Theres an advantage to be had in writing about someone that you dont admireyou feel far less beholden to their feelings. [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. Michael Alig died of an overdose on Christmas Day, 2020. When one pictures a hammer hitting a head, it tends to be a nasty, bloody affair. In exchange for 10 bags of heroin, Alig agreed to dismember Melendez's body. 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. In 1995, his boss, Gatien, sent Alig to rehab once again. Strangely, Blair said she felt that Cain was pressuring her not only to put Aligs remains at Brooklyns Green-Wood cemetery but also to choose it as her own final resting place. Over the coming weeks, the Village Voice continued to report and make accusations about Melendez's murder. We got the ball rolling for everybody.. "Get him off of me" [Angel] started shaking him violently and banging him against the wall. 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. [15], However, Musto recalls: "By the time Alig sent out a party invite joking about the murder, a lot of people wanted to kill him (especially since a source was floating a more premeditated version of the killing). According to Alig's boyfriend, he had been using heroin shortly before his death. Michael Alig. Alig meets James St. James (Seth Green), who introduces . In March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid . The ex-con moved into the Upper Manhattan apartment about six months ago, neighbors said and there was apparent trouble from nearly the start. 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. Alig would often look disturbed and anxious looking for something and would stumble in the last months of his life. He along with fellow 'Club Kid' Robert 'Freeze' Riggs were arrested for a brutal murder, with Alig pleading guilty to manslaughter in 1997 for killing Melendez. Keoki, Cynthia 'Social Lies' and Michael Alig pose for a photo at Tunnel nightclub on January 13th, 1988 in New York City, New York. In 2016,I was assigned to profile Alig for Maer Roshans short-lived reboot of the queer lifestyle magazine 429, which is now defunct. Headless Body of Missing Model Found in Refrigerator of Hong Kong Slaughter House as Police Arrest Ex-Husband and Father-In-Law, Who Was Jack Snyder? During the late 1980s and early '90s, he was a club promoter and a member of The Club Kids, a decadent party crew characterized by wild costumes and rampant drug use. 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 . This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. [21] Alig disputed these claims, however, and cited the "Drano in the hypodermic needle" as one of the key false dramatizations in Disco Bloodbath and Party Monster. Alig in the visitor's room at the Emira Correctional Facility. 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. 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We didnt want to have to think about AIDS, so we just got all dressed up and partied like it was the end of the world. Riggs claimed that Alig was pouring "some cleaner or chemical" into Melendez' mouth, then duct-taped it with the help of Riggs. Then, he filled the victim's mouth with detergent and closed it with duct tape. A painting Alig showed us on his laptop depicts Macaulay Culkin playing Alig in Party Monster. Alig's case has been featured on the TV series: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. He was released in 2014. It seems that the tactic worked, because according to the Toronto Sun, Melendez was the go-to drug dealer at the Club Kids' favorite haunts, Limelight and The Tunnel. He started making Party Monster 2 movie, which was footage of when he got out of prison, the insider shared. [14] He was required to abide by an 8 p.m. curfew and undergo drug and anger management counseling, and job readiness training. His charisma and the combination of his outlandish getups and scandalous antics made him a popular figure in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well as a talk show mainstay who was the de facto figurehead of both Gatien's club empire and the Club Kid scene in general. [22], In the weeks following Melendez's disappearance, Alig allegedly told "anyone who would listen" that he and Riggs had killed him. [39] From September 7, 2014, on, Alig and Glam hosted a YouTube comedy talk show titled "The Pee-ew". I had wanted to see Aligs place, and while it had confirmed my suspicions that it would function as a visual representation of a life in disarray, I couldnt believe that he let an actual journalist see it. [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. "He was putting on the 'Michael Alig' act for me, the wild and crazy guy. 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. In 2003, the movieParty Monster took a no-holds-barred look at New York City's club culture and its seedy, drug-fueled underbelly. The visionary party promoter and style icon was one of the best-known members of a loose . In 1997, he pleaded. They were highly visible at the parties they attended, and they attended alotof them. It was liberating, he wrote of the wild scene, which included androgyny icon Grace Jones partying among about 300 other people. On December 24, 2020, shortly before midnight, Alig was found unconscious by his ex-boyfriend at their Washington Heights, Manhattan, home. After six weeks, Alig put a stop to the phone calls claiming, "People think I'm having a grand old time. But a mere glance at Aligs life two years out of prison intrigued me. "It's so easy to see me as this wicked, little thing, you know?" Alig himself has noted that because the name of the game was disaffection, the verbal abuse could be rather extreme. 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. 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). [7], While working at Danceteria, Alig studied the nightclub business and soon became a party promoter. In 2014, Alig . Alig said that Riggs actually went about it in a very different way than the classic method depicted in Party Monster. Convicted killer Michael Alig has died at the age of 54, E! Im sure it was one of those Im on him too long and putting too much force. In an interview with Rolling Stoneupon his release, Alig stated that he still has no explanation for the crime. [9] They were also known for their frequent use of ketamine (known as Special K), Ecstasy, Rohypnol, heroin, and cocaine. According to the New York Police Department, law enforcement responded to a 9-1-1 call on West 159th on Dec. 25, where . Michael Alig was found dead on Christmas Eve 2020 at age 54. [42] An EP, also entitled What's In, was released. 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. According toThe Advocate, rumor also had it that the killers injected Melendez with Drano. In the end, though, drugs proved to be a much greater enemy. In fact, The Village Voice reports that he and Melendez eventually came to be at odds over a significant drug debt. 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. Alig, now 48 . A) He wouldnt have been there, and B) Im kind of a cowardly person so I would have run instead of fighting back. 51,653, This story has been shared 45,190 times. I saw the police car here last night. 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 May 2014, reports emerged that Alig was attempting to sell his memoirs and was pursuing a career as a magazine writer. During the pandemic, Screamin' Rachael, Jason Chaos and Trax Records were the first to launched virtual zoom parties every Saturday night[50] Alig teamed with Screamin' Rachael and Jason Chaos during the pandemic to host these events. 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. 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. It was apocalyptic, it was really frightening. 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. "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. 7:47am | Updated May 7, 2021 | 4:18pm. 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. 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. 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. However, Robert Riggs ultimately confessed and revealed Alig's role in the crime. 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. He was flailing. Alig spent 14 years behind bars before being released in 2014. 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. Or that I'm trying to exploit my situation. [32], While in prison, Alig told Musto, "I know why I blabbed. The Club Kids wore outrageous costumes that former Club Kid and celebutante James St. James later described as "part drag, part clown, part infantilism". Michael Alig, the flamboyantly costumed "King of the Club Kids" in late 1980s and early '90s Manhattan whose involvement in the sordid murder and . After working the Outrage! [16] Alig later claimed that after he completed his stint and was released, Gatien fired him. 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. Alig soon dropped out of school and began working at Danceteria as a bus boy. It was like a documentary. He died?! He started off as a busboy at Danceteria in 1983 and . I was spinning out of control. 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. [2] Per the conditions of his parole, Alig returned to New York City. I came to New York and provided an oasis where they could come and be celebrated.". It's believed that he died of a heroin overdose on December 24. 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. Terms of Use Michael Alig ripped through culture like an overly loud cackle at a party, and he went out with a whimper. 51,653, This story has been shared 45,190 times. 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 The third gallery was at Hotel Chantel in which a DJ set by DJ Keoki was performed. Alig waffled between claiming to be off drugs and admitting to doing a bump here and there. Alig was the last of these self-created downtown . A spokesperson for the NYPD told Page Six the medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing. "He hit him with the wooden end of the hammer, not the metal end," Alig said. The bathtub they used to store the body contained Drano, baking soda, and Calvin Klein Eternity. Michael loves what he sees and becomes the most popular "club kid" in town that is, until drugs take hold and things start to go downhill fast. which you can read via the Wayback Machine, Alig was arrested for smoking meth in public. 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Striking a man with a hammer, suffocating him, and dumping the body in a bathtub with Drano before dismembering and dumping it is an extreme crime at the best of times but in a 2014 interview withThe Guardian, Michael Alig insisted that the way he and Robert Riggs killed Angel Melendez was actually rather more muted than its pop culture depiction. 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 wilder, the better. He was using heroin before he fell ill and was pronounced dead at the scene. [8] During this time, Alig and other regular clubgoers began creating flamboyant personas, and later became known as "Club Kids". Police officials told us there were no obvious signs of trauma.. He was known in his heyday as the self-proclaimed King of the Club Kids, a group of outrageously dressed, drug-fueled hedonists staging the most sought-after nightclub parties in the 1980s and early 1990s. [10], In May 2015, a selection of Alig's paintings went on display at the SELECT Fair in New York.[43]. Sitemap, Your California Privacy Rights The pair's power dynamic heavily involved drugs. Some of MichaelAlig's friends even said that he had personally admitted to the crime. It was the first outlaw party that never got busted by the police, but sure got busted by the hurricane, she added. 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. 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. Let's take a look at the messed up true story behind Party Monster. 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. As a look at the film's Rotten Tomatoes page readily tells us, the critics utterly lambasted Party Monster. 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. We may earn a commission from links on this page. True Hollywood Story", "PHOTO CALL: Meet the Club Kids of the New Immersive Musical Adaptation of "Party Monster" at A.R.T. "I don't want to do what I did before," the actor told Barbara Walters. Alig learned from mentors, including St. James, while rising in popularity and prominence in the national underground club scene. 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. He was still trying, his little bug legs kicking aimlessly. Photo: Catherine McGann/Getty Images. An overly friendly cat weaved between my legs and then Alig pointed out that she was in heat. 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. Michael told me he probably wasnt going to make it through the year. Both men were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. They eventually offered both Alig and Riggs a plea deal: a sentence of 10 to 20 years if they accepted the lesser charge of manslaughter. Alig reportedly moved to his Manhattan apartment six months back. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. An ex-boyfriend found Alig dead from an overdose on Christmas Eve. "You could say just the worst things about people, nobody was ever offended," he recalled. Meanwhile, some friends of Aligs are somehow mystified at how he couldve died from an 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. New details have emerged about convicted killer Michael Alig's death.. E! But he continued to battle his seemingly ever-present demons, getting busted for possession of crystal meth near Yankee Stadium in 2017. The last time I saw him, a guy was knocking and asking for him. Does Alan Cumming Really Live in a Scottish Castle? "Club Kid Killer" Michael Alig the famously flamboyant party promoter who ended up busted for murder . 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. 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). Crime Figure. Thanks for contacting us. Shortly thereafter, he moved into Alig's Riverbank West apartment. 82,056, This story has been shared 73,275 times. . Talk about being in the right place at the time, Alig said. Michigan Student Killed by 14-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Boys in Attempted Carjacking After Offering Them Ride to Home, Kansas teacher farts during online class; bursts into laughter along with students, International Business Times, Singapore Edition. He was pronounced dead at the scene. However, its reputation would be forever tarnished byParty Monsterand its subject, Club Kid extraordinaireMichael Alig. The art event was filmed by World of Wonder (WOW) for the Party Monster 2 movie. [28] James St. James recounted how Melendez's brother was baffled by what he regarded as callous indifference by the police and by the scenesters Melendez had considered friends.[25]. He told me hed been on Xanax and drank during the Outrage party I attended. 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. The blog contained transcripts of phone conversations between Alig and St. James about Alig's experiences in prison. The rest of the body was put into a large box Riggs found in the basement of their apartment. 45,190, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved 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. Detectives recovered several zip-lock plastic bags, apparently containing heroin, from the home, as well as drug paraphernalia, officials said. 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. Zach Shallcross Struggles to Watch Himself Dancing Terribly on The Bachelor, Alison Brie on Sex Scenes: 'We Are Actors, This Is Our Job'. [30], Alig claimed he killed Melendez in self-defense and helped to dispose of the body in a panic. [37] He was again denied parole in July 2008 after failing several drug tests. And everyone was kind of morphing into each other and melding into each other like goop. A complete three piece set of the puzzle invitation is rare and hard to find. I felt no need to hedge regarding the state of his Upper West Side apartment, a disaster by his admission. I didnt bring up anything about the ashes I am glad we are talking again, he said. To put it in simple words, Alig's never overcame his problems with drugs. Melendez was a drug dealer and quite liberal about sharing, as it helped keep him in Alig's inner circle. When he talked about the impetus of the Club Kids, he was sharp and efficient, compressing an entire era into a single paragraph. According to Deadline, both Alig and Riggs pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1996. 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. His ability to stage memorable parties helped him rise in New York's party scene. I opened the room and started towards the other bedroom at which point Michael Alig was yelling, "Help me!" 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 . Thanks for contacting us. 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. News confirmed in late December that the former club promoter, who served 17 years in prison, had died at the age of 54 . 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. Michael Alig used to be more press savvy. We wanted a concentrated version of that because enough is never enough for us. The couple divorced when Alig was four years old. 51,653, This story has been shared 45,190 times. 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. . 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. became a successful party and Alig was working in nightlife promotions again. Guys waiting eight hours outside his door, asking for him, asking for, Michael.. I didnt know it was for him.. 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