Portuguese TV star killed, castrated in US hotel room
NEW YORK: A celebrity Portuguese television journalist was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel, and his companion, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, was in police custody Saturday.
The journalist, 65-year-old Carlos Castro, had arrived in the US in late December in the company of his young boyfriend, the model Renato Seabra, to see some Broadway shows and spend New Year's Eve in Times Square, according to a family friend.
There had been some friction between the two men toward the end of the trip, said the friend, Luis Pires.
When it was time to meet Pires' daughter for dinner on Friday night, Seabra suddenly emerged in the lobby of a hotel acting strangely, Pires said. "He told my daughter, 'Carlos will never leave the hotel again,'" Pires said. Security guards opened the door to the room and found the body at about 7 pm. Seabra was detained by police hours later.
The journalist, 65-year-old Carlos Castro, had arrived in the US in late December in the company of his young boyfriend, the model Renato Seabra, to see some Broadway shows and spend New Year's Eve in Times Square, according to a family friend.
There had been some friction between the two men toward the end of the trip, said the friend, Luis Pires.
When it was time to meet Pires' daughter for dinner on Friday night, Seabra suddenly emerged in the lobby of a hotel acting strangely, Pires said. "He told my daughter, 'Carlos will never leave the hotel again,'" Pires said. Security guards opened the door to the room and found the body at about 7 pm. Seabra was detained by police hours later.
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