’ half-sister may have killed herself in a deliberate attempt to destroy the actress’ chances of winning an Oscar, her fiance’s brother has claimed.

Nancy Motes took a suspected drug overdose after writing a suicide note which allegedly contained dark secrets about the Pretty Woman star, said Conner Dilbeck in an interview with MailOnline.

Nancy’s fiance John Dilbeck, Conner’s brother, found her body in the bath Sunday at a Santa Monica house. Roberts, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “August: Osage County” skipped an Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday.

‘We are talking about people who are powerful,’ Conner told MailOnline. ‘People who have very delicate power, people who are in the limelight. Their power can be destroyed very easily if unfortunate things make them look more wicked.

‘They have to be careful, it can destroy their career or their Academy Award.’

Conner also claimed Julia inflicted ‘pure cruelty’ on her sister and Nancy’s suicide letter was a desperate attempt to expose the alleged treatment.

According to the report, he futher claimed the note is eight pages long – not five as had been thought – and Julia is said to be ‘terrified’ about it coming out.

Conner, 40, lived with Nancy and John in their apartment in Santa Monica, California for years.

He said in the interview: ‘I have spent enough time with Nancy and I know enough about her that I can say from first hand experience a lot of things that have happened.’

He added: ‘The truth is in the eight pages of her suicide letter.’

In a series of furious posts on Facebook, Conner railed against Julia and squarely blamed her for the tragedy.

He wrote: ‘I am posting this as a plea to everyone to Pray for my Brother John.

‘His lovely Fiancé, Nancy Motes, was driven to Take her Life yesterday because of the Pure Cruelty of her Sister, Julia Roberts (yes Ms. Pretty Woman herself), that has done everything in her power to ruin her and my brothers lives.

‘He is overwhelmed by this horrible event and all the Turmoil Julia has subjected them too.’

Conner said his brother found his fiance’s body last Sunday and: ‘The one thing that has made it more emotional for our family than anything else is to think of the horror of my brother having to walk in there and find his dead love in the water… and how she was driven to do this.’

In the months before her death, Nancy took aim at her famous sister on Twitter, including ‘Just so you all know “America’s Sweetheart” is a B****!!’ on January 20. This tweet and others that appeared to criticize Roberts were deleted after her death.

‘Conner’s account comes after John Fraschetti, a friend of Nancy’s fiancé, claimed the family of the Oscar winner were now ‘crying crocodile tears’ over her death.

Speaking outside Nancy and Dilbeck’s home, Fraschetti said Nancy spiraled into depression after Betty Lou Motes, the mother she and Roberts shared, ‘rejected’ her six months ago – and that she ‘just couldn’t handle it anymore’.

‘And then you get the actress woman who is pretending to grieve but she didn’t want to deal with Nancy and made her f***ing miserable.’

Fraschetti claims to have seen the letter she left behind. ‘They are crying crocodile tears. They have taken control of this situation, but they never cared of her when she was alive.”