Celebrity Portuguese television journalist Carlos Castro has been found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York hotel.
His companion, male model Renato Seabra, is in police custody.
Staff at the InterContinental hotel in Times Square found 65-year-old Castro's mutilated body in a pool of blood.
Castro's friend, Luis Pires, editor of the Portuguese-language newspaper Luso-Americano in Newark, New Jersey, said there had been some friction between the two men.
Castro, who also was a columnist and author apart from his TV work, was admired for his bravery in coming out as a gay man. Pires described him as having "kind of a Liberace style".
Seabra, 21, won a modelling contract last year after appearing on a Portuguese TV reality show.
Sources: AP/ABC/Mail on Sunday
