Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. How could I have been so gullible? "Frederick encouraged us to lie, to cheat, to say anything to our families. Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. Eileen Ford asked me. 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. The message was simple: Adams and Andreadis were evil; their egos would have to be ' 'destroyed. ' " Adams, at her most psychologically fragile, agreed to do her time on "mail duties." When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO. . Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. 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. 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. I don't know anything about this!" "Frederick never trusted me," Adams told me. Did it matter? I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. What is the nature of this world?. These are the ones that I prescribe. They are as candles in the dark to prevent you from falling into delusions," he said on one cassette. My nickname in the group was Dipshit. No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. And we are they!" ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. summers in Nantucket and falls in Oyster Bay. "I was so highly evolved," he told me. Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. "You are fabulous! Always, he was immaculate; he combed his hair, which was dark then, straight back like an heir to Morgan Stanley. . "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. Von Mierers waited impatiently for the publication of Aliens Among Us. investigates von Mierers, MARIE BRENNER breaks the story. One weekend in the country, Adams says, von Mierers told her, " 'If you ever want to be around John again, you have to buy these stones.' Freddys successors were even more extreme. But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. . Writer Marie Brenner, who confirmed the now-dropped investigation by the . From the mind, which is the ego. Were they real? Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. That's what I've found about this planet. After that things were pretty crazy. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. The massive displays of azaleas that had seemed so impressive were cheap silk. ' 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.". My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. They cannot raise the question . I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. "I am a little bit afraid to go public with my story," she said, "but I believe it will help others. "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?" Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. Frederick Von Mierers, a deeply tanned cult leader with a shocking crown of platinum blond hair, spoke to his followers through their television sets. His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. Look around. Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. And that is all I am going to say.". "I felt as if I were in a world apart," one said. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. 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. "Pick that up right now!" Often he would rage at his followers. I hated myself beyond loathing. It was sort of pathetic.". She wrote in Aliens Among Us that the Guides responded, "John is from Arcturus. However, word began to spread through the Upper East Side of New York that von Mierers had genuine psychic ability. Adams turned over the cash. They're cheaper than you could get wholesale!' His hair was the color of canned pineapple; his eyes were hard, cold blue, the eyes of a man who finds little surprising anymore. He lived in this awesome apartment and had all these young, intelligent and wealthy followers. Von Mierers was still local in 1983. Parrots sat on his shoulders. one's own. They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. I spread them out under a lamp. . .. protege of Billy Baldwin.. . "Do you understand? Studio Design Collection. "We were so very close." It's a joke! I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. 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. He demanded $20,000 in cash or money orders immediately." He told me, 'Give me $9,000 cash to paint it. 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. .gemstones.". There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." He says he gave von Mierers $17,000 for a sapphire, a topaz, and a cat's-eye which von Mierers assured him he was getting for an astonishing bargain price, "way below wholesale." We were sitting in his apartment, an elaborately decorated aerie on East Fifty-fourth Street. You have to cut the ties to your family! . "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. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. Von Mierers ordered Adams to write a letter to Ruth Montgomery. He will buy everything for you." Please subscribe to keep reading. von Mierers told a TV talkshow host named Richard Bey in 1988 to characterize the followers he had with him on the show. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the worlds first male supermodel, pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. "It is time to go big-time," Andreadis remembers von Mierers telling him a little later. I asked. He seemed to enjoy titillating the group with talk of "chocolate lords." In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. A Wall Street banker designed the computer system that charted the planets for von Mierers's readings; a Brooklyn woman kept his books. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. someone asked. "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. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." Part of mind control has always been to make people believe they are in danger from the outside world. "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers told me. "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. I am not for the masses. Thats how twisted around you canbecome. The terrible earthquakes, the storms that will beset humanity! "Freddie used to tell us all in those days that he had spent $20,000 to decorate it, which was a tremendous amount then!". It was in January of 1978 that von Mierers appeared to make the bizarre mental journey that would cause him to affect so many young lives. "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. 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. . By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. "Let me tell you something! Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. "I had read everything. ' One cassette was sent all over the country. 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. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! He said, 'These gems will help you! He was strewn with stones! I work for a gemologist, and I told her to bring in the stones. Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. The building is owned by a part owner of the Apple Bank for Savings in New York, and although apartments in it are rented, von Mierers seems to control the leases on five of them, all of which I visited. It's real bottom-line. "Oh, you duchesses and lords!" Amelia and Becky are friends, but they are nothing alike. "There are people like the Warburgs and the Schiffs, who are acceptable, and then there are the others, like Allen Funt." The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. 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. A few days later I called him and said, 'I don't want the ring!' "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. Adams was at first taken in by von Mierers's techniques. "Everyone fancied him," a friend told me. "How did Ruth Montgomery find out about you?" Frederick's been working like lightning. "Could you tell me what is spiritual about assaulting someone?" Why don't we call ourselves Eternal Values? 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. How could I have been so stupid? One of the women, Erika Wilson, a model with the Ford agency who has appeared in Glamour and Self, had a bland, sweet expression and an allAmerican beauty. The gem operation was confined to New York, although von Mierers also used jewelers in Washington, D.C., and Iowa to obtain stones. .. . I just took that checkbook to the lawyer and told him, 'Do you know what this guy has been doing?' From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. I can help you to transcend.' The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. A terrible man has been selling him gems! 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. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. 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.". He is making tapes for him that are anti-Semitic and anti-women! "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." Even William Scranton III, the former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and son of the former governor William Scranton, once bought gems. Nonnegotiable! . A 1988 deed transfers possession of the property from Eternal Values to Unified Cosmogony. He told us to call him Freddy. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. (''Only a clear understanding of how the Evil Forces work will enable people to make it through the precarious times that lie ahead. Control is subtle. .. On a black January night just six days after American jets began bombing Iraq, Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr., the 66-year-old bad boy of the Texas oil and gas industry, faced more than 1,100 well-heeled . It is true that our space brothers and sisters have arrived. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. I was in this weird catch-22. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! 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. I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. 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. They're cheap! Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " 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.'' Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. ", When asked later about his reaction to the departure of Adams and Andreadis, von Mierers lapsed into a long silence and then, speaking with difficulty, said, "I don't know who such people are." Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. Then the nationally syndicated TV show ``Inside Edition' and numerous tabloids featured stories on the enigmatic leader. "You will all be dead within ten years. In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. She attended a seminar and saw "a young man who was so attractive I knew it had to be John Andreadis." In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. Other people stay at the house year-round, he said. von Mierers told me. They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") The gems, he would say, are for ''special people, only the elite." Andreadis's mother, Barbara, who owns a New York talent agency, began to worry. The evil forces are everywhere.". We were on earth to help people. ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. "All the people here went to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton!'' 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. It was the go-go 80s. John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. 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. Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. Hoyt Richards was one of the worlds biggest male supermodels in the 80s and 90s. Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. As the years passed, we re-located to North Carolina. Even today, years after Charles Manson and the Jonestown mass suicides, more than two thousand cults continue to operate in America. I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". Black Vanity with Carrara Marble Top. I always knew Freddie was a big talker and a fantasist. "We must spread our message to help humanity." One client tried to force me to hire him. 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. He and his friends would go to Freddys parties for the free beer; for a moment, at least, Hoyt was using him. You can cancel at any time. Splintered family relationships of the type familiar to anyone who has had experience with cults. I took the heaviest piece in my hand, a gold bracelet with what appeared to be lavender sapphires. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. One afternoon, I dont even remember what I was reading, but it just hit me like a thunderbolt. 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. There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. Vanity Includes Mirror. Von Mierers, like the leaders of the People's Temple, talked constantly of Satan's influence in the world, the dark forces, and viciously belittled the notion of family ties. "She left less than $400,000," Williams told me, With access to Mrs. Williams severed, von Mierers retreated more and more into his spiritual pursuits. John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. Uproar ensued. 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. As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." Who has also passed on to Andreadis, von Mierers 's friends and followers stared at us, as Mierers! 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