{"id":141964,"date":"2020-12-25T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/club-kid-killer-michael-alig-found-dead-of-suspected-overdose\/"},"modified":"2020-12-25T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:05:40","slug":"club-kid-killer-michael-alig-found-dead-of-suspected-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/club-kid-killer-michael-alig-found-dead-of-suspected-overdose\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Club Kid Killer’ Michael Alig found dead of suspected overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Club Kid Killer’ Michael Alig found dead of suspected overdose<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cClub Kid Killer\u201d Michael Alig \u2014 the famously flamboyant party promoter who ended up busted for murder \u2014 was found dead on Christmas Eve of an app<\/a>arent heroin overdose, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Alig\u2019s ex \u201cwas there and saw him unconscious and called 911,\u201d a police source said. \u201c[Alig] was on his side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detectives recovered several zip-lock plastic bags, apparently containing heroin, from the home, as well as drug paraphernalia, officials said.<\/p>\n

Alig\u2019s death was the final chapter in a sordid, sensational \u2014 and decidedly cautionary \u2014 tale about striving to become famous in the Big Apple and ultimately succumbing to its excesses.<\/p>\n

He was known in his heyday as the self-proclaimed \u201cKing of the Club Kids,\u201d a group of outrageously dressed, drug-fueled hedonists staging the most sought-after nightclub parties in the 1980s and early 1990s.<\/p>\n

Alig told The Post in an exclusive article in 2014 how he grew up as a gay person in South Bend, Ind., wearing Izod \u2014 and felt as if he had finally come home after arriving in the Big Apple in 1984.<\/p>\n

He moved to New York City to attend Fordham University \u2014 and quickly met a fellow student called Ludovic who changed the course of his life.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Ludovic wore underwear and white body paint as he swept the pair past the uber-choosy doorman.<\/p>\n

Once inside the joint, Alig said, he was hooked.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I was] a misfit from the Midwest who came to New York City in search of acceptance, opportunity and a whole lot of fun,\u2019\u2019 Alig recalled to The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a gay teen coming to terms with my sexuality, I was overwhelmed and exhilarated. It was liberating,\u2019\u2019 he wrote of the wild scene, which included androgyny icon Grace Jones partying among about 300 other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalk about being in the right place at the time,\u2019\u2019 Alig said. \u201cWhile the rest of the country was entrenched in depressing Reaganomics and [the anti-drug campaign] \u2018Just say no,\u2019 downtown New York nightlife was having a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

What a moment it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cFabulous\u201d was the word of the day. The wilder, more eccentric the makeup, hair and costumes, the better \u2014 and no one was held in more esteem in the hierarchy of alien-looking club-hoppers than a gender-bending man with an entourage.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He became part of the scene\u2019s exclusive, trend-setting group known as the \u201cClub Kids\u2019\u2019 who were \u201cpaid merely to show up and bring a bit of fabulousness to the mix,\u2019\u2019 Alig recalled.<\/p>\n

But with the excess-fueled fame and fortune came dangerous trappings, too, including drugs.<\/p>\n

Alig began ingesting heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine with the best of them, as well as heavily boozing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cClub Kid Killer\u201d Michael Alig<\/figcaption>
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In March 1996, Alig and another friend, Robert \u201cFreeze\u201d Riggs, got into a beef with a small-time drug-peddling pal, Angel Melendez, while they were all on ketamine. 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.<\/p>\n

The killers were eventually caught and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.<\/p>\n

Alig spent 14 years behind bars before being released in 2014. Riggs was freed in 2010.<\/p>\n

Alig\u2019s life was literally made for Hollywood, with his saga turned into a movie in 2003. Former child actor Macaulay Culkin portrayed him.<\/p>\n

The fallen promoter tried to go the straight and narrow after prison by continuing to hone a skill he picked up behind bars \u2014 painting.<\/p>\n

But he continued to battle his seemingly ever-present demons, getting busted for possession of crystal meth near Yankee Stadium in 2017.<\/p>\n

Alig also was homeless off and on<\/a> \u2014 admitting in 2018 that he turned to the gay-hook-up site Grindr at one point when he ran out of money \u201cjust to have some place to sleep\u2019\u2019 and at least once found himself camping out under a bridge.<\/p>\n

When he came clean about his ongoing issues and was asked why it took him so long to admit to them, he said, \u201cI didn\u2019t really want to publicize it too much because I didn\u2019t want it to end up on Page Six.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ex-con moved into the Upper Manhattan apartment about six months ago, neighbors said \u2014 and there was apparent trouble from nearly the start.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to hear a lot of drama from his place \u2014a lot of people screaming,\u2019\u2019 next-door neighbor Elvis Miller, 27, told The Post on Friday. \u201cGuys waiting eight hours outside his door, asking for him, asking for, \u2018Michael.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was always, like, acting a little bit out of his mind, like his nervous system wasn\u2019t OK,\u2019\u2019 said Miller, who moved into the building four months ago. \u201cHe was stumbling, always rushing, always anxious.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time I saw him, a guy was knocking and asking for him. Recently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller, when told that Alig was dead, responded, \u201cOh my God! He died?! I\u2019m in shock. I saw the police car here last night. I didn\u2019t know it was for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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