NYC Prep Star Goofs With Swastika

Father says: "He meant no offense."
Posted Aug 17, 2009 2:38 AM CDT
NYC Prep Star Goofs With Swastika
The "NYC Prep" cast: seated from left, Camille Hughes, Jessica Leavitt, Kelli Thomashoff, standing from left, Sebastian Oppenheim, Peter "PC" Peterson, and Taylor DiGiovanni.   (AP Photo/Bravo, Virginia Sherwood)

Internet photos of NYC Prep star Sebastian Oppenheim and a buddy joking with a black-tape Hitler mustache and swastikas have landed the 16-year-old on the New York Post's Page Six. Sebastian's father said his partly-Jewish son was mimicking the movie "Inglourious Basterds" and didn't mean to convey any hateful sentiment.
(More Sebastian Oppenheim stories.)

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