Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. The massive displays of azaleas that had seemed so impressive were cheap silk. When they returned to New York, they told Eileen Ford's husband and Hunter what had happened to them. EVERY PAGE. At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. . "Look at these emeralds," he was telling me, stroking his gems. She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. 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. I thought there was the possibility for real violence. They're cheaper than you could get wholesale!' His followers gave him tens of thousands of dollars for rings to prove their faith. I am creating the greatest comedy on earth. I am the elite. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. The evil forces are everywhere.". 1913 TO TODAY. one exclaimed. Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". Im here. 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. EVERY PAGE. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. His maid did my laundry. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. A terrible man has been selling him gems! Still, they control ourmind. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. "I have a very large income, and I spend it helping children." His actual childhood remains a mystery. "No one is recruiting here!" "I decided not to let the moment pass," Adams told me, ''and I introduced myself to John.". . ``They pretty much stayed to themselves.'. Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. "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. The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. Von Mierers was still local in 1983. "He would cross-reference all these books, and then he began to order sapphires," Andreadis said. The weird thing was, in this crazy screwed up way, I believed they were right to punish me. ", Mind control inevitably follows a specific pattern. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. . The inner circle of Eternal Values calls itself "the group." 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. By age eighteen she had been on the cover of British Vogue. How could I have been duped like that for solong? East Side Alien: Frederick von Mierers, who claims he's from the star Arcturus. He was strewn with stones! There's no Lake Lure phone listing for Eternal Values or other names the group is known by - Unified Cosmogony or Ultimate Custom Interiors. 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. He told us to call him Freddy. . They are as candles in the dark to prevent you from falling into delusions," he said on one cassette. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. $587.00 / piece Size: 37in. The terrible earthquakes, the storms that will beset humanity! My mother was not that rich. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. Even today, years after Charles Manson and the Jonestown mass suicides, more than two thousand cults continue to operate in America. We were sitting in his apartment, an elaborately decorated aerie on East Fifty-fourth Street. 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. But when I got the ring, I could immediately tell they had switched the stones. Every movement was a tremendous effort. What's the harm?" I was in this weird catch-22. After a hard day's work, exhausted young models could be seen in the building spinning von Mierers's laundry and mopping halls. Von Mierers waited impatiently for the publication of Aliens Among Us. Life is vice. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. New York has always been a city of pretense, filled with mythomaniacs and con artists, most of them rank amateurs. . "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. "Hasn't it always been part of the reputation of the Ford modeling agency that you protect your young kids from being taken advantage of?" In my mind I was working him, kind of taking advantage of this guy and all his cool connections. It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' Sutherland 48 in. "No one is being kept here," he told me. There were a lot of drugs and greed in the air, but we considered ourselves people who were seeking a greater understanding of the universe. When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. . I asked. Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. So Freddie became a prophet, so what?" They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. The cult was called Eternal Values. I had come in to interview Ford and Joe Hunter about von Mierers. Now prosecutors in the office of the Manhattan district attorney are investigating the possibility that von Mierers was involved in a multimillion-dollar gem ring. ' 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.". For the narcissistic young, all the talk about their diet, spiritual mission, and ego was just another way they could spend time thinking about themselves. Nonnegotiable! "I told her, 'A young lady should have the best of everything.' 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. "I have just heard the wildest story from a makeup artist who works on many Ford models," she said. "Aren't they fabulous? Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. one's own. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. This is not phenomenalism and five-and-dimestore stupidities!" "I was represented by Ford," he told me. Conversations on Vivekananda, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hindu Vedas would stretch on till dawn. The whole time I was involved with Eternal Values, I was working pretty successfully as a model. I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. I looked over at the owner, Cipriani, and got the distinct impression he would have thrown him out if I hadn't been there. Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. We had a mission. 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. The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. He enlisted appraisers who worked on percentages of the stones they evaluated. 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. There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. Look around. 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. ". "These kids are legal age." $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. They speak in New Age jargon and talk of "highly evolved" personalities and "ego renunciation." "The gems are God's thoughts condensed.. .the gateways into this dimension for the ether waves.. .. He even let me drive one of his Porches. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. Frederick gave me spending cash. There are allegations that he, like the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, was able to persuade his followers to sign over their paychecks, houses, even furniture, to further his cause. A hydrogen-light body. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. 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. "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. Deputies in Davidson County rushed to help a 69-year-old man they'd found unresponsive in his house following a welfare check. When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. ", 'You must write that I am from the star Arcturus. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Ha, that seems so simple when you say it. The fairy tales of this dimension! 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. By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. Studio Design Collection. He lived in this awesome apartment and had all these young, intelligent and wealthy followers. Von Mierers would invite his more attractive and richer clients to his apartment. There was a big Vanity Fair expos at one point . How could I have been so stupid? Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. Her office was filled with poinsettias; she wore layers of red wool and plaid Christmas stockings. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the 'world's first male supermodel,' pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. 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 think you have found some young, impressionable people who are on a quest for spiritual, moral values." By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. It's a drop in the bucket.' ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. 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. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. 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. That's $3 million. The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. Like so many cult leaders, he appealed to his followers vanity, telling them that they were special enough to literally save the world. You're a model! Were all in one kind of cult or another. Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. . The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. "I have every gem under the sun! 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. .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. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! New members of the group, such as a model who had met John Hoyt on a photo shoot, were gradually told about the sexualinitiation practices, including the multiracial sex rite which members called "the treatment." And no one could control Frederick anymore. They all came with bogus appraisals. The life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. 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 was the most powerful political columnist in America," she told me. That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. ", I was staring into the face of Frederick von Mierers. My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. "We must spread our message to help humanity." I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. 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. That's what I've found about this planet. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. He looked at her emeralds and told her they were junk. Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. It is all very positive," the Houston lawyer Douglas Wyatt told me. I worked with photographers like Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. Write to her and tell her to write about aliens next." There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." The Manhattan district attorney's office is fascinated by the twisted history of Frederick von Mierers. I could write three books about him. "That's $500,000 wholesale!" You have to cut the ties to your family! He would always say, 'You know how you are.' Kathleen Turner and her. 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. ' To me, I was in a special group on an important mission; I believed I was one of the Chosen who would lead the Earth into a new era of peace and prosperity. At its peak, there were perhaps one hundred active members. 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. Splintered family relationships of the type familiar to anyone who has had experience with cults. He knew what was at stake. 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. She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. "My first impression was that he was a crazy. Instead, they sent the body to Chapel Hill for autopsy by the state medical examiner. Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. .. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. Group members began to yell at Adams and Andreadis that they were "satanic." von Mierers would tell them. I just took that checkbook to the lawyer and told him, 'Do you know what this guy has been doing?' 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. I have rubies and sapphires! ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. 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. ``You can't miss it,' he advises lake visitors curious about the house. . The former V.F. summers in Nantucket and falls in Oyster Bay. We are here to warn you! I thought, This is a holy place." 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. Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. "Frederick has helped so many people. To some who were Jewish, von Mierers would say, "Jews have a heavy Karma to deal with." 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. Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. "He kept saying, 'John is not working hard enough producing the tapes.' You realize its kind of happening to everyone in a way. Your parents have been horrible for you. 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! Studio Design Collection. Just a few things that come to mind, working from memory of course. Parrots sat on his shoulders. They are, in the main, blessed with ample salaries from good jobs. "This is a holy place.". They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. "It is the beyond," he answered. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. "I almost had a breakdown. "He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. Over the years, I spent more than $150,000 on gems. Even though I earned most of the money that supported us, the leaders seemed to be growing more and more disdainful of me. So what was the harm? What a dummy I was. When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". 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. He and his friends would go to Freddys parties for the free beer; for a moment, at least, Hoyt was using him. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. Fritz Diekmann, the TV executive, yelled out, "Stop bullshitting everyone." It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. That is the crux of the recovery process. You will survive the storms and be the leaders of the millennium." "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." Part of many life readings was a "gem prescription." I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. Freddy did astrological charts and life readings. The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. .Frederick was hitting him in the faceabout fifty times!smashing his head against the floor and everything. What came out of John was just a hatred of Frederick instead of a complete submission, which indicates humility on the part of the soul. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? "By fourth grade I just buried myself in books," she told me. "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. He told his friends and Ruth Montgomery that Mrs. Williams had left him "millions and millions of dollars," an income of $150,000 a year, adjusted for inflation. "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. he would say. 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