Michael Alig (April 29, 1966 – December 24, 2020) was an American club promoter who was convicted of felony manslaughter. He was one of the ringleaders of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers who became a cultural phenomenon in …

2014年5月12日 · New York party promoter Michael Alig was released last week after serving 17 years in jail. The self-proclaimed “King of The Club Kids” infamously slayed his drug-dealer friend, Angel Melendez,...

2021年5月3日 · Alig made headlines in the late '90s for his infamous parties, even co-founding the group of partygoers called the "Club Kids," who became notorious in the NYC nightclub scene. However, in 1997,...

The Club Kids were a New York City-based artistic and fashion-conscious youth movement composed of nightlife personalities active from the late 1980s to 1996. Coined by a 1988 New York cover story, the Club Kids crossed over into the public consciousness through appearances on daytime talk shows, magazine editorials, fashion campaigns and music ...

2025年2月15日 · At the center of it was “a group of misfits known as the 'Club Kids,'” according to Robert K. Boyce, a former New York City Police Department chief of detectives, who now hosts Oxygen's New York Homicide. “With their wild costumes and even wilder antics, they redefined the New York club scene,” Boyce added in the true crime show's “Killer Club Kids” episode.

2003年1月23日 · Officially christened “The Club Kids” bt New York magazine in 1988, this flamboyant group held decadent bacchanals – impromptu dance aprties on subway stations and in faast-food joints ...

2015年6月20日 · NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- In the early 1990s, Michael Alig was the ringleader of the notorious New York "club kids," but a few years later, he was serving a prison sentence for a manslaughter...

Andre "Angel" Melendez [2] (May 1, 1971 – March 17, 1996) was a member of the Club Kids who lived and worked in New York City. He was killed by Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs on March 17, 1996.

2020年12月26日 · In the '90s, Alig, a promoter, co-founded the "Club Kids," a group of partygoers who became notorious in the New York City nightclub scene.

Michael Alig mixed sex, designer drugs and the new sound of House music into the heady cocktail of the Club Kids scene of 1990s Manhattan. But when the party became Alig's entire life, it went fatally out of bounds.