Rough trade?
Renowned NYC art dealer Brent Sikkema found stabbed to death in Rio
by Anonymous | reply 258 | May 10, 2024 2:07 AM |
The photo shows that under those clothes he had a nice body for a 75 year-old man.
I'm surprised this is not getting greater traction here. Usually glamorous murders get more attention.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 16, 2024 8:08 PM |
I see zero sign that he had a nice body.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 16, 2024 8:14 PM |
why are we even talking about his body? jeez
I want to discuss the BBC he was taking before getting stabbed
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 16, 2024 8:17 PM |
you are trash r4
this was a person with a life (an admirable life)
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 16, 2024 8:17 PM |
That's a tragic way to die. At least they can't blame NYC crime on this.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 16, 2024 9:27 PM |
[quote]Sikkema lived most of the year in New York but found an affinity with Rio de Janeiro
I think his affinity was with hung, cheap, and plentiful Brazilian rentboys.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 16, 2024 9:38 PM |
Sex tourism by gay men in Rio? Yeah he went there to get a tan and escape winter.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 16, 2024 9:41 PM |
Is "affinity" the new code for BBC addiction?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 16, 2024 9:41 PM |
[quote] I see zero sign that he had a nice body.
He has muscular thighs under those black pants in the photo at the original post.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 16, 2024 9:42 PM |
[quote] Sex tourism by gay men in Rio?
I've never heard of such a preposterous thing!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 16, 2024 9:43 PM |
He was my longtime lover but our houseboy was jealous.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 16, 2024 9:56 PM |
Sikkema is survived by his husband and 12-year-old son.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 17, 2024 12:06 AM |
Died by dick, you know it.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 17, 2024 12:37 AM |
R5, it’s R4’s racism that makes him trash, you airhead.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 17, 2024 12:41 AM |
I was in Rio on vacation about six months ago. I absolutely loved the place but while I was staying there a cute young tourist from Georgia (Georgia as in the Eurasian country, not the Murican state) was killed by a drug-addicted male hustler he brought back to his hotel room.
Stupid white guys who go looking for sex in a place like Rio really have it coming to them.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 17, 2024 1:16 AM |
So you're implying stupid non-white guys who go looking for sex in a place like Rio somehow do NOT have it coming to them, r16?
Please explain how that works.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 17, 2024 1:30 AM |
I'm sure he loves Brazil for the weather and cultural opportunities, just like Glenn Greenwald
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 17, 2024 1:32 AM |
Very sad. What a way to go.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 17, 2024 1:42 AM |
Deep plane facelift and fillers. 50k down the drain!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 17, 2024 1:48 AM |
Didn’t know him but his gallery was a favorite of mine. Sad.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 17, 2024 1:56 AM |
Oh no, this is not good. If they won’t even treat the eldergays with respect, how can a thirty something gay expect to score some of that famous big Brazilian cock.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 17, 2024 2:10 AM |
What gay guy goes to Brazil and isn't going to look for some dick while he is there r16?! It's what you do.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 17, 2024 2:17 AM |
Think about it. If that's what happened to him, that he was murdered by someone he had sex with or was going to have sex with, and he was stabbed to death can you imagine what his last moments were like? How absolutely horrifying? No thanks. I'll BYOB.....Bring your own boy.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 17, 2024 2:45 AM |
Drugs were probably involved
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 17, 2024 7:15 AM |
Glenn Greenwald -- meet your future!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 17, 2024 7:19 AM |
I think gay men past the age of 50 should be EXTRA careful and hire only vetted, known, professional whores. In my years I have known several rich eldergays seriously injured by bad pickups. In fact one was burned to death!
These rich geezers get deluded into life being a gravy train from decades of financial ease and most service people being obsequious ass kissers. They don't know they have lost their wits, and their strength , and also most importantly they have lost the respect of young men.
It's just a matter of time before some damaged trade fucks them over.
If you're going to buy sex - buy escorts known in your circle. Or take a young squire and know a LOT about him. Drop him if there is ANY damage.
It would even be better to go to a sauna known to have working boys, and consume there. Those whores are known to each other and you'd be in a public place.
Never ever invite unknown trade to your home, certainly not after a certain age.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 17, 2024 10:48 AM |
Yes we get older. And we have problems letting go of what we once were. But then again, some of us never were all that. The point is that there are enough of us older queens who'll never win a beauty contest, to find someone who cares about us and stop trying to cling to the fiction that we're desirable to some hot young stud. It always ends in tears,...if you're lucky.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 17, 2024 12:56 PM |
Stabbing is often associated with clandestine sexual escapades.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 17, 2024 1:06 PM |
That’s why it’s best to stick to a bathhouse.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 17, 2024 1:21 PM |
R28- I was watching an old episode of Law And Order: Criminal Intent Monday night. In the episode an older woman 👵 was married to a young guy. He ran off with a girl his age (20’s) . She killed them both.
That never seems to happen in real life- real Gay life where the old queen 👸 kills the hot 🥵 young stud when said stud walks out on him.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 17, 2024 1:25 PM |
I jumped the NY Times paywall for my fellow cheapskates:
By Zachary Small Jan. 16, 2024, 1:18 p.m. ET Brent Sikkema, Influential Gallerist, Is Found Dead in His Rio Apartment The Brazilian police told The Associated Press they were investigating the art dealer’s death and looking for witnesses. The Manhattan art dealer Brent Sikkema, who represented prominent artists like Kara Walker, Jeffrey Gibson and Vik Muniz, was found dead in his Rio de Janeiro apartment on Monday night. Brazilian publications reported that the gallerist, who helped found Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was discovered with stab wounds to his body after the local Fire Department was called to his apartment in the neighborhood of Jardim Botânico. “It is with great sadness that the gallery announces the passing of our beloved founder,” Meg Malloy and Michael Jenkins, his business partners, said in a statement. “The gallery grieves this tremendous loss and will continue on in his spirit.” The Brazilian police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Officers will listen to witnesses, are looking for more information and are carrying out other inquiries to shed light on the case,” the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State said in a statement to The Associated Press. Sikkema, 75, worked in the art world for more than 50 years, opening his New York gallery in 1991 under the name Wooster Gardens. The gallery, which focused on contemporary art, was an early transplant from the SoHo neighborhood to the Chelsea arts district in 1999, where he soon brought on new partners and renamed the gallery. The dealership maintained a small but influential roster that helped build the careers of artists like Walker, who presented her first solo exhibition in New York nearly 30 years ago and continues to show with the gallery. Other notable artists with the company include Sheila Hicks, Louis Fratino and Jennifer Packer. “I’m shocked,” said Yancey Richardson, a longtime friend who runs a gallery across the street and shared representation of the photographer Mitch Epstein with him. “Brent had a terrific eye and thought outside of the box. He wasn’t just mounting one painting show after another.” Richardson said Sikkema was less involved at his gallery in recent years as he looked toward retirement. “He was trying to step back,” she said. Sikkema’s death comes ahead of a critical showcase for one of the gallery’s top artists, Jeffrey Gibson, who is preparing to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in April. The exhibition is considered the art world’s version of the Olympics, and it requires substantial fund-raising and planning to succeed. Sikkema lived most of the year in New York but found an affinity with Rio de Janeiro. Speaking to the magazine IdeaFix about his apartment there, near the Tijuca forest, he described it as a true urban “oasis.”
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 17, 2024 1:32 PM |
Renowned for what?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 17, 2024 1:34 PM |
For dealing art, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 17, 2024 1:36 PM |
I knew Brent. My ex was an art dealer and we hung out with him many times. I know its easy to laugh at his death as the folly of a pathetic old gay man but he was a truly lovely soul.
This is so heartbreaking.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 17, 2024 1:43 PM |
Not many laughing in this thread. It's sad and horrifying.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 17, 2024 1:51 PM |
how do these art galleries make money? they take a cut of sale?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 17, 2024 5:37 PM |
I gotta start being nicer to my Brazilian tricks...
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 17, 2024 6:54 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 19, 2024 8:23 AM |
And don’t forget your Cuban tricks…
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 19, 2024 8:27 AM |
A hit job arranged by the husband? How old is the surviving husband?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 19, 2024 8:30 AM |
The husband and possibly the son, from a number of years ago if the boy is 12 now.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 19, 2024 8:33 AM |
Detective Herdy said new information indicated that suspect Mr. Trevez and Mr. Sikkema had been together in Rio last summer, though the exact nature of their relationship was still unknown.
Uh, Detective Herdy.... give Datalounge a call.
We know.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 19, 2024 8:43 AM |
I wouldn't do him. There's rough trade and there is suicidal death wish.
pic next post.
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by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 19, 2024 8:44 AM |
He looks like the missing link.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 19, 2024 8:45 AM |
Aging ren tboys with jug ears are known to be dangerous.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 19, 2024 8:47 AM |
I wouldn't say the perp's face looks mean. It looks very primitive, and one might wonder if there is any reliable moral register given such a neanderthal IQ.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 19, 2024 8:50 AM |
cut or uncut?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 19, 2024 9:32 AM |
Art Dealer sounds like such a shady profession.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 19, 2024 1:03 PM |
R45, “exact relationship” means that it is not clear who was top, bottom, or versatile.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 19, 2024 1:06 PM |
If only a homicidal rent boy would take out Glenn Greenwald...
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 19, 2024 6:12 PM |
that guy is so ugly but he looks like he's in shape. he doesn't have to see his face if the guy is fucking him from behind. paper bag job
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 20, 2024 3:28 PM |
Crazy what people will risk just for a good hookup
by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 20, 2024 3:29 PM |
R56 the victim or the killer is so ugly?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 20, 2024 3:38 PM |
It’s the uncut ones that can slide past the second sphincter your really have to watch out for!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 20, 2024 3:38 PM |
the alleged killer R58
by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 20, 2024 3:45 PM |
All people wearing vests should die.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 20, 2024 4:12 PM |
R17: They are colonializing the hos. So they get cancelled.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 20, 2024 5:35 PM |
R59 watch out for them because THAT IS THE KIND OF COCK I WANT PLOWING ME, you mean?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 20, 2024 5:45 PM |
His NY Times obit mentions that he was currently divorcing. Really adds to the likelihood that the perp was a trick.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 22, 2024 2:42 PM |
Grateful I'm not a bottom size queen and can just get off to a full selection of dick on porn without subjecting myself to massive risk.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | January 22, 2024 3:01 PM |
[quote]His NY Times obit mentions that he was currently divorcing.
Wow, acrimonious divorce meets diva obit. That's hard to top.
Not that top. Though probably when you think about it.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 22, 2024 3:06 PM |
Cock can kill.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 22, 2024 3:15 PM |
Not "a trick". Perhaps a rentboy he knew for awhile. Or even an acquaintance. If you weren't lazy and had read the articles, this murder was planned in advance and carefully (though not perfectly) executed. Which is why the police want to question the husband to see if he has a relationship to the perp. Both from Cuba.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 22, 2024 3:24 PM |
Well, smell you R68
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 22, 2024 5:15 PM |
R68, very interesting theory
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 22, 2024 5:53 PM |
Yeah and it's not my theory. It's right there in the linked articles.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 22, 2024 7:44 PM |
Such a juicy story and no traction to speak of on DL.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 23, 2024 12:49 PM |
Gallerist. That is a new one on me.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 23, 2024 3:19 PM |
So the hubby was a sex worker!
by Anonymous | reply 75 | February 2, 2024 12:07 AM |
The title is a bit misleading there’s not much concrete about escorts.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | February 2, 2024 12:14 AM |
Very very sad. I'm guessing Sikkema knew his husband was a former rest boy.
I know someone like Sikkema. Very successful Irish-born guy who only goes for younger Latino men - but isn't interested in intelligent successful or interesting ones. He told me: "If I can converse with them, i lose all interest". He likes them young, girlish and REALLY stupid or with drug or family problems.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | February 2, 2024 12:19 AM |
Bet he was originally one of his husband's johns
by Anonymous | reply 78 | February 2, 2024 12:24 AM |
The husband 'had no idea that this guy would do something like this' - yeah right.
He's a former whore who got buy by selling his body and moving in on older men his entire life. Now he wants a divorce because...??...and when he doesn't get the 6 million he wants, he was him killed.
You don't need to look too much further. Usually the closest person to the deceased is the main suspect for a reason.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | February 2, 2024 1:06 AM |
So, he’s still dead?
OP, he wasn’t hot so we lost interest months ago.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | February 2, 2024 1:09 AM |
Triana, who is now being held in Rio, was a recent arrival in Brazil, authorities said.
The amateur author, who wrote a memoir that translates as “Gray Reflections on Love,” worked as a Spanish teacher and lived at the home of a family friend in Sao Paulo.
“I was shocked and hurt with all this,” the friend told Brazil’s O Globo newspaper last week. “I didn’t expect that he was capable of this kind of thing. I gave him a place to live, I helped him out. I never imagined he had that kind of personality because his mother was a doctor, someone of excellent reputation.”
According to Triana’s lawyer Gregorio Andrade, “Alejandro has brought more information that we can’t publicly reveal yet. All he wants is for the whole truth to come out.
“The story of what really happened is much more shocking,” Andrade told The Post. “I can’t speak because I will get in the way of the investigation but what I can tell you is that the investigations are now quite advanced.”
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I stick to my theory mentioned earlier. The killer was hired to execute a hit on Sikkema. And may have been coerced. But we'll wait and see.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | February 2, 2024 2:55 PM |
It's weird, female sex workers are afraid of being attacked by their clients and male sex workers are usually the ones who do the attacking. There really is a deviance of some sort when it comes to "straight" men.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | February 2, 2024 3:21 PM |
Their son is going to be on his own once they lock up the prostitute whore husband.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | February 2, 2024 3:35 PM |
What's a "Former Rest Boy". A new DL meme?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | February 2, 2024 8:23 PM |
More subtle than "prostitution whore"
by Anonymous | reply 85 | February 2, 2024 9:33 PM |
R81, I agree this was a hit ordered by the husband. Who would know about the 30k in cash?
by Anonymous | reply 86 | February 2, 2024 9:55 PM |
Did I read correctly that the perp worked as a body guard for them during Covid?
by Anonymous | reply 87 | February 2, 2024 11:49 PM |
^Yes and recently arrived in Brazil, as in, flew to a different city and drove 14 hours to kill him.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | February 3, 2024 10:57 AM |
Don’t fall in love with your rest boys, gurls, an try to pull a Prof. Higgins.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | February 3, 2024 12:08 PM |
The Cuban's are good in the sack, but you can't trust them for shit!
by Anonymous | reply 90 | February 3, 2024 12:10 PM |
Rich foreigners buying multiple big houses in poor countries is ostentatious, creepy and makes you a target, especially if you're picking up trade. Still, I blame the Cubans. I wonder if they'll even investigate the husband or if Brazil is just happy to have the killer locked up.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | February 4, 2024 1:21 PM |
Rest boy needs to be our new DL word for hustlers!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | February 4, 2024 1:35 PM |
No it doesn't, R92! Because some of us prefer genuine wit! But not you!
by Anonymous | reply 93 | February 4, 2024 5:57 PM |
[quote] you are trash [R4]
[quote] this was a person with a life (an admirable life)
Oooh, honey, you are too thin-skinned for this place. No one knows this man. This is a place where the death of LEGENDS is routinely announced as "[insert name here] is DEAD TO ME!"
by Anonymous | reply 94 | February 4, 2024 6:19 PM |
The comments in that article are disgusting. Sorry for linking to the NYPost I didn’t know how bad this is.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | February 7, 2024 1:41 AM |
Does Brazil get a lot of gay sex tourism?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | February 7, 2024 1:43 AM |
R95- It should be called the New York Inquirer
by Anonymous | reply 98 | February 7, 2024 1:47 AM |
R75- Not a sex worker
a Male PROSTITUTE
by Anonymous | reply 99 | February 7, 2024 1:53 AM |
"Prostitute" or "Prostitution Whore"
by Anonymous | reply 100 | February 7, 2024 2:39 AM |
During what would be his last conversation with Martins, Brent told his driver that he was going on a date, the report reads, adding that Brent regularly frequented Rio bath houses to pick up young male prostitutes.
“He preferred them young,” said the Rio police report. “The driver told Brent not to bring prostitutes to his apartment because it was too dangerous. Brent told the driver that he had met a guy before Christmas and was madly in love.” Police arrested Alejandro Triana Prevez — a 30-year-old Cuban national who knew Sikkema and his estranged husband, Cuban-born Daniel Sikkema — days after the murder.
Daniel, 53, who said in a Spanish-language memoir that he worked as a prostitute in Havana and Madrid before meeting Brent more than 15 years ago, had hired the suspect to work as a security guard in one of the three homes that the couple owned in Cuba, according to Rio police.
(No question to me the estranged husband had a hand in this.)
by Anonymous | reply 101 | February 7, 2024 1:55 PM |
I feel bad for the child. Not a life he's ever asked for.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | February 7, 2024 2:34 PM |
You should read the comments at R95 on gay parenting. They are frightening.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | February 7, 2024 4:24 PM |
This guy sounds like Sebastian Venable. He also was murdered.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | February 7, 2024 4:27 PM |
R103, that's to be expected at the New York Post. Truly a vile "publication"
by Anonymous | reply 105 | February 7, 2024 6:35 PM |
Sebastian was famished for Latino cock....
by Anonymous | reply 106 | February 7, 2024 6:35 PM |
So was he more "renowned" as client of rent boys/
by Anonymous | reply 107 | February 7, 2024 6:35 PM |
Well, with so many homes (3 in Cuba, one in NYC, at least one in Rio) and with all those expenditures, it sounds like he was making quite a lot of money.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | February 7, 2024 6:36 PM |
The Boys From Brazil
by Anonymous | reply 109 | February 7, 2024 6:36 PM |
R103, I used to read NY Post as a counterpart to the NYT because they have more local news, which the NYTimes has largely abandoned. But they really took a vile turn in recent years, especially in the commentary sections.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | February 7, 2024 8:20 PM |
R101, what makes you think the husband was involved. From the news reports, it sounds like their divorce was on the verge of being finalized. I’m guessing he stood to receive a generous settlement. What would have been his motivation to cooperate in a hit on his husband?
by Anonymous | reply 111 | February 7, 2024 9:07 PM |
WTF - he was murdered by that fugly rentboy at R101? Pick any 10 younger guys off the street in Rio and 7 will be better looking than him.
Rio has a couple of saunas where incredibly hot rentboys run around in towels and will spend 45 minutes or so with you in a private room for about $60. These are the places you should go to get dick - they're safe. You can also meet up with a guy at any one of the hundreds of rent-by-the-hour love motels.
But the one thing you should never do is take a rentboy home with you.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | February 7, 2024 9:09 PM |
Read the articles, R112. The murderer wasn't a random rentboy that he picked up that night and brought home. He was someone that he knew and had worked with him (and his husband) before. Yes, he had been a rentboy, etc in the past - but he was not a trick gone bad that night.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | February 9, 2024 12:30 AM |
R113 49.5% of DLers do not read threads and 76% never read linked articles. They just shart out whatever the fuck pops into their bird brains.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | February 9, 2024 1:35 AM |
Okay, so the facts (according to the media) are:
The murder happened in Brazil.
The killer and victim knew each other for fifteen years. The killer worked for the victim in varying degrees for that time, seemingly recently taking care of one of the victim’s houses (the one in Brazil).
The killer has admitted to being a male hustler in his past.
The divorce between the victim and his husband (in NYC at the time of the murder) was nearing completion.
Is this right?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | February 9, 2024 9:23 AM |
I wonder what prompted the hatred and violence, suddenly, if they had been employer-employee for so long. 30K stolen doesn't seem enough to destroy your own life murdering someone.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | February 9, 2024 1:05 PM |
Cuban man arrested in Brazil for the killing of NYC art gallery owner Brent Sikkema tells police billionaire's estranged husband offered him $200,000 to carry out the murder
by Anonymous | reply 117 | February 9, 2024 3:28 PM |
[quote] Sebastian was famished for Latino cock....
Tired of the dark ones; starved for the blond ones.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | February 9, 2024 3:31 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 119 | February 9, 2024 3:50 PM |
I'm already starting work on a script about this.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | February 9, 2024 3:51 PM |
Ohhhh... the killer is singing!
by Anonymous | reply 121 | February 9, 2024 3:52 PM |
Totally, R120. He's calling Joe Mantello and Ricky Martin as I type this.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | February 9, 2024 3:56 PM |
Adam Driver for the Cuban killer!
by Anonymous | reply 123 | February 9, 2024 3:58 PM |
Holy shit, it’s now reported the killer is saying this to investigators? Wow this is flying off the rails…
by Anonymous | reply 124 | February 9, 2024 3:58 PM |
Ohh… I am now following reports on this case by the minute. Is he telling the truth? Let’s see what investigators find…
by Anonymous | reply 125 | February 9, 2024 4:07 PM |
The estranged husband was also a prostitute. Oy.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | February 9, 2024 4:13 PM |
200K, is that all I'm worth to you? No, I want the 3 houses in Cuba, the 2 places in Brazil, the Apt in New York, and I'm keeping the baby you bought me for my birthday unless it turns out ugly.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | February 9, 2024 4:21 PM |
Sikkema may have been very smart about the art world but he was stupid as pig shit when it came to men.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | February 9, 2024 4:22 PM |
R126, he sure likes the 'tutes
by Anonymous | reply 129 | February 9, 2024 4:25 PM |
Glenn Greenwald, behold your future
by Anonymous | reply 130 | February 9, 2024 4:26 PM |
R42 called it
by Anonymous | reply 131 | February 9, 2024 4:29 PM |
It's always the spouse.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | February 9, 2024 4:41 PM |
"Rough trade?"
Is there any other type?
by Anonymous | reply 133 | February 9, 2024 4:44 PM |
In mid January, several of us DLers called this a "hit" by the husband.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | February 9, 2024 4:48 PM |
Paging Keith Morrison, we need an episode of Dateline about this
by Anonymous | reply 135 | February 9, 2024 4:48 PM |
This story is getting HOT AND SPICY!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | February 9, 2024 6:18 PM |
Just how wealthy was Sikkema? His choice in men is hardly top dollar.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | February 9, 2024 6:29 PM |
If you hire a contract killer try to get somebody you are not personally connected with, who has more than one brain cell, and who has heard of surveillance cameras before.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | February 9, 2024 7:02 PM |
Martin Freeman for Brent Sikkema.
And, yes, Adam Driver for the killer.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | February 9, 2024 7:07 PM |
R138 Well, that didn't work out too well with the Adelsons in Florida.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | February 9, 2024 7:22 PM |
And make him turn off his cell phone!
by Anonymous | reply 141 | February 9, 2024 7:26 PM |
If you want something done…
by Anonymous | reply 142 | February 9, 2024 8:11 PM |
Who can play the husband?
by Anonymous | reply 143 | February 9, 2024 8:15 PM |
Kevin Spacey
by Anonymous | reply 144 | February 9, 2024 9:36 PM |
Rumor in Brazil has it that the (ex) husband was behind it all.. Solved the custody problem and their two sons are now rich.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | February 9, 2024 10:07 PM |
2 sons!? I read about 1 son.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | February 9, 2024 10:12 PM |
D-I-V-O-R-C-E *really* is aitch ee double ell!!!
by Anonymous | reply 147 | February 9, 2024 11:38 PM |
[quote] In mid January, several of us DLers called this a "hit" by the husband.
So I gotta admit that initially I thought you guys had been watching too many Dateline and 20/20 episodes. Kudos to the DL detective brigade!
by Anonymous | reply 148 | February 10, 2024 11:02 AM |
This is why I just can't get into risky sex with people I don't know well, paid or unpaid. There's a lot of dysfunction in sexually permissive environments, paid or unpaid, that can cause a great deal of harm. I wish the world was different and we could have great, adventurous sexy times without a high level of caution, but we just can't.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | February 10, 2024 11:18 AM |
Stab By Your Man
by Anonymous | reply 150 | February 10, 2024 11:54 AM |
Chica chica boom stab!
by Anonymous | reply 151 | February 10, 2024 12:22 PM |
R148 this possibility was mentioned or implied in the very first articles on the case. No need for DL criminal geniuses.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | February 10, 2024 12:31 PM |
The new spin on the story ; The hit man says the husband gave him 200,000. To off the guy.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | February 10, 2024 12:42 PM |
Who will play the shady husband? Rami Malek?
by Anonymous | reply 154 | February 10, 2024 2:19 PM |
Mr. Sikkema should have left the rough trade to experts, like Mama.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | February 10, 2024 2:20 PM |
Momma’s mussy not sizzling at the Cubans. Only blubbering like a tepid tar pit.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | February 10, 2024 2:52 PM |
^bubbling
by Anonymous | reply 157 | February 10, 2024 2:56 PM |
For me, the most “WTF?” part of this entire saga is that both the husband and the suspect had previously written memoirs.
The husband’s — “Ticket to Paradise: The Cuban Revolution is the Story of Broken Dreams, Losses, Misery, Terror and Lies”
The suspect’s — “Gray Reflections on Love”
Is writing a memoir just something one does in Cuba?
by Anonymous | reply 158 | February 10, 2024 3:28 PM |
Anything for dollars
by Anonymous | reply 159 | February 10, 2024 3:30 PM |
r149, Everything in life is a risk. He was murdered by his husband's hitman, not the trick from the sauna. The risky bit was marrying the Cuban hustler a decade ago.
Brazilian sauna sex is as safe as you can get when it comes to trade. The boys are registered, the rules and prices are mutually beneficial, the owners don't want trouble and want everyone to have a good time.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | February 10, 2024 3:36 PM |
Elderly white gay killed via his love for brown cock.
"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme....
Brazilian beauty and the beast"
by Anonymous | reply 162 | February 10, 2024 3:41 PM |
[quote]In mid January, several of us DLers called this a "hit" by the husband.
One expects no less from the crew that cracked the Soft Butch Sous Chef case.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | February 10, 2024 3:41 PM |
I guess some people have different standards and acceptable levels of risk, r161.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | February 10, 2024 3:43 PM |
[quote]Glenn Greenwald -- meet your future!
Glenn's husband having died recently, he can breathe easy—until he marries another favela youth.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | February 10, 2024 3:43 PM |
Hate to disappoint you pearl clutchers, but in Brazil going out to a rentboy sauna with your friends for a beer and a cheap fuck is about as remarkable as a bunch of queens getting together for cocktails and Golden Girls reruns.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | February 10, 2024 5:58 PM |
On the one hand, Brent Sikkema was 75 years old. It's pathetic that he was not only still chasing rent boys, but falling in love with them and involving himself with them for more than just purely sexual purposes. It makes him look ridiculous. Sad. Sordid, like the Anna Nicole Smith tale.
On the other, he was 75 years old. Probably didn't have that many years left. He went out living the life he wanted to, which is better than subsiding into dementia and dependence, so there's that.
Makes for a great story, though. Can't wait for the next chapter.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | February 10, 2024 7:01 PM |
[quote] Glenn's husband having died recently, he can breathe easy
Greenwald said that his husband was hospitalized due to a “life-threatening illness… from a suddenly inflamed and infected abdominal region that quickly spread via his blood to multiple organs.”
WTF? What’s with people not giving medical causes for death these days? Instead they say “It’s an infection…it’s a bad one of a certain type that lands you in the hospital…it’s very dangerous…”
What’s the big secret these days?
by Anonymous | reply 168 | February 10, 2024 7:03 PM |
What’s disgusting about chasing rentboys at 75? Good for him! I find it disgusting that the Murdoch press paints his lifestyle as disgusting, of course with pictures of him with of Michelle Obama and as many black artists as possible in the same article.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | February 10, 2024 8:12 PM |
Well his gallery did showcase predominately non-White artists, R169.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | February 10, 2024 8:13 PM |
Yes—the very best, like Kara Walker.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | February 10, 2024 8:21 PM |
He's renowned, alright.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | February 10, 2024 8:49 PM |
[quote]What’s disgusting about chasing rentboys at 75?
It's undignified, R169, to be falling in love with and gaining emotional satisfaction (as opposed to purely sexual satisfaction) from prostitutes at such an advanced age. It's one thing for a college kid to fall in love with a prostitute. It's another - and quite ridiculous - for a man of 75 to do so.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | February 11, 2024 12:07 AM |
Fuck you, R173!
by Anonymous | reply 174 | February 11, 2024 12:15 AM |
Why with all of his money and access and power did he go for such butterfaces? Yeah, I know taste is subjective. But obviously many of you agree if you’re suggesting Adam Driver play the killer in the biopic.
It’s not like there’s some shortage of gorgeous men in Rio.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | February 11, 2024 12:15 AM |
r175, we've established he was clearly more interested in bodies than in faces.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | February 11, 2024 12:22 AM |
Oh Fuck, this is getting messy and juicy. Gays gone greedy.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | February 11, 2024 4:50 AM |
“Madly in love” translates into “9 inches rock hard and thick”.
This victim was thoroughly dickmatized!
by Anonymous | reply 178 | February 11, 2024 8:25 AM |
R178
Yup, it was definitely uncut, probably quite thick, and most likely well over 9 inches and hard as a rock. The ability to shoot massive loads across the room, was just a bonus.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | February 11, 2024 1:23 PM |
There comes a time for old dudes when the trade just needs to have a rock hard body and XXL cock. The face is secondary to everything.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | February 11, 2024 1:28 PM |
I’m old. Most of you would likely put me in the category of “beggars can’t be choosers.” But faces are still key for me. Even a younger super fit guy won’t do it for me if his face looks like Satan’s revenge.
(Well, unless I’ve knocked back a few shots of bourbon!)
by Anonymous | reply 181 | February 11, 2024 1:50 PM |
I'm reminded of a line that Maria says in "The Marriage of Maria Brown":
To unhappy people all happy people are undignified.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | February 11, 2024 3:00 PM |
Just curious, was this Momma? I hope this isn't the last of her quivering mussy.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | February 11, 2024 3:03 PM |
The victim was involved in a protracted divorce and child custody dispute.
The whore is an emaciated and hideous crackhead.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | February 11, 2024 3:08 PM |
W185 Wow, thanks for that article. So many wild details.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | February 11, 2024 6:00 PM |
He looks so old for 75!!!
by Anonymous | reply 187 | February 11, 2024 6:14 PM |
Does Cuba have an extradition treaty with the US or Brazil? I wouldn’t be surprised if hubby were there already.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | February 11, 2024 8:58 PM |
R185, per article Sikkema "made Cuba his second home."
I thought he made Brazil his second home.
Sikkema was wandering around Latin America in search of a certain type, shall we say. Sorry/not sorry, I don't give a shit if it's "sex negative", at his age this is pathetic. If he were a straight male with a yen for, and falling in love with, young pussy, you'd all be mocking him mercilessly, and rightly so. The fact that he was gay makes no difference. When you're 75, if you can still get it up, by all means fuck as much as you want. But chasing around the world, falling in love with rentboys, living like a 21-year-old who just came into his inheritance ... pathetic.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | February 11, 2024 11:42 PM |
The (Rent)Boys From Brazil
by Anonymous | reply 190 | February 12, 2024 1:06 AM |
I really don’t think he looked bad for his age. But the whole thing made me wonder how he looked as a younger man. Couldn’t find much. But I had to share this link for the sartorial choice of the man kissing him.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | February 12, 2024 2:27 AM |
Dirty.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | February 12, 2024 2:32 AM |
Brent's greedy hubby was definitely the bottom in that marriage. Demanding a large settlement while cutting off Brent's contact with the child is what a spiteful woman would do. And I also believe he was secretly screwing the hired killer in addition to the 200,000 he was willing to pay to have it carried out. Which is awfully cheap considering the six million dollar settlement he wanted from Brent.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | February 12, 2024 6:08 PM |
Let this be a lesson - you can't make a whore into a housewife!
by Anonymous | reply 194 | February 12, 2024 6:13 PM |
Let's be honest: it's not like Brent Sikkema was an oil painting himself.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | February 12, 2024 6:14 PM |
David Geffen should worry about his porn star hubby...
by Anonymous | reply 196 | February 12, 2024 9:17 PM |
R196 Oh No, what is the world coming to when you can’t trust a hot heavily hung rent boy. Is all the fun gone.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | February 13, 2024 11:31 PM |
Geffen's husband/whore/toy isn't hung big.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | February 13, 2024 11:34 PM |
It should have been you, Glenn. It should have been you.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | February 13, 2024 11:36 PM |
The amount of posters just ignoring that the killer wasn't sexually involved with Sikkema just so they can make judgemental 'jokes' about rent boys is beyond tedious
by Anonymous | reply 200 | February 14, 2024 10:41 AM |
R200: I don't think we know that for sure.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | February 14, 2024 12:10 PM |
More…
by Anonymous | reply 203 | March 23, 2024 2:26 PM |
Bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do...
by Anonymous | reply 205 | March 23, 2024 2:39 PM |
Again!
by Anonymous | reply 207 | April 1, 2024 8:36 PM |
This kind of story... I don't know whether to cry or throw up. Truly tragic. Someone's going to have to raise that boy.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | April 1, 2024 8:38 PM |
Wow. Keep this thread updated please!
by Anonymous | reply 209 | April 1, 2024 10:27 PM |
I know it’s been months, but is here still dead?
by Anonymous | reply 210 | April 1, 2024 10:36 PM |
Did they uncover the Peter Thiel connection?
by Anonymous | reply 211 | April 1, 2024 10:46 PM |
Peter Thiel has much better taste in hookers
by Anonymous | reply 212 | April 2, 2024 1:02 AM |
They're too old for Thiel....though, interestingly, Thiel had a house in Brazil (not sure if he still does)
by Anonymous | reply 213 | April 2, 2024 1:18 AM |
R214- I would do the guy on the right I like them slim.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | April 2, 2024 8:52 PM |
R215, me too
by Anonymous | reply 216 | April 2, 2024 8:56 PM |
At least he'll never know the ravages of old old old old old old old old age
by Anonymous | reply 217 | April 2, 2024 8:58 PM |
The ex-lover who got the money is Cuban, like the hubby
by Anonymous | reply 218 | April 2, 2024 9:00 PM |
Murdered art dealer disinherited male prostitute he married— but gave $1M from property empire to another ex-lover
by Anonymous | reply 219 | April 2, 2024 9:12 PM |
Wait, the estranged husband had already been given a $1.7 million home in Fire Island but still allegedly ordered the hit? I guess some people just don't know when to quit while they're ahead.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | April 2, 2024 9:47 PM |
He clearly had a type
by Anonymous | reply 221 | April 2, 2024 11:44 PM |
Very poor judgment. As the cliché goes, you can't make a housewife out of a ho. The victim also made a child, impudently, and much later in life through a surrogate with the streetwalker!
Leave the hos alone.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | April 2, 2024 11:57 PM |
Murdered art dealer disinherited male prostitute he married— but gave $1M from property empire to another ex-lover
by Anonymous | reply 223 | April 3, 2024 11:42 AM |
[quote] Wait, the estranged husband had already been given a $1.7 million home in Fire Island but still allegedly ordered the hit? I guess some people just don't know when to quit while they're ahead.
Fire Island will be underwater in probably the next couple of decades so the value of that property is virtually zero.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | April 3, 2024 1:02 PM |
I think you can still sell that house for 1.7 million for a few years, R224.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | April 3, 2024 4:03 PM |
R47 when you order your Brazilian men from Wish. Seriously, what the fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | April 3, 2024 4:24 PM |
Kinda wierd that at age 75 he was still apparently all about the dong.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | April 3, 2024 4:58 PM |
The hole wants, what the hole wants, R227!
by Anonymous | reply 228 | April 3, 2024 5:12 PM |
There is a helluva lot better cheap dick in Brazil and Cuba than his two husbands.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | April 3, 2024 5:57 PM |
Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A rentboy husband
Looking to kill the rich old fool that got away
by Anonymous | reply 230 | April 3, 2024 6:06 PM |
Is he still dead?
by Anonymous | reply 231 | April 3, 2024 6:08 PM |
[quote]To the extent possible, I wish to have my ashes scattered between the Jardim Botanico in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and/or the beach waters off Santa Maria in Playa del Este,” which is in Havana.
I'm sorry, but the old queen sounds insufferable.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | April 3, 2024 6:12 PM |
Bad art can inspire homicide.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | April 3, 2024 6:12 PM |
[quote] At least he'll never know the ravages of old old old old old old old old age
But I'm sure he could have done without the ravages of being stabbed to death in his own home.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | April 3, 2024 6:19 PM |
Guess he wasn’t happy about being disinherited.
No will to contest when the person is still alive.
Dude probably knew the crazy whore was going to try to off him.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | April 4, 2024 2:47 AM |
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Generally Brazilian law doesn’t allow a decedent to disinherit a spouse. Don’t know how that works if the disinherited spouse is found to have murdered the decedent.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | April 5, 2024 12:49 PM |
[quote] Let this be a lesson - you can't make a whore into a housewife!
Gurl, ain’t that the fuck’n truth
by Anonymous | reply 237 | April 5, 2024 10:50 PM |
[quote] Did they uncover the Peter Thiel connection?
That’s coming next week.
by Anonymous | reply 238 | April 5, 2024 10:57 PM |
[quote] He clearly had a type
Yup, hot Latin types with big uncut cocks and cavernous insatiable holes. Good for him. If you know what gets you off, go for it.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | April 5, 2024 11:09 PM |
Why are there still posters here who think Sikkema fucked with the killer?
by Anonymous | reply 240 | April 5, 2024 11:13 PM |
^yes
by Anonymous | reply 241 | April 5, 2024 11:23 PM |
Un-hot. Hideous. Borderline deformed. The ex husband is only average looking. In photos he has an evil looking smile.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | April 5, 2024 11:53 PM |
I see this thread pop up every other day.
Is he STILL dead?
by Anonymous | reply 243 | April 6, 2024 12:51 AM |
[quote] I see this thread pop up every other day. Is he STILL dead?
Yes, for the most part.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | April 6, 2024 12:53 AM |
This case is newsworthy again because the feds conducted a raid on the ex-husband in his Murray Hill apartment, he was getting ready to bolt to his native country.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | April 6, 2024 12:57 AM |
Don’t care because he’s an “old” who wore age-inappropriate vests and other outfits.
Also, he’s dead, I didn’t know him or his circle of friends.
And I’m tired of opening DL and having is ugly face being the first fucking thing I see.
Muriel?
by Anonymous | reply 246 | April 6, 2024 1:26 AM |
It is written in the Bible, " you better leave them hos alone"!
by Anonymous | reply 247 | April 6, 2024 1:40 AM |
I'll take Hall Monitor Snit Fits for 300.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | April 6, 2024 2:35 AM |
Brent looked better than 95% of Dataloungers > 75. He was actually kind of cute. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | April 6, 2024 2:45 AM |
He should have listened to the wise words of Lil Wayne, “I done did everything but trust these hoes.”
by Anonymous | reply 250 | April 6, 2024 3:44 AM |
[quote] It is written in the Bible, " you better leave them hos alone"!
I believe that is the first three rules in the Elder Gay survival handbook.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | April 6, 2024 4:36 PM |
[quote] I see this thread pop up every other day. Is he STILL dead? Yes, for the most part.
But maybe he sensed something like this happening and put some of his seed on ice, you know, for the future. He seemed to be a good planner.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | April 6, 2024 5:00 PM |
That's what he gets for suggesting crushed velvet fuchsia wallpaper for an accent wall.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | April 6, 2024 7:23 PM |
Story as old as time. I do feel pity for the dead guy. It seems like he was very generous to his younger gigolos. He might have been controlling but he did shell out a fortune. He lacked self preservation. I've seen it a number of times - people with money who believe they are untouchable and secure.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | April 6, 2024 8:29 PM |
[quote] I've seen it a number of times - people with money who believe they are untouchable and secure.
Tell me about it!
by Anonymous | reply 255 | April 7, 2024 12:40 AM |
I think Sikkema was Finnish.
Super-White guys like him tend to go for dark Latino and black meat or Asian bottoms.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | April 8, 2024 2:56 AM |
What ever happened with the husband. Did he order the hit? Weren’t they looking at him as a suspect?
by Anonymous | reply 258 | May 10, 2024 2:07 AM |