Michael Alig reached out from jail to punk impresario Malcolm McLaren in 2011. The end of Alig’s long stretch in the New York penal system for the killing of a drug dealer, Angel Melendez, was in ...

Michael Alig, the notorious club kid who went to prison for murdering drug dealer Andre “Angel” Melendez in 1996, has big plans for his release. “Do you think it would even be possible now to throw a ...

Read the full text, without design or pictures, below: The Party Monster Lives For the Applause Two hundred and forty miles west of Manhattan, in a stately red brick building perched atop a hill, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alig's story, from wide-eyed Indiana teenager to notorious downtown NYC hipster who helped put famous nightclub The Limelight on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Alig, the flamboyantly costumed "King of the Club Kids" in late 1980s and early '90s Manhattan whose involvement in the ...

A tabloid celebrity and rambunctious promoter whose nightlife exploits and subsequent murder conviction inspired multiple films died in New York of a suspected drug overdose on Christmas Day. Michael ...

The former drug-dazed club kid Michael Alig was released from jail today, after being convicted of the 1996 murder of his drug dealer and roommate Angel Melendez. He served 17 years behind bars, ...

Michael Alig, the flamboyantly costumed “King of the Club Kids” in late 1980s and early ’90s Manhattan whose involvement in the sordid murder and dismemberment of his drug dealer was chronicled in the ...