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 2003 feature film Party Monster, died early this morning of a suspected heroin overdose.
He was 54.Alig was found unconscious at his Washington Heights apartment in Upper Manhattan by a friend shortly before 3 a.m.
Medics pronounced him dead at the scene. The death was first reported by the New York Daily News.Alig, who reigned over the Manhattan club scene as a party promoter for Peter Gatien’s immensely popular Limelight and Palladium dance clubs, was already infamous outside the city’s lushly attired demimonde even before the murder, having
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