# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-musto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:19:06.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-musto"
name: "Michael Musto"
slug: "michael-musto"
description: "Michael Musto is an American journalist who has long been a prevalent presence in entertainment-related publications, as well as on websites and television shows. He is best known as a columnist for The Village Voice, where he wrote the La Dolce Musto column of gossip, nightlife, reviews, interviews, and political observations for almost three decades, starting in 1984. In 2021, he started writing articles about nightlife, movies, theater, NYC, and LGBTQ politics for the revived Village Voice, which returned as a print publication, with accompanying website, and now is web only."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Musto_cropped_by_David_Shankbone.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.81
  momentum:             2.086010874938211
  historical:           5.354686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616003/"
    handle:    "nm0616003"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Musto"
    title: "Michael Musto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "مايكل موستو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%DA%B5_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%86"
    title: "مایکڵ موستۆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Musto"
    title: "Michael Musto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Musto"
    title: "Michael Musto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13405921"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2565258"
    title: "Michael Musto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump