Michael Alig: Club Kids to Convict & Back - Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series featuring the charismatic founder of The Club Kids, Michael Alig.
The Club Kids were a group of young, flamboyant New York City underground dance club personalities in the late 1980s and early 1990s, who were also heavily involved in the drug culture.
Alig spent 17 years behind bars for his part in a brutal drug-induced murder in 1996 when he and roommate Robert "Freeze" Riggs murdered a third roommate, drug dealer Andre "Angel" Melendez, using a hammer. They poured drain cleaner down his throat and kept the lifeless body of their roommate in their apartment for days before finally getting butcher knives to dismember him, disposing of the body in separate locations in the river.
That murder and the partying lifestyle that led up to it was the subject of the movie, Party Monster, starring Macauley Culkin as Alig.
In this second part, Alig recounts his relationship with his mother, discusses what kind of person he would like to be in a relationship with, talks drug use, and also his creative plans for the future.
Host: Karla Stephens Tolstoy
Co-Producer: Jessica de Bruyn Production
Editor & Sound: Peter Anthony Holder
Narrator: Peter Anthony Holder
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