The terrible earthquakes, the storms that will beset humanity! Other people stay at the house year-round, he said. "These are the light lasers! Black Vanity with Carrara Marble Top. von Mierers told Jacki Adams, the Ford model who had come to see me, on one cassette. Every movement was a tremendous effort. When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. I just took that checkbook to the lawyer and told him, 'Do you know what this guy has been doing?' "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. Frederick would bring out the coral and the lapis and he would light up like a Christmas tree. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. Adams turned over the cash. Bey told him, "You know what I really think? .gemstones.". When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. Perhaps as a way of breaking free, Andreadis and Adams married in November. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. "I was the most powerful political columnist in America," she told me. "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. ''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.". You have permission to edit this article. I hated myself beyond loathing. "I felt as if I were in a world apart," one said. You can cancel at any time. "Frederick was only trying to help him." von Mierers told me. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. Karr visited the house occasionally, until the ``no trespassing' signs went up several months ago. Then the nationally syndicated TV show ``Inside Edition' and numerous tabloids featured stories on the enigmatic leader. Why don't we call ourselves Eternal Values? Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. He screamed at me, attacked my character, and told me I was being irresponsible and that the ring would fix all that.". The only thing that mattered was loyalty to the group." The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. ", 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. "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers told me. He described Frederick as "an internationally renowned Hindu astrologer and lecturer in the underlying unity between science and religion. "Don't ever carry a Vuitton bag!" "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." Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. He knew what was at stake. Montgomery had been so moved by Andreadis's letter that she felt compelled to consult the Guides. Studio Design Collection. A terrible man has been selling him gems! 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. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? Sometimes I would have to go out to the end of the dock and do 15 belly flops as a form of self-punishment because supposedly Id been a dickhead that day. ' One cassette was sent all over the country. The group now has about fifty young professionals in "leadership training" roles. The inner circle of Eternal Values calls itself "the group." 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. Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. He put me up in his house for almost 18 months. I am creating the greatest comedy on earth. EVERY PAGE. In 1977, Helen Williams was in a car crash and had a stroke, which left her unable to speak. My mother was not that rich. "Jews have been evil since the beginning of time. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. The stones were all set in similar simple heavy gold settings. Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. Look around. One night, in a fit of insomnia, von Mierers thumbed through the book of Revelations. 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! How could I have been duped like that for solong? Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. Andreadis often did ten astrology charts a week for von Mierers. 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. The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. . Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. From the time he was twelve or thirteen years old, he had been interested in Hindu philosophy. "I come from a very rich family," he once told a TV interviewer. And that is all I am going to say.". At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. .. ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." 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. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." "I have just heard the wildest story from a makeup artist who works on many Ford models," she said. . Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. von Mierers would tell them. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. Scarlet and turquoise feathers drifted by. After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. " When Douglas Wyatt was introduced to Eternal Values, Andreadis claims von Mierers told him, "Be nice to him. "I was making over $300,000 a year," she said. "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. "How could an obvious phony like this convince so many smart, attractive young people in New York that he was for real?" Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. "I have every gem under the sun! "Frederick got me an apartment in the building. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. a city detective recently asked a Ford model who had fled from the group. 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. Von Mierers believed in impending doomthat he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings, an intergalactic team of emergency responders. What a dummy I was. "Pick that up right now!" There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. The former V.F. Only the elite will be saved. 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. John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. What's the harm?" Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. "This is a holy place.". 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. . "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. ``You can't miss it,' he advises lake visitors curious about the house. Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. Rich kids with troubled psyches took themselves off to Tibet to see the Dalai Lama or invited plump Indian swamis to move in. He told us to call him Freddy. No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. I looked over at the owner, Cipriani, and got the distinct impression he would have thrown him out if I hadn't been there. 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. "I had read everything. He and his friends would go to Freddys parties for the free beer; for a moment, at least, Hoyt was using him. Conversations on Vivekananda, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hindu Vedas would stretch on till dawn. Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! $587.00 / piece Size: 37in. They cannot raise the question . After that things were pretty crazy. We would party, go to Studio 54 and crash at his apartment. . I can help you to transcend.' The cult was called Eternal Values. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. 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. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. 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. "Freddie used to tell us all in those days that he had spent $20,000 to decorate it, which was a tremendous amount then!". 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. You have to cut the ties to your family! Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. I don't think that is a spiritual pursuit," Andreadis says he once told von Mierers. Man died Wednesday. They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. They are as candles in the dark to prevent you from falling into delusions," he said on one cassette. You must now break through the wretched values that you learned in the next reincarnations in France and England!" The house was on a lake. 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 say, 'This sapphire is $50,000, this emerald is $70,000.' Group members began to yell at Adams and Andreadis that they were "satanic." 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He was a scrambling pretty boy who lived life on the edge. "Vuitton is too Jewish. 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. Nobody forced me or twisted my arm to waste 20 years of my life. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' For a time, he supported himself handily as a model. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. 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. As the years passed, we re-located to North Carolina. They're cheap! We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. To this day I owe him everything. Of course, some conditions are more extreme than others. In those days, he would hold seminars for hundreds of people at a church on Park Avenue or at a downtown school. .. Frederick says that he realized 'even then' that Helen Williams had been his mother in several previous lifetimes, and they were almost inseparable. 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. He swept into the room and said, 'I come from Arcturus. We were sitting in his apartment, an elaborately decorated aerie on East Fifty-fourth Street. The gem and its harmonic vibrations are in harmony with your body. 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(''Only a clear understanding of how the Evil Forces work will enable people to make it through the precarious times that lie ahead. Vanity Includes Mirror. Ive also tried to deal with some of the deep-seated family issues that may have made me a bit more susceptible to joining a cult than someone else. Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. 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. Many people were convinced that the world was going to end in A.D. 999, 1013, 1844, and 1914, and the year 2000 has always kept the prophets in an uproar. In a new documentary, Welcome to the Beyond, Hoyt recalls his introduction to the cult leader who would alter the course of his life. You realize it didnt happen to me because Im especially flawed or have some defect. We were on earth to help people. They're cheaper than you could get wholesale!' These looked pretty good. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. I could write three books about him. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. CURRENT ACTIVITY: Being admired in Mondo Uomo, the Italian men's magazine, which has devoted 58 pages to him in its November/December issue. Eternal Values is unusual in that many of its young devotees have a lot of cash to spend on von Mierers's healing gems. After consulting with "the Guides," Montgomery explained gravely to her readers, she had decided that von Mierers's account of his past lives was correct. Life is vice. 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. At fifteen, she was discovered by a photographer who sent pictures of her to Eileen Ford. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. 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. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. 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. . Send it to The Daily Beasthere. '. While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. He could no longer walk; a Lucite cane rested by his side. 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. Kathleen Turner and her. The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. ", 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. "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. There is no punctuation in it.' "These kids are legal age." One client tried to force me to hire him. We were free to come and go. He also sold gems to his followers, a practice he said hed adopted from a Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious stones. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. "Do you understand? I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. A year later, as a highschool senior, he ran into Frederick again. 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. Your parents have been horrible for you. Deputies in Davidson County rushed to help a 69-year-old man they'd found unresponsive in his house following a welfare check. Who neededmoney? We talked a lot about becoming highly evolved personalities. We did a lot of ego renunciation. Freddy talked a lot about the coming apocalypse, which made the need for personal wealth and relationships unnecessary. "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' .immaculate dresser. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." Uproar ensued. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." staffer, who was conned out of $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, questions Netflix's decision to pay the proven criminal more than . By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. "I have a very large income, and I spend it helping children." Later, Hoyt went to Princeton and became a member of Cap and Gown. I thought, This is a holy place." Frederick would talk about their mission and explain the need to eat grains and vegetables; he would place them on rigorous diets, which involved an elaborate system of eating known as food-combining. ", Mind control inevitably follows a specific pattern. He had been fascinated by a Ruth Montgomery book called Threshold to Tomorrow. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. John Richards Hoyt was 16 when the 30-something Von Mierers approached him at the beach. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. "What could I do?" Jeremiah will take over your body.' She seemed to have abdicated all responsibility, resigned to the vulnerabilities of young beauties who often come from troubled homes. Go deeper. Studio Design Collection. 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! I was the living symbol of their hypocrisy. For that offense they shaved my head. Evan 37 in. Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. "It is not working! Members have included well-known models from the Ford agency, such as Jacki Adams, John Hoyt, and Susan Bearden; an honors graduate of Princeton named Catherine Edelmann; a West Coast money manager; Harvard alumni; Fritz Diekmann, a TV executive; Tracey Miller, a Florida model; an officer of Marine Midland Bank; and Douglas Wyatt, a Houston lawyer whose mother, Lynn, is the famous blonde socialite married to Oscar Wyatt, the head of an oil-and-gas empire. In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. Amelia and Becky are friends, but they are nothing alike. "You will all be dead within ten years. We all know its not. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". I worked with photographers like Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. von Mierers insisted. 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'll never be a Ted Koppel unless you have manners!" 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." "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. 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. Every few moments, the birds spread their wings. In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. A popular series called The Dark Forces sold as a complete set for twenty-five dollars. East Side Alien: Frederick von Mierers, who claims he's from the star Arcturus. Andreadis said. Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. "I ran into her on an airplane," a close friend of hers told me. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. I am the elite. This guy is raking in millions! Flanked by Catherine Edelmann and John Hoyt, von Mierers pointed his finger and spoke sharply to his host, Richard Bey. 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.") John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' 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. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. one's own. A cult is sort of like that same relationshiponcrack. No matter what I did, I couldnt seem to measure up. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. A few people in the room were buzzing about her: Who is that beautiful woman? I am only interested in archduchesses and lords! When I called Ruth Montgomery to discuss von Mierers with her, she was defensive and refused to speak for attribution. 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. ". Do you see the ego there? Close to sixty people attended. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. Like so many cult leaders, he appealed to his followers vanity, telling them that they were special enough to literally save the world. Eileen Ford told me. At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. 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. "No one is recruiting here!" It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. Over the years, I spent more than $150,000 on gems. Like anyone suffering from Stockholm syndromewhere a hostage identifies with his captorsI had no ability to objectify my experience. My career is on the line! 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. "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." .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. I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". 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. 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. Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. 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. She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. 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.