A man died after falling down an elevator shaft during a dispute at a swank Manhattan nightclub, Bed, once featured on the popular television show "Sex and the City," police said.

Actor Granville Adams of the popular HBO series Oz is facing real life criminal charges in the violent death of a man inside a popular chelsea nightclub. Police early Sunday arrested Granville Adams, 43, and charged him with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Orlando Valle, 35.

Adams pushed Valle against sixth-floor elevator doors, which opened, causing Valle to fall into the shaft, police said. A message left at a Brooklyn telephone number listed for Adams was not immediately returned early Sunday. Valle plummeted four floors before landing on top of the elevator car at the second floor of the converted warehouse space, police said. Valle, of the Bronx, was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.