She has a huge audience. We had four years of stored food and a whole lot of weapons by thispoint. 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. I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' I asked. She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' "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. What's the harm?" "The fact that this gorgeous blond Ford model was talking about how brilliant Frederick was convinced me to go to see him," one model told me. In my mind I was working him, kind of taking advantage of this guy and all his cool connections. I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! Thats how twisted around you canbecome. and that was the end of that.". I always knew Freddie was a big talker and a fantasist. . We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. But I was impressed with the people he had managed to have around. "I said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' It was right at that time when models were becoming celebrities. Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. If this was the road it took to get me here, so beit. At fifteen, she was discovered by a photographer who sent pictures of her to Eileen Ford. The message was simple: Adams and Andreadis were evil; their egos would have to be ' 'destroyed. ' "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. Eileen Ford then told me about another group operating in her agency, a cluster of bornagain Christians called Models for God. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" I am the elite. Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. Helen Kress Williams's will, filed in Manhattan in 1981, did not mention Frederick von Mierers. . He said, 'These gems will help you! ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. Other principals in the von Mierers' story are equally hard to reach. Jeremiah will take over your body.' I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. The idea was ultimately to destroy the ego and then rebuild it in a more malleable form. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. He lived in this awesome apartment and had all these young, intelligent and wealthy followers. Always, he was immaculate; he combed his hair, which was dark then, straight back like an heir to Morgan Stanley. Black Vanity with Carrara Marble Top. What's the big deal? I would come to New York, and soon Frederick showed me the stones. What is a famous model doing here? One apartment, 6E, was used as the office, and had desks with computer screens, shelves of merchandise, and files containing thousands of letters and orders for von Mierers's services. In a new documentary, Welcome to the Beyond, Hoyt recalls his introduction to the cult leader who would alter the course of his life. John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. "It made me cry," she said. We were free to come and go. . "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. I hated myself beyond loathing. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. Eileen Ford told me. We all know its not. The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. Pay the money or you're out.' ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." 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 have to do something! " Adams, at her most psychologically fragile, agreed to do her time on "mail duties." Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". "Do you understand? This guy is raking in millions! I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". "There was something endearing and maybe a little sinister about that." She attended a seminar and saw "a young man who was so attractive I knew it had to be John Andreadis." Ask yourself, who am I? I never did. Id hurt my shoulder playing football at Princeton; Id come to the city for a doctors appointment. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. 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. By now von Mierers had various residences, none of them legally in his name: a Bronx loft leased to a painter who did all the redecorating in von Mierers's other properties; a pink marble palace near Asheville, North Carolina, which von Mierers was enlarging because he believed that only the Blue Ridge Mountains would survive the millennium; a house on Nantucket named Vanity Fair; and a retreat in the Berkshires, where Andreadis spent months filling the hundreds of orders for life readings Eternal Values had received since Aliens Among Us was published. 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 . In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. So what was the harm? For that offense they shaved my head. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. "I had found them through Ruth Montgomery's book. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. His Manhattan number is unpublished, and there's no listing for him in Lake Lure. She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. 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 couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. "Freddie then went to a lawyer and threatened that he would sue me to get my power of attorney. 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. ", 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. ' If anyone in the room argued with him, von Mierers would scream, "You either come to my way of thinking or the dark forces will destroy you.". Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. It would be the final certification, for who in the psychic world could ever doubt Montgomery's famous Guides? . Fabulous emeralds. Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. .. "All they ever talked about was money," Andreadis told me. "That always sounded suspicious to me," a friend of von Mierers's told me, "but he was always around with Mrs. Williams, and she was such a sweet old lady." Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO - Page 2. The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. We had a mission. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. ''. "Don't become a cock worshiper! It became evil. ' This last year, in the early fall, I received another call, this time from a close friend. "Ruth Montgomery really created Frederick," one Ford model told me. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. 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. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. von Mierers insisted. Think of your body as a Lalique vase. The cult was called Eternal Values. It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. I am not for the masses. 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. "I want her to write about me. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. We spoke what youd call New Age jargon. It was sort of pathetic.". "I wanted to get married and I wanted out!" The novel opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young women, where readers are introduced to Amelia and Becky, the novel's female protagonists. 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 went to one weekend seminar," a businesswoman named Christina Andrews told me. "It is not working! He would tell us, 'We are living a high spiritual life.' EVERY PAGE. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. ", I was staring into the face of Frederick von Mierers. I asked. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. They cannot raise the question . one's own. He no longer needed to suffer the dreadful slights that often beset ambitious and aging pretty boys. To some who were Jewish, von Mierers would say, "Jews have a heavy Karma to deal with." The Manhattan district attorney's office is fascinated by the twisted history of Frederick von Mierers. When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. In clips from these extremely 80s appearances, the former model shills mail-order cassettes and spouts new-age gibberish, his eyes getting impossibly larger and more urgent with each nonsense aphorism. Uproar ensued. Its like: I was a promising kid from a good (if somewhat screwed up) family. .. Frederick says that he realized 'even then' that Helen Williams had been his mother in several previous lifetimes, and they were almost inseparable. 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. Control is subtle. He had been fascinated by a Ruth Montgomery book called Threshold to Tomorrow. He would always say, 'You know how you are.' He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." A dozen of the group share apartments in von Mierers's building, at 405 East Fifty-fourth Street, where Noel Coward and Hermione Gingold once lived. But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. This is not phenomenalism and five-and-dimestore stupidities!" 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. . 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. When I stayed with him and his (friend) John, we would visit studio 54, dance-atria, and strawberries underground quite often and never paid for anything. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. "Vuitton is too Jewish. 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! Her mother next married a man who, Jacki says, was hostile to her and her sister. . One night, in a fit of insomnia, von Mierers thumbed through the book of Revelations. "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers told me. 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. So Freddie became a prophet, so what?" As the years passed, we re-located to North Carolina. Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." he raged at the young man, who scurried to obey him. . "Could you tell me what is spiritual about assaulting someone?" 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. Von Mierers was still local in 1983. By age eighteen she had been on the cover of British Vogue. If challenged about the Holocaust, von Mierers would repeat the most banal anti-Semitic propaganda: "The Holocaust has been exaggerated"; "Hitler was a misunderstood genius"; "Jews have to understand that their natures encourage pogroms. ' My relative attended only a few meetings of the group led by von Mierers, but he was intrigued by what he called von Mierers's "gem prescriptions." Look around. 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"He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. Arietta 31 in. "You'll never be a Ted Koppel unless you have manners!" Even though I earned most of the money that supported us, the leaders seemed to be growing more and more disdainful of me. "It is time to go big-time," Andreadis remembers von Mierers telling him a little later. There's no Lake Lure phone listing for Eternal Values or other names the group is known by - Unified Cosmogony or Ultimate Custom Interiors. There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. Other people stay at the house year-round, he said. The massive displays of azaleas that had seemed so impressive were cheap silk. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. Years ago, if he said he worked ten days on a modeling job, I knew that meant he worked two days! Von Mierers told anyone who asked that Andreadis had left the group because of an experience he had had with a black Marine. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. summers in Nantucket and falls in Oyster Bay. It is all very positive," the Houston lawyer Douglas Wyatt told me. Von Mierers had espoused the ways of his mysterious group ``Eternal Values' through mail-order cassettes, at a Park Avenue church and on talk shows, including a cable television show for which he was host. Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. 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. "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. It is through such negative thoughts that the dark forces work. Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. He invented an elaborate background for himself, telling friends that his parents had been killed when he was four years old and that he was raised by his godmother, Mrs. Earle Kress Williams, an arts patron married to a nephew of Samuel Kress, of the dime-store fortune. Only Hermes.". I don't know anything about this!" 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! In the beginning, von Mierers would tell them to avoid sex. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." 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. .From where do these thoughts arise? 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. . After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. And that is all I am going to say.". 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. You must write that I am the reincarnation of Jeremiah from the Old Testament. 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. He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. He would tell prospective buyers that he was able to get stones at a tremendous discount, which the inflated appraisal papers would confirm. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. He would say, 'This sapphire is $50,000, this emerald is $70,000.' Karr said he couldn't remember the name of one man he remembers meeting at the house. The group now has about fifty young professionals in "leadership training" roles. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. "That's $500,000 wholesale!" "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. Evan 37 in. No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! He described Frederick as "an internationally renowned Hindu astrologer and lecturer in the underlying unity between science and religion. Frederick insisted on cash. It was Christmas this past year at the Ford agency, and Eileen Ford was frantic. When youre 16 and going through a rebellious stage, having an adult who will talk to you like an adult really gets your attention. A pharaoh! We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. "Let me tell you something! 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. von Mierers told me. 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. "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. I like who I am now. His accent, already familiar to me from the many videotapes he had merchandised, was obviously inauthentic; I could hear traces of the grandees of the Hudson Valley, the sibilation of Blanche DuBois, and the clipped o's of Mayfair. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. 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. A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. David Seaman was a New York chiropractor. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. And when he complained to Frederick, von Mierers said to him, "You will die on the water! ' Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. They never saw that side in Lake Lure, however. "You will all be dead within ten years. From somewhere, I heard music which sounded like an organ on a Moog synthesizer. The girlfriend of a handsome young relative of mine called me in a state of panic. Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. One of the women, Erika Wilson, a model with the Ford agency who has appeared in Glamour and Self, had a bland, sweet expression and an allAmerican beauty. "What is that?" His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. Im making it. What a dummy I was. . $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. Often von Mierers would take a stem tone on the tapes. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. Andreadis dismisses this as pure invention. He kept elaborate ledger records, but he insisted on being paid in cash. From the mind, which is the ego. I hung out with Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell. "What could I do?" Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. Andreadis said. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. The ring had twelve of my own diamonds in it, and I was shocked when I learned that the whole ring was worth at most $15,000, because Frederick had told me that the stone was worth $23,000. I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. 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. At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. Beware.. .the path of the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. and 'You are a fucking, sick, evil, satanic piece of shit! In other words, he's not capitulating'. "I almost had a breakdown. 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. 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Please subscribe to keep reading. Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. A popular series called The Dark Forces sold as a complete set for twenty-five dollars. My mother was not that rich. The dark forces controlling this world are working not only through the obvious avenues of bombs, chemicals, and drugs but also through New Age spirituality. After Aliens Among Us came out, everyone wanted to come to dinner with us," a follower of von Mierers's named Monty Karp told me. I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. ``I have no complaints about them at all,' Karr told The Asheville Citizen. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. ", Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter both told me that they have never issued any kind of statement about von Mierers, and they did not call the police after Jacki Adams had told them her story. Frederick's been working like lightning. " One night in January, Andreadis conducted a seminar in the Park Avenue church. Although on the surface Eternal Values appears smalltime, former associates of von Mierers's speculate that so far he has sold close to $2 million worth of stones. "I have every gem under the sun! There were, additionally, an aspiring actor and several women who run von Mierers's business, a spiritual life-style and astrological organization called the Eternal Value's. Her relationship with Andreadis shielded her from the burgeoning sexual atmosphere of Eternal Values. And no one could control Frederick anymore. "Of course, he was never a spiritual person.". ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. 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. ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." Adams turned over the cash. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. Von Mierers began to talk about the great psychic Edgar Cayce and his gem prescriptions. She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. Montgomery had been so moved by Andreadis's letter that she felt compelled to consult the Guides. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. I bought an emerald. It is materialized, objectified thoughts. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. Like anyone suffering from Stockholm syndromewhere a hostage identifies with his captorsI had no ability to objectify my experience. After that things were pretty crazy. He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. How could I have been so gullible? 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. From the time he was twelve or thirteen years old, he had been interested in Hindu philosophy. Who Am I? Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. . They all had striking similarities; they were young, mostly in their twenties and early thirties, and quite good-looking, with taut, muscular bodies. For a time, he supported himself handily as a model. 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