Michael Alig, 54, the notorious Club Kid killer who was depicted in the Macaulay Culkin movie Party Monster has died. According to reports, Alig, who served 17 years in prison for manslaughter died on Christmas day, December 25, 2020, from a suspected heroin overdose. An autopsy is being performed and an official cause of death is expected between January and February. According to reports, Michael’s live-in boyfriend found him unresponsive after he had allegedly taken heroin. Michael Alig was convicted in 1997 for the murder of his then-roommate Andre ‘Angel’ Melendez.

Michael Alig spoke to Inside Edition about the grisly murder after he was released from prison in 2014.  Alig pleaded guilty to Andre Melendez’s murder and said he along with another ‘club kid’ Robert ‘Freeze’ Riggs hit Melendez with a hammer and poured Drano down his throat before dismembering his body and dumping it in New York’s Hudson River. Robert ‘Freeze’ Riggs was released from prison in 2010.

You may see an Inside Edition report about the leader of the Club Kids Michael Alig, the murder of Andre ‘Angel’ Melendez, and Alig’s release from prison below.

Back in the late eighties and early nineties, the Club Kids were making headlines and appeared on several talk shows including Phil Donahue and Geraldo Rivera.

You may see Michael Alig and other Club Kids as they appeared on Phil Donahue in the video below.

You may see Michael Alig, along with other Club Kids, as they appeared on Geraldo Rivera below.

Michael Alig’s release from prison wasn’t without controversy either. Many people on social media were furious when Alig and Ernie Glam, host of the web-podcast Pee-ew had Desmond is Amazing, the young child drag queen on their show. Desmond was snuggled between the two men on the episode and people feared for Desmond’s safety. Concerned citizens noticed the wall-art that hung overhead the trio that showed an image of children’s feet with the word ‘Rohypnol’ painted on the image. Rohypnol is a date-rape drug.

Michael Alig was outspoken about his heroin addiction and serving 17 years in prison for a murder that partially stemmed from drugs wasn’t enough to stop his addiction.

Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine in 2017, Michael Alig stated the following.

I went to prison addicted to heroin and it’s a very difficult drug to get off — especially in prison. I would wean myself off, go through the withdrawal, and expect to be feeling better a week or a month later. And when that didn’t happen, I decided, ‘F**ck it. I’ve committed this horrible crime, nobody’s ever going to forgive me, I might as well just get high and not have to deal with it.’

Michael Alig was born on April 29, 1966. He died on December 25, 2020.

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