Michael Alig 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 and his roommate, Robert D. Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid Andre \”Angel\” Melendez in a confrontation over a delinquent drug debt. In October 1997, Alig pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. He was released on May 5, 2014 and is now living in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
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Michael Alig 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 and his roommate, Robert D. Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid Andre \”Angel\” Melendez in a confrontation over a delinquent drug debt. In October 1997, Alig pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. He was released on May 5, 2014 and is now living in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He is survived by his wife, two children, and two step-daughters. He has a son and a step-daughter who were both born in the U.S. and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He also has a daughter and a son-in-law who are both currently living in New York and Los Angeles. He had a son who was born in 2008 and a daughter who is currently in her early 20s and lives in New Jersey. His son is also a party promoter and has been married to his wife since 2010. He and his wife have two children who were born in 2011 and 2013. He died on May 4, 2014. He will be buried in a private ceremony in Newburgh, New York, on his father’s birthday, June 14, 2014, at a ceremony attended by his family and friends.
His wife and children are also buried in Newbury Park, New Jersey, on the same day as their father. He leaves behind a wife and three children who he met at Fordham University, where he studied architecture and later worked as a bus boy at Danceteria, a New York nightclub. In 1988, he was hired by the owner of The Limelight, Peter Gatien, to organize parties for Gatien’s other clubs: Club USA, the Palladium, and Tunnel. In 1995, Gatien sent Alig to rehab once again. Some of Alig’s behavior could be explained by a personality disorder; he reported being diagnosed with histrionic personality disorder. In March 1996, he moved into Alig’s Westbank apartment. On the night of March 17, 1996, his roommate and his regular roommate Robert Riggs and Alig, 17, killed Melendez, a regular Club Kid, at the apartment where he was a regular promoter. Melendez was fired from his job at the club shortly after the murder. The club was closed by federal agents after an investigation found that Gatien was allowing drugs to be sold on the premises and that Alig had sold drugs to Melendez on the regular.
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