For a fleeting moment, in the early 90s, he was a god. The talk of New York City, Michael Alig was master of ceremonies to a drink and drug fuelled generation that lived to party. Creator of infamous freaks, the Club Kids, Alig invented a scene that was at once weird, wonderful and totally outrageous. But the non-stop partying took its toll. Alig's behaviour became increasingly unpredictable. Then one fateful day he publicly announced he had murdered his drug dealer. At first the press and the police dismissed his confession as nothing more than another publicity stunt. But when a mutilated corpse was washed up by the city's East River, it looked like the party was finally over...
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