Bey told him, "You know what I really think? "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. There was a big Vanity Fair expos at one point . " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the worlds first male supermodel, pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. 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. There, in 1978, he met a sixteen-year-old named John Hoyt. From the mind, which is the ego. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. .like Lalique. You are here to listen to me.' Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. Were all in one kind of cult or another. His Manhattan number is unpublished, and there's no listing for him in Lake Lure. They came after me and talked me into coming back. "I almost had a breakdown. and that was the end of that.". He lived in this awesome apartment and had all these young, intelligent and wealthy followers. He had sold thousands of cassettes with titles such as Space People, Karma and Destiny, and Gems and Crystals. There's no Lake Lure phone listing for Eternal Values or other names the group is known by - Unified Cosmogony or Ultimate Custom Interiors. "He saves them from their egos. I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. "Look at these emeralds," he was telling me, stroking his gems. Her relationship with Andreadis shielded her from the burgeoning sexual atmosphere of Eternal Values. Natural Vanity with Engineered Marble Top. He used to tell friends that he went to the Professional Children's School, although there is no record of him there. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' Some are more abusive. "We were so very close." He kept elaborate ledger records, but he insisted on being paid in cash. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. 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. ``I have no complaints about them at all,' Karr told The Asheville Citizen. I worked with photographers like Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. .. Frederick says that he realized 'even then' that Helen Williams had been his mother in several previous lifetimes, and they were almost inseparable. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. What is the nature of this world?. "All the people here went to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton!'' "We had a conversation about various things that had already occurred in my life, ' ' Hoyt told an interviewer. . That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. I was in this weird catch-22. They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. "I told her, 'A young lady should have the best of everything.' Instead, they sent the body to Chapel Hill for autopsy by the state medical examiner. Released in 2015, the film has been an official selection in over fifty film festivals and has won more than forty awards, including 15 for Best Picture and 10 for BestActor. I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. He would tell prospective buyers that he was able to get stones at a tremendous discount, which the inflated appraisal papers would confirm. Montgomery's belief in von Mierers so overwhelmed him that he would read her chapters out loud again and again to his followers, as if to convince himself that they were true. von Mierers told a TV talkshow host named Richard Bey in 1988 to characterize the followers he had with him on the show. The gems, he would say, are for ''special people, only the elite." But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. Without Freddy to focus on, there were an increasing number of strict rules and codes of punishment. ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. "Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. Von Mierers would often warn his New Age leaders to beware of Jews. The idea was ultimately to destroy the ego and then rebuild it in a more malleable form. It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. To whom do these thoughts arise and whence do they come? ", 'You must write that I am from the star Arcturus. I never did. Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. . These looked pretty good. Although not a member of the group, the great New York arts patron Alice Tully reportedly had a life reading, as did Sylvester Stallone, the actress Rae Dawn Chong, and the daughter of an Iranian Cabinet minister close to the Shah. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. Sitting in the apartment near Sutton Place, I thought of the German word Maskenfreiheit: the freedom conferred by masks. Von Mierers, like the leaders of the People's Temple, talked constantly of Satan's influence in the world, the dark forces, and viciously belittled the notion of family ties. There is no punctuation in it.' He would tell us, 'We are living a high spiritual life.' One night, in a fit of insomnia, von Mierers thumbed through the book of Revelations. "How did Ruth Montgomery find out about you?" Immediately! "When we started Eternal Values, it was completely benign, really nothing more than a spiritual merchandising scheme," a former associate of von Mierers's who is now cooperating with the Manhattan district attorney's office told me. In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. 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. She has a huge audience. There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. Eternal Values is unusual in that many of its young devotees have a lot of cash to spend on von Mierers's healing gems. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. I can get you these gems at cost!' Frederick Von Mierers, a deeply tanned cult leader with a shocking crown of platinum blond hair, spoke to his followers through their television sets. They all had striking similarities; they were young, mostly in their twenties and early thirties, and quite good-looking, with taut, muscular bodies. Of special interest to the tabloids were the models and ``life readings' or other advice von Mierers had given celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone and Rae Dawn Chong. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. ''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.". He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. "He kept saying, 'John is not working hard enough producing the tapes.' Frederick von Mierers is one of the most complex characters I ever met. In January 1988, on a television show called People Are Talking, he cried, "Americans, you are going into the most crucial period of earth history! I thought, God! 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. Don't hit me!' When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. One appraiser on West Forty-seventh Street routinely gave von Mierers papers which showed that his stones were worth two or three times what he was charging for them. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. We are sincere! And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. "We must spread our message to help humanity." "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. Like best-selling author Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation), who details his visitations from space people, Montgomery seems completely in the thrall of her vision. Montgomery's deadly-earnest oeuvre details the advice of her spirit guides and includes titles such as A Search for the Truth, A World Beyond, and Aliens Among Us ("Dazzling true testimony that extraterrestrials are on earthabout to usher in the New Age"). During the spiritual seminars in the Park Avenue church, ugly shouting would break out. The former V.F. Evan 37 in. ". Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. "It was Frederick's idea to strip us of our egos through sexual humiliation," a model told a prosecutor in the office of the Manhattan district attorney. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. ``You can't miss it,' he advises lake visitors curious about the house. Oh. 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. "I want her to write about me. "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. I thought, This is crazy.". The inner circle of Eternal Values calls itself "the group." Do you see the ego there? Writer Marie Brenner, who confirmed the now-dropped investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office, compared the blank stares of von Mierers' minions to those of Jim Jones, who led his followers in a mass suicide in the jungles of Guyana in 1979. We thought the end was at hand. . In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". It's a drop in the bucket.' "The root of all thought is the I thought," he might say while lecturing opaquely on his views of Eastern philosophy. We never would have signed him." Group members were encouraged to patronize special doctors, nutritionists, and the chiropractor David Seaman. And that is all I am going to say.". "Frederick immediately saw that we needed an organization, merchandise, a name!" Your parents have been horrible for you. As I came and went to work, I was often accused of being resistant to our rules and way of life. It is embarrassing to admit, but looking back, I didnt finally leave the group because I was being abused or because I was mad about giving them my money. "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." Pulsating ionization machines cleansed the air, and billowing clouds were painted on the walls. "It was like being in a meeting of Nazi storm troopers," Hartwell told me. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO - Page 2. . Von Mierers believed in impending doomthat he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings, an intergalactic team of emergency responders. It is true that our space brothers and sisters have arrived. Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. Call the super!' "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. Think of your body as a Lalique vase. LAKE LURE MANSION HOUSED STAR PROPHET LEADER SOUGHT REFUGE BEFORE DYING OF AIDS. Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. he would say. Plus, I was supporting them. And no one could control Frederick anymore. "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. I spread them out under a lamp. The house was on a lake. 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." Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. She once wrote a syndicated column called "Capital Letter," until, as she says, "Arthur Ford told me that I could do automatic writing." I'm going to smash the shit out of you!' Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." By now von Mierers had perfected his pitch. "It is not working! Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' 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. .. . There were a lot of drugs and greed in the air, but we considered ourselves people who were seeking a greater understanding of the universe. In Welcome to the Beyond, which premiered at Doc NYC on Tuesday, director Brent Huff deep-dives into Hoyts double life. "When I owned a modeling agency, Freddie was always around. A Wall Street banker designed the computer system that charted the planets for von Mierers's readings; a Brooklyn woman kept his books. That's $3 million. 1913 TO TODAY. So Freddie became a prophet, so what?" Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. Eternal Values was my reality. She retreated from her friends and family, and even her booker at Ford noticed something was wrong. "These kids are legal age." The group members watched me suspiciously, and, as in the faces of the Jonestown survivors in news photos, behind their blank stares was fear. you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. As unbelievable as it sounds, never once during my two decades with the group did I ever consider I might be a member of a cult. "I have every gem under the sun! 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 . He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. "Pick that up right now!" He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" von Mierers scolded. "She left less than $400,000," Williams told me, With access to Mrs. Williams severed, von Mierers retreated more and more into his spiritual pursuits. one's own. She was told that it was her duty "to lie, to cheat, to make up any story" to ensure von Mierers's security. Von Mierers, who believed in a master race, courted attractive young people. We always used to kid about the old neighborhood. They bought his pitchand the gems he said would make them New Age lords and duchesses. investigates von Mierers, MARIE BRENNER breaks the story. Eileen Ford told me. "He teaches us how to aspire to be the best we can. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." (''This cassette describes how the one Principle of Cosmic Intelligence expresses itself. As private-school teenagers found their way to East Fiftyfourth Street, von Mierers would talk to them about his "godmother" from the "famous Kress family" and his friends the Vanderbilts. Von Mierers ordered Adams to write a letter to Ruth Montgomery. "Interior decorator 28 years old . Its like: I was a promising kid from a good (if somewhat screwed up) family. The inner circle called itself the group. At its peak, there were about 100 active members, some at the Manhattan apartment, some in a big loft building in Brooklyn. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. To this day I owe him everything. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. I hung out with Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell. "This is a holy place.". .From where do these thoughts arise? In the last five years, close to eight thousand people have contacted Eternal Values seeking its merchandisecassettes and videos, books and pamphlets, diet plans which urge specific food combinations and colon cleansing, personalized astrology, and psychic "life readings.'' Meanwhile, after every job, people would be going off to parties at, like Madonnas, and I would fly back to my life in Eternal Values. 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! Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. 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. vanity fair: [noun] a scene or place characterized by frivolity and ostentation. ", Von Mierers survived the difficult Manhattan waters, however, and by the early 1970s he could easily roll out the phone numbers of a Vanderbilt or a Rockefeller; he treasured his membership in a club called Doubles, a dim boite in the basement of the Sherry Netherland Hotel which attracted the lesser trust-fund crowd. "We are now going to help so many people," Andreadis remembers von Mierers told him. Pay the money or you're out.' I was sobbing. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. David Seaman was a New York chiropractor. I would come to New York, and soon Frederick showed me the stones. Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". For that, you feel a sense of shame. He told us to call him Freddy. It was in January of 1978 that von Mierers appeared to make the bizarre mental journey that would cause him to affect so many young lives. I am creating the greatest comedy on earth. The anxiety attached to the end of an era, much less a millennium, inevitably produces collective madness. von Mierers told me. ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. he advised one model. . someone asked. He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. Eileen Ford asked me. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. You can cancel at any time. A few people in the room were buzzing about her: Who is that beautiful woman? I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. "When I first met Frederick, I was only sixteen years old, and I was so naive I still believed that anyone who said he was spiritual was holy," a young man named John Andreadis told me. Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. Arietta 31 in. Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. Soon he was attempting to find work as a society decorator and furniture restorer, living in a tiny apartment on East Forty-ninth Street which he had decorated in Baldwin style. The leader was a man named Frederick Von Mierers. There wasn't much around the Lake Lure home of Frederick von Mierers to indicate a fast-paced lifestyle and the idea that he was a prophet from the star Arcturus. "And you'll never be a David Bowie unless you get a better story," Bey replied. After that things were pretty crazy. By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. "No one is being kept here," he told me. "There are people like the Warburgs and the Schiffs, who are acceptable, and then there are the others, like Allen Funt." I reminded him of his participation in the tape. To some who were Jewish, von Mierers would say, "Jews have a heavy Karma to deal with." I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! My mother was not that rich. 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! What's the big deal? 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. View cart for details. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. "He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. We all lived together in the same apartment building. On the weekends I would bring up a couple friends with me from school. We had four years of stored food and a whole lot of weapons by thispoint. Close to sixty people attended. Only the elite will be saved. Still, they control ourmind. They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") Von Mierers called Andreadis his Jesus and allowed him to teach seminars at a Park Avenue church. I gave Freddy every penny I earned. I am the chosen one. I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. Who neededmoney? I took the heaviest piece in my hand, a gold bracelet with what appeared to be lavender sapphires. By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. They cannot raise the question . . He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. "I was the most powerful political columnist in America," she told me. 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. "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?" New members of the group, such as a model who had met John Hoyt on a photo shoot, were gradually told about the sexualinitiation practices, including the multiracial sex rite which members called "the treatment." "Freddie used to say to me, 'With these gems, they hold you close to their heart. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. Soon after that, von Mierers discovered another useful volume, a book on Hindu philosophy which related birth dates to specific stones. I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". An endorsement by Ruth Montgomery would confirm everything he had told his young followers about his life. "He and I went way back together. Often he would rage at his followers. The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. So what was the harm? He demanded $20,000 in cash or money orders immediately." Suddenly, von Mierers's living room appeared very small. "I came to New York from Houston to my mother's apartment and saw her checkbooks," her son, Claude Williams, told me. I am not for the masses. Uproar ensued. 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. Black Vanity with Carrara Marble Top. His actual childhood remains a mystery. "Do you understand? Like so many cult leaders, he appealed to his followers vanity, telling them that they were special enough to literally save the world. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. he raged at the young man, who scurried to obey him. Control is subtle. 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. No matter how hard I tried, I was always Dipshit. I said, 'Freddie, you can't put this out! "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. "I had found them through Ruth Montgomery's book. Id fly to Tokyo for a shoot and have to be back by Monday to take an exam; I was proud I was able to graduate with my class, in1985. . They could help you. I would never have made it without the help of my old friend Fabio, the spokesmodel. "What is that?" "Vuitton is too Jewish. In a new documentary, Welcome to the Beyond, Hoyt recalls his introduction to the cult leader who would alter the course of his life. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. "You are fabulous! She was like an Audrey Hepburn, exquisite beyond words," the stylist, Richard Adams, who is no relation, told me. "I have just heard the wildest story from a makeup artist who works on many Ford models," she said. Frederick walked into his body a few years ago, coming directly from that star where he knew John.. .. Frederick is a remarkable soul who has experienced every type of life on earth and on numerous planetary systems. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. The girlfriend of a handsome young relative of mine called me in a state of panic. You will survive the storms and be the leaders of the millennium." We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. Insight is given as to the inner workings of the Universal Magnetic Field, as well as how the stones can help you tune in to higher intelligence.") The model, who was involved with Eternal Values for almost a year, has given a sworn secret statement to the Manhattan D.A. ", 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." Later, Hoyt went to Princeton and became a member of Cap and Gown. I had no sleep, ever. Vanity Fair Summary. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. Other principals in the von Mierers' story are equally hard to reach. 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