Michael Musto
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Michael Musto in 2007
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December 3, 1955 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, actor, author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
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Michael Musto (born December 3, 1955) is an American journalist and actor, and a former columnist for The Village Voice, where he wrote the La Dolce Musto column and is currently an entertainment correspondent. He is the author of the books Downtown and Manhattan on the Rocks, as well as a compilation of selected columns published as La Dolce Musto. His subsequent collection, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back, was published in 2011.
Musto was born in Brooklyn to an Italian American family and graduated from Columbia University in 1976. During his studies, he was a theater critic for the Columbia Spectator.
Musto is gay and is published regularly in several LGBT publications.
He appeared as a reporter in the film Garbo Talks (1984). Also in 1984, Musto began his Village Voice column, after having already written features for the publication.
He appeared in drag in a blue dress in the all drag queen music video for Cyndi Lauper's remake of her single "(Hey Now) Girls Just Want To Have Fun" (1994).
He penned several writeups in The Village Voice about the 1996 murder of Andre "Angel" Melendez, helping bring national attention to a case that resulted in the trial and conviction of Michael Alig and Robert "Freez" Riggs. He was the first to report Alig's firing from The Limelight club by owner Peter Gatien and to allude to a missing Club Kid. When his blind item describing the buzz on the details of the crime got picked up by The New York Post's Page Six gossip column, the story took on more prominence. A later Village Voice feature story credited Musto with breaking the details of the story.
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