Eternal Values was my reality. Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. At night he held court and gave his friends cleaning chores to help them to work on their inflated egos. Mr. Richards, shown above, organized and produced the . I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. Von Mierers would stare at the camera with his cold blue eyes and talk about Satan and "the dark forces." He was strewn with stones! You come in with nothing and you go out with nothing. Freddy did astrological charts and life readings. . Since then, he has acted and started his own film and TV production company, Tortoise. Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. 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. "My first impression was that he was a crazy. And when he complained to Frederick, von Mierers said to him, "You will die on the water! ' I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. 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 said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. Of course, some conditions are more extreme than others. Im here. To whom do these thoughts arise and whence do they come? 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 am creating the greatest comedy on earth. Oh. he advised one model. "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! What's the big deal? I looked over at the owner, Cipriani, and got the distinct impression he would have thrown him out if I hadn't been there. But there is no way Freddie got rich on the Ford models that are his followers! 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. I took the heaviest piece in my hand, a gold bracelet with what appeared to be lavender sapphires. In 1992, the Italian mens magazine Mondo Uomo did a 58 page spread onme. "We were so very close." "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. Then the nationally syndicated TV show ``Inside Edition' and numerous tabloids featured stories on the enigmatic leader. I said, 'Freddie, you can't put this out! It's a joke! Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. They're cheap! Andreadis said. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. In a series of visions I saw the coming wars, the destruction of New York City, my own mission, and the future of the earth." 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. "We must spread our message to help humanity." "How did Ruth Montgomery find out about you?" By now von Mierers had perfected his pitch. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. In 1977, Helen Williams was in a car crash and had a stroke, which left her unable to speak. "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' . "I come from a very rich family," he once told a TV interviewer. Cults have always attracted those with deficiency needsmissing pieces of psychological makeup that family, religion, or education did not supply. I spread them out under a lamp. They all came with bogus appraisals. I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. "Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. John Richards Hoyt was 16 when the 30-something Von Mierers approached him at the beach. 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. Freddys successors were even more extreme. Her relationship with Andreadis shielded her from the burgeoning sexual atmosphere of Eternal Values. 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. "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers told me. .. . Eternal Values is unusual in that many of its young devotees have a lot of cash to spend on von Mierers's healing gems. What's the harm?" The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. 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." 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. The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. A cult is sort of like that same relationshiponcrack. The life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. 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.") "You are fabulous! "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. Immediately! Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. Got a tip? As I came and went to work, I was often accused of being resistant to our rules and way of life. 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. I had no sleep, ever. "I thought John Andreadis was spiritual," she 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. He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. How could I have been so stupid? Natural Vanity with Engineered Marble Top. And Freddie just laughed." I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. EVERY PAGE. "He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. . "Frederick was only trying to help him." Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! As the years passed, we re-located to North Carolina. ''Every other check was made out to Freddie von Mierers. Something went wrong. Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. 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Write to her and tell her to write about aliens next." "He and I went way back together. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. 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. Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. . 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. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. Eileen Ford asked me. "These are the light lasers! 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. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. Jeremiah will take over your body.' "I thought I was in love with Jacki," he told me. The weird thing was, in this crazy screwed up way, I believed they were right to punish me. You're a model! 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. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. He is making tapes for him that are anti-Semitic and anti-women! Perhaps as a way of breaking free, Andreadis and Adams married in November. He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. She seemed to have abdicated all responsibility, resigned to the vulnerabilities of young beauties who often come from troubled homes. "This is a holy place.". By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. The leader was a man named Frederick Von Mierers. You see everything like it is. Frederick Von Mierers, a deeply tanned cult leader with a shocking crown of platinum blond hair, spoke to his followers through their television sets. 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.'' " 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. Other principals in the von Mierers' story are equally hard to reach. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. She was told that it was her duty "to lie, to cheat, to make up any story" to ensure von Mierers's security. I don't know anything about this!" 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. "What is that?" Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. 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. "Then it became something else. Pay the money or you're out.' He knew what was at stake. We thought the end was at hand. "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. . Often he would rage at his followers. And no one could control Frederick anymore. "I felt as if I were in a world apart," one said. you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. I believe in the master race!". The first time I tried to leave the group, I fled to New York. When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. I asked. I would come to New York, and soon Frederick showed me the stones. 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. At its peak, there were perhaps one hundred active members. When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. He had sold thousands of cassettes with titles such as Space People, Karma and Destiny, and Gems and Crystals. 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. Von Mierers, who believed in a master race, courted attractive young people. They never saw that side in Lake Lure, however. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. A hydrogen-light body. I could give these kids almost a Harvard course in metaphysics." We always used to kid about the old neighborhood. I have rubies and sapphires! Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. Montgomery had been so moved by Andreadis's letter that she felt compelled to consult the Guides. Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. 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. "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. He was a scrambling pretty boy who lived life on the edge. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. "He's harmless," Hunter told me. Go deeper. . I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. He told us about the personal tapes he would make for us that would cost $350, and he said he had eight thousand requests. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." I was all of seventeen years old." 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. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. von Mierers told me. In those days, he would hold seminars for hundreds of people at a church on Park Avenue or at a downtown school. Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. Did it matter? 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. "We were like one entire family. ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. "I have a very large income, and I spend it helping children." ``They were rather reclusive,' Police Chief Frank Fritts said. A few days later I called him and said, 'I don't want the ring!' von Mierers was recently asked. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." After a hard day's work, exhausted young models could be seen in the building spinning von Mierers's laundry and mopping halls. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the worlds first male supermodel, pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. You realize it didnt happen to me because Im especially flawed or have some defect. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. 1913 TO TODAY. 1913 TO TODAY. At fifteen, she was discovered by a photographer who sent pictures of her to Eileen Ford. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO. 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. 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. Group members began to yell at Adams and Andreadis that they were "satanic." He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." ". 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. . Later, in therapy, I would figure out I was repeating a pattern from my childhood. "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. The cult was called Eternal Values. The girlfriend of a handsome young relative of mine called me in a state of panic. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO - Page 2. From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. "There are people like the Warburgs and the Schiffs, who are acceptable, and then there are the others, like Allen Funt." Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. ", 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. Fabulous emeralds. In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. Helen Kress Williams's will, filed in Manhattan in 1981, did not mention Frederick von Mierers. However, word began to spread through the Upper East Side of New York that von Mierers had genuine psychic ability. "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. I like who I am now. "Freddie then went to a lawyer and threatened that he would sue me to get my power of attorney. It was sort of pathetic.". An endorsement by Ruth Montgomery would confirm everything he had told his young followers about his life. "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. Von Mierers, in the company of Helen Williams, began to study the teachings of the famous psychic Edgar Cayce and to learn astrology; he talked constantly of planetary aspects and charts at Doubles and Studio 54. Karr visited the house occasionally, until the ``no trespassing' signs went up several months ago. Always, he was immaculate; he combed his hair, which was dark then, straight back like an heir to Morgan Stanley. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. von Mierers would tell them. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. You have to cut the ties to your family! 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. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. That is the crux of the recovery process. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. His actual childhood remains a mystery. He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. Adams turned over the cash. "Frederick has helped so many people. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. 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. 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