Only the elite will be saved. Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. ", 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. Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. "I went to one weekend seminar," a businesswoman named Christina Andrews told me. He swept into the room and said, 'I come from Arcturus. It is materialized, objectified thoughts. 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. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. The message was simple: Adams and Andreadis were evil; their egos would have to be ' 'destroyed. ' He no longer needed to suffer the dreadful slights that often beset ambitious and aging pretty boys. At night he held court and gave his friends cleaning chores to help them to work on their inflated egos. At times, his anti-Semitic remarks were almost comical. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. 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! 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.'' New York has always been a city of pretense, filled with mythomaniacs and con artists, most of them rank amateurs. He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. he raged at the young man, who scurried to obey him. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. Even though I earned most of the money that supported us, the leaders seemed to be growing more and more disdainful of me. Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." 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. Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. The leader was a man named Frederick Von Mierers. But there is no way Freddie got rich on the Ford models that are his followers! I looked at them in a loupe. "I thought I was in love with Jacki," he told me. No mother, no father, no brother, no sister. . 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. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. They bought his pitchand the gems he said would make them New Age lords and duchesses. She seemed to have abdicated all responsibility, resigned to the vulnerabilities of young beauties who often come from troubled homes. "Think about the white light and the violet light!" He had sold thousands of cassettes with titles such as Space People, Karma and Destiny, and Gems and Crystals. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. Frederick insisted on cash. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. Black Vanity with Carrara Marble Top. "I have a very large income, and I spend it helping children." By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. Parrots sat on his shoulders. . "They eat such unhealthy food." The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers 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. Vanity Fair Summary. 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. Only Hermes.". He knew what was at stake. There wasn't much around the Lake Lure home of Frederick von Mierers to indicate a fast-paced lifestyle and the idea that he was a prophet from the star Arcturus. I was appalled by Frederick. Im making it. 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. ". No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. No matter what I did, I couldnt seem to measure up. They're cheap! I never did. I believe in the master race!". "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." "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 he stared at the TV audience, his face appeared to have cheek implants, capped teeth, and freshly pulled skin. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. It is true that our space brothers and sisters have arrived. That's $3 million. ", 'You must write that I am from the star Arcturus. All this pale-blue lacquer. Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. 1913 TO TODAY. I was sobbing. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. "All the people here went to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton!'' I am the elite. When he had them appraised privately, he learned that this was not the case. "That's $500,000 wholesale!" "You will all be dead within ten years. 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." We would party, go to Studio 54 and crash at his apartment. von Mierers insisted. 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. 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 worked with photographers like Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. The gem operation was confined to New York, although von Mierers also used jewelers in Washington, D.C., and Iowa to obtain stones. Fritz Diekmann, the TV executive, yelled out, "Stop bullshitting everyone." Pulsating ionization machines cleansed the air, and billowing clouds were painted on the walls. We were free to come and go. ' This last year, in the early fall, I received another call, this time from a close friend. "There was something endearing and maybe a little sinister about that." "The root of all thought is the I thought," he might say while lecturing opaquely on his views of Eastern philosophy. From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. It is all very positive," the Houston lawyer Douglas Wyatt told me. "Oh, you duchesses and lords!" When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. In January 1988, on a television show called People Are Talking, he cried, "Americans, you are going into the most crucial period of earth history! 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. She once wrote a syndicated column called "Capital Letter," until, as she says, "Arthur Ford told me that I could do automatic writing." . Eternal Values was my reality. "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. 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. I can help you to transcend.' by such friends and clients as Babe Paley, Averell Harriman, and Cole Porter. "It was like being in a meeting of Nazi storm troopers," Hartwell told me. Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. "It is not working! " One night in January, Andreadis conducted a seminar in the Park Avenue church. Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. . And when he complained to Frederick, von Mierers said to him, "You will die on the water! ' He said he had come to Earth to warn people of an impending apocalypse, and to train his students to become leaders in the aftermath. Like so many cult leaders, he appealed to his followers vanity, telling them that they were special enough to literally save the world. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our. He's saying, 'Don't hit me!'.. "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! "I want her to write about me. In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. "All they ever talked about was money," Andreadis told me. The only thing that mattered was loyalty to the group." The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. 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. Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. Look around. "It is the beyond," he answered. 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. Its like: I was a promising kid from a good (if somewhat screwed up) family. 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. He used to tell friends that he went to the Professional Children's School, although there is no record of him there. He became, he said, deeply depressed, "disenchanted with the world, and wanting out.". "You see how terrible your families are?" A few people in the room were buzzing about her: Who is that beautiful woman? The life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. "No one is being kept here," he told me. By then he had given up modeling and taken up with Billy Baldwin, the dean of American decorators, called "Billy B." They can uplift you, mentally and spiritually. What is a famous model doing here? The novel opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young women, where readers are introduced to Amelia and Becky, the novel's female protagonists. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO. Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. 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. The former V.F. 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. "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' For that offense they shaved my head. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. I was like, Oh my God. After a hard day's work, exhausted young models could be seen in the building spinning von Mierers's laundry and mopping halls. 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"He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. ``You can't miss it,' he advises lake visitors curious about the house. "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! Since then, he has acted and started his own film and TV production company, Tortoise. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. 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. The fairy tales of this dimension! 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. 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. I am only interested in archduchesses and lords! He would tell prospective buyers that he was able to get stones at a tremendous discount, which the inflated appraisal papers would confirm. I gave them $28,000 in cash and traveler's checks. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. 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. Some are more abusive. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. I thought, This is crazy.". 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. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. What is the nature of this world?. $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. One time, toward the end, they said I was guilty of vanity because I supposedly looked in the mirror too much. Artist: Frederick Von Mierers, John Andreadis, & IasosTitle: The Eternal Values: Karma & DestinyLabel: The Eternal Values Corporation & Inter-Dimensional Mus. Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. I can get you these gems at cost!' Her mother next married a man who, Jacki says, was hostile to her and her sister. "Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". ''Cash would come in for the gems from all over the country," Andreadis told me. He put me up in his house for almost 18 months. Every movement was a tremendous effort. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. By the late 1960s, he had shed his accent and become an energetic walker who trafficked in gossip and his Rolodex. We thought the end was at hand. Adams turned over the cash. The inner circle of Eternal Values calls itself "the group." At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. You have such powers! He would always say, 'You know how you are.' Seaman was at the house when von Mierers died, Fritts said. I was in this weird catch-22. I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. One afternoon, I dont even remember what I was reading, but it just hit me like a thunderbolt. "He would cross-reference all these books, and then he began to order sapphires," Andreadis said. I thought, This is a holy place." "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. Please subscribe to keep reading. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. In Welcome to the Beyond, which premiered at Doc NYC on Tuesday, director Brent Huff deep-dives into Hoyts double life. 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. . The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. During the spiritual seminars in the Park Avenue church, ugly shouting would break out. 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. 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