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While there’s no record of an overdose inside Studio 54 like the series shows, Minnelli did check into the Betty Ford Clinic in California for the first time in 1984 for treatment. Halston shows Minnelli partying consistently, indulging in drugs, and even overdosing inside Studio 54 one night before deciding to go to rehab. Celebrities such as Diana Ross, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, Michael Jackson, Brooke Shields, Liz Taylor, and many, many more were regulars at the fashionable club.įashion royalty Halston was a regular, of course, along with his best friend and muse Liza Minnelli. Club regular Andy Warhol once said that Studio 54 “was a dictatorship on the door but a democracy on the dance floor.” Halston's depiction of Studio 54 co-founder Steve Rubell swiftly denying patrons at the door on the basis of their shirt or their hat not being to his liking is, according to footage from the documentary, accurate.

The Rolling Stones, for example, were split into two of the categories-Mick Jagger and Keith Richards got in for free, but the other band members had to pay to enter. The doc explains that the guest list was split into four categories: “No Goods” were people who should never be let in, then those who had to pay to get in, followed by those who got in for free, and finally “No Fuck Ups,” who were VIPs who were let in swiftly and easily. According to Schrager, this level of desperation was commonplace the club frequently had people climbing over fences and allegedly even pulling guns on doormen. In Studio 54, a 2018 documentary that featured the club’s surviving co-founder Ian Schrager, he revealed that someone really was found dead after getting stuck in an air vent and suffocating after trying to enter the club illegally-but unlike in the show, it was a man dressed in black-tie attire. A crowd outside the iconic, star-studded nightclub in 1978.

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