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By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:12 AM on 9th January 2011

The mangled body of Carlos Castro was discovered at a New York hotel

Police are questioning the model boyfriend of a celebrity television journalist murdered and castrated in his luxury New York hotel room.

The mangled body of Carlos Castro, 65, was discovered at the InterContinental New York Times Square.

He had been beaten and was lying in a pool of blood in his room on the 34th floor where he had been living since December 29.

Workers at the InterContinental New York Times Square hotel discovered the mutilated body of Castro, in his blood-drenched room at about 7 p.m. on Friday.

He had arrived in the U.S. 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, but nothing to suggest that anything horrible was about to happen, said the friend, Luis Pires, the editor of the Portuguese-language newspaper Luso-Americano in Newark, New Jersey.

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