'The Eunuch Maker' true crime docuseries tells the story of a man who made $360,000 from livestreaming castrations. Here's where Marius Gustavson is now.
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- Crime+Investigation UK's "The Eunuch Maker" is about a man who performed castrations on volunteers.
- Marius Gustavson ran a pay-per-view website where he livestreamed the procedures.
- He made almost $360,000 from the site.
Marius Gustavson, dubbed "The Eunuch Maker" for performing castrations on livestreams, is the focus of a new true crime documentary.
Released on Crime+Investigation UK on Monday, it follows a bumper year of true crime in 2024, with shows including "American Nightmare," "Baby Reindeer," and "The Man with 1000 Kids" getting audiences talking.
The show tells of how Gustavson, a 47-year-old Norwegian living in London, had his penis and testicles removed by a male escort in 2017. He then posted on extreme body modification forums that he was interested in castrating volunteers himself.
He nicknamed himself the "eunuch maker," and performed the procedures in apartments and hotel rooms in London, which he livestreamed on his website and charged viewers a subscription fee. He made almost £300,000 ($365,000) from the website between 2017 and 2021.
The Independent reported that the site had 22,841 registered users.
Gustavson was arrested in 2021 after the London Metropolitan Police launched "Operation Vicktor" to investigate the illegal castrations and other procedures that he carried out on the website.
Marius Gustavson was sentenced to life in prison in 2024
In May 2024, Gustavson was given a life sentence. He can face a parole board after serving a minimum of 22 years, per court documents.
Gustavson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, making and distributing indecent images of a child, and possessing extreme pornography.
During the proceedings, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said that Gustavson also engaged in cannibalism. He said: "On one occasion Gustavson cooked what appeared to be human testicles which were then plated to be eaten, and kept other body parts as 'trophies.'"
Gustavson's defense said he had body integrity dysphoria, a condition that causes a person to feel as if a healthy body part doesn't belong to them.
Rashvinderjeet Panesar, his lawyer, said that Gustavson started to modify his own body in 2017 shortly after the breakdown of his marriage in 2016.
Panesar said: "He was stuck in a body he wanted to make changes to, and understood there were more people out there who wished to do the same."