His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. He was a "sprite," as one acquaintance phrased it, "cute, cute, cute," the toast of the beaches at Cherry Grove on Fire Island in the 1960s. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. The cult was called Eternal Values. Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. Eileen Ford told me. We were on earth to help people. $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. I looked over at the owner, Cipriani, and got the distinct impression he would have thrown him out if I hadn't been there. His Manhattan number is unpublished, and there's no listing for him in Lake Lure. EVERY PAGE. I hated myself beyond loathing. She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' Freddy did astrological charts and life readings. Every few moments, the birds spread their wings. "He saves them from their egos. "I am a little bit afraid to go public with my story," she said, "but I believe it will help others. Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. "You'll never be a Ted Koppel unless you have manners!" He will buy everything for you." You have to cut the ties to your family! To whom do these thoughts arise and whence do they come? I got suspicious when he demanded cash, but the group members said, 'This is what we've done.' I realized I was being taken. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. In those days, he would hold seminars for hundreds of people at a church on Park Avenue or at a downtown school. It's a drop in the bucket.' But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. "Frederick got me an apartment in the building. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the worlds first male supermodel, pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. "All they ever talked about was money," Andreadis told me. Cults have always attracted those with deficiency needsmissing pieces of psychological makeup that family, religion, or education did not supply. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. And when he complained to Frederick, von Mierers said to him, "You will die on the water! ' He had impeccable manners, if a bit too studied to be natural, and, more, he had mastered the art of making facile remarks at dinner parties. The former V.F. "These kids are legal age." Tickle Me Kaczynski: How the Inventor of the Ultimate Elmo Toy Became a Unabomber Suspect, Real Italians Put Hot Dogs and French Fries on Their Pizza, The Other Drug War: Inside the World of Counterfeit Viagra, The $65 Million Art Heist That Put Oceans Eleven to Shame. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." "I have every gem under the sun! The man's famil, Growing up in Goldsboro, Greensboro Day senior Jaydon Young averaged 25.9 points per game as a freshman at Wayne Christian. "That's $500,000 wholesale!" Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our. Now prosecutors in the office of the Manhattan district attorney are investigating the possibility that von Mierers was involved in a multimillion-dollar gem ring. Vanity Fair Summary. When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. About this time a Ford model named Susanne Gregard attended von Mierers's regular Wednesday-night "family dinner" for the inner circle of the group. He was strewn with stones! "We were so very close." It has also been eye-opening. In a series of visions I saw the coming wars, the destruction of New York City, my own mission, and the future of the earth." It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. Perhaps von Mierers's ability to mesmerize so many young peopie comes from the very persona he labored to develop as he made his way up the social ladder of New York. ''I was told I would have to wait a year to get my cassette, maybe eighteen months," a painter named Glenna Hartwell told me, ''but all the money had to be paid in advance.". "Hasn't it always been part of the reputation of the Ford modeling agency that you protect your young kids from being taken advantage of?" At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" I just took that checkbook to the lawyer and told him, 'Do you know what this guy has been doing?' Jesus, Rama, Krishna, Buddha did not come to promise you another piece of ass. A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. "All the people here went to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton!'' . "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! You are here to listen to me.' ``You can't miss it,' he advises lake visitors curious about the house. Like best-selling author Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation), who details his visitations from space people, Montgomery seems completely in the thrall of her vision. When I called Ruth Montgomery to discuss von Mierers with her, she was defensive and refused to speak for attribution. First, the mental seduction, the flattery Moonies call "love bombing." I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, a canny gem salesman who was easily able to win over a popular author named Ruth Montgomery, whose books on psychic phenomena have sold millions of copies. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. someone asked. He said, 'These gems will help you! Nonnegotiable! Her mother next married a man who, Jacki says, was hostile to her and her sister. Studio Design Collection. But when I got the ring, I could immediately tell they had switched the stones. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. .gemstones.". There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." His actual childhood remains a mystery. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. staffer, who was conned out of $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, questions Netflix's decision to pay the proven criminal more than . A popular series called The Dark Forces sold as a complete set for twenty-five dollars. Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. "Think about the white light and the violet light!" I like who I am now. Von Mierers waited impatiently for the publication of Aliens Among Us. It was the go-go 80s. . His maid did my laundry. New York has always been a city of pretense, filled with mythomaniacs and con artists, most of them rank amateurs. Flanked by Catherine Edelmann and John Hoyt, von Mierers pointed his finger and spoke sharply to his host, Richard Bey. Through a series of visions, the "new" Frederick suddenly recollected his life as "a mathematician and astrologer involved in building the Egyptian pyramid at Giza, and another incarnation at the time of Buddha in India." Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. ", 'You must write that I am from the star Arcturus. The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. I said, 'Freddie, you can't put this out! He says he gave von Mierers $17,000 for a sapphire, a topaz, and a cat's-eye which von Mierers assured him he was getting for an astonishing bargain price, "way below wholesale." A pharaoh! Got a tip? Her office was filled with poinsettias; she wore layers of red wool and plaid Christmas stockings. She was told that it was her duty "to lie, to cheat, to make up any story" to ensure von Mierers's security. As I came and went to work, I was often accused of being resistant to our rules and way of life. The cult was called Eternal Values. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. Suddenly, von Mierers's living room appeared very small. Von Mierers would invite his more attractive and richer clients to his apartment. I'm going to smash the shit out of you!' By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. "Aren't they fabulous? She was impressed by the "hypnotic atmosphere" and the attractive young people; Andreadis did an astrological reading for her which, she said, "blew me away." The literature and cassettes of Eternal Values appear harmless; they are similar to those of hundreds of other organizations that synthesize Eastern philosophy to cash in on the New Age boom. Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. She has a huge audience. There is no punctuation in it.' . Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " Ruth Montgomery had devoted three lengthy chapters to his status as a "Walk-in" from Arcturus, his genius as a psychic, the distinguished quality of his followers, and his rejection of his privileged past. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? "No one is being kept here," he told me. We all lived together in the same apartment building. The dark and evil forces are perpetuating the idea of soul mates. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. "I went to one weekend seminar," a businesswoman named Christina Andrews told me. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. Did it matter? You have permission to edit this article. They're cheap! Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. "We had a conversation about various things that had already occurred in my life, ' ' Hoyt told an interviewer. I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. I was all of seventeen years old." They could help you. It is said that the chosen will be able to survive the apocalypse by being on something called the White Light Star Ship, or by owning property in certain mountain areas, or, in the case of Eternal Values, by wearing special jewels. From a folder, she pulled out a sheaf of receipts and gem appraisals which appeared to show that during a four-month period she had given von Mierers more than $100,000 for gems and the cost of fixing up her apartment, most of it in cash. Bob Parks of nearby Bob's Marina wasn't familiar with von Mierers either, at least not until an ``Inside Edition' camera crew rented one of his boats to shoot the lakeside mansion. Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. . ", When asked later about his reaction to the departure of Adams and Andreadis, von Mierers lapsed into a long silence and then, speaking with difficulty, said, "I don't know who such people are." Frederick's been working like lightning. I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. "Frederick has helped so many people. When you've been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, you're never quite sure when to bring it up. Von Mierers told anyone who asked that Andreadis had left the group because of an experience he had had with a black Marine. ``I have no complaints about them at all,' Karr told The Asheville Citizen. He would tell us, 'We are living a high spiritual life.' On a black January night just six days after American jets began bombing Iraq, Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr., the 66-year-old bad boy of the Texas oil and gas industry, faced more than 1,100 well-heeled . I hung out with Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell. . In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. To this day I owe him everything. Every movement was a tremendous effort. The building is owned by a part owner of the Apple Bank for Savings in New York, and although apartments in it are rented, von Mierers seems to control the leases on five of them, all of which I visited. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. They came after me and talked me into coming back. A cult is sort of like that same relationshiponcrack. We always used to kid about the old neighborhood. "They eat such unhealthy food." "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. "Then it became something else. His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. ", I was staring into the face of Frederick von Mierers. Since then, he has acted and started his own film and TV production company, Tortoise. Arietta 31 in. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. I asked. "Freddie used to say to me, 'With these gems, they hold you close to their heart. How could I have been so stupid? Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. I can get you these gems at cost!' Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." "I thought I was in love with Jacki," he told me. He swept into the room and said, 'I come from Arcturus. More, she had been taught to dress by a fine stylist who had taken her to Chanel and Scaasi to rid her of the jeans and sneakers of her modest Florida childhood. Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. 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Catherine Edelmann asked on a tape. Gunzenhausen (German pronunciation: [ntsnhazn] (); Bavarian: Gunzenhausn) is a town in the Weienburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.It is situated on the river Altmhl, 19 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Weienburg in Bayern, and 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Nuremberg.Gunzenhausen is a nationally recognized recreation area. "Vuitton is too Jewish. Deputies in Davidson County rushed to help a 69-year-old man they'd found unresponsive in his house following a welfare check. Scarlet and turquoise feathers drifted by. He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. Eternal Values is unusual in that many of its young devotees have a lot of cash to spend on von Mierers's healing gems. Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. Andreadis would put a life reading on the tape machine, and Frederick's voice, like the Wizard of Oz, with harmonic music in the background, would engulf a client with tales of past lives. I thought there was the possibility for real violence. What's the harm?" I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! I work for a gemologist, and I told her to bring in the stones. Just a few things that come to mind, working from memory of course. "We were like one entire family. "Frederick imparts information that normally you wouldn't have access to," a Princeton graduate and Ford model who is a member of Eternal Values told me. Von Mierers, in the company of Helen Williams, began to study the teachings of the famous psychic Edgar Cayce and to learn astrology; he talked constantly of planetary aspects and charts at Doubles and Studio 54. I never did. I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. I took the heaviest piece in my hand, a gold bracelet with what appeared to be lavender sapphires. At its peak, there were perhaps one hundred active members. I asked. "This is a holy place.". We met on a beach in Nantucket when I was 16he was drawing this cool yin and yang diagram in the sand, talking all this Eastern philosophy. Von Mierers gave me an appraisal from a West Forty-seventh Street jeweler who said the ring was worth $58,000. It was common knowledge in the inner group that von Mierers had a collection of Polaroids he had taken of black men endowed with huge organs. I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. EVERY PAGE. Of course, some conditions are more extreme than others. Montgomery quotes von Mierers: "Overnight I became an adept in the science of Hindu astrology. I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. The first time I tried to leave the group, I fled to New York. Thats how twisted around you canbecome. "There was something endearing and maybe a little sinister about that." "I was making over $300,000 a year," she said. We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. Years ago, if he said he worked ten days on a modeling job, I knew that meant he worked two days! Frederick had sophisticated his operation. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. He enlisted appraisers who worked on percentages of the stones they evaluated. They bought his pitchand the gems he said would make them New Age lords and duchesses. Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. "What could I do?" . "Don't become a cock worshiper! Find out who is the source at the source of the I thought, who is the author of the / thought? But I was impressed with the people he had managed to have around. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. Andreadis dismisses this as pure invention. Von Mierers would often warn his New Age leaders to beware of Jews. But there is no way Freddie got rich on the Ford models that are his followers! "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. Sutherland 48 in. We've had stones in our family for years. Montgomery soon invited Andreadis and von Mierers to meet with her at her home in Washington, D.C. "She asked me to write about alien life for her next book," Andreadis said. He spent time at Quest, a bookshop on Fifty-third Street specializing in spiritual books, and there he met other people on their own missions. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. One tenant in the building had to stop a doorman from letting in a threateninglooking group of men on their way to 4N, von Mierers's apartment, at three A.M. "I said, 'Lock the doors! Some are more abusive. After that things were pretty crazy. I was sobbing. For the narcissistic young, all the talk about their diet, spiritual mission, and ego was just another way they could spend time thinking about themselves. By now von Mierers had perfected his pitch. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the 'world's first male supermodel,' pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. They never saw that side in Lake Lure, however. Andreadis said. "He was never a good model," Eileen Ford recently told me. " Adams, at her most psychologically fragile, agreed to do her time on "mail duties." ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. von Mierers would say. One client tried to force me to hire him. "These are the light lasers! . The model, who was involved with Eternal Values for almost a year, has given a sworn secret statement to the Manhattan D.A. Like every other American woman who grew up reading Seventeen, I have always thought of Eileen Ford as a benevolent godmother, a woman who protects her own. .. Frederick says that he realized 'even then' that Helen Williams had been his mother in several previous lifetimes, and they were almost inseparable. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. "There are people like the Warburgs and the Schiffs, who are acceptable, and then there are the others, like Allen Funt." You will survive the storms and be the leaders of the millennium." "I want her to write about me. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. Only Hermes.". . What is a famous model doing here? Were all in one kind of cult or another. Its hard to imagine just how strange it would all seem without context, an insomniac flipping through the channels, stumbling upon this exaggeration of a man who claimed to be an alien from the star Arcturus. That is the crux of the recovery process. How could I have been duped like that for solong? Evan 37 in. No mother, no father, no brother, no sister. From the mind, which is the ego. . Think of your body as a Lalique vase. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. We all know its not. "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' You have such powers! Andreadis's mother, Barbara, who owns a New York talent agency, began to worry. His Nantucket house guests recall being sent out to scour the beach for good-looking recruits, handing out invitations to the finest physical specimens they could find. Frederick told me that my deficiencies were so horrendous that I needed a stone that was at least two to three and a half carats. They all came with bogus appraisals. Perhaps as a way of breaking free, Andreadis and Adams married in November. . Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. Her relationship with Andreadis shielded her from the burgeoning sexual atmosphere of Eternal Values. Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. Two bodies cannot occupy the same space in the material world, which is what they are trying to do when they're having physical intercourse. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. Like so many cult leaders, he appealed to his followers vanity, telling them that they were special enough to literally save the world. Within a few weeks, I met with a beautiful model named Jacki Adams, who for some years had been the face on the Elizabeth Arden campaign. Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. I thought, God! "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. Without Freddy to focus on, there were an increasing number of strict rules and codes of punishment. John Hoyt, another member, said, "John was a very stubborn boy. The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. ", For years, von Mierers had a television show of his own in New York. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. We are not a cult.". He told us to call him Freddy. Behind him were a golden Buddha and a massive display of pink azaleas and lilies that seemed to take up an entire wall. Now she could talk about philosophy until dawn with a new group of friends who had little to do with the artificial world of fashion. Catherine Edelmann, the Princeton honors graduate, said of von Mierers on a widely distributed tape, "One of the things Frederick said was 'Do not want a position! The New York Post reported that the late male model and interior decorator was under investigation for possible involvement in a multimillion-dollar drug ring. There was a big Vanity Fair expos at one point in the early 90s; I was involved with them for more than 20 years, from 1978 through1999. "You have to do something! With marketing, with the news, with politics, with the military and different religions and forms of government, I see forms of mind control all the time, everywhere. 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. I won back some of my money; the group went broke after that and eventually disbandedas you can imagine, that victory went a long way toward some sort of closure and vindication. I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. Life is vice. .. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. An endorsement by Ruth Montgomery would confirm everything he had told his young followers about his life. Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." ", "Things happen. The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. Even today, years after Charles Manson and the Jonestown mass suicides, more than two thousand cults continue to operate in America. The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. "It has been a disaster," Montgomery once wrote of von Mierers to an angry reader who had taken her book seriously, but the reader has yet to recover $17,000 he says he paid for stones. What is the nature of this world?. I had a Life Reading done by Frederick von Miers in the late 1980's. Although I did not get to meet him, I believe he was honest in the concept he passed on to some of us and that he was a Walk-In. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." When I look around, I see that, to a greater or lesser extent, we all have cultic relationships with peoplerelationships where the person we love, the person from whom were seeking approval, is also the one who is dishing out the abuse. Hoyt Richards was one of the worlds biggest male supermodels in the 80s and 90s. Often von Mierers would take a stem tone on the tapes. For a time, he supported himself handily as a model. Do you see the ego there? It became evil. "He just understands everything about us." von Mierers told a TV talkshow host named Richard Bey in 1988 to characterize the followers he had with him on the show. Vanity Includes Mirror. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. "I have just heard the wildest story from a makeup artist who works on many Ford models," she said. By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. Who Am I? .late '20's hairdo life of the party and a people organizer.. .seen a lot at Le Cirque, Cecil's, Isle of Capri fabulous dancer.. .a gentleman," the item read. von Mierers told Jacki Adams, the Ford model who had come to see me, on one cassette. "I come from a very rich family," he once told a TV interviewer. 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