Pietro Paolo Mennea (] ; 28 June 1952 – 21 March 2013) was an Italian sprinter and politician.
 He was most successful in the 200 m event, in which he won a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and set a world record at 19.72 seconds in September 1979.
 This record stood for almost 17 years – the longest duration in the event history – and is still listed as the European record.
Louis Lougen (born 1952 in Buffalo, New York) has been the Superior General of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate since 2010.
 He made his perpetual vows in Newburgh (city), New York in 1976 and ordained in 1979.
 He went on to spend almost 17 years in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo.
Yu Dongyue (; Hanyu Pinyin: Yù Dōngyuè) is a former Chinese journalist imprisoned for almost 17 years in China, for throwing paint-filled eggs onto the large portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Emma Anne Byrne (born 14 June 1979) is an Irish former football goalkeeper who played for the Republic of Ireland women's national football team on a record 134 occasions and served as captain of the team.
 She spent almost 17 years with Arsenal Ladies before being released on 30 December 2016 and joining Brighton & Hove Albion in January 2017.
Party Monster: The Shockumentary is a 1998 documentary film detailing the rise of the club kid phenomenon in New York City, the life of club kid and party promoter Michael Alig, and Alig's murder (with the help of Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs) of fellow club kid and drug dealer Andre "Angel" Melendez.
Anaida is an Indian performer, actor, director, producer, pop and playback singer, multi-linguist, advertising conceptualizer, creative exponent of the fine arts, writer/poet and painter.
 Anaida has been an integral part of the Indian entertainment industry for almost 17 years.
Michael Alig (born April 29, 1966) is an American former club promoter, musician, and writer who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter.
 Alig was a founder and ringleader of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers that became a cultural phenomenon during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Party Monster is a 2003 American factually based biographical drama film directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and starring Macaulay Culkin as the drug-addled "king of the Club Kids".
 The film tells the story of rise and fall of the infamous New York City party promoter Michael Alig.
 This was Macaulay Culkin's first film in nearly nine years since his starring role in the 1994 film "Richie Rich".
Walter Moses Burton (August 9, 1840 - June 4, 1913) was a prosperous farmer and Republican politician who served four terms in the Texas State Senate.
 Born into slavery in North Carolina in 1840, he was brought to Texas about 1860 (some sources say 1850).
 His owner, Thomas Burke Burton, a plantation owner in Fort Bend County, taught him to read and write.
 After emancipation, he purchased several tracts of land from his former owner.
 He became active in Republican party politics and was elected as the sheriff and tax collector in Fort Bend County in 1869.
 He was first elected to the Fourteenth Legislature in 1874 and served almost continually until 1883.
 After leaving office, he returned to farming, but continued to be active in the Republican party until his death in 1913.
 He is buried in the Morton Cemetery in Richmond, Texas.
Earl Ray Tomblin (born March 15, 1952) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Governor of West Virginia from 2011 to 2017.
 Prior to becoming governor, Tomblin served as President of the West Virginia Senate for almost 17 years.
 Tomblin became acting governor in November 2010 following Joe Manchin's election to the U.S. Senate.
 He won a special election in October 2011 to fill the unexpired term ending in January 2013 and was elected to a first full term as governor in November 2012.

Question: Who was the party promoter who served almost 17 years for manslaughter and the movie Party Monster was about?
Answer: Michael Alig