Michael Alig Dead

No sympathy. He was given more opportunities than most.

OMMFG

Damn. Shocking but I suppose expected. What a ride he had.

OP, FFS, do a search instead of showing your ignorance.

I’ll save the bitchery. Rip.

RIP, you crazy attention whore.

Thread is at R4

he wasn't dead already?

Yikes, he dumped Drano down the victims throat and then taped it shut. Chopped up the corpse. What a monster.

What a sloppily written article.

[quote] Michael Alig, 54, lost consciousness inside his Washington Heights apartment on W. 159th St. by his boyfriend about 3 a.m., officials said.

Typical of Daily News though.

[Quote]Michael Alig, 54, lost consciousness inside his Washington Heights apartment on W. 159th St. by his boyfriend about 3 a.m., officials said. The ex-con was doing heroin shortly before he died, his boyfriend told police.

Damn. I thought you're supposed to become wiser upon getting older, but not this fool. Why was he doing heroin at this stage of his life?

Rot in hell.

R8, only on the inside

Trying to forget his killed and dismembered a human r11

Fitting end to the gruesome killing he was responsible for.

The nypost was even worse

JESUS CHRIST THE GRIM REAPER IS WORKING OVERTIME THIS CHRISTMAS!!!

Serves him right. I have no fucks to give.

[quote]JESUS CHRIST THE GRIM REAPER IS WORKING OVERTIME THIS CHRISTMAS!!!

Let's hope he has an appointment with Leslie Van Houten.

Dead at 54.

Live by the club, die by the club.

He survived jail only to OD years later

Holy shit

That's what I mean, r21.

The family of the man Alig murdered will have a good news blast this morning. Mazel!

Has Michael Musto commented? He basically broke the case wide open.

He killed actor Wilson Cruz, right?

Alig had zero fucks to give. A selfish psychopath. Another piece of shit we won’t be plagued with in 2021. Fuck alig and fuck all of his post-jail enablers.

I recall the cops busted him and a bf for drug dealing a couple of years back.

R26 - whoa - what the fuck happened to Wilson Cruz?

Oh I see - steroids. And drugs most likely.

Has Desmond Is Amazing commented yet?

Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

How did he manage to get out of prison?

R30, why is that child hanging out with a murderer?

What a horrid life he led

They're just dropping like flies!

He got less time in jail than the killer of John Lennon.

Well he died doing what he loved..

A who and a what now?

I miss him

I don’t know. I am kind of sad about this. As a young freak growing up in the Midwest, I obsessed over what they were doing in NY at the time. He may have been part monster but he was a counter-culture icon, an artist in his own right and definitely not a stupid person. What he did was reprehensible but his death still can stir feelings. There is something special about people being the only way they know how to be, no matter how repugnant, especially in today’s world. Rest in Peace.

The Club Kids are Like Mapplethorpe photography. I can't believe that people where that shocked/scared/freaked out. It's seems so lame, tame and/or try-hard now. Something you could roll your eyes at and keep it moving.

R41 - I don't think anyone was scared or freaked out by them. They added sparkle and glamour to going out - who doesn't want to see some crazy characters and costumes? It was fun. Theater, if you will.

Now there are no real clubs.

I remember when the Club Kids would appear on talk shows back in the '80s. I think it was Phil Donahue's.

James St. James tweeted

[quote]Logging off. I think I’ll just be alone with my thoughts for the next couple of days.

Well, we know what he bought himself for Christmas.

Is Mama Alig still alive? Poor Else, the only person to ever really love Alig.

Good riddance

[quote]I don't think anyone was scared or freaked out by them. They added sparkle and glamour to going out - who doesn't want to see some crazy characters and costumes? It was fun. Theater, if you will.

[quote]Is Mama Alig still alive? Poor Else, the only person to ever really love Alig.

If only she had considered abortion.

I see your point, R49, but I still feel sad for her today, because she is still alive.

Goodbye, South Bend rose!

He was a piece of shit, so no loss. Also, anyone who thought this creep would stay clean once he left prison was delusional.

The only shock is how he made it this long . Im sorry for those who loved him though. Its not easy to watch someone you love self destruct and not be able to do anything about it .

Disgusting excuse for a man, wish it happened before he got his hands on Desmond.

Logging off. I think I’ll just be alone with my thought for the next couple of days.

There, R44. Fixded that for you.

A shame that Alig single-handedly ruined the Club Kids' legacy.

Michael Musto :: thoughts.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. 2020 did something right.

Being in clubs with them at the time they all just seemed like needy losers who would do anything for attention. Not sure anyone thought they were “cool” - just over the top and annoying. They were part of the process of turning clubs that were a place to dance into a spectacle to show off and pose rather than have fun and enjoy yourself.

There a 1,000's of stories in the naked city...

Well it's nice to know that some people got their Christmas gift (his death) on time. I'm still baffled as to how he spent so little time for killing Angel. Alig was basically the unattractive American Luka Magnotta before Luka Magnotta came to be.

R59 - perhaps - but they did put on good shows. There's only so much dancing you can do - they added extra.

You literally were not going to come across some of this shit in any other city in the world - and they provided that. It was indulgence, creativity, drugs and over the top costumes and acting. It was performance in a very safe and welcoming environment.

It made it very 'only in New York'. Who doesn't like coming across people in outrageous costumes? For me, when that scene died down, it was the beginning of mind numbingly boring mediocrity. Of course, also straight people who were dragged to these clubs starting getting into it and just killed the vibe.

That dance scene in NY and London started the expansion of EDM and dance music to the masses. No one talks about it or gives the gays the credit they are due.

Le snore. The Club Kids didn't event anything "only in New York" they had ZERO lock on club excess and wildness and impudence and imagination. Some of you never got out much. There have been FANTASTIC club scenes since the 60s that flame and die in many of the worlds most creative cities.

Thanks for the insights, Michael Musto.

R14 He was vile, certainly, but didn’t he kill his drug dealer over a past due bill? He wasn’t exactly snuffing out Pastor Junior after church. He belonged in prison for life, but not sure the world was worse off for his crime.

I worked at Limelight (and Club USA and The Tunnel) during the Alig/Disco 2000 heyday and was around to observe Michael a lot. I was a club operations staffer/fill-in bartender but I was never a friend or Club Kid, just a club employee, which at the time was a blast.

He was, like most sociopaths, a complicated fellow. Early in the shift while he was out of makeup and costume, just a pleasant guy and could carry on ordinary work-related conversations, and then the show started.

Even his legendary drunkenness and druggy hijinx all seemed so scripted. He would frequently reach behind the bar and grab the cheap well vodka ($8 the bottle!) and dash around with manic glee pouring it into everyone's plastic cups. Management repeatedly warned us NOT TO LET THIS HAPPEN, even though it was Michael's own party bringing in the big dollars and the entire bottle only cost $8!

Sometime later the bouncers Paddy and Louie (totally hot brothers and lovely guys) would hoist the drunken, unable-to-walk Alig up on their shoulders and carry him out of the club to the sidewalk. It always seemed to occur at 3:30am. I suspected it was a rehearsed part of the evening's show. Just like the rest of his life, and now the show is over.

In less than twenty-four hours after Alig's OD, Michael Musto breathlessly writes an article with photos of them together post-jail and has no shame carrying on as friends as if nothing happened.

Why should he?

Alig was a garbage person who caused his own death.

They said he lived in "Washington Heights apartment on W. 159th St."

Are those apartments expensive? what is the neighborhood like?

And nothing of value was lost.

I honestly thought the only way for him to die would be by murder.

Wash Heights is relatively affordable. Way up north end of Manhattan. Almost Yonkers.

[quote] Wash Heights is relatively affordable

Why don't more people live there or is that area over populated already?

It’s 45 mins to downtown. Same distance as parts of Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey/Jersey City. Things get cheaper the father out you go. Gentrifying but still heavily Dominican.

r69 It's actually sad to live that far from the action of Manhattan or even Brooklyn. Alig probably suffered from MZD (Major Zipcode Depression).

Welp.

Did he have a big cock?

[quote] He was vile, certainly, but didn’t he kill his drug dealer over a past due bill? He wasn’t exactly snuffing out Pastor Junior after church. He belonged in prison for life, but not sure the world was worse off for his crime.

I thought Michael was dead.

Musto is irrelevant.

[quote] Le snore. The Club Kids didn't event anything "only in New York"

Oh, dear.

R54, no frau shit allowed here.

[quote] I remember when the Club Kids would appear on talk shows back in the '80s. I think it was Phil Donahue's.

90s.

The club kids were a 90s thing that started in the late 80s. Alig killed it like Manson and the hippie movement by 1997.

Bitch made the Style Section of the New York Times this morning.

The Sunday Times!

That's where they put the gay stuff.

Musto's quasi-obit is disappointing.

R72

Sweety you mean almost "Bronx", Yonkers is above that borough.

R73

Inwood/Washington Heights once was mostly Irish, German Jews, with some Italians, but yes over the last few decades Dominican population has exploded via both legal and illegal immigration.

Seeking affordable housing many transplants, whites, or whatever you want to call them have moved up to Washington Heights, however no one bothered to tell them that the Dominicans have their ways up there, and this includes blasting music from clubs, bars, stoops, etc.. at all hours.

More:

Cabrini Blvd....

Village Voice says...

One reason people move or are moving up to Washington Heights is the stock of pre-war apartments, many still in their large original configuration.

The ‘Club Kids’ mostly just ripped off Leigh Bowery. Bowery actually contributed and inspired and managed not to kill and dismember anyone.

Then you have the stately pre-war buildings that line Riverside Drive such as the Grinnell

The Riviera

Great Dominican food up there. Inwood and Washington Heights.

Musto must have had the obit pre written.

Of course he did, R94.

Sad!

Sad, that it took so long.

R94

If you are a famous person chances area yes, some news media or whatever already has your obituary largely written, has been common practice for decades. Difference is back in the day it was on paper filed away somewhere, now probably on some sort of digital media.

When event finally occurs the thing is pulled out, obvious new information added (date and cause of death, updated marital/family status, etc..), then its off to the presses. Publications like NYT just don't pull quarter or half page obits out of thin air when death of a famous (or infamous) person occurs.

Some not so famous persons write up their own obituary and leave instructions in last will and testament about publication. If you want to ensure someone in or connected with your life isn't mentioned, that's one way to go about things.

Musto is a legend

I can't live around Dominicans or in majority minority neighborhoods anymore. They're so fucking loud and the people litter like pigs.

Everyone knows this shit is true who has lived uptown.

Musto has seen it all.

He had an apartment? Last I heard, he was homeless. Well, now he's in his forever home.

Musto is an institution (I know, you fellas who say what "we" like or hate on Datalounge disagree for whatever reason this month) and he has written several retrospectives of the club kid era, and the collapse and the murder and the imprisoning and the release, in various publications over the years. There's always a newly out group of gays ever year who want to hear about the history from somebody who was there. Also, describing the pictures that were taken on an indie movie set post-prison for Alig as if they were friendly Ivanka and Kelly Loughler laffing and gabbing is misleading. But whatevs, you've got a narrative going. And now, I am not la Musto, I do not even own a bicycle and I am staunchly pro-helmet.

NY Mag republished a 2006 article on Michael Alig this week after news of his death.

Musto has always tried to have it both ways when it comes to Alig - wants to take credit for the investigation that eventually led to Alig's arrest yet hoping people ignore his pathological star fucking that leads him to write an ostensible "obit" of Alig that seems more about Musto and his last chance to cash in on this tragedy before Alig's memory is soon lost from our cultural memory.

R105

When one of your meal tickets is gone, what else can one do?

Look for one or more books on Michael Alig (or adjacent enough) to come out soon enough as people try to link the man (and his passing) to another part of vanishing New York City.

Heaven needed another angel.

Musto's next book: Unholy Terror: Michael Alig and My Important Role in Taking Him Down

I almost compared him to Kim Kardashian but realized she has more talent.

Can't believe people used to get famous for less than nothing. Not even a sex tape. Just some bad fashion and a murder.

*Update*

GFM fundraiser has begun to pay funeral expenses for late Michael Alig. His mother is disabled (he died on her birthday), and from what am hearing any surplus funds remaining will go to Mrs. Alig.

Seemed like a neat guy. He certainly proved he was handy with Drano, duct tape and a hacksaw. Amy Sedaris must be envious of his crafting skills. He'll be missed. Not by me, but by somebody. Probably.

The friends are battling the mother for his ashes. His mother said she'd give half of his ashes to friends so that it can be interred at Green-Wood cemetery (which is what the GoFundMe is for). But now the mother is taking the body to Indiana.