Michael Alig

• S6E1 · James St. James▶Play from 00:23:48 · 21 mentions in this episode

  Club Kids founder; James worked his door at the Tunnel; later convicted of killing Angel Melendez

  FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes

• S1E1 · Dianne Brill▶Play from 00:41:33 · 1 mention in this episode

  Club Kids leader; Dianne praises his early looks and hosting

  FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes

• S1E2 · Michael Musto▶Play from 00:14:01 · 5 mentions in this episode

  Club Kids leader who filled the vacuum after Warhol died; Musto broke the story of the Angel Melendez killing

  FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes

• S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein▶Play from 01:06:54 · 5 mentions in this episode

  Lisa says she never liked him; James was intrigued, which is where they parted ways

  FashionClub Kid ringleader known for his looks

• S2E3 · Susanne Bartsch▶Play from 00:37:09 · 4 mentions in this episode

  Susanne introduced him to Peter Gatien to take over her Limelight events, so James says she's responsible for the Club Kids

  FashionClub Kid ringleader known for his looks

• S3E6 · Eric Goode▶Play from 00:37:10 · 23 mentions in this episode

  Busboy at Area who led the Club Kids; Eric recalls seeing him with cocaine at a Bowery Bar brunch months before he went to prison, and James says Eric comped their meals

  FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes

• S1E7 · Rudolf Piper▶Play from 00:01:44 · 12 mentions in this episode

  Rudolf gave him a busboy job at Danceteria to stop him pestering the office, then his first nights; together they made the Tunnel basement the Club Kids' home. James relays Michael's version that Rudolf dropped him from Mars; Rudolf says they talked it through and stayed friends to the end

  FashionClub Kid leader

• S4E8 · Richie Rich▶Play from 00:06:37 · 45 mentions in this episode

  Called Richie to the Style Summit, took him under his wing and pushed him onto talk shows; Richie says he tried to look after him as the drugs took over

  FashionClub Kid ringleader

• S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell▶Play from 00:47:47 · 7 mentions in this episode

  Johnny put his head on the moth in the Silence of the Lunch Pails invitation; Chi Chi says nothing she saw in him suggested he could kill. Johnny says he asked Michael if he had killed Angel, and Michael said no

  FashionClub Kid leader

• S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile▶Play from 00:49:32 · 3 mentions in this episode

  James remembers the OutWeek Forbes story opening with a photo of Forbes with Michael and his mother at a Club Kid party

• S5E3 · Amanda Lepore▶Play from 00:04:52 · 14 mentions in this episode

  Hired Amanda to go-go dance at Disco 2000 the day they met. Amanda remembers him as amazing and fun at first, and says things turned dark when grunge and heroin came in, until the club closed

• S1E4 · Peter Gatien▶Play from 00:21:10 · 22 mentions in this episode

  Ran Disco 2000 at the Limelight. Peter says he made Michael make the night pay and that Michael loved getting the last word; he feels Michael later turned on him after everything he did for him

• S1E10 · Joey Arias▶Play from 00:51:37 · 5 mentions in this episode

  Joey says he never trusted him - and stood up to him when Leigh Bowery was put in a side room

• S3E8 · Larry Tee▶Play from 00:05:18 · 13 mentions in this episode

  Brought Larry and his crew to the Tunnel for Celebrity Club. Larry says he doesn't judge him - but left a party before Michael arrived

• S4E4 · Zaldy▶Play from 00:18:23 · 6 mentions in this episode

  Zaldy found him naughty but charming and magnetic, and says he kept his own boundaries

• S2E1 · Michelle Visage▶Play from 00:28:41 · 1 mention in this episode

  One of the Club Kid 'legends' Michelle knew

• S1E6 · Waltpaper▶Play from 00:16:33 · 24 mentions in this episode

  Walt's mentor once they bonded at the Limelight: Walt says Michael lightened him up, and that his self-promotion looked like selling out then and forward-thinking now

On the scene timeline

1. November 1983 · 656 Sixth Avenue

   Peter Gatien turns a church into Limelight

   A deconsecrated Episcopal church on Sixth Avenue becomes the most notorious room in the city, and the first brick of Gatien's empire.

   Peter GatienMichael MustoMichael Alig

2. 1990 · US daytime television

   The Club Kids invade daytime television

   Michael Alig's crew take their looks onto Geraldo, Donahue and Joan Rivers, turning going out into a national spectacle.

   Peter GatienMichael MustoSusanne BartschMichael AligJames St. JamesAmanda LeporeRichie Rich

3. 1992 · 218 West 47th Street

   Club USA opens in Times Square

   Gatien's neon fever dream, built as a theme park of nightlife, complete with a slide between floors.

   Peter GatienChristina ViscaMichael AligThierry Mugler

4. 1996 · New York

   The Club Kid era ends with the Angel Melendez case

   Michael Alig kills Andre "Angel" Melendez and later pleads guilty to manslaughter. The case collapses the scene just as Gatien's clubs face a federal drug investigation.

   Peter GatienMichael MustoMichael AligAndre 'Angel' MelendezJames St. James

5. 2020 · Toronto

   Peter Gatien publishes Club King

   The memoir, written from Toronto after deportation, reopens the argument over who really killed New York nightlife.

   Peter GatienMichael AligRudy Giuliani

6. 1990s · Limelight

   Waltpaper: Go-go dances at the Limelight and becomes one of Michael Alig's second-wave Club Kids

   Second-wave Club Kid, artist and author of New York Club Kids. (Night Fever guest, Season 1, Episode 6.)

   Waltpaper

7. 1987 ·

   Filthy Mouth Contest (Danceteria)

   Michael Alig's first party; James was a judge. Source shows a 1987 contest card from the Palladium, not Danceteria

   James St. James

8. 1992 ·

   Silence of the Lunch Pails

   Jackie 60's 1992 night mocking the Club Kids (have the It Twins stopped screaming yet?), its invitation with Michael Alig's head on the Silence of the Lambs poster. Chi Chi says it was shown in a Stonewall 50 exhibit and they never topped it

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

Also named on these cards

Pops up in the guests' stories

In the same rooms (aka the gang)