The Italian businessman who was allegedly kidnapped and tortured in NYC for nearly 3 weeks, wasn’t always in distress during that period … according to a bizarre video of him cooking crack in an air fryer.
TMZ obtained a 20-second clip, which seemingly illustrates a much different picture of Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan‘s alleged captivity in the SoHo townhome where police say John Woeltz and William Duplessie tortured him for 17 days. In the video, Carturan appears to be tied around the chest to a wheelchair, but his hands are free and he’s smiling and joking with at least 3 other people in the room.
Carturan — whose face we’ve blurred because he’s an alleged victim — is fiddling with an air fryer on a table, and you can hear a male voice say, “You’re in a wheelchair cooking crack” … and someone else says, “That’s so whack.”
Then, someone says, “This crack is gonna f***ing suck” and everyone in the room, including Carturan, laughs. Another male voice says, “Don’t get me in the crack video, bro!”
Here’s what’s puzzling about this video … metadata shows it was recorded May 11 at 1:45 AM ET at Woeltz’s Prince Street address. According to the police, Woeltz lured Carturan to his place on May 6, and held him until he managed to escape on May 23…