", "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? [40] Michael Alig had numerous Club Kids and mentors helping him get established to function in the modern real world life such as Ernie Glam and his husband David Maurici, Screamin' Rachael, Steve Lewis, Esther Hayes, Christopher Comp, Sushi, Michael Tronn, nightlife personality Professor Victor P. Corona, and nightlife personality/musician Ingrid LaLa. He told me hed been on Xanax and drank during the Outrage party I attended. Ultimately, Michael's total and absolute fall from grace is cemented when he becomes involved in the brutal murder of his acquaintance, Andre "Angel" Melendez (Wilson Cruz). According toThe Advocate, rumor also had it that the killers injected Melendez with Drano. After The Limelight was closed by federal agents and an investigation found that Gatien was allowing drugs to be sold there, Melendez was fired. Alig said that Riggs actually went about it in a very different way than the classic method depicted in Party Monster. Fabulously freaky, their nights were ruled by a hedonistic gumbo of sex and drugs. The visionary party promoter and style icon was one of the best-known members of a loose . Alig recalled to The Post how he and Riggs beat Melendez to death, then dismembered his body and tossed the parts into the Hudson River. 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. We've received your submission. He reported being diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder, which is characterized by high levels of attention-seeking behavior, stating: "The doctor said I was the most extreme case he'd ever seen. 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. Alig meets James St. James (Seth Green), who introduces him to the city's coolest party scene. Everybody had a toast and then [Hurricane] Henri came rolling in. Shortly thereafter, he moved into Alig's Riverbank West apartment. 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. Zach Shallcross Struggles to Watch Himself Dancing Terribly on The Bachelor, Alison Brie on Sex Scenes: 'We Are Actors, This Is Our Job'. Alig was released from prison in 2014, but continued to chase hisClub Kid heyday and do drugs. 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. 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. While Melendez was unconscious, Riggs went to the other room; when he returned, he noticed a broken syringe on the floor. He maintained he did it in self-defense, something he said he remained sure of even though many of the details were hazy because of all the drugs that were involved. In November 1996, parts of Melendez's body carried by the Hudson River washed ashore in Staten Island. . The couple divorced when Alig was four years old. "[23], On April 26, 1996, Musto reported rumors of Alig's involvement in Melendez's death in a blind item, in his Village Voice column. In March 1996, Alig and another friend, Robert Freeze Riggs, got into a beef with a small-time drug-peddling pal, Angel Melendez, while they were all on ketamine. [37] He was again denied parole in July 2008 after failing several drug tests. [14], Alig was paroled on May 5, 2014. [39] From September 7, 2014, on, Alig and Glam hosted a YouTube comedy talk show titled "The Pee-ew". The Club Kids went to war with Alig's mother, Elke Blair, over his ashes after his death. I know that Im not a bad person becausebecause I care too much, he explained. "This wicked little like, you know, blond- haired kid, making trouble for everybody." 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[44] The invitation designed by Michael Alig was a three piece puzzle of his art work; each puzzle piece revealed the location of the gallery and the time. One of the most important aspects of Live Through This is that it illustrates that anyone can be affected by suicideand that includes people we may have difficult and/or hostile, complicated feelings toward. Later DJ Keoki got Alig involved with Outrage!. "He seemed remorseful, but at the same time he was putting up this facade," Culkin said. He was flailing. Aligs ex was there and saw him unconscious and called 911, a police source said. 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. [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. He had so much heroin in his body, there was no way he wasnt going to die. Dying, aged 54, of an apparent heroin overdose on Christmas Day (and in the midst of an attempted presidential coup) threatened to get him lost in the news shuffle, and he definitely should have waited until after the inauguration.That kind of dark thought is hardly inappropriate for the club kid leader/killer, who lived to stir the s**t and garner . [1][34] In 2000, at Southport Correctional Facility, he was placed in solitary confinement after he was caught using heroin. He never got it back together. parties. In November 1996, the coroner reported the body had been identified as Melendez. On his release from prison, Emma Brockes . 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. ", The Messed Up True Story Behind Party Monster. 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. Alig was sad, objectively, like a half-dead bug on its back. These days, it may be difficult to understand just how big a deal Michael Alig was back in his heyday. Alig spent 14 years behind bars before being released in 2014. '"[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. True Hollywood Story", "PHOTO CALL: Meet the Club Kids of the New Immersive Musical Adaptation of "Party Monster" at A.R.T. 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. 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. The pair's power dynamic heavily involved drugs. Detectives recovered several zip-lock plastic bags, apparently containing heroin, from the home, as well as drug paraphernalia, officials said. Youre looking for the family you never had. One of his last photos taken in June shows him looking lost and perturbed. Michael told me, Ill never see money from it because they said theyll only release it after [longtime collaborator and DJ] Keoki or I died.. [35], In August 2004, James St. James began a blog entitled "Phone Calls From a Felon". 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. An ex-boyfriend found Alig dead from an overdose on Christmas Eve. Police officials told us there were no obvious signs of trauma.. Macaulay Culkin played Alig in the 2003 biopic Party Monster, which portrayed the Club Kid scene that he helmed, which culminated in the brutal death of Angel Melendez. Michael Alig, the flamboyantly costumed "King of the Club Kids" in late 1980s and early '90s Manhattan whose involvement in the sordid murder and . And everyone was kind of morphing into each other and melding into each other like goop. Few of the creative endeavors he teased upon his release from prison had manifestedno memoir, no reality shows. Talk about being in the right place at the time, Alig said. Alig was the last of these self-created downtown . The Club Kids were out and about, and their open celebration of difference wasn't just a fringe thing, either. I asked him how he could be sure and he stammered. In 1995, his boss, Gatien, sent Alig to rehab once again. He remained in solitary for another two-and-a-half years after a drug test showed that he was still using drugs. In fact, the real story might just be even more outlandish than the movie version. We've received your submission. 7:47am | Updated May 7, 2021 | 4:18pm. A) He wouldnt have been there, and B) Im kind of a cowardly person so I would have run instead of fighting back. Michael Alig ripped through culture like an overly loud cackle at a party, and he went out with a whimper. 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!". However, in a 2003 interview with ABC News, Culkin himself pointed out that the role of a club hell-raiser isn't quite as far-fetched for him as one might initially assume. Even if hed previously recited this dozens of times, it still impressed me when he said it to me: The club kids were a reaction initially to the AIDS crisis and to the death of Warhol. Outrage! According to The Guardian, there are many versions of the exact circumstances surrounding Andre"Angel" Melendez's death, thanks to the inaccurate depictions in various pop culture works and exaggerations by both the media and the Club Kids. The man's disappearance was noticed, and rumors about the grisly crime started circulating within the Club Kid circles. And even with the particulars, even keeping the despicable act that defined his legacy in mind, thats a shame because all waste is a shame. 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 . 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. [29] Alig was arrested as was Riggs. According to the Toronto Sun, they temporarily stashed the body in a bathtub filled with ice before the dismemberment. Michael Alig. We wanted a concentrated version of that because enough is never enough for us. Michael Alig had several roles in four Eric Spade Rivas films: Vamp Bikers, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 01:31. Crime Figure. They initially left it in the bathtub, which they filled with ice. Alig was released from prison in 2014, but continued to chase his Club Kid heyday and do drugs. 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. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Michael Alig (226035300)? Most detailed account anywhere! Most people did not believe Alig and thought his "confession" was a ploy to get attention. Per The Guardian, the Club Kid scene started as an attempt to give people who had been outcasts in their own communities a place to belong. I wasnt particularly surprised when, about a month after its publication, Alig was arrested for smoking meth in public (outside the Bronx Supreme Court building, no less). "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. The blog contained transcripts of phone conversations between Alig and St. James about Alig's experiences in prison. Blair told us in January, she felt they were trying to bully her over where he would eventually be laid to rest. However, Melendez didn't have the same intense desire to lead that his friend had. He was detained because the park closes after dusk. 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. 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. Thats why people come to New Yorkthey dont fit in anywhere. He was arrested several times for drug offenses and entered rehab, but continued to use drugs. Michael Alig (April 29, 1966 December 24, 2020) was an American club promoter, artist, and individual who was convicted of felony manslaughter. Alig meets James St. James (Seth Green), who introduces . It was apocalyptic, it was really frightening. He was promoting a Monday night party he cheekily named Outrage at the Rumpus Room, a small club on the Lower East Side. They were highly visible at the parties they attended, and they attended alotof them. 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. Over the coming weeks, the Village Voice continued to report and make accusations about Melendez's murder. 82,056, This story has been shared 73,275 times. [10], In May 2015, a selection of Alig's paintings went on display at the SELECT Fair in New York.[43]. According to a report in New York Post, his neighbors would often hear him screaming from inside his pad. The art event was filmed by World of Wonder (WOW) for the Party Monster 2 movie. On Saturday, Aligs most recent party protege Jason Chaos and his longtime supporter Rachael Cain paid their respects by hosting an outlaw party in Coney Island, a nod to Aligs illegal bashes in public spaces in the 80s. 82,056, This story has been shared 73,275 times. 1. This story has been shared 82,056 times. 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. 45,190, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved 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. Then again, the club scene had its dark sides. 51,653, This story has been shared 45,190 times. In March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid . Another series consists of portraits of "homophobic world leaders," as the artist describes them, with "cum splotches" - yes, actual ones - on their faces.The series features Bush, Cheney, and Putin, among others. 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 . [4], Alig attended Grissom Middle School and Penn High School, where he was a straight-A student and graduated in the top 8% of his class. 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. According to The Advocate, Andre "Angel" Melendez had his similarities with his acquaintance, Michael Alig. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. After six weeks, Alig put a stop to the phone calls claiming, "People think I'm having a grand old time. Unfortunately, it appears thatParty Monster either failed to capture the story's kitsch-filled drama or perhaps embraced it too well. In 2003, the movie Party Monster took a no-holds-barred look at New York City's club culture and its seedy, drug-fueled underbelly. Let's take a look at the messed up true story behind Party Monster. Aligs life was literally made for Hollywood, with his saga turned into a movie in 2003. 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. 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. He cut his legs off and put them each in a separate garbage bag, then into separate duffel bags and threw them into the Hudson River. Alig was found dead on Christmas Eve 2020 at age 54 of a suspected heroin overdose. Per Variety, the pair killed Melendez with a hammer and later dismembered his body and threw it in the Hudson river in a cardboard box. Thanks for contacting us. Michael Alig (April 29, 1966 - December 24, 2020) was an American club promoter, artist, and individual who was convicted of felony manslaughter. 73,275, This story has been shared 51,653 times. It worked well for my job I was a promoter."[17]. Michael Alig, who spent 17 years in prison for murdering and dismembering his drug dealer, died of an apparent heroin overdose on Christmas. News confirmed in late December that the former club promoter, who served 17 years in prison, had died at the age of 54 . 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. The 54-year-old former scene fixture-turned-slay convict was discovered by an ex-boyfriend just before midnight in his Washington Heights pad, authorities said. Michael Alig . He started making Party Monster 2 movie, which was footage of when he got out of prison, the source told Page Six. 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. He would also often scream for hours inside his pad, neighbors said. Whether he deserved a renaissance, a second chance at cultural relevance, it never happened. He was 54 years old. They also appeared on Donahue, Geraldo, and The Joan Rivers Show. Michael Alig was born in South Bend, Indiana. "There isn't an ounce of genuine affection on display," David Hansen of Newsweek said of the movie while also wondering why the filmmakers insisted on staying on the subject after already making a documentary about Alig. [12] Alig's notorious "Outlaw Parties", which were thrown in various unconventional places including a McDonalds,[13] a Dunkin' Donuts, abandoned houses, and a subway, helped to revitalize the downtown New York City club scene which Village Voice columnist Michael Musto declared had atrophied after artist Andy Warhol died in 1987. Alig and Robert Freeze Riggs served time in prison for killing Melendez, dismembering his body and tossing it in the Hudson River in 1996. However, as Variety tells us, he was still struggling with the dual prisons of drug addiction and his reputation. There's also the matter of drugs, which were becoming more and more prominent on the scene. Alig's ex "was there and saw him . His mother, a native of Bremerhaven, Germany, moved to the United States after marrying his father, a computer programmer. We've received your submission. Club Kid Killer Michael Alig died from an accidental overdose of various hard drugs. According to The Advocate, this wasn't the case with Angel Melendez. 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. 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[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. As The Guardian tells us, the 17-year-old Alig moved to New York from Indiana in the early 1980s in order to get a reprieve from his difficult family conditions and the constant bullying because of his homosexuality. He would not shave regularly and looked like a haggard. He became part of the scenes exclusive, trend-setting group known as the Club Kids who were paid merely to show up and bring a bit of fabulousness to the mix, Alig recalled. Thanks for contacting us. 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. Per Vanity Fair, Michael Alig saw freedom in 2014, after 17 years behind bars. Michael Alig ripped through culture like an overly loud cackle at a party, and he went out with a whimper. ", "Club kid killer Michael Alig dies of heroin overdose inside his Manhattan home Christmas morning", "Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig", "Revisiting two 'Deadly' stories that rocked NYC", "The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade TV Episode Calendar", "Death By Disco: The E! But oh, was the gravy lumpy. Alig reportedly moved to his Manhattan apartment six months back. Both were gay men who arrived in New York City around the same time and became heavily involved in the flamboyant Club Kid scene. There, in a pill-fused haze, Alig was deemed King of the Club Kids. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Infamous Club Kid Killer Michael Alig expected he would be dead by the end of 2020, according to a source. Thanks for contacting us. The wilder, the better. 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). And that was probably because of his want for more drugs. Alig, now 48 . Sitemap, Your California Privacy Rights I saw the police car here last night. [I was] a misfit from the Midwest who came to New York City in search of acceptance, opportunity and a whole lot of fun, Alig recalled to The Post. We werent trying to look sexy, we were trying to look freaky. Here are the 10 times he raised my shackles with the most demented glee. We said our prayers to say goodbye. 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. 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 . Only on Retro Room.Retro Room Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDuchEsU7yYqrL1j3. 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. But he continued to battle his seemingly ever-present demons, getting busted for possession of crystal meth near Yankee Stadium in 2017. Alig also says that he didn't smother Angel Melendez and definitely didn't pour Drano down his throat. 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. Both men were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. Its tough to watch someone flail up close. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Actor: Vamp Bikers Tres. It alters your sense of time and, in this case, well say strength. 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. The city was in such a state of disrepair that it looked like Mad Max, with the subways and streetlights out and fires. An overly friendly cat weaved between my legs and then Alig pointed out that she was in heat. DJ Keoki started to DJ at a weekly Monday night party called Outrage! Being a user, he would have a tolerance There mustve been something like fentanyl mixed with it, the first source said. While audience ratings have been rather more generous, people weren't actually rushing to see the movie. But with the excess-fueled fame and fortune came dangerous trappings, too, including drugs. 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. 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. Does Alan Cumming Really Live in a Scottish Castle? Ex-boyfriend Ben Silva discovered him just before midnight, and detectives recovered several zip-lock plastic bags, apparently containing heroin, from the home, as well as drug paraphernalia, officials said at the time. I must have wanted to stop me. The ex-con moved into the Upper Manhattan apartment about six months ago, neighbors said and there was apparent trouble from nearly the start. "I don't want to do what I did before," the actor told Barbara Walters. 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