He was stumbling, always rushing, always anxious. In October 1997, Alig pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter. In exchange for 10 bags of heroin, Alig agreed to dismember Melendez's body. After spending approximately seventeen years behind bars, Alig was paroled on May 5, 2014, but what the notorious murderer did in the six years between his release from prison and his death remains a subject of interest. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). Michael Alig Photo by Inaki Vinaixa. Ive never been a big fan but when youre at that point, its like, sure, whatever, Ill take it. '"[33], While incarcerated in the New York State prison system, Alig was transferred from prison to prison; he also spent time in the psychiatric ward at Rikers Island. Im sure it was one of those Im on him too long and putting too much force. To put it in simple words, Alig's never overcame his problems with drugs. In 1997, he pleaded. News confirmed in late December that the former club promoter, who served 17 years in prison, had died at the age of 54 . When one pictures a hammer hitting a head, it tends to be a nasty, bloody affair. 45,190, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved The battle between Michael Alig's mom and his Club Kid followers over his ashes has gone nuclear, with his mom claiming they're trying to "bully" her not only about where her son's . As a culture, we tend to care more about killers than their victims, just as we have historically tended to center white voices (Alig was white; Melendez moved to New York from Colombia as a child with his family). document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); May 3, 2021 | Silva said in the message that he was sleeping next to [Alig] when he died. And said, Im the one who called 911 and the one who was with him all day literally.. In the 1980s and 1990s, something truly extraordinary was brewing in New York. 51,653, This story has been shared 45,190 times. [24] The following day, the New York Post's "Page Six" column ran a lead item about the murder mystery, citing Musto's reporting as well as a New York magazine piece quoting an evasive Alig. Meanwhile, some friends of Aligs are somehow mystified at how he couldve died from an overdose. Inside Matt Gaetz's courtship with fiance Ginger Luckey, This story has been shared 82,056 times. [51] Alig hosted these virtual parties until his untimely death on December 25, 2020. Terms of Use Michael Alig ripped through culture like an overly loud cackle at a party, and he went out with a whimper. He was always, like, acting a little bit out of his mind, like his nervous system wasnt OK, said Miller, who moved into the building four months ago. In fact, The Village Voice reports that he and Melendez eventually came to be at odds over a significant drug debt. To create the one of Hitler, titled "Michael's Cum in Hitler's Face . Alig has insisted that the Club Kids weren't using narcotics to have fun but rather to stave off the horrors of everyday life. Sitemap, Your California Privacy Rights The pair had placed the body in a bathtub, covered it with ice and baking soda, and continued partying inside the apartment for the next week as the victim's corpse decomposed. Alig was the last of these self-created downtown . [1][14], Alig's parties also became notorious due in part to his own "bad behavior". "He hit him with the wooden end of the hammer, not the metal end," Alig said. Alig, nonetheless, repeatedly assured me he was a good person. It's believed that he died of a heroin overdose on December 24. Their ranks included future influencers such as RuPaul, and their scene became a huge deal that inspired artists and designers from Jean Paul Gaultier to Elton John. There, he met the boyfriend of artist Keith Haring, who introduced Alig to New York City nightlife. They would also see several men waiting for him outside his door. There was something about it with all those dark clouds, it felt like it was taking him away and setting him free, Cain told Page Six. I had seen him (or someone using his picture) on Grindr at some point between our interview and his drug arrest, looking to parTy. Naturally, I didnt keep in touch with him, but the report of his death last week didnt surprise me, either. Alig, 54, was found dead on Christmas Eve just before midnight by his boyfriend in his Washington Heights pad of an apparent heroin overdose, authorities said. Aligs death was the final chapter in a sordid, sensational and decidedly cautionary tale about striving to become famous in the Big Apple and ultimately succumbing to its excesses. A mattress took up most of the kitchen, there was barely a footpath in a living room strewn with boxes and piles of clothing, and a broken dresser was positioned near the door so it was practically the first thing I laid eyes on. NEW YORK Notorious "club kid" killer Michael Alig, who served 17 years in prison for killing his roommate over a drug debt in a case that became a book and film . [36], Alig became eligible for parole in 2006. [14], Alig was paroled on May 5, 2014. The party is officially over. One of his last photos taken in June shows him looking lost and perturbed. I care too much about that girl in Scotland, or about whoever. And then immediately, he pivoted to self-aggrandizement of his legacy: The Club Kids were started because we wanted to create a family. The infamous promoters cause of death was acute intoxication by fentanyl, acetylfentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City confirmed to Page Six on Monday. [19][20] On the night of March 17, 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, killed Melendez after an argument in Alig's apartment over many things, including a long-standing drug debt. . Michael told me he probably wasnt going to make it through the year. Things took a wild turn changing Alig's life forever with the March 1996 disappearance of Andre "Angel" Melendez, a nightlife staple who DJ'd, wore angel wings and dealt drugs. I know that Im not a bad person becausebecause I care too much, he explained. Michael Alig, Keda Albano, Swedish dance band Army of Lovers , Kabuki Starshine and unidentified pose for a photo in Alig's apartment in May 1992 in. He moved to New York City to attend Fordham University and quickly met a fellow student called Ludovic who changed the course of his life. Privacy Notice He was one of the ringleaders of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers who became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The movie tells the story of a disenfranchised small-town kid called Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin), who relocates to the Big Apple to look for better things. I was spinning out of control. Alig was found dead on Christmas Eve 2020 at age 54 of a suspected heroin overdose. The ex-con moved into the Upper Manhattan apartment about six months ago, neighbors said and there was apparent trouble from nearly the start. A source later told Page Six that Alig, who once served time for a murder conviction, knew he would die by the end of 2020. He was a founding member of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young club goers led by Alig and James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Former child actor Macaulay Culkin portrayed him. Fabulously freaky, their nights were ruled by a hedonistic gumbo of sex and drugs. As a look at the film's Rotten Tomatoes page readily tells us, the critics utterly lambasted Party Monster. Some of MichaelAlig's friends even said that he had personally admitted to the crime. photo gallery : Michael Alig (born South Bend, Indiana, April 29, 1966) was the founding member of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young clubgoers led by Alig in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In May 2014, reports emerged that Alig was attempting to sell his memoirs and was pursuing a career as a magazine writer. Michael Alig died of an overdose on Christmas Day, 2020. St James, Ernie Glam, Screamin' Rachael, DJ Keoki, JennyTalia (Jenny Dembrow), film director Eric Spade Rivas, Hollywood musician/painter/nightlife personality/film actress Ingrid LaLa, NYC musician/painter Joseph Arthur, NYC nightlife legend and mentor Steve Lewis, and many others attended Michael Alig's June 25, 2015 art event. Club Kid Killer Michael Alig the famously flamboyant party promoter who ended up busted for murder was found dead on Christmas Eve of an apparent heroin overdose, officials said Friday. After Melendez's death, Alig and Riggs did not know what to do with the body. He would also often scream for hours inside his pad, neighbors said. The man's disappearance was noticed, and rumors about the grisly crime started circulating within the Club Kid circles. [5] During his teenage years, Alig reported that he was often bullied because of his homosexuality. He was a founding member of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young club goers led by Alig and James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The visionary party promoter and style icon was one of the best-known members of a loose-knit, attention-grabbing group of hardcore denizens of the 80s and 90s New York nightlife scene, known as the Club Kids. Alig who put together celebrated parties at famed clubs including the Limelight and Discoteria rose to infamy in 1996 after he was convicted of killing Andre Angel Melendez. Thanks for contacting us. It seemed to me that Alig was still serving a sort of sentence, that the prison bars he spent 17 years behind were ultimately immaterial. Alig waffled between claiming to be off drugs and admitting to doing a bump here and there. He was finally being released, after serving 17 years for manslaughter, for the death and dismemberment of Andre "Angel" Melendez, after a drug-fueled argument one night in 1996. Later, when they realized he was dead, they put him in a bathtub with baking soda, ice, and Drano to cover the smell. Zach Shallcross Struggles to Watch Himself Dancing Terribly on The Bachelor, Alison Brie on Sex Scenes: 'We Are Actors, This Is Our Job'. Police officials told us there were no obvious signs of trauma.. On December 25, 2020, notorious New York City "Club Kid" Michael Alig died of an accidental heroin overdose. When asked "how can you be so patient with Michael Alig when he is all over the place", mentor Ingrid LaLa replied: " When I was 23 years old, I taught sixth grade!". Were told his mother kept his remains. Both men were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. Michael Alig, the infamous leader of the 1990s "Club Kids" who was later convicted of murdering his roommate and drug dealer, has died at the age of 54. Authorities recovered several zip-lock plastic bags from the scene containing heroin, along with drug paraphernalia. I came to New York and provided an oasis where they could come and be celebrated.". An overly friendly cat weaved between my legs and then Alig pointed out that she was in heat. Michael Alig used to be more press savvy. However, Alig, who reigned over the Manhattan club scene as a party promoter for Peter Gatien's immensely popular Limelight and Palladium dance clubs, was already infamous outside the city's lushly attired demimonde even before the murder. Alig reportedly moved to his Manhattan apartment six months back. As The VillageVoice tells it, Riggs brought the hammer down on Melendez's head, but Alig was the one who killed him by hitting him over and over. The thing is,while many people were aware of the grim and grisly rumors, Aligwaswell-known for his attention-seeking ways, and as Variety puts it, he was quite openly bragging about the incident. Instead, he was reportedly quite happy to letAlig to rule the Club Kid roost and had plenty of respect for him. His club-era friend James St. James had written the book Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland, which served as the basis for Party Monster, and the dual pieces of fiction had become the "official" version of the events in the minds of the public. He was promoting a Monday night party he cheekily named Outrage at the Rumpus Room, a small club on the Lower East Side. Its hard to say what percentage the drugs are responsible. [2] Per the conditions of his parole, Alig returned to New York City. Michael Alig. He was arrested several times for drug offenses and entered rehab, but continued to use drugs. In the process, he said he noticed that Alig appeared to be quite sorry for his actions but nevertheless seemed to be caught in his old club persona. [41], On October 15, 2014, Alig released the pop song, "What's In" (featuring DJ Keoki), written and produced by Greg Tanoose, through Austound Music, an Austin, Texas-based record label. [32], While in prison, Alig told Musto, "I know why I blabbed. Im in shock. Alig told me a few years ago that he never thought hed live to see 50, so anything that came after that milestone was gravy. According to Indie, the scene had its good sides, as it fought to reclaim its members' humanity and value after the AIDS crisis and during NewYork City mayor Rudy Giuliani'scrackdown on nightlife. DJ Keoki started to DJ at a weekly Monday night party called Outrage! Riggs was released on parole in 2010. The blog contained transcripts of phone conversations between Alig and St. James about Alig's experiences in prison. In March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid . Sitemap, Your California Privacy Rights The city was in such a state of disrepair that it looked like Mad Max, with the subways and streetlights out and fires. Alig dropped out of school and joined the circuit, donning his own version of garish makeup and outlandish outfits to host parties at the Tunnel, Limelight and other nightclubs. In other instances, he would urinate on clubgoers or urinate in their drinks, and would engage in stage falls wherein he knocked others to the ground.[15]. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Legendary NYC nightlife director recalls notorious 90s club kid era, Novelists late son charged in babys drug death was involved in notorious 1996 Club Kid murder, Club Kid Killer busted for drug possession, Party Monster: Painting in prison kept me from killing myself. Riggs claimed that Alig was pouring "some cleaner or chemical" into Melendez' mouth, then duct-taped it with the help of Riggs. Or that I'm trying to exploit my situation. Michael Alig when he was released from prison in 2014 and 1993. As such, the whole story seemed like something he might have made up to raise a few more eyebrows. In 2016,I was assigned to profile Alig for Maer Roshans short-lived reboot of the queer lifestyle magazine 429, which is now defunct. Alig's ex "was there and saw him . [42] An EP, also entitled What's In, was released. The Club Kids were out and about, and their open celebration of difference wasn't just a fringe thing, either. While the fact that the scene kept silent about a man who freely talked about killing someone might seem unbelievable, it's worth noting that Alig's tendency to shock and provoke knew very few bounds. The wilder, more eccentric the makeup, hair and costumes, the better and no one was held in more esteem in the hierarchy of alien-looking club-hoppers than a gender-bending man with an entourage. There's also the matter of drugs, which were becoming more and more prominent on the scene. As Themtells us, this was the era of the Club Kids a blanket name for a group of young, outrageous, and often LGBTQ creative types who shed away their outcast status and became party scene butterflies. The $500 Prada glasses that his friends, two former club kids named Jenny and Karliin, bought for him last year are precariously perched on his nose, held together with fishing line, one lens . Andre "Angel" Melendez was a regular on the New York City club scene and worked at The Limelight, among other clubs (some not owned by Gatien, e.g., Webster Hall[18]), where he sold drugs on the premises. I didnt know it was for him.. Superstar Andy Warhol once said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Infamous "Club Kid Killer" Michael Alig had much more than his fifteen minutes when he was the undisputed king of nightlife in the '90's, but his time as a creative force in New York ended abruptly after the murder of Angel Melendez in 1997, a drug dealer and periphery member of Alig's . Thanks for contacting us. He was flailing. [14] He was required to abide by an 8 p.m. curfew and undergo drug and anger management counseling, and job readiness training. He would not shave regularly and looked like a haggard. ", Culkin prepared for the role with a four-hour meeting with Alig in prison, listening to the man and studying his movements and mindset. I couldnt quite muster sympathy for him, given his role in his apparent downfall, but I felt bad for him on a human level. This story has been shared 82,056 times. Alig also was homeless off and on admitting in 2018 that he turned to the gay-hook-up site Grindr at one point when he ran out of money just to have some place to sleep and at least once found himself camping out under a bridge. His first parole request, in November 2006, was denied, reportedly after parole officers watched the film Party Monster (2003), a fictionalized account of Alig's life, starring Macaulay Culkin. According to The Advocate, this wasn't the case with Angel Melendez. Terms of Use The co-founder of the 'Club Kids' underground party movement of the 1980s and 90s, Alig served 17 years in prison for brutally killing and dismembering his roommate over a drug debt. He started making Party Monster 2 movie, which was footage of when he got out of prison, the insider shared. Michael Alig, who served 17 years for the murder of Angel Melendez, says prison is the best place to do drugs "because you have no responsibility." Club Kid killer reveals prison's secret sex spots But a mere glance at Aligs life two years out of prison intrigued me. To be fair, though, in 2014, he insisted, per The Guardian, that his full comment, "You want me to say something shocking like he was a copycat, so we killed him," had been edited. [37] He was again denied parole in July 2008 after failing several drug tests. Some might have found it strange to see Macaulay Culkin, most famous for his early work as Kevin McAllister in the Home Alone movies, playing Michael Alig, a glamor-obsessed clubber-turned-killer. I got turned into Cruella Deville [during the episode], but no one could please Elke, so Jason and I needed a final release, Cain said. It's like the old saying 'What do you have to do to get attention around here kill somebody? We got the ball rolling for everybody.. [10], In May 2015, a selection of Alig's paintings went on display at the SELECT Fair in New York.[43]. Culkin also stated that he aimed for more artistic endeavors and tried to avoid doing the kind of movies that had made him famous. Shortly thereafter, he moved into Alig's Riverbank West apartment. While Michael Alig was busy boasting about a crime his club circles didn't quite believe he had done, the authorities were busy trying to figure out the identity of a dismembered body that had washed up on Staten Island in April 1996, perThe Advocate. "Before, it was, you know, it was like people's livelihoods were on the line they like built an industry out of me. Alig was released from prison in 2014, but continued to chase his Club Kid heyday and do drugs. Have you ever done Special K? In 1996 Alig was convicted of the murder of Angel Melendez in a confrontation over a drug debt. As a gay teen coming to terms with my sexuality, I was overwhelmed and exhilarated. They initially left it in the bathtub, which they filled with ice. One particularly unsavory story involves an incident in which Alig urinated from a balcony on a female bartender, who was then verbally abused until she cried. We may earn a commission from links on this page. As such, many of them became locally or even nationally famous, and they made sure that they were as visible as possible by, for instance, holding "OutlawParties" at strange and surprising locations. That made me feel good, that I was providing jobs, we would get places to liveRichie Rich and Sophia [Lamar] and Astro. In 2014, Alig . Aligs life was literally made for Hollywood, with his saga turned into a movie in 2003. Terms of Use [11], In 1988, Alig was hired by the owner of The Limelight, Peter Gatien. Recently., Miller, when told that Alig was dead, responded, Oh my God! Alig's death is the final chapter in a sordid, sensational and decidedly cautionary tale about striving to become famous in New York and ultimately succumbing to its excesses. 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