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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