Michael Alig

Actor

Born: South Bend, Indiana, USA

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Alig (born April 29, 1966) is an American former club promoter, musician, writer, and convicted killer who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter. Alig was a founder and ringleader of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers that became a cultural phenomenon during the late 1980s and early 1990s.In March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert D. Freeze Riggs, killed fellow Club Kid Andre Angel Melendez in a confrontation over a delinquent drug debt. In October 1997, Alig pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter. Both men were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison; Riggs was released on parole in 2010, Alig on May 5, 2014.

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