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New York
Late 80s

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Michael Alig
creates the Club Kids.

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Michael Alig tells us...

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The Night King Michael Alig
did it again.

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500 young New Yorkers unleashed...

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New York took
a new dose of Club Kids...

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artificial euphoria
and glamour,

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incredible glamor
Club Kids.

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Staten Island, New York
April 1996

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A box containing
a dismembered bust washes ashore.

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This macabre discovery

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could explain
the disappearance of a Club Kid.

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Angel Melendez
was reported missing in March.

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This body will be identified
like that of Angel Melendez,

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member of Club Kids.

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In December 1996,
Michael Alig, king of Club Kids,

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is arrested for Angel's murder.

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It was a copier.

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We hate copiers,
so we killed him.

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I killed Angel...

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I'm going to end up in trouble.

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South Bend, Indiana
Birthplace of Michael Alig

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This little demon,

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It's Michael, seven years old.

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We see that he has a mischievous smile,
Opposite of:

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“I love you, brother.”
He wants to do something stupid.

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He was always the instigator.

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Do you see his finger?

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He is about to give her
another spade.

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But he smiles in front of the camera.

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Look at his finger,
ready to attack.

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Right there.

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My little boys...

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Every evening, without exception,
he took his shoebox...

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We were going to the supermarket
the cheapest in town

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and we bought
20 chocolate bars.

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He put them away in his box,

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he stuck labels
and increased the price by 200%.

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Bars that we had paid for
$1 for 5, he resold them

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up to $1 per unit, at school.

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His comrades nicknamed him
“Mr Chocolate”.

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The director finally found out
and it was fatal.

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No more “Monsieur Chocolat”.
It was forbidden.

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He had to earn more
that the director...

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This couldn't go on any longer!

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Michael loved
horror films.

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We watched them together.

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When the phone rang,
we jumped to the ceiling.

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It was horrible,

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disgusting,

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but we liked it.

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My only explanation,
it's human,

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like when people say:

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"Come and see this accident,
it's a bloodbath,

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“You absolutely have to see this.”

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Why?

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It's the same
for horror films.

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Michael made himself known at school
for his weirdness.

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 � a madman who runs strangely.
Good luck. Your brother.

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To a weirdo who makes me laugh.

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I will never forget you, and you?

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Instead of renting a tuxedo
for the ball,

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he bought himself a suit
and chose a beautiful rider.

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In fact, it was rather sad.

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To please myself,
Michael played a role

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by inviting this pretty girl to the ball.

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It was sad for her
who did not know,

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like me...

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Michael's lifestyle.

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I didn't know...

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before entering university
that he was homosexual.

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Michael left for New York
to join Fordham University.

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He found there
her first boyfriend.

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I met Michael
for my first evening in New York.

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I wasn't looking for an adventure,
especially with another guy.

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I was thinking of having two drinks
and having to say to two girls:

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“No, not tonight.”

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But the only one to approach me that evening
was Michael Alig.

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He persuaded me
to follow him home.

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I had drunk two or three glasses,
it was cool.

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We took a taxi to the Bronx,
It was $25.

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I had enough to pay
but Michael had another idea.

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He opened the door in front of his house
saying: “Run!”

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He caught me

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and we headed down an alley.

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out of breath,
we started kissing.

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So much for our meeting.

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Michael stopped his studies
to become a party organizer.

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In every nightclub,
there are some eccentrics

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who disguise themselves, enter without paying

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and benefit from VIP treatment,
with complimentary drinks, etc.

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In the 80s,
they were called “c�lebutantes”.

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Young people and trances.

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It was a time
where everything was very strict and rigid.

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Then Michael arrived in town,

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like some kind of baby Godzilla

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who trampled the night scene
by destroying everything...

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We were all
absolutely horrified

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by this little monster
out of nowhere,

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who had decided
to steal the show.

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Michael really broke through
When Warhol died.

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It coincided
with the death of "Downtown".

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Who killed nightlife?

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The stars had deserted
the clubs of New York

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and there was a need
to create figures of the night.

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If we didn't see Cher
nor George Michael,

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we could rejoice
to have seen Desi Monster or Sushi.

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I didn't realize
than recently

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scale and speed
of Michael's success.

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One of the first festivals
where I went

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was his birthday party
to the Tunnel.

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I was taken there in a limousine,

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with an escort
and bodyguards.

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When we came down,
people shouted:

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“It’s Michael Alig with his mother.
Michael!

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“We love you!”

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Michael was blowing kisses

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pulling me by the hand
like holding a child

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and he took me through the crowd
to enter the box.

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Happy birthday, Michael.
I love you !

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Then I saw the sign

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inside:
“Happy birthday, Michael.”

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It was a huge sign

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and we posed underneath.
I have photos.

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Michael found a mentor

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in the person of Peter Gatien,
owner of Limelight.

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He persuaded him to establish
a weekly party at Limelight.

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All this came to fruition
for Michael

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when he was able to start from zero
to create his own little world.

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Michael, Keoki and James
during preparations for Disco 2000

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We had just created the characters
by Clara the Hen and I.C. the Bear.

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We had gone
from a costume rental company

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and we took those
under false names

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to be able to keep them.

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We called them
Clara the Hen, I.C. the Bear

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and Hans-Ulrich the Dog!

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I had to do Clara the Hen.

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She was above all a dancer.

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I was “the Little Druggie”.

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I was in a cage

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with signs:
"Do not give food",

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"It can happen to you",
“Watch your children…”

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Sitting in my cage, I begged:
“Give me a dose!”

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It was really very funny.

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Disco 2000
had a rather sordid side

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but four months after the start,

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Michael found the right formula

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and he understood that sex
was an important element.

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The “Hot Body” competition
was the highlight of Disco 2000.

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Welcome to Disco 2000.
It's sexy...

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it's late...

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It’s the “Hot Body”!

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Bring someone on stage
to undress, it's difficult.

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We offer $50 to anyone who shows
just a little skin.

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Just a little: a piece of thigh,

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a piece of torso, a piece of arm...

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It takes a certain talent
to make people undress

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without them having the impression
to have been...

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manipulated,
once they leave the stage.

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We did it
because we had to do it.

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The more people were stoned,
the more they licked each other on stage.

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I couldn't believe
what was happening before my eyes,

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every evening...
It was incredible!

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I could have licked the microphone
to scream!

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It was madness,
what I saw,

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what people were doing.

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All that for $50,
a ridiculous amount!

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Michael, you're going to get arrested!

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Alig began to organize
clandestine parties.

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I will denounce you!

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Michael, your donuts are great!

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It's not me who made them,
it's the pastry chef.

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Everything is fine, it's great...

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- Do you want some adhesive?
- Yes.

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- I'll get some.
- All right.

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Clandestine party
at McDonald's in Times Square

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Clandestine party
in the New York subway

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Brilliant, the VIP car!

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Here come the cops!

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The highlight of these evenings
Was the arrival of the police.

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- The cops are here.
- I know.

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They're going to arrest us.

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Michael became the king of Downtown
and its faithful followers, the Club Kids.

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Even if we have the impression
to be a monster,

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if we are hunchbacked,
we add a little glitter

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and we're going to dance
to forget his complexes.

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It's normal
to have strange thoughts.

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What it takes,
it’s about letting go and expressing yourself.

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In my opinion,
it’s a very positive message.

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Michael was the leader
of these kids.

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He had created them

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and he brought
each new generation.

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He attracted them

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and he shaped their personality,

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like Mother Goose
creates fantastic characters.

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One of the essential looks
Club Kids,

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it was a costume
in one piece.

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It was for example
something like this,

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which covers the crotch,
but not the back.

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Stuff like that.

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"Tonight I will be Jesus,
a robot, a mutant, a party animal..."

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We didn't wear these outfits
only once.

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We wanted to spread
fairy dust everywhere.

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It was a kind
of perverted clownish aesthetic,

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both childish and stupid

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and a little aggressive and obscene.

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But these kids went further,

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they were shocking.

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More than extravagant, their costumes
were sometimes disturbing.

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This ranged from oxygen masks

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hemoglobin on the face
and other apocalyptic images.

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This aesthetic embraced
American capitalism

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while making fun of it.

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They made fun of conventions

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of the consumer society

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but they were looking for
fame.

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The Club Kids movement
growing up,

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Gatien created Club USA
Much publicity.

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Hello and welcome to USA,

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your pleasure destination!

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U...

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S...

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At...

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The Club Kids
reflected the 80s:

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the packaging,
the press, advertising,

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business, individualism,
the money... It's all for nothing.

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It was very American...

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"Pay me because I'm awesome
because I say so.”

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It was a great scam

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and the 80s were full of them.

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The media
fell into the trap.

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The Club Kids fed
the Geraldo Show.

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In Geraldo, he was incredible.

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I was afraid, I was intimidated,

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everything mixed together...
It was a turning point in my life.

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When I was 12,
I saw him on the Geraldo Show,

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with other crazy Club Kids.

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They were stars for no reason.

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They all had
something special.

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They were talking
of what they were doing,

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of these festivals
where they had so much fun...

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I wanted to do the same.

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Angel Melendez was part
of these Club Kids in search of fame.

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Angel must have seen a Geraldo

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or hear about Club Kids
and he went to New York

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to do the same,
without knowing what it was about.

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Angel made his living
by selling drugs.

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Disco 2000 became
the theater of horror.

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What Michael did
more sensational,

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These are the Blood Feast evenings.

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They were inspired
from the movie Blood Feast.

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On a poster,
his body seems dismembered.

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00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,579
When we see it again today,
it's the zero degree of gore,

254
00:18:43,664 --> 00:18:47,675
It made you smile,
everything is fake, it's ketchup...

255
00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,961
Michael said to 50 people:
"I'll pay you $50

256
00:18:52,046 --> 00:18:55,833
"so that you come
with blood on your suit."

257
00:18:55,918 --> 00:18:59,184
In general,
people played the game.

258
00:19:01,085 --> 00:19:06,115
Four coffins were built
in glass, for the dead,

259
00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,995
who remained lying down,

260
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,389
covered with wounds,
blue face.

261
00:19:11,474 --> 00:19:16,951
There were buckets of blood everywhere
to put it on people

262
00:19:17,036 --> 00:19:19,475
and on Clara the Hen's apron.

263
00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,835
I was on a cart, tied up,

264
00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,755
with raw liver all over the body,

265
00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,475
what made me seem
completely shredded.

266
00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,552
I was covered in blood
and flies

267
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,190
and the smell
was more and more rancid,

268
00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:38,995
it was unbreathable.

269
00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,195
Just one shot!

270
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,115
Damn, I'm bleeding!

271
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,509
Holy shit!

272
00:19:45,594 --> 00:19:47,557
I'm going to vomit everywhere!

273
00:19:47,642 --> 00:19:48,908
My God !

274
00:19:51,002 --> 00:19:53,675
The next day,
I told my mother

275
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,035
what I did that evening

276
00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:00,974
and she said to me: "You must
looking forward to finishing university."

277
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,637
Disco 2000 goes strong
Urine drinker shocks public

278
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,270
He found people
like this urine drinker.

279
00:20:08,355 --> 00:20:11,555
This boy had urinated
in a cup

280
00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,515
and for money
or drugs,

281
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,715
Michael convinced him
to drink his own urine on stage.

282
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,695
After the piss drinker...

283
00:20:22,386 --> 00:20:25,395
I don't know,
the shit eater?

284
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,435
The champagne enema.

285
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,796
Ida Slapter
Champagne enema

286
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,174
Michael's behavior
became more and more disturbing.

287
00:20:45,259 --> 00:20:46,875
Suffering from hepatitis,

288
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:51,511
Michael was having fun drinking
in other people's glasses,

289
00:20:51,596 --> 00:20:53,613
kissing people on the mouth,

290
00:20:53,698 --> 00:20:55,593
including me!

291
00:20:55,678 --> 00:20:58,475
Suddenly,
everyone thought they were contaminated.

292
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,154
Even me,
I went to get tested.

293
00:21:01,239 --> 00:21:05,355
As he never failed
an opportunity

294
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,595
to joke about a terrible subject,

295
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,635
he invented the hepatitis wheel.

296
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,196
The wheel turned and we said:

297
00:21:12,281 --> 00:21:15,475
"Sushi may be contaminated,
he kissed Michael.

298
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,195
“Sacred Boy
drank from his glass..."

299
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,317
It's not very funny,
this is a serious subject.

300
00:21:20,604 --> 00:21:23,355
But Michael was like that.

301
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:24,972
It was all him.

302
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,475
Michael, what a weirdo!

303
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,156
Once I drank...
I drank piss and vomit.

304
00:21:34,434 --> 00:21:37,075
From Michael.
on two occasions.

305
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,208
What an idiot. With a wig,
I'm worse than a blonde.

306
00:21:43,145 --> 00:21:46,915
He handed me
a bottle of Gatorade,

307
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,115
I thanked him
and I took a big sip.

308
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,235
All his friends laughed.

309
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,115
And there, I understood
what was inside.

310
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,078
It was piss, his.

311
00:21:59,163 --> 00:22:03,035
My favorite anecdote,
this is the time when at Limelight,

312
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:06,755
he pissed on a barmaid
from the balcony.

313
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,755
A real piss shower.
She looked up, devastated.

314
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,075
Downright dismayed,

315
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,715
she went to see Peter,
not being able to believe it.

316
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,275
And he fired her!

317
00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,355
She was fired
and Michael got what he wanted.

318
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,315
He pissed on everyone.

319
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,035
But he was so charming
that we were content to say:

320
00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,555
“Ah, that Michael!”

321
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,344
And we cleaned the blood
that we had received, or something else.

322
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,332
He staggered through the box,

323
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,915
hitting servers,

324
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,835
and he threw himself on the ground,
inflicting terrible injuries on himself.

325
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,955
Most of the time,
he was neither drunk nor drugged

326
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,355
but he just wanted
scare people

327
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,955
or add a little pepper.

328
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,875
It felt good

329
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:03,034
because in general,
in the evening, we behave well,

330
00:23:03,410 --> 00:23:05,315
we show our good manners.

331
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,790
He was throwing everything away.

332
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,875
He was trying to be a nightmare.

333
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,475
It was a game.

334
00:23:14,496 --> 00:23:17,772
Then he became
a real pet peeve.

335
00:23:23,762 --> 00:23:26,228
Afterwards, it was no longer a game!

336
00:23:26,313 --> 00:23:28,623
I took tranquilizers,

337
00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:31,555
Rohypnol and Xanax.

338
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,995
I was much more pleasant.

339
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,755
I was better company,
more attractive,

340
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,549
younger, richer...

341
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,235
Alig appreciated Ketamine,
animal tranquilizer

342
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,232
and anesthetic
potentially dangerous.

343
00:23:49,699 --> 00:23:52,957
"Use reserved for felines
and primates."

344
00:23:55,734 --> 00:23:59,075
Pour the Ketamine
in a Pyrex mold.

345
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,075
First, burst in
in his roommate's room,

346
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,357
go through his things...

347
00:24:05,442 --> 00:24:07,666
My daily chore.

348
00:24:16,277 --> 00:24:18,272
It will soon be ready.

349
00:24:21,683 --> 00:24:23,835
Michael, you're going to knock him over!

350
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,475
Michael, look what you did!

351
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,795
What ? I didn't do anything!

352
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,649
Here's your cake!

353
00:24:32,199 --> 00:24:35,279
Stop shaking, Michael.
You're rubbish.

354
00:24:35,364 --> 00:24:36,802
Really bad.

355
00:24:38,709 --> 00:24:42,055
Attention.
Weren't there two bottles?

356
00:24:42,642 --> 00:24:46,952
Someone must have had some sherry.

357
00:24:47,037 --> 00:24:48,758
Here we go.

358
00:24:54,078 --> 00:24:56,156
The first two times
that I took,

359
00:24:56,241 --> 00:25:01,773
it was horrible, I had
the impression of being underwater...

360
00:25:04,227 --> 00:25:08,752
But after the hole K,
It’s paradise K, I think.

361
00:25:08,837 --> 00:25:11,555
And there you become Queen Victoria

362
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,915
and you walk around
 � Buckingham Palace.

363
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,275
You no longer know who you are,
where you are, what you are doing,

364
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:22,395
but it doesn't matter, everything seems
logical, even if nothing is.

365
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,715
It's a great feeling

366
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,112
and that's what we, Club Kids,
We were all looking for:

367
00:25:29,197 --> 00:25:31,439
go to another world.

368
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,795
Tired of Ketamine,
the Club Kids switched to heroin.

369
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,614
With heroin,
we were testing our limits.

370
00:25:40,699 --> 00:25:42,857
That was the main goal
Club Kids,

371
00:25:42,942 --> 00:25:46,475
to see to what extreme
it was possible to go,

372
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,715
in the bloody,
in horror or in beauty.

373
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,634
None of us thought
that it would end like this.

374
00:25:54,719 --> 00:25:59,599
For us, it was just fun
because it shocked people.

375
00:25:59,684 --> 00:26:03,435
Every day, without exception,

376
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,603
I was on cocaine,
heroin, Rohypnol,

377
00:26:08,139 --> 00:26:13,145
Ketamine and sometimes
on crack and ecstasy.

378
00:26:15,642 --> 00:26:20,191
Once,
I was at the supermarket with Brooke

379
00:26:20,276 --> 00:26:23,016
and I was in the middle of a K hole

380
00:26:23,204 --> 00:26:27,915
when I hit
a regular at the club with my cart.

381
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,955
He gave me a dose of cocaine
that he had on him!

382
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,355
Brooke arrived from the frozen section

383
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,675
and saw me take a dose
in the middle of the supermarket!

384
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,863
It shows well
the influence of drugs on my life.

385
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:47,477
Michael needed dealers
like Freeze.

386
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,791
And like Angel.

387
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,675
Michael came closer too
from his boss,

388
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,911
Peter Gatien,
the owner of the Limelight.

389
00:27:12,996 --> 00:27:16,157
It's a weird friendship.
We are different,

390
00:27:16,242 --> 00:27:18,203
on the surface, at least.

391
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,164
But we have
incredible commonalities.

392
00:27:23,939 --> 00:27:29,756
We are both
prone to addictions.

393
00:27:29,841 --> 00:27:33,157
Peter Gatien organized
orgiastic parties

394
00:27:33,242 --> 00:27:37,317
in several hotels in the city,
where they consumed

395
00:27:38,167 --> 00:27:41,875
unimaginable quantities
of drugs.

396
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,395
Usually it took a week

397
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,595
or a few days of vacation...

398
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,115
without meetings, without anything.

399
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,755
And then he took drugs
and having fun like crazy

400
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,475
without it disrupting his work,
since he was on vacation.

401
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,971
Reconstruction

402
00:28:06,208 --> 00:28:08,260
At the festivals of Gatien,

403
00:28:08,533 --> 00:28:10,728
Cocaine was everywhere.

404
00:28:12,604 --> 00:28:15,274
The most disgusting people...

405
00:28:17,123 --> 00:28:18,795
Michael was putting on sheets

406
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,081
on chairs and furniture
to imitate a fort.

407
00:28:23,757 --> 00:28:26,419
He said Peter was going
climb the fort with him!

408
00:28:28,074 --> 00:28:29,389
My God...

409
00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:31,310
For my last evening,

410
00:28:31,897 --> 00:28:35,435
Michael...
without knowing why,

411
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,095
everyone had left,
except Peter, Michael and me.

412
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,592
We ate...
In any case, Michael ate,

413
00:28:43,677 --> 00:28:47,116
he who no longer slept
he was so drugged,

414
00:28:47,322 --> 00:28:50,515
and he took
three sachets of heroin at once.

415
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,639
I only remember saying
that I felt good.

416
00:28:54,724 --> 00:28:58,998
Never... I had finally reached
the stadium we were looking for.

417
00:28:59,083 --> 00:29:02,002
This state where we hover perfectly.

418
00:29:02,761 --> 00:29:04,835
Neither too low nor too high.

419
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,915
I told everyone
that it was great and I fell.

420
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,475
I was like, “Damn!

421
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,074
“Peter, I think he’s dead!”

422
00:29:13,159 --> 00:29:15,475
I had a cardiac arrest,

423
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,235
Gitsie gave me mouth-watering

424
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,278
and they called for help
while Peter hid the drugs.

425
00:29:21,363 --> 00:29:23,790
Then the ambulance took him away.

426
00:29:25,133 --> 00:29:28,590
And that was a hard blow.

427
00:29:29,323 --> 00:29:32,836
We thought he was dead for a while.

428
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,555
Drugs ruled Michael

429
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,076
and became the driving force
of the scene he had created.

430
00:29:42,859 --> 00:29:45,115
What do we find this evening?

431
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,555
Can I talk about it on TV?

432
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:48,755
But of course!

433
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:54,346
Lots of coke,
of K, ecstasy, Rohypnol...

434
00:29:54,431 --> 00:29:57,433
I don't know,
I like to touch everything.

435
00:29:57,810 --> 00:30:00,355
Save some for everyone!

436
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,154
It's promised!

437
00:30:09,182 --> 00:30:11,284
Give me a dose!

438
00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:17,269
There, I'm in the middle of a K hole!

439
00:30:17,354 --> 00:30:19,172
I don't know what to say.

440
00:30:21,203 --> 00:30:24,075
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,

441
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,995
and welcome to the competition
of the king and queen of Manhattan!

442
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,039
At the beginning, we paid them $100
for them to come.

443
00:30:32,124 --> 00:30:34,794
Then,
we had to offer them the drinks.

444
00:30:34,879 --> 00:30:37,275
Then, drinks and dinner.

445
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,955
Then, drinks, dinner
and drugs.

446
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,540
They wanted
their dose of coke and K.

447
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,711
The Special K is wreaking havoc!

448
00:30:47,796 --> 00:30:50,315
Our next competitor,

449
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,475
the one, the only... Jennytalia!

450
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,236
In this atmosphere, we don't think
not even that drugs are illegal.

451
00:30:58,321 --> 00:31:02,419
We are absolutely no longer
in the real world.

452
00:31:02,504 --> 00:31:05,444
I don't even know who I am,
so...

453
00:31:08,227 --> 00:31:11,597
Nobody thought
do something wrong.

454
00:31:11,682 --> 00:31:14,035
We lose our lucidity,

455
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,317
reality is no longer...

456
00:31:17,402 --> 00:31:22,355
It's no longer real,
we leave reality.

457
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,435
We exchanged tickets.

458
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,235
A dose or two for a ticket.

459
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,959
People preferred one dose
than a consumption.

460
00:31:29,044 --> 00:31:31,395
Freeze, ladies and gentlemen!

461
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,355
What would you do if you were elected?

462
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:35,835
I would increase Michael.

463
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,515
A raise for Michael.
THANKS !

464
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,435
So he can buy
no more drugs?

465
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,353
And then we come to:

466
00:31:44,438 --> 00:31:47,395
"Hello, I'm Joe Blow,
Where’s my coke?”

467
00:31:48,938 --> 00:31:52,670
I believe Joe Blow
Was the narcotics officer.

468
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,465
In September 1995, the Limelight
was raided and closed.

469
00:32:04,849 --> 00:32:07,549
It was tragic, this investigation.

470
00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:11,315
It was the end
lines of coke on the bar,

471
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,555
the end of this carelessness
towards drugs.

472
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,598
Angel worked at the Limelight.

473
00:32:17,683 --> 00:32:21,742
It is said that he sold there
also drugs.

474
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,432
After the search,
Angel was fired.

475
00:32:32,517 --> 00:32:36,044
He moved in with Alig.

476
00:32:39,214 --> 00:32:41,914
I was there,
the evening of the snowstorm.

477
00:32:41,999 --> 00:32:45,955
We had to take the equivalent
$3 or $4,000 worth of drugs,

478
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,693
to keep busy.
Angel's drug.

479
00:32:48,778 --> 00:32:51,355
He had to find an excuse.

480
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,620
When Angel returns,
how were we going to explain this?

481
00:32:54,705 --> 00:32:56,715
Michael said quietly:

482
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,218
“Angel, we finished all your stock...
and we want more!”

483
00:33:00,464 --> 00:33:02,955
My last words to Angel were:

484
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,521
“What are you doing here?
It's incredible, you're stupid!

485
00:33:07,606 --> 00:33:11,516
“Get out of this apartment, Angel,
What the hell are you doing?”

486
00:33:11,601 --> 00:33:16,112
This is the last time
that I spoke to him.

487
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,817
On March 17, 1996,
Angel Melendez disappeared.

488
00:33:19,902 --> 00:33:22,602
I went to Michael's...

489
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,992
Besides, I admit that it was
to steal drugs from Angel.

490
00:33:28,077 --> 00:33:33,450
Angel wasn't there
and Michael had access to everything.

491
00:33:35,505 --> 00:33:38,035
There was a strange atmosphere.

492
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,998
I saw that Michael
had a new sofa,

493
00:33:41,083 --> 00:33:44,955
two matching armchairs...
Old furniture,

494
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,315
with gold threads
and red velvet.

495
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,475
He also had a new TV,
which I recovered.

496
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,195
I asked him:
“Where do you get all that from?”

497
00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,910
I remember that at that moment,
he had a huge wound on his neck.

498
00:34:00,995 --> 00:34:03,955
It was deep
several centimeters,

499
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,461
a nice cut,
as if someone had taken

500
00:34:07,546 --> 00:34:11,115
a piece of glass to hit him with

501
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,111
and enlarge the wound.

502
00:34:13,196 --> 00:34:15,195
It was very worrying!

503
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,919
Blonde, her hair
had turned red.

504
00:34:18,004 --> 00:34:21,436
Dyes of this type
stain hands.

505
00:34:23,013 --> 00:34:26,583
As luck would have it... blood too.

506
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,355
Johnny Melendez began searching

507
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,577
his missing brother, Angel.

508
00:34:34,662 --> 00:34:38,276
He certainly has wings,
now, real ones.

509
00:34:56,815 --> 00:34:59,815
I spoke to him
for the last time in February.

510
00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,355
We couldn't find him.

511
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,915
I sent him messages,
my aunts too, without response.

512
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,515
I went to the police station
to report his disappearance.

513
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,071
I was not taken seriously,
My statement was not taken.

514
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,635
I wasn't moving forward,
no one was investigating.

515
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:19,355
So, I got started.

516
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,128
I made posters
in black and white

517
00:35:22,406 --> 00:35:26,845
who proposed
a reward of $4,000.

518
00:35:26,930 --> 00:35:30,430
I showed his photo
and people recognized him.

519
00:35:30,515 --> 00:35:34,854
They had seen him at the Limelight,
in Christopher Street, at the port...

520
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:38,875
They claimed to know him

521
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,838
but no one
wouldn't tell me where he was.

522
00:35:41,923 --> 00:35:45,125
They didn't care,
of my brother.

523
00:35:45,606 --> 00:35:49,592
It was as if we had killed
a mosquito or a cockroach.

524
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,678
Rumors
began to spread.

525
00:35:55,763 --> 00:36:00,222
It was said that his head was
in a freezer in Brooklyn,

526
00:36:00,403 --> 00:36:04,439
that his hands were
at someone's house in Staten Island...

527
00:36:04,524 --> 00:36:08,962
I heard that Freeze
had fucked with his corpse

528
00:36:09,047 --> 00:36:12,594
but he told me that even alive,
he wouldn't have wanted it.

529
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:15,520
His body was under a trash can...

530
00:36:15,605 --> 00:36:19,235
They said to me: "Angel,
a drug dealer, has been reported missing

531
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,073
"and Michael would be involved
in his murder."

532
00:36:22,158 --> 00:36:24,077
I spoke to Michael Alig.

533
00:36:24,162 --> 00:36:25,713
He slipped away.

534
00:36:25,798 --> 00:36:30,022
He turned his head
in every way...

535
00:36:30,107 --> 00:36:32,475
He wasn't looking at me
in the eyes

536
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,782
because I look like my brother.

537
00:36:37,130 --> 00:36:40,635
I immediately saw
that he was hiding the truth.

538
00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:42,551
I'm an easy target

539
00:36:42,636 --> 00:36:48,480
because I was with him
the day before his disappearance.

540
00:36:50,935 --> 00:36:53,876
And... another... uh...

541
00:36:56,171 --> 00:36:59,716
And I know that I may have...

542
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,355
I have my little idea.

543
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,796
In private,
Michael confided in others.

544
00:37:05,571 --> 00:37:07,591
Around 5 a.m.,

545
00:37:07,814 --> 00:37:10,475
I was woken up with a start,

546
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,220
heart beating wildly,

547
00:37:13,305 --> 00:37:16,671
and I recognized Michael,
but it was not his voice.

548
00:37:16,756 --> 00:37:19,195
It was unintelligible.

549
00:37:20,270 --> 00:37:24,399
I mean...
He didn't really speak,

550
00:37:24,927 --> 00:37:26,609
he sobbed.

551
00:37:26,694 --> 00:37:28,934
He kept repeating:

552
00:37:30,484 --> 00:37:31,954
“Murdered...

553
00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:33,830
"I killed someone...

554
00:37:33,915 --> 00:37:37,990
"It was Angel...
We didn't know what to do...

555
00:37:39,047 --> 00:37:42,264
"In small pieces...
get rid of it...

556
00:37:43,450 --> 00:37:45,875
“Mom, what am I doing?”

557
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,382
Nothing more.
There was no consistency.

558
00:37:49,641 --> 00:37:54,078
"He did it a week ago
which I could never have believed.

559
00:37:54,163 --> 00:37:55,616
“He killed Angel.

560
00:37:55,968 --> 00:37:58,810
"I hope that no one
will not read this newspaper."

561
00:37:59,103 --> 00:38:00,918
And I read it!

562
00:38:02,285 --> 00:38:05,907
"I just know
that it was a question of a hammer,

563
00:38:05,992 --> 00:38:08,035
"money and drugs.

564
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,998
"He cut off his legs,
threw them away

565
00:38:11,083 --> 00:38:13,715
"and put the rest of the body
in a box

566
00:38:15,348 --> 00:38:18,717
"who stayed in the living room
for a week.

567
00:38:18,802 --> 00:38:21,454
“I lived next door without knowing it.

568
00:38:21,924 --> 00:38:25,430
"Recently, he and Freeze
threw him into the river.

569
00:38:25,515 --> 00:38:29,229
“It’s crazy and unhealthy
but I still love him."

570
00:38:33,647 --> 00:38:39,132
I never had any secrets
heavier to carry.

571
00:38:39,695 --> 00:38:44,715
Honestly, I couldn't
To believe that he had done that.

572
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,509
I thought that above all,
he had to be sober.

573
00:38:48,594 --> 00:38:50,875
I thought things would work out.

574
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:55,472
I believed that once sober,
he would solve his problems.

575
00:38:55,557 --> 00:38:58,388
But I didn't expect
A miracle.

576
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,950
Gitsie and Michael
left New York.

577
00:39:15,447 --> 00:39:18,383
We left for Denver,
in Colorado.

578
00:39:25,528 --> 00:39:27,829
It took us five weeks.

579
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:37,724
I stupidly believed that five sachets
of heroin would be enough for me.

580
00:39:54,450 --> 00:39:57,480
Upon arriving in Indiana,
I was very unwell.

581
00:39:57,565 --> 00:40:00,098
We stopped in my town.

582
00:40:00,183 --> 00:40:02,740
I hadn't seen Michael
for three and a half years.

583
00:40:04,055 --> 00:40:06,483
I entered
in the hotel room,

584
00:40:07,387 --> 00:40:10,499
I leaned over to kiss him
and he said:

585
00:40:11,556 --> 00:40:15,002
"Please, mom,
don't touch me.

586
00:40:16,094 --> 00:40:19,042
“I’m in too much pain.

587
00:40:19,676 --> 00:40:22,306
“You can’t touch me.”

588
00:40:23,034 --> 00:40:25,275
I felt his breathing.

589
00:40:28,763 --> 00:40:31,372
I forbade myself to kiss him.

590
00:40:33,521 --> 00:40:35,790
He said, “Mom, help me.”

591
00:40:37,771 --> 00:40:39,911
I asked him what to do.

592
00:40:39,996 --> 00:40:42,796
He answered me:
"I need some heroin...

593
00:40:45,755 --> 00:40:48,150
“or even methadone.”

594
00:40:49,712 --> 00:40:55,080
The next day they took me
by ambulance to the clinic!

595
00:40:55,444 --> 00:40:58,474
An ambulance for my methadone!

596
00:40:58,744 --> 00:41:02,688
45 minutes later,
methadone had put him back on his feet.

597
00:41:03,345 --> 00:41:07,798
He stayed in town for seven days
and they left.

598
00:41:16,268 --> 00:41:20,150
We wanted to visit
To my friend Screamin' Rachael,

599
00:41:20,557 --> 00:41:22,915
which was a mistake.

600
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,251
Give me back my freedom...

601
00:41:29,906 --> 00:41:32,953
This visit
inspired Screamin' Rachael

602
00:41:33,038 --> 00:41:35,793
a song
on this mysterious murder.

603
00:41:40,354 --> 00:41:42,010
The song "Freedom",

604
00:41:42,095 --> 00:41:47,349
or "Murder in Clubland",
was the hit I needed.

605
00:41:48,162 --> 00:41:52,194
It's strange
because in this song,

606
00:41:52,279 --> 00:41:54,475
I put a loop in reverse...

607
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,630
Michael, where is Angel?

608
00:41:56,715 --> 00:41:59,599
“Michael, where is Angel?”

609
00:41:59,684 --> 00:42:02,315
The newspapers sold Michael

610
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,254
And Angel is gone
without leaving a trace

611
00:42:07,337 --> 00:42:09,592
I loved Michael...

612
00:42:09,897 --> 00:42:12,469
but I was friends with Angel.

613
00:42:12,554 --> 00:42:14,438
Everyone is talking about it

614
00:42:14,905 --> 00:42:18,807
Did we cry wolf?
or is he really dead?

615
00:42:19,740 --> 00:42:21,916
I didn't know what to do.

616
00:42:22,001 --> 00:42:24,634
I plunged into depression.

617
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,276
Severe depression
who sent me to the hospital

618
00:42:28,476 --> 00:42:30,631
and asked me
months of therapy,

619
00:42:30,716 --> 00:42:35,875
and it's not over...
even if by dialing “Freedom”,

620
00:42:36,534 --> 00:42:38,435
I reconnected with creation.

621
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,077
This is why

622
00:42:40,769 --> 00:42:42,897
I must be free

623
00:42:46,173 --> 00:42:49,796
Then we succeeded
to go to Denver.

624
00:42:49,881 --> 00:42:51,475
I felt bad again.

625
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,269
to always be in need,
it was our destiny.

626
00:42:55,354 --> 00:42:58,916
One evening when we wanted K,

627
00:42:59,001 --> 00:43:01,794
we robbed
a veterinary clinic.

628
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,518
In my box of tricks,
I have a dose...

629
00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:18,958
Once you enter the clinic,

630
00:43:19,043 --> 00:43:23,073
we saw a refrigerator
where we thought we would find the pharmacy.

631
00:43:23,158 --> 00:43:26,789
In the dark, Michael opened it,
got something out of it

632
00:43:26,874 --> 00:43:30,754
and it was a dead animal!
We left running.

633
00:43:33,189 --> 00:43:34,668
Without our K.

634
00:43:39,827 --> 00:43:41,877
Michael missed New York

635
00:43:41,962 --> 00:43:43,996
He found himself in New York,

636
00:43:44,081 --> 00:43:45,991
With me again at Chelsea.

637
00:43:47,518 --> 00:43:50,837
Without money,
not a single penny in my pocket!

638
00:43:51,103 --> 00:43:53,276
We looked around us

639
00:43:53,361 --> 00:43:56,113
and the press was wild,
at that moment.

640
00:43:56,198 --> 00:43:58,271
His return to New York

641
00:43:58,356 --> 00:44:01,074
was on the front page of all the newspapers.

642
00:44:01,159 --> 00:44:04,152
Cocaine for breakfast,
heroin in the evening...

643
00:44:09,336 --> 00:44:10,390
Boy!

644
00:44:10,475 --> 00:44:14,620
Michael at the Bowery Bar
September 1996

645
00:44:16,824 --> 00:44:21,312
Michael is like
a little Claus von B�low:

646
00:44:21,397 --> 00:44:24,119
“Is he guilty?
Is he innocent?"

647
00:44:24,204 --> 00:44:27,750
"Whatever, it sells,
let's invite him to dinner..."

648
00:44:27,835 --> 00:44:30,434
That was really it.

649
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:33,658
That would be funny,
a room full of naked people.

650
00:44:33,743 --> 00:44:35,474
A new scene.

651
00:44:35,559 --> 00:44:37,835
You want to eliminate everyone.

652
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,752
Not everyone.

653
00:44:39,837 --> 00:44:43,276
- You want to bring in new blood.
- Exactly.

654
00:44:43,361 --> 00:44:45,431
Bringing it all back to life...

655
00:44:46,088 --> 00:44:49,237
Michael attempted a comeback.

656
00:44:55,974 --> 00:45:00,830
The name of this evening
came from one of the first articles.

657
00:45:00,915 --> 00:45:04,191
A photo of the Limelight
took up the entire cover

658
00:45:04,276 --> 00:45:06,078
and the caption read:

659
00:45:06,163 --> 00:45:08,318
“The Limelight
"Was a honey trap."

660
00:45:08,565 --> 00:45:13,179
According to them, young people were lured
with honey and they were drugged.

661
00:45:13,264 --> 00:45:16,034
We have labeled
thousands of pots of honey

662
00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:18,270
"Michael Alig's Honey Trap"

663
00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:20,127
and we distributed them everywhere.

664
00:45:20,212 --> 00:45:24,142
The beginning of these evenings
was a rebirth for Michael.

665
00:45:24,227 --> 00:45:28,518
He was driven by a goal,
it was incredible.

666
00:45:28,603 --> 00:45:33,654
He came home every evening
to work like a convict!

667
00:45:36,355 --> 00:45:39,194
If it works,
I will treat myself to shoes.

668
00:45:39,279 --> 00:45:42,716
These did
I've been wearing them for a year and a half.

669
00:45:44,794 --> 00:45:48,942
It's okay, they're coming.
We can pay, but...

670
00:45:56,250 --> 00:46:01,191
I'm upset because...
I would like...

671
00:46:01,276 --> 00:46:04,114
I want them all to be happy.

672
00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:07,238
But they are
too egocentric for that.

673
00:46:07,323 --> 00:46:08,879
Be happy!

674
00:46:08,964 --> 00:46:11,110
Can I take care of that?

675
00:46:11,195 --> 00:46:12,395
I'll come back.

676
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,309
Michael's project failed
and he left New York again.

677
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,192
He moved into a motel
from New Jersey with his friend, Brian.

678
00:46:30,277 --> 00:46:33,507
Brooke didn't want him anymore
because it was too expensive.

679
00:46:33,592 --> 00:46:36,554
Brian McCauley
Former dealer

680
00:46:36,639 --> 00:46:39,262
She took care of him
for a long time...

681
00:46:41,179 --> 00:46:42,824
She got fed up.

682
00:46:42,909 --> 00:46:46,570
I who never tire of it,
I wanted to live with him.

683
00:46:46,757 --> 00:46:50,392
I loved cuddling him,
scratch his arm...

684
00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:52,470
And he loved me.

685
00:46:52,555 --> 00:46:56,501
Few people have given me love.
He loved me...

686
00:46:57,029 --> 00:46:58,497
I was enjoying myself.

687
00:46:58,582 --> 00:47:00,876
It was new, to be loved.

688
00:47:03,662 --> 00:47:06,456
Plus, he's messing around.
That attracted me.

689
00:47:07,243 --> 00:47:09,198
I wanted to do the same.

690
00:47:09,283 --> 00:47:12,526
It was funny.
I liked messing around with him.

691
00:47:12,914 --> 00:47:15,991
Go out, get high, come home,

692
00:47:16,179 --> 00:47:19,325
get high, go to bed,
get up and get high again...

693
00:47:19,660 --> 00:47:20,555
It's great!

694
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,294
I believe he had
something in mind

695
00:47:23,379 --> 00:47:25,353
which weighed on him.

696
00:47:25,438 --> 00:47:27,476
He must have felt guilty.

697
00:47:28,941 --> 00:47:32,874
A few weeks earlier,
Angel's body had been identified.

698
00:47:37,712 --> 00:47:42,493
I understood when the cops
struck at 3 a.m.

699
00:47:44,701 --> 00:47:46,932
We watched TV in bed.

700
00:47:47,941 --> 00:47:50,959
I had heroin,
since I was selling it.

701
00:47:51,044 --> 00:47:53,793
When the cops
knocked on the door,

702
00:47:53,878 --> 00:47:55,570
I threw away all my heroin.

703
00:47:59,304 --> 00:48:02,145
Michael went to open it,
they searched the room

704
00:48:03,167 --> 00:48:05,926
and they questioned Michael.

705
00:48:06,977 --> 00:48:09,419
You are under arrest.

706
00:48:11,052 --> 00:48:15,525
Michael kissed me
then they put him in the car.

707
00:48:16,371 --> 00:48:18,222
They took him on board.

708
00:48:19,138 --> 00:48:22,237
I will never forget his expression
at this moment.

709
00:48:23,235 --> 00:48:25,471
He turned around to see me.

710
00:48:25,689 --> 00:48:28,439
He said everything was going to be okay.

711
00:48:28,524 --> 00:48:30,551
But I knew not.

712
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:38,795
Michael's ex-roommate,
Freeze, was arrested the same day.

713
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,226
He didn't need
only a few hours to confess.

714
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,795
"One Sunday in March 1996,

715
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,524
"Michael Alig and Angel Melendez
had a violent argument.

716
00:48:54,970 --> 00:48:58,434
"At one point I heard
a sound of broken glass.

717
00:49:00,405 --> 00:49:03,558
"Michael shouted:
“Help me. Get him!”

718
00:49:03,643 --> 00:49:06,195
"Angel said, 'Stay out of it.'

719
00:49:06,722 --> 00:49:10,673
"Then when he started
to shake Michael violently,

720
00:49:10,758 --> 00:49:12,478
"I grabbed the hammer.

721
00:49:14,113 --> 00:49:16,978
"I came forward
and I hit Angel on the head.

722
00:49:17,063 --> 00:49:20,631
"On the third blow,
he collapsed.

723
00:49:21,125 --> 00:49:24,400
“Michael climbed on him
to strangle him.

724
00:49:24,588 --> 00:49:28,998
"He then took a pillow
and put it on Angel's head.

725
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,755
"On my return,
Michael was near the body

726
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,519
"and poured a product
of the bathroom,

727
00:49:35,604 --> 00:49:38,917
"any cleanser,
in Angel's mouth.

728
00:49:39,139 --> 00:49:41,874
"Then he gagged him
with adhesive tape.

729
00:49:41,959 --> 00:49:46,008
"He told me he had
need me for this task.

730
00:49:46,093 --> 00:49:49,073
"So I helped him
to finish gagging him.

731
00:49:49,158 --> 00:49:51,834
"Angel was in his underwear.

732
00:49:51,919 --> 00:49:53,752
"Michael said, 'The bathtub.'

733
00:49:53,837 --> 00:49:56,673
“We put him in the bathtub
and we closed the door.

734
00:49:56,758 --> 00:50:01,914
"Between 5 and 7 days later,
we decided to do something.

735
00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:06,637
"Michael told me
that for 10 doses of heroin,

736
00:50:06,722 --> 00:50:09,872
“he wanted to take care of it.

737
00:50:09,957 --> 00:50:14,970
"I accepted and he went
cut off Angel's legs.

738
00:50:19,922 --> 00:50:23,785
"He put the rest of the body
in a large trash bag.

739
00:50:23,870 --> 00:50:27,736
"We then put this package
in a box.

740
00:50:27,821 --> 00:50:31,709
"A few hours later,
we took it down in the elevator

741
00:50:31,794 --> 00:50:35,390
"and we put him in a taxi
which was right in front.

742
00:50:35,475 --> 00:50:38,870
"We took the body
behind 25th street

743
00:50:38,955 --> 00:50:41,235
“and they threw him into the river.”

744
00:50:45,137 --> 00:50:49,716
Rikers Island Jail
December 25, 1996

745
00:50:53,656 --> 00:50:55,159
"On Christmas Day,

746
00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:56,991
“Mike is out.

747
00:50:57,076 --> 00:50:59,834
"I was very happy

748
00:51:00,392 --> 00:51:03,831
"to be able to see him,
it was an indescribable joy.

749
00:51:03,916 --> 00:51:07,460
"He was wearing a gray outfit
prisoner,

750
00:51:09,632 --> 00:51:14,550
"sports socks
and prisoner's sandals.

751
00:51:20,148 --> 00:51:21,968
"I took him in my arms,

752
00:51:22,053 --> 00:51:23,201
"stand up,

753
00:51:25,807 --> 00:51:28,508
"and I kissed him
on the face,

754
00:51:30,105 --> 00:51:34,844
"on the lips, in the neck
and on her little hands.

755
00:51:37,216 --> 00:51:40,633
"He abandoned his body
in mine

756
00:51:42,138 --> 00:51:46,201
"and for a moment,
our bodies became one.”

757
00:51:47,812 --> 00:51:50,184
What if I regret?
My God, of course!

758
00:51:50,269 --> 00:51:53,408
I still have nightmares
About Angel

759
00:51:53,748 --> 00:51:59,255
and I wake up
with terrible stomach aches.

760
00:52:00,805 --> 00:52:03,884
But I can't do anything about it anymore.

761
00:52:03,969 --> 00:52:06,311
Nothing can bring him back.

762
00:52:06,396 --> 00:52:09,114
Michael pleaded guilty
for homicide

763
00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:12,167
and was condemned
A sentence of 10 to 20 years.

764
00:52:12,252 --> 00:52:14,749
If I had been charged with murder,

765
00:52:14,834 --> 00:52:17,798
I wouldn't have had a VCR
in cell.

766
00:52:17,883 --> 00:52:20,918
It's true, murderers
are not entitled to it.

767
00:52:21,003 --> 00:52:22,691
I found it funny.

768
00:52:23,102 --> 00:52:27,288
Gitsie died of an overdose
on January 12, 1998.

769
00:52:27,373 --> 00:52:30,305
“Dear Gitsie, Merry Christmas.

770
00:52:30,986 --> 00:52:35,260
“Mine was depressing.
I got beaten up...

771
00:52:35,682 --> 00:52:39,393
“I got beaten up
by a 44-year-old Latino man.

772
00:52:39,478 --> 00:52:41,824
"I'm in the disciplinary unit:

773
00:52:41,909 --> 00:52:44,589
"nor methadone,
neither TV nor telephone.

774
00:52:44,674 --> 00:52:47,041
"I hope your promise
still holds."

775
00:52:47,126 --> 00:52:49,999
I promised him
that if he took life,

776
00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:53,681
I will send it to him
enough heroin to kill himself.

777
00:52:53,987 --> 00:52:56,629
I know
that must seem horrible.

778
00:52:56,938 --> 00:52:58,922
“I suffer with him.

779
00:52:59,427 --> 00:53:01,482
"I feel helpless

780
00:53:02,950 --> 00:53:05,947
"and at this moment,
I would like us to die together.

781
00:53:09,927 --> 00:53:12,475
"This is what we planned to do,

782
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,188
“if it gets too hard for him.”

783
00:53:16,162 --> 00:53:19,121
Peter Gatien was tried
for drug trafficking.

784
00:53:19,206 --> 00:53:21,845
On February 11, 1998,
he was acquitted.

785
00:53:21,930 --> 00:53:24,270
Gatien denies taking drugs.

786
00:53:24,355 --> 00:53:27,108
I have well and truly known

787
00:53:27,707 --> 00:53:32,909
five people
brutally murdered at the time.

788
00:53:33,331 --> 00:53:38,435
Whatever happens to me,
that I end up a tramp

789
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:42,728
or married, father of four children,
I will always love Michael.

790
00:53:42,813 --> 00:53:46,303
in its bizarre and twisted way,

791
00:53:47,536 --> 00:53:51,035
he got what he wanted:
an immense celebrity.

792
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,510
Back to Dallas, Brooke
is involved in a drug case.

793
00:53:54,595 --> 00:53:57,710
Brian fights
with his heroin addiction.

794
00:53:57,795 --> 00:54:00,551
Lahoma left
the world of the night.

795
00:54:00,636 --> 00:54:03,463
No ! He was always a monster.

796
00:54:03,721 --> 00:54:07,602
He was always crazy and monstrous.

797
00:54:08,718 --> 00:54:09,845
Period.

798
00:54:09,930 --> 00:54:12,792
It took us all 10 years to discover

799
00:54:13,367 --> 00:54:17,436
how much of a monster he was.

800
00:54:25,272 --> 00:54:29,699
Did I just destroy
the argument of your documentary?

801
00:55:55,720 --> 00:56:00,056
Adapted by: Quentin Rambaud
TVS subtitling - FILM TITRA

802
00:56:00,141 --> 00:56:04,685
Resynch: Cadiot and Co