Pink and prison don’t mix.
Just ask Navy seaman turned gay porn star Richard Caswell, who was tossed in jail after he angrily barged into the Hell’s Kitchen studio of adult film mogul Michael Lucas last month.
“Wearing pink to jail isn’t ideal,” Caswell said Monday as he left a Manhattan courthouse after being charged with trespassing. “I got a lot of looks.”
Although he’s not charged with assault, video footage appears to show the tall porn actor push and strike Lucas in the neck and shoulder as the skin flick titan tries to call cops.
“He just stormed into our offices and started beating people up,” claimed Lucas. “Several people locked themselves into the editing suite. You had to see his eyes the veins bulging on his forehead. It was scary.”
Cops arrested Caswell – wearing a hot-pink T-shirt – at the headquarters of Lucas Entertainment on Sept. 12, slapped him with trespassing charges and tossed him in jail overnight.
“It was a nightmare,” he said of the ordeal made no easier by his flamboyant attire.
The green-eyed Adonis – whose stage name is Vito Gallo – has an exclusive three-year contract with the gay porn company and was upset Lucas wasn’t giving him more work, he said.
Caswell rejected a no jail plea deal Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court which would have let him cop to disorderly conduct if he attended anger management classes.
The 28-year-old makes approximately $1500 per film and is a top model at the multimillion-dollar agency.
We were using him all the time,” said Lucas. “He’s very popular, he’s very good looking and he’s one of my top four performers. We’d love him to return if he goes through very serious anger management and see a shrink.”
Caswell was honorably discharged from the Navy after he confessed his orientation to a navy chaplain in November of 2010 shortly before President Barack Obama ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Caswell’s defense lawyer Mark Bederow declined to comment.