Club Kid Icon Keoki Arrested After Former NBC Producer Found Dead

01.18.2017

EDIT: A previous version of this article featured a photo that was not of Keoki, but his brother, Miko. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Early ’90s club kid icon and world-famous DJ Keoki A.K.A. George Lopez has been arrested along with Patrick Walsh as part of an investigation into the death of Thomas Felty, who produced for NBC, Universal and other studios. Felty, who was 36, passed away on January 4th in his Upper East Side apartment in New York City where Lopez and Walsh were also found in possession of controlled substances.

According to the New York Post, Walsh and Lopez had woken up to discover that Felty wasn’t breathing after the three of them had met elsewhere and retired to Felty’s apartment. When the police answered Lopez’ 911 call around 5:00 AM, they found a black bag stuffed with half-gallon and full-gallon zip lock bags of methamphetamine as well as others containing cocaine and hundreds of ecstasy and MDMA pills.

Lopez was perhaps best known as a fixture of the NYC club kid scene of the ’80s and ’90s. He was depicted by Wilder Valderrama in the 2003 film Party Monster, which detailed the rise and fall of club kid poster boy Michael Alig – who himself was imprisoned for the 1996 murder of Andre “Angel” Melendez and released on parole in 2014.

It’s a common misconception that Keoki’s birth name was Keoki Franconi. Sources close to Lopez have revealed to djbios that he adopted the pseudonym to hide that he was El Salvadorian, and upon further inspection, the Keoki trademark had indeed been registered in Lopez’ name.

While early reports indicate that Felty’s heart was enlarged, his official cause of death has not been determined at this time.

14 Comments

  1. Will Echeverri says:

    Why does the article have a picture of Miko, Keoki’s brother and not of Keoki?

  2. Jason Allgood says:

    That is not Keoki in that picture, it’s a picture of his brother Miko.

  3. LadyL says:

    Valderama played Angel not Keoki in the movie Party Monster!

  4. Miko says:

    “Sources close to Lopez have revealed to djbios that he adopted the pseudonym to hide that he was El Salvadorian” you must be kidding me? Keoki has always been proud of his heritage. Please fix all of this, you obviously have no idea what you are talking about, nor do you have any idea what is going on with my family. Thank you.

  5. Dj6937 says:

    Made in America

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    Isso não é um transe teórico; é real.

  7. Frank Abignale says:

    Jesus, Mary and Joseph… it’s the curse of the club kids.. talk about strange, mike then keoki… rest in peace so sad =(

  8. sky says:

    I think its really disrespectful to write this article in past tense. Like “he was” instead of “he is”.

  9. alex b says:

    I believe he also had a boyfriend that was found cut-up in pieces underneath some bridg back in the 90 ,trouble,trouble

  10. Keg says:

    Its Wilmer Valderrama, not Wilder.

  11. Sherman says:

    Satan has his way with people.

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