Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. 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. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. 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. His friends even thought it was charmingly eccentric that Helen Williams, as rich as she was, always took the subway to meet him for their dates. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. "I ran into her on an airplane," a close friend of hers told me. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. David Seaman was a New York chiropractor. The gems, he would say, are for ''special people, only the elite." "We had a conversation about various things that had already occurred in my life, ' ' Hoyt told an interviewer. For years, Freddie Mierer, or Meyer, as he was reportedly known before he took on the name von Mierers, was like many people you meet in New York. . "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. "Let me tell you something! 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. My relative attended only a few meetings of the group led by von Mierers, but he was intrigued by what he called von Mierers's "gem prescriptions." There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. First, the mental seduction, the flattery Moonies call "love bombing." Im making it. Jeremiah will take over your body.' What is a famous model doing here? 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. One client tried to force me to hire him. Freddy did astrological charts and life readings. We thought the end was at hand. Only Hermes.". Meanwhile, after every job, people would be going off to parties at, like Madonnas, and I would fly back to my life in Eternal Values. My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. 1913 TO TODAY. He seemed to enjoy titillating the group with talk of "chocolate lords." The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. .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. You have such powers! It's a joke! He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." He chose to come back because of an urgent need to reach the young people who will be founding the new society after the shift of the earth on its axis.". And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. "Frederick was only trying to help him." The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. 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. ". Frederick had sophisticated his operation. I was in this weird catch-22. .immaculate dresser. I worked with photographers like Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. His maid did my laundry. Were all in one kind of cult or another. "Then it became something else. He's saying, 'Don't hit me!'.. 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. . The group now has about fifty young professionals in "leadership training" roles. "We were so very close." summers in Nantucket and falls in Oyster Bay. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' Hoyt Richards was dubbed the 'world's first male supermodel,' pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. Within months, hundreds and then thousands of letters were forwarded to von Mierers from Ruth Montgomery, Andreadis remembered. "It made me cry," she said. When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. "I almost had a breakdown. I would never have made it without the help of my old friend Fabio, the spokesmodel. From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. "Frederick encouraged us to lie, to cheat, to say anything to our families. When I wasnt in trouble, theyd call me Dippy, but generally I was just called Dipshit. "It is possible to raise the vibration of your consciousness through the. " When Douglas Wyatt was introduced to Eternal Values, Andreadis claims von Mierers told him, "Be nice to him. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. 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. Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. . Studio Design Collection. '. . 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. For that offense they shaved my head. .gemstones.". Still, they control ourmind. He told us to call him Freddy. . My nickname in the group was Dipshit. Kathleen Turner and her. I was sobbing. He would tell us, 'We are living a high spiritual life.' "He just understands everything about us." . "Think about the white light and the violet light!" Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. I'm going to smash the shit out of you!' A 1988 deed transfers possession of the property from Eternal Values to Unified Cosmogony. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. That's what I've found about this planet. I believe in the master race!". Pressed about other people who claimed he had cheated them, he said, "These are jealous, sick, twisted people. "Frederick got me an apartment in the building. His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. You have to cut the ties to your family! "By fourth grade I just buried myself in books," she told me. I called him in the middle of the night and he paid for a plane ticket to L.A. Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. " 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. View cart for details. In Aliens Among Us, Montgomery, a former journalist, devotes sixty pages to von Mierers and his persona as a citizen of Arcturus, as well as his astonishing psychic abilities. 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. Sapphires and emeralds gleamed from their fingers and wrists. As I came and went to work, I was often accused of being resistant to our rules and way of life. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. 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. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. We were on earth to help people. He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. ", Mind control inevitably follows a specific pattern. At fifteen, she was discovered by a photographer who sent pictures of her to Eileen Ford. Id hurt my shoulder playing football at Princeton; Id come to the city for a doctors appointment. "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. As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. ''. To whom do these thoughts arise and whence do they come? .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. Part of many life readings was a "gem prescription." It was impossible not to notice that von Mierers's friends all wore large gems. "Ruth Montgomery really created Frederick," one Ford model told me. Splintered family relationships of the type familiar to anyone who has had experience with cults. "These are the light lasers! We've had stones in our family for years. New York has always been a city of pretense, filled with mythomaniacs and con artists, most of them rank amateurs. . "He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. I thought, This is a holy place." She knew that she had no rational basis for feeling unhappy with her life; she was at the very pinnaclea Ford model, a classy beauty booked by Vogue, photographed by Irving Penn. "I felt as if I were in a world apart," one said. Do you see the ego there? 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. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. 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. In 1992, the Italian mens magazine Mondo Uomo did a 58 page spread onme. Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. Von Mierers gave me an appraisal from a West Forty-seventh Street jeweler who said the ring was worth $58,000. By now von Mierers had perfected his pitch. " Still, at the group dinners, Adams would hear von Mierers tell the women models, "You need to sit on a six-foot dildo in the middle of Park Avenue." His Manhattan number is unpublished, and there's no listing for him in Lake Lure. One apartment, 6E, was used as the office, and had desks with computer screens, shelves of merchandise, and files containing thousands of letters and orders for von Mierers's services. 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. Studio Design Collection. ". These looked pretty good. ``I think this place has been very quiet, and all the action was up in New York,' said Alex Karr, the mansion's only year-round neighbor and a member of the Lake Lure Town Council.But when von Mierers, devastated by AIDS, neared death, he left behind the frenetic pace of New York City and headed south to his group's $400,000, Xanadu-like home beside peaceful Lake Lure. 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 life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. Karr said he couldn't remember the name of one man he remembers meeting at the house. Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. "Why do you have to be a gem salesman? 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. Part of mind control has always been to make people believe they are in danger from the outside world. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. Montgomery's belief in von Mierers so overwhelmed him that he would read her chapters out loud again and again to his followers, as if to convince himself that they were true. "The root of all thought is the I thought," he might say while lecturing opaquely on his views of Eastern philosophy. "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. One tenant in the building had to stop a doorman from letting in a threateninglooking group of men on their way to 4N, von Mierers's apartment, at three A.M. "I said, 'Lock the doors! . These are the ones that I prescribe. . "Don't become a cock worshiper! Then the nationally syndicated TV show ``Inside Edition' and numerous tabloids featured stories on the enigmatic leader. His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. "Of course, he was never a spiritual person.". Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. For a time, he supported himself handily as a model. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' 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. "Don't ever carry a Vuitton bag!" It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. . "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! By then he had given up modeling and taken up with Billy Baldwin, the dean of American decorators, called "Billy B." While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. Man died Wednesday. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. "Vuitton is too Jewish. "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. 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. For that, you feel a sense of shame. By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. I am the chosen one. He said, 'These gems will help you! 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