Williams, who was later the executor of his mother's will and had her power of attorney, changed the locks on his mother's apartment and told the doorman never to let von Mierers up again. When I called Ruth Montgomery to discuss von Mierers with her, she was defensive and refused to speak for attribution. (''Only a clear understanding of how the Evil Forces work will enable people to make it through the precarious times that lie ahead. Like best-selling author Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation), who details his visitations from space people, Montgomery seems completely in the thrall of her vision. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. At night he held court and gave his friends cleaning chores to help them to work on their inflated egos. And that is all I am going to say.". How could I have been so gullible? "No one is being kept here," he told me. Even though I earned most of the money that supported us, the leaders seemed to be growing more and more disdainful of me. 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.'' I thought, God! I got suspicious when he demanded cash, but the group members said, 'This is what we've done.' "He just understands everything about us." Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. 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. It is materialized, objectified thoughts. Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. The gem and its harmonic vibrations are in harmony with your body. 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"). Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. Everyone I am training for leadership will have perfect features. Next, in the guise of psychic and oracle, von Mierers would tell his new friends how unhappy their lives really werea fairly safe assumption to make about young people seeking a psychic. "He's harmless," Hunter told me. After that things were pretty crazy. Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. . Montgomery had been so moved by Andreadis's letter that she felt compelled to consult the Guides. They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") "Her eyes were blank, emotionally blank. As I came and went to work, I was often accused of being resistant to our rules and way of life. I had come in to interview Ford and Joe Hunter about von Mierers. . Von Mierers gave me an appraisal from a West Forty-seventh Street jeweler who said the ring was worth $58,000. Every movement was a tremendous effort. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. "Everyone fancied him," a friend told me. A few days later I called him and said, 'I don't want the ring!' "It is possible to raise the vibration of your consciousness through the. There, in 1978, he met a sixteen-year-old named John Hoyt. And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. "Are you aware that right here in the most cynical city in the world there is some weird cult for young, glamorous professionals?" "He saves them from their egos. 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. You are guilty of ego!" 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. Since then, he has acted and started his own film and TV production company, Tortoise. "These are the light lasers! I don't think that is a spiritual pursuit," Andreadis says he once told von Mierers. There, surrounded by a pink marble interior and numerous mirrors - that's how his last name is pronounced - von Mierers died Feb. 4 at the age of 43. When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. von Mierers would tell them. Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." Her mother next married a man who, Jacki says, was hostile to her and her sister. ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. In the beginning, von Mierers would tell them to avoid sex. "Let me tell you something! He kept elaborate ledger records, but he insisted on being paid in cash. He and his friends would go to Freddys parties for the free beer; for a moment, at least, Hoyt was using him. he raged at the young man, who scurried to obey him. Please subscribe to keep reading. To this day I owe him everything. "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. That's what I've found about this planet. Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. Conversations on Vivekananda, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hindu Vedas would stretch on till dawn. 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. We had a mission. When youre 16 and going through a rebellious stage, having an adult who will talk to you like an adult really gets your attention. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. First, the mental seduction, the flattery Moonies call "love bombing." I knew that I had come from Arcturus. Studio Design Collection. 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. Find out who is the source at the source of the I thought, who is the author of the / thought? you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! I think you have found some young, impressionable people who are on a quest for spiritual, moral values." "I was making over $300,000 a year," she said. Like anyone suffering from Stockholm syndromewhere a hostage identifies with his captorsI had no ability to objectify my experience. He became, he said, deeply depressed, "disenchanted with the world, and wanting out.". EVERY PAGE. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. "I was so highly evolved," he told me. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' Helen Kress Williams's will, filed in Manhattan in 1981, did not mention Frederick von Mierers. 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. Andreadis dismisses this as pure invention. She retreated from her friends and family, and even her booker at Ford noticed something was wrong. I asked. What's the big deal? . 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. "I come from a very rich family," he once told a TV interviewer. "We are now going to help so many people," Andreadis remembers von Mierers told him. And no one could control Frederick anymore. Splintered family relationships of the type familiar to anyone who has had experience with cults. "He was always accusing me of ego, as if that were a bad thing! When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. RAP-B-238U 1'' Ball Composite Ram Mount Diamond Base Plate 2.43"x131" AMPS Hole, Legion 5 Pro 16" Gaming Laptop QHD 165Hz R9-6900HX 16GB RAM 1TB SSD RTX 3070 Ti, Samsung Galaxy Active 2 R825U Smartwatch 44mm Bluetooth GPS & LTE - Very Good, Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14" FHD Laptop Intel Core i7-1165G7 8GB RAM 512GB SSD, Citizen Eco-Drive Women's Rose-Gold Accent Mesh Bracelet 34mm Watch FE6081-51A, Intel Core i9-13900KF Unlocked Desktop Processor - 24 Cores (8P+16E) & 32 Thread, DEWALT DCCS620B 20V MAX Cordless Li-Ion 12 in. 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. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. "Interior decorator 28 years old . John Richards Hoyt was 16 when the 30-something Von Mierers approached him at the beach. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. He demanded $20,000 in cash or money orders immediately." And when he complained to Frederick, von Mierers said to him, "You will die on the water! ' People don't even know themselves, do they? They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. In Welcome to the Beyond, which premiered at Doc NYC on Tuesday, director Brent Huff deep-dives into Hoyts double life. ' One cassette was sent all over the country. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. "The root of all thought is the I thought," he might say while lecturing opaquely on his views of Eastern philosophy. Von Mierers seemed to be disintegrating, and according to several former acolytes, increasing quantities of hallucinogens were being consumed by certain members of the group. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. Adams was at first taken in by von Mierers's techniques. "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. ``I have no complaints about them at all,' Karr told The Asheville Citizen. Hoyt is a big, big money-maker.". Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. I am the chosen one. His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. Sapphires and emeralds gleamed from their fingers and wrists. Behind him were a golden Buddha and a massive display of pink azaleas and lilies that seemed to take up an entire wall. Close to sixty people attended. Fabulous emeralds. "Frederick immediately saw that we needed an organization, merchandise, a name!" Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. Karr said he couldn't remember the name of one man he remembers meeting at the house. "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. Mostly it was menial jobsdoing dishes and laundry, scrubbing toilets, doing vacuum packing. . 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 was in this weird catch-22. As the leader of the group Eternal Values, it was Von Mierers responsibility to find the others, and teach them about their true origins and noble calling. Devastated by illness, he twisted on his tiny lavender slipper-chair perch and clapped his hands for one of his followers to open his bedroom vault. They could help you. Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. I am not for the masses. ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. 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. East Side Alien: Frederick von Mierers, who claims he's from the star Arcturus. 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. He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. ''Every other check was made out to Freddie von Mierers. I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. 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.") At first glance, the flowers appeared real. Von Mierers, however, did make Gentlemen's Quarterly. Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. . staffer, who was conned out of $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, questions Netflix's decision to pay the proven criminal more than . Im a textbook cultvictim.. "It made me cry," she said. With an entire group of new friends who looked up to him as a spiritual guide, he could reject social New York as it had once rejected him. 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. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". . von Mierers told me. I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. "When I owned a modeling agency, Freddie was always around. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. He seemed to enjoy titillating the group with talk of "chocolate lords." "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. $699.99 / piece Size: 31in. He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. He no longer needed to suffer the dreadful slights that often beset ambitious and aging pretty boys. Don't hit me!' 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. 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." A Wall Street banker designed the computer system that charted the planets for von Mierers's readings; a Brooklyn woman kept his books. . and that was the end of that.". Her relationship with Andreadis shielded her from the burgeoning sexual atmosphere of Eternal Values. Frederick gave me spending cash. Sutherland 48 in. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. 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. 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. But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. It bears the signature of Unified Cosmogony's then-president, New York City TV producer Fritz Diekmann, who is featured in the 14-page Vanity Fair spread. '. The whole time I was involved with Eternal Values, I was working pretty successfully as a model. In other words, he's not capitulating'. 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. Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. He is making tapes for him that are anti-Semitic and anti-women! He described Frederick as "an internationally renowned Hindu astrologer and lecturer in the underlying unity between science and religion. It was Christmas this past year at the Ford agency, and Eileen Ford was frantic. I thought, This is crazy.". Lacking a sense of the past, the group is bound together by its loyalty to von Mierers and its belief in a dark futurethe possible triage resulting from the greenhouse effect, the shifting of the earth's poles, the melting ice caps. 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. "He would cross-reference all these books, and then he began to order sapphires," Andreadis said. We are sincere! Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. 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. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." ". " One night in January, Andreadis conducted a seminar in the Park Avenue church. We were free to come and go. "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." Eileen Ford then told me about another group operating in her agency, a cluster of bornagain Christians called Models for God. We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. I have rubies and sapphires! Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. By the late 1960s, he had shed his accent and become an energetic walker who trafficked in gossip and his Rolodex. We were sitting in his apartment, an elaborately decorated aerie on East Fifty-fourth Street. In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' ", Mind control inevitably follows a specific pattern. They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. She seemed to have abdicated all responsibility, resigned to the vulnerabilities of young beauties who often come from troubled homes. "You see how terrible your families are?" von Mierers scolded. They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. Arietta 31 in. There was a big Vanity Fair expos at one point . von Mierers told a TV talkshow host named Richard Bey in 1988 to characterize the followers he had with him on the show. ", 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. von Mierers insisted. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. Nonnegotiable! The gems, he would say, are for ''special people, only the elite." "No one is recruiting here! "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." We are not a cult.". "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. vanity fair: [noun] a scene or place characterized by frivolity and ostentation. No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. Control of diet was an important first step. Black Vanity with Carrara Marble Top. 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. Amelia and Becky are friends, but they are nothing alike. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. .. protege of Billy Baldwin.. . . Why don't we call ourselves Eternal Values? . Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. That's $3 million. I was appalled by Frederick. As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Nebraska cheerleader competes by herself at state competition, but crowd doesn't let her feel alone. "Don't become a cock worshiper! 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. Andreadis said. 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. In 1979, Andreadis was a private-school boy from a rich New York family; his father invented Man-Tan. For that offense they shaved my head. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. . Jesus, Rama, Krishna, Buddha did not come to promise you another piece of ass. "We must spread our message to help humanity." Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. "We were like one entire family. 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. Still, they control ourmind. All this pale-blue lacquer. 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. He said, 'These gems will help you! . His maid did my laundry. Fritz Diekmann, the TV executive, yelled out, "Stop bullshitting everyone." summers in Nantucket and falls in Oyster Bay. "He was never a good model," Eileen Ford recently told me. 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. "Handle them carefully," one of the young men said to me. We spoke what youd call New Age jargon. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." . Man died Wednesday. Andreadis often did ten astrology charts a week for von Mierers. I could give these kids almost a Harvard course in metaphysics." Control is subtle. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. I like who I am now. Some are more abusive. I can get you these gems at cost!' Pressed about other people who claimed he had cheated them, he said, "These are jealous, sick, twisted people. We thought the end was at hand. In my mind I was working him, kind of taking advantage of this guy and all his cool connections. She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. In 1992, the Italian mens magazine Mondo Uomo did a 58 page spread onme. ''. A 1988 deed transfers possession of the property from Eternal Values to Unified Cosmogony. 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. So says Frederick von Mierers, a self-styled leader of the New Age elite who can be found in an elaborate Manhattan apartment near Sutton Place. Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. " Sexually involved by then with Andreadis, Adams bought an emerald, a ruby, a topaz, and a cat's-eye; she took out a loan of $15,000 to start with, and paid an additional $24,000 to fix up her apartment. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! one's own. Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. "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." 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