According to sources, shortly before a gay Portuguese fashion journalist was beaten to death and castrated in a Times Square hotel room, his 20-year-old fashion model boy-toy told him he was actually straight and only with him for the money, sources told The New York Post.
The pair – who were in the middle of a New York vacation that included visits to Broadway shows such as "Spider-Man:Turn off The Dark" – got into a heated argument after the revelation, the sources said. They were fighting so loudly Thursday at the East Village restaurant Paulinos that other customers complained.
After days of tension, veteran newspaper reporter Carlos Castro, 65, wound up nude and dead — his testicles hacked off — on the floor of his ransacked room on the 34th floor of the InterContinental Hotel on Friday night.
News of the romance-turned-tragedy stunned people in Portugal who knew Castro’s boyfriend – aspiring model Renato Seabra – as womanizer who gave no indication he was gay, a source said.
Acquaintances of Seabra, who had recently won a modeling contract by becoming a finalist in a Portuguese reality model search show, thought he was only pretending to date Castro to get ahead in the fashion world.
"Carlos Castro was a trampoline to rise in the fashion and social worlds," the source said.
After doing well on the show, "Pursuit of a Dream," Seabra told a reporter of his burning need to succeed in fashion. "I have entered this world, and I don’t want to leave it because I see I can be successful," he said.
Castro was found dead in his trashed room at about 7 p.m. Friday. His head was smashed in by a blunt object and he was mutilated possibly with a broken wine glass.
Shortly after the slaying, Seabra was spotted by a friend of the victim waking out of the hotel.
"We asked him about Carlos and he seemed in shock. He wasn’t expecting to see us," said the friend, Monica Pires.
Renato the 'straight' boyfriend of
slain journalist Carlos Castro
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