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 . He was a convicted killer who spent 17 years in prison for manslaughter after killing and dismembering his drug dealer. Alig was convicted in 1996 for the murder of fellow Club Kid and drug dealer Angel Melendez. 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). I didnt know it was for him.. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. They also appeared on Donahue, Geraldo, and The Joan Rivers Show. Some of MichaelAlig's friends even said that he had personally admitted to the crime. "It was more like we need another line of cocaine to never have to face the truth that we were very self-conscious and uncomfortable in our own skins," he noted. [10], In May 2015, a selection of Alig's paintings went on display at the SELECT Fair in New York.[43]. The couple divorced when Alig was four years old. Who is Ethan Hooper? It took him a few seconds to figure out an answer, which involved citing fan mail from young people who were just coming out that looked up to him as a queer inspiration. Unfortunately, it appears thatParty Monster either failed to capture the story's kitsch-filled drama or perhaps embraced it too well. I felt no need to hedge regarding the state of his Upper West Side apartment, a disaster by his admission. 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. This story has been shared 100,855 times. The night I went, attendance was sparse, a shadow of the some 5,000 people he could pack into Limelight during his heyday. 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. Privacy Notice Alig meets James St. James (Seth Green), who introduces him to the city's coolest party scene. He told me hed been on Xanax and drank during the Outrage party I attended. DJ Keoki started to DJ at a weekly Monday night party called Outrage! Then Alig grabbed a pillow and tried to smother him. "Not only is there no reason, there's no justification," he said. [10] The Club Kids' outrageousness became a source of interest for the media, and articles about them appeared in such media outlets as Newsweek, People, and TIME. I opened the room and started towards the other bedroom at which point Michael Alig was yelling, "Help me!" Infamous Club Kid Killer Michael Alig expected he would be dead by the end of 2020, according to a source. This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Michael Alig, who spent 17 years in prison for murdering and dismembering his drug dealer, died of an apparent heroin overdose on Christmas. [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. All of a sudden, instead of going out and being sexy and taking off your clothes, we were going out not to have sex with each other, but to look at each othera look, dont touch thing. [39] From September 7, 2014, on, Alig and Glam hosted a YouTube comedy talk show titled "The Pee-ew". I grabbed the hammer and hit Angel over the head [21], According to Riggs, he hit Melendez a total of three times on the head with the hammer. In the end, though, drugs proved to be a much greater enemy. Everybody had a toast and then [Hurricane] Henri came rolling in. However, he could never leave drugs even during his term in jail and the last six years of his life after he was paroled in 2014. 73,275, This story has been shared 51,653 times. I asked him how he could be sure and he stammered. I hadnt really known who Alig was before he killed someone alongside his roommate Robert D. Freeze Riggs (who also served a prison sentence) so in my mind, he was defined more by his crime than his creativity. [38] In March 2009, Alig said he finally decided to stop using drugs and that he had been sober since then. The bathtub they used to store the body contained Drano, baking soda, and Calvin Klein Eternity. [52] The following day, Christmas, Alig's mother confirmed his cause of death as an accidental heroin overdose. Michael Alig was a very real person, as are many of the other scenesters depicted in the movie up to and including Angel Melendez, who really was killed by Alig and his acquaintance. 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. 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. Aligs life was literally made for Hollywood, with his saga turned into a movie in 2003. Alig's parties at The Limelight were such a hit that he began organizing parties for Gatien's other clubs: Club USA, the Palladium, and Tunnel. In March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid . A painting Alig showed us on his laptop depicts Macaulay Culkin playing Alig in Party Monster. I must have wanted to stop me. When he came clean about his ongoing issues and was asked why it took him so long to admit to them, he said, I didnt really want to publicize it too much because I didnt want it to end up on Page Six. The art event was filmed by World of Wonder (WOW) for the Party Monster 2 movie. . Michael Alig died of an overdose on Christmas Day, 2020. Police officials told us there were no obvious signs of trauma.. 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. After working the Outrage! Even his duplicity was telling, and I put it all in the piece, which you can read via the Wayback Machine if you are so inclined. But he continued to battle his seemingly ever-present demons, getting busted for possession of crystal meth near Yankee Stadium in 2017. We wanted a concentrated version of that because enough is never enough for us. We were the antithesis of sex. After ten years in prison, club kid turned murderer Michael Alig was clean (finally) and obsessed with his reentry into New York nightlife, writes Jonathan Van Meter in this 2006 New York Magazine profile. 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. In fact, when he appeared on TV a few weeks after Melendez's death, he flat-out admitted to the murder in a tasteless way. In the New York Post article "Party Monster: Painting in Prison Kept Me from Killing Myself", it featured the upcoming June 25, 2015 art event, an interview of Michael Alig as a painter and photos his paintings such as Zombie Babies, Club Kids and the Pfizer series - Orange Butterflies Pfizer painting. 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. Alig waffled between claiming to be off drugs and admitting to doing a bump here and there. The party is officially over. Prosecutors were hesitant to charge Alig with first-degree murder, as they still hoped he would testify against his former boss, Peter Gatien, who had been arrested for allowing drugs to be sold in his nightclubs. Club Kid Killer Michael Alig died from an accidental overdose of various hard drugs. An overly friendly cat weaved between my legs and then Alig pointed out that she was in heat. He had so much heroin in his body, there was no way he wasnt going to die. It worked well for my job I was a promoter."[17]. Michael Alig (April 29, 1966 December 24, 2020) was an American club promoter, artist, and individual who was convicted of felony manslaughter. The man's disappearance was noticed, and rumors about the grisly crime started circulating within the Club Kid circles. "He was a copycat, so we killed him," Alig spoke of Melendez. Alig was released from prison in 2014, but continued to chase his Club Kid heyday and do drugs. Thanks for contacting us. Then, he filled the victim's mouth with detergent and closed it with duct tape. [5] During his teenage years, Alig reported that he was often bullied because of his homosexuality. [2], On Christmas Eve, 2020, shortly before midnight, Alig died at his Washington Heights home from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 54. After six weeks, Alig put a stop to the phone calls claiming, "People think I'm having a grand old time. It also served as a cast and crew wrap party to celebrate his last film, Duke of New York, directed by Eric Rivas, whom Alig worked with on several projects. Definitely, I would have had my wits about me to know not to sit so longthere were three of us and we were on top of him. We've received your submission. [25], Through September 1996, the police still had not questioned Alig about the murder; they were focused on his former boss and onetime business partner, Peter Gatien, wanting Alig to testify against him. Party Monstershows Melendez physically attacking Alig during an argument, and after Riggs hits Melendez's head with a hammer a few times, Alig suffocates him and injects him with a syringe. Alig began ingesting heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine with the best of them, as well as heavily boozing. 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. Alig's ex "was there and saw him . Im in shock. They painted their faces in an outlandish manner, sported unlikely-for-the-time piercings, and wore colorful, commanding costumes. As such, Party Monster's 2003 single-theater opening weekend raked in a measly $15,163, per Box Office Mojo. Alig said that Riggs actually went about it in a very different way than the classic method depicted in Party Monster. He was arrested several times for drug offenses and entered rehab, but continued to use drugs. Michael Alig, the notorious 'Club Kid Killer' and the flamboyant party promoter, who ended up serving 17 years in jail for the sordid murder and dismemberment of his drug dealer, looked disturbed . Later, when they realized he was dead, they put him in a bathtub with baking soda, ice, and Drano to cover the smell. The killers were eventually caught and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Michael Alig (April 29, 1966 - December 24, 2020) was an American club promoter, artist, and individual who was convicted of felony manslaughter. Setting aside her point about academia, I've always understood her to be defending, even celebrating, the roles in a vital arts community of insistent non-conformism; a lack of judgment around . 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. [5] He studied architecture there before transferring to the Fashion Institute of Technology. There, he met the boyfriend of artist Keith Haring, who introduced Alig to New York City nightlife. Michael Alig (born April 29, 1966 in South Bend, Indiana) was a party promoter in the Manhattan club scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I perched on a couch and Alig told me about his life in sentence fragments and tangentsuntil he asked if we could go to Starbucks because his boyfriend, whom he had met on Scruff a few months prior, was in the bedroom naked. But oh, was the gravy lumpy. [42] An EP, also entitled What's In, was released. When he talked about killing Melendez, he almost always referred to it with some disconnect, as the crimelike something that was over there and not the gravitational center of his lifes then-current trajectory. In reality, he argued, the whole thing was a fairly bloodless affair they simply thought Melendez was unconscious, so they put him on a couch, where he asphyxiated. In exchange for 10 bags of heroin, Alig agreed to dismember Melendez's body. He was an addict, but its strange that he took the amount that he took [to kill him].. We've received your submission. Alig would often look disturbed and anxious looking for something and would stumble in the last months of his life. The blood- and glitter-filled story of Michael Alig and his cohorts seems like a movie already, so it's no surprise that it was made into one. In 1997, he pleaded. ", The Messed Up True Story Behind Party Monster. The young man, the boyfriend of famed pop artist Keith Haring, took Alig to a party that his beau was throwing at the now-defunct Area club on Hudson Street. Riggs was released on parole in 2010. [14], Alig was paroled on May 5, 2014. Shortly after his arrest, Riggs confessed to police: On a Sunday in March of 1996 I was at home and Michael Alig and Angel Melendez were loudly arguing and getting louder. However, Melendez didn't have the same intense desire to lead that his friend had. Most detailed account anywhere! We werent trying to look sexy, we were trying to look freaky. On December 25, 2020, notorious New York City "Club Kid" Michael Alig died of an accidental heroin overdose. 82,056, This story has been shared 73,275 times. Alig starred in four Eric Spade Rivas films: Vamp Bikers, [45][46]Vamp Bikers Dos,[47] Vamp Bikers 3 [48]and Duke of New York. While Alig fully admitted that the pair eventually chopped off the body's legs before disposing of it, he blamed the dissociation that came with their heroin use and said that he had terrifying PTSD-induced flashbacks about it. Michael Alig, the flamboyantly costumed "King of the Club Kids" in late 1980s and early '90s Manhattan whose involvement in the sordid murder and . 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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. Fabulous was the word of the day. I was spinning out of control. ", "Party Monster: Painting in prison kept me from killing myself", "My Life as a Cult Film Star: Michael Musto Details His Delicious Role in "Vamp Bikers", "Interview: Film director Eric Rivas discusses 'Vamp Bikers' (Includes interview)", "Michael Alig Will Battle it Out as 'Club Kid Zombie' in Coney Island Horror Flick", "Writer/Director Eric Rivas' Brings Us "Vamp Bikers Tres"-"This Is The Unveiling of our Oz", "Club Kid killer Michael Alig charged with smoking crystal meth while trespassing near Bronx Supreme Court", "Master Of Ceremonies With Screamin' Rachael & Jason Chaos", "Where Are The People Hiding In Jason Chaos's Apartment? We got the ball rolling for everybody.. The pair's power dynamic heavily involved drugs. had a party with a theme.With Jason Chaos, Alig, Ingrid LaLa and others working as a team, Outrage! [26] Since several months had passed, many people believed Alig would get away with murdering Melendez, until children playing in the water pulled a box containing a legless torso from the waters of Oakwood Beach[27] at Miller Field, in New Dorp, Staten Island. He started making Party Monster 2 movie, which was footage of when he got out of prison, the insider shared. Michael Alig was found dead on Christmas Eve 2020 at age 54. 51,653, This story has been shared 45,190 times. After discussing what to do with Melendez's body and who should do it, Riggs went to Macy's to buy knives and a box. According to The Advocate, Andre "Angel" Melendez had his similarities with his acquaintance, Michael Alig. It was like a documentary. [26] Alig fled New York,[29] but was located by police in a motel room rented by his drug dealer boyfriend, Brian, in Toms River, New Jersey. Fabulously freaky, their nights were ruled by a hedonistic gumbo of sex and drugs. Alig was the last of these self-created downtown freaks. He would also often scream for hours inside his pad, neighbors said. [35], In August 2004, James St. James began a blog entitled "Phone Calls From a Felon". the actor said. In 2003, the movieParty Monster took a no-holds-barred look at New York City's club culture and its seedy, drug-fueled underbelly. Later, they cut out the body and dumped the parts in Hudson River. He was allegedly found dead of an apparent heroin overdose by Ben Silva, who described himself as Michaels other boyfriend and almost husband in a message seen by Page Six to the organizers of a GoFundMe raising money for his funeral expenses. Mini Bio (1) Michael Alig was born in South Bend, Indiana. [3] The Office of the Chief Medical examiner in New York City verified in May 2021 that Alig died from acute intoxication from the drugs fentanyl, acetylfentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine. While audience ratings have been rather more generous, people weren't actually rushing to see the movie. In October, dental records finally confirmed the deceased's identity as Andre"Angel" Melendez, and an autopsy revealed several interesting details that seemed to fit with a very particular rumor that was making the rounds in NewYork City's club circles. Does Alan Cumming Really Live in a Scottish Castle? I did something really terrible, but Im not a bad person, is how he put it at one point. News can confirm. Actor: Vamp Bikers Tres. 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. It was the first outlaw party that never got busted by the police, but sure got busted by the hurricane, she added. [1][34] In 2000, at Southport Correctional Facility, he was placed in solitary confinement after he was caught using heroin. 45,190, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved ", "My interview with Keoki and Michael Alig for, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Alig&oldid=1139419541, American people convicted of manslaughter, People with histrionic personality disorder, Prisoners and detainees of New York (state), Deaths by heroin overdose in New York (state), Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The events of Alig's years as a club promoter up to his arrest are covered in, The events of Alig's years as a club promoter up to his arrest were portrayed in the documentary, produced and directed by, A prison interview with Alig is featured in the documentary, Alig is cast as "Michael" in Spanish NY based independent director Manuel Toledano's first and only movie (finished in 1998 with the participation of producer. Per Interview Magazine, the Club Kids were in the habit of creating "glamorous personalities," and they aimed to make them as inventive and shocking as possible. Florida Teacher Suspended After He Made White Students Act as Servants For Black Students, Who Was Abby Choi? Terms of Use The Club Kids went to war with Alig's mother, Elke Blair, over his ashes after his death. Alig would throw $100 bills on crowded dance floors just to watch people scramble for them. In the end, the Club Kids planned a digital memorial for him at Green-Wood. parties. His ability to stage memorable parties helped him rise in New York's party scene. became a successful party and Alig was working in nightlife promotions again. Talk about being in the right place at the time, Alig said. 82,056, This story has been shared 73,275 times. I couldnt quite muster sympathy for him, given his role in his apparent downfall, but I felt bad for him on a human level. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Club Kids the faithful disciples of party monster Michael Alig bid their final farewell to the troubled but legendary club promoter, who passed away in December 2020 of an apparent drug overdose, over the weekend. Looking at it today, PartyMonster managed to get quite a star-studded cast, with a combination of established names and up-and-comers ranging from Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin (who played Alig), Seth Green, and That '70s Show mainstay Wilmer Walderrama to Chlo Sevigny, Dylan McDermott, and even shock rocker Marilyn Manson. "Get him off of me" [Angel] started shaking him violently and banging him against the wall. Although no names were used, Musto's reports included the details of murder. As Alig's popularity in the club scene grew, so did his drug use. My heart broke a little when I asked him if he missed anything about prison and he said without even pausing to think about it, I miss not worrying about having a place to live or eat. He told me he wished could be a baby again and do it all over, which I also found depressing. Alig was released from prison in 2014, but continued to chase his Club Kid heyday and do drugs. He was 54 years old. That made me feel good, that I was providing jobs, we would get places to liveRichie Rich and Sophia [Lamar] and Astro. 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. Let's take a look at the messed up true story behind Party Monster. 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!". 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