CARLOS CASTRO
Found castrated.
Before a gay Portuguese fashion journalist was beaten to death and castrated in a Times Square hotel room, his 20-year-old boy toy told him he was actually straight and only with him for the money, sources told The Post yesterday.
The two men got into a heated argument after the revelation, sources said.
Veteran newspaper reporter Carlos Castro, 65, wound up nude and dead — his testicles hacked off — on the floor of his ransacked room at the InterContinental hotel on Friday night.
Acquaintances of Renato Seabra, who recently won a modeling contract on a Portuguese TV show, said he was straight and only pretending to date Castro.
“Carlos Castro was a trampoline to rise in the fashion and social worlds,” the source said.
Shortly after the slaying, Seabra took a taxi to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was treated, apparently for self-inflicted cuts to his wrists. Police arrested him at the hospital.
He was later taken to Bellevue, where he was under sedation yesterday.
Additional reporting by Michael Blaustein