Michael Alig
(? - living) U.S.A.
Club promoter
 Party and club promoter and leader of the Club Kids party scene of late 1980's and early 1990's New York City. He became a drug addict and murdered his ex-boyfriend drug dealer Angel Melendez, boasting about the crime to his friends; when the police got wind, he was arrested, convicted and sent to jail in 1996; Alig was the subject of the 1998 documentary Party Monster and the 1999 book Disco Bloodbath.
"I have the most depressing view from my cell window: a perfect view of the Manhattan skyline. Talk about adding insult to injury! At least I found out that there is cable TV here."
 Party Monster documents the rise and fall of clubmeister Michael Alig, and offers an insightful, raw and at times disturbing glimpse into the dark side of New York's night life. Michael Alig, a kid from middle America, aspired to take the place of Andy Warhol in the New York art scene. Starting out as a teenage bus-boy, Michael quickly rose in stature as the #1 party promoter in New York during the 1980's. Against a back drop of excessive drugs, outlandish looks, and outrageous behavior, Party Monster unfolds charting the growth of the "club kids," and Michael's brutal murder of his roommate Angel Melendez. Incredibly, instead of trying to keep the murder a secret, Michael called many of his friends boasting about what he had done. "He was a copycat and so we killed him" he joked in an on-camera interview with the filmmakers before his arrest. Intimate glimpses into the club kid lifestyle,
Source: http://www.papermag.com/magazine/mag_97/mag_aug97/alig/alig.html
Simon Gage, Lisa Richards, and Howard Wilmot, Queer, Thunder's Mouth Press (Avalon Publishing Group), 2002.
Picture source: http://www.picturethisent.com/minisites/partymonster/party_monster.html
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