Convicted killer Michael Alig died at 54, E! The news can confirm.
According to the New York Police Department, the police responded to a 9-1-1 call at West 159th on December 25, where they found Alig unconscious and unanswered. The EMS arrived shortly afterwards and declared Alig dead, according to the police report. Although it is unclear what caused his death, NBC New York says he died of a suspected overdose. According to authorities, the cause of death has not yet been determined and the investigation is still ongoing.
In the 1990s, Alig, a promoter, co-founded “Club Kids”, a group of revelers who became famous on the New York night scene. He became a constant presence in the tabloids for throwing parties, as well as for his theatrical costumes and drug use. However, in 1997, things got bleak when he and a friend Robert “Freeze” Riggs pleaded guilty to kill your drug dealer and friend Andre “Angel” Melendez. Riggs and Alig, who claimed they were on drugs at the time of the murder, kept Melendez’s body in his apartment for a week – and even met at his home with his body in the bathtub – before dismembering his body and disposing of it. it on the Hudson River.