25.06.2022, 20:16
3 min reading time
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Mark Fleischmann owned the legendary Studio 54 in New York. When he celebrated, it was with alcohol, drugs and the stars. He loved excess, full life. Now he wants to take drugs again – the trip should be his last.
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Studio 54 was once one of the most famous nightclubs in the world. Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger, Truman Capote and Elizabeth Taylor danced there. The store was the place to be in the 80s. Club owner Mark Fleischmann was king of the nightlife. A legend on the scene. And a bon vivant who didn’t shy away from a party himself. He coke with Robin Williams, drank with John Belushi and threesomes were commonplace. Fleischmann lived life in the fast lane and drugs kept his engine running. It should also be drugs that finally bring this engine to a standstill.
“I can’t walk anymore, my speech is disturbed and I can’t do anything for myself anymore,” Fleischmann told the New York Post in an exclusive interview. The 82-year-old is in a wheelchair and relies on his wife’s help. “My wife helps me get into bed and I can’t get dressed or put my shoes on,” he says. As he reports, Fleischmann has been suffering from an illness that has not yet been named since 2016. The doctors are helpless. “The doctors originally thought he had a form of Parkinson’s, but that’s not it, nobody knows what he has,” said his wife Mimi.