.gemstones.". He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. The massive displays of azaleas that had seemed so impressive were cheap silk. Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. She told me they had her do things! "How does Frederick know so much?" It was right at that time when models were becoming celebrities. . "Could you tell me what is spiritual about assaulting someone?" 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." You are guilty of ego!" 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 want her to write about me. The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. However, word began to spread through the Upper East Side of New York that von Mierers had genuine psychic ability. Freddys successors were even more extreme. When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. He's saying, 'Don't hit me!'.. Please subscribe to keep reading. von Mierers would tell them. . Eileen Ford then told me about another group operating in her agency, a cluster of bornagain Christians called Models for God. 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 those days, he would hold seminars for hundreds of people at a church on Park Avenue or at a downtown school. The leader was a man named Frederick Von Mierers. My career is on the line! 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. .. . By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. I never did. . 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. 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. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. Only the elite will be saved. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. Later, in therapy, I would figure out I was repeating a pattern from my childhood. "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. 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." Nostradamus said 2000 would be a time of tremendous upheaval; the Hopi Indians and the Mayans saw it as the end of our world; Jeane Dixon has weighed in with her vision of a future evil Antichrist; and an avatar of "Maitreya the Christ" presides incognito as a Pakistani in London. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. "You see how terrible your families are?" As he stared at the TV audience, his face appeared to have cheek implants, capped teeth, and freshly pulled skin. Who knows? "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. (''Only a clear understanding of how the Evil Forces work will enable people to make it through the precarious times that lie ahead. You have to do all the therapy and the research. From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. We are sincere! He no longer needed to suffer the dreadful slights that often beset ambitious and aging pretty boys. He told us to call him Freddy. "I decided not to let the moment pass," Adams told me, ''and I introduced myself to John.". "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. Von Mierers would often warn his New Age leaders to beware of Jews. It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. ' 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.". Von Mierers seems to have been aided in his gem operation by several New York jewelry appraisers, who were gifted fantasists when it came to evaluating the Eternal Values stones. 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. "How did Ruth Montgomery find out about you?" A lot of it I think has to do with learning to find acceptance within yourself, and not relying on others for your self esteem. "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. " 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. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. Everyone I am training for leadership will have perfect features. Do you see the ego there? He had been fascinated by a Ruth Montgomery book called Threshold to Tomorrow. Von Mierers told anyone who asked that Andreadis had left the group because of an experience he had had with a black Marine. The gem operation was confined to New York, although von Mierers also used jewelers in Washington, D.C., and Iowa to obtain stones. Eileen Ford asked me. The weird thing was, in this crazy screwed up way, I believed they were right to punish me. Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. Adams was at first taken in by von Mierers's techniques. He was a "sprite," as one acquaintance phrased it, "cute, cute, cute," the toast of the beaches at Cherry Grove on Fire Island in the 1960s. and 'You are a fucking, sick, evil, satanic piece of shit! I don't think that is a spiritual pursuit," Andreadis says he once told von Mierers. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. "It has been a disaster," Montgomery once wrote of von Mierers to an angry reader who had taken her book seriously, but the reader has yet to recover $17,000 he says he paid for stones. Splintered family relationships of the type familiar to anyone who has had experience with cults. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. Other people stay at the house year-round, he said. Pay the money or you're out.' "You are fabulous! Eternal Values is unusual in that many of its young devotees have a lot of cash to spend on von Mierers's healing gems. Artist: Frederick Von Mierers, John Andreadis, & IasosTitle: The Eternal Values: Karma & DestinyLabel: The Eternal Values Corporation & Inter-Dimensional Mus. Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. $587.00 / piece Size: 37in. Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. And no one could control Frederick anymore. Often von Mierers would take a stem tone on the tapes. 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. ' I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. Frederick von Mierers is one of the most complex characters I ever met. ``They pretty much stayed to themselves.'. Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. Pulsating ionization machines cleansed the air, and billowing clouds were painted on the walls. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. Frederick gave me spending cash. "We were so very close." "I said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' . I was appalled by Frederick. "It is not working! "I think of him as a junior type. Helen Kress Williams's will, filed in Manhattan in 1981, did not mention Frederick von Mierers. Think of your body as a Lalique vase. All is evil . "Frederick was only trying to help him." His maid did my laundry. When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " von Mierers would say. von Mierers told Jacki Adams, the Ford model who had come to see me, on one cassette. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. Like best-selling author Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation), who details his visitations from space people, Montgomery seems completely in the thrall of her vision. He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. 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. And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. Control is subtle. Look around. He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." "Think about the white light and the violet light!" Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. Nonnegotiable! In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. At its peak, there were perhaps one hundred active members. "It is time to go big-time," Andreadis remembers von Mierers telling him a little later. Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. Von Mierers would invite his more attractive and richer clients to his apartment. That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. I spread them out under a lamp. He even let me drive one of his Porches. I am creating the greatest comedy on earth. "Her eyes were blank, emotionally blank. 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. This is not phenomenalism and five-and-dimestore stupidities!" I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! People don't even know themselves, do they? ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. You have permission to edit this article. You must write that I am the reincarnation of Jeremiah from the Old Testament. I gave Freddy every penny I earned. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. 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. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' It is true that our space brothers and sisters have arrived. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. 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. This guy is raking in millions! . Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. He will buy everything for you." When I wasnt in trouble, theyd call me Dippy, but generally I was just called Dipshit. Frederick Von Mierers, a deeply tanned cult leader with a shocking crown of platinum blond hair, spoke to his followers through their television sets. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. We always used to kid about the old neighborhood. "I have been familiar with your work only since last summer, when I became aware that the message in your books is identical to the Hindu cycles of creation." He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. $699.99 / piece Size: 31in. 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 . Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. Im here. We've had stones in our family for years. In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. Von Mierers waited impatiently for the publication of Aliens Among Us. 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." They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. "It is the beyond," he answered. "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." "I called my cousin to warn him that his mother was in terrible danger. ' "It was like being in a meeting of Nazi storm troopers," Hartwell told me. 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. "I came to New York from Houston to my mother's apartment and saw her checkbooks," her son, Claude Williams, told me. I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. When they returned to New York, they told Eileen Ford's husband and Hunter what had happened to them. "He saves them from their egos. 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. John Richards Hoyt was 16 when the 30-something Von Mierers approached him at the beach. 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. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. A few people in the room were buzzing about her: Who is that beautiful woman? I had another question: Was it, in the end, the need to make his mark in louche New York that caused Frederick von Mierers to believe so totally the myths he had created about himself? At first glance, the flowers appeared real. "How could an obvious phony like this convince so many smart, attractive young people in New York that he was for real?" "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. I would never have made it without the help of my old friend Fabio, the spokesmodel. ", 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. "Frederick encouraged us to lie, to cheat, to say anything to our families. Im making it. New York has always been a city of pretense, filled with mythomaniacs and con artists, most of them rank amateurs. 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. 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." I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. I gave them $28,000 in cash and traveler's checks. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." A pharaoh! In my mind I was working him, kind of taking advantage of this guy and all his cool connections. Suddenly, von Mierers noticed that a pillow had fallen on a spotlight on the floor. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. I'm going to smash the shit out of you!' We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. "Frederick never trusted me," Adams told me. "Handle them carefully," one of the young men said to me. We were free to come and go. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. . One of the aspects that troubled Andreadis was Frederick's increasing desire to find members who were rich. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' It was sort of pathetic.". Sutherland 48 in. Conversations on Vivekananda, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hindu Vedas would stretch on till dawn. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. One time, toward the end, they said I was guilty of vanity because I supposedly looked in the mirror too much. "About this time he had the idea of going into business," a friend told me. 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. 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. I am the chosen one. We had four years of stored food and a whole lot of weapons by thispoint. ``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. Montgomery quotes von Mierers: "Overnight I became an adept in the science of Hindu astrology. There is no punctuation in it.' Beware.. .the path of the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. Next, in the guise of psychic and oracle, von Mierers would tell his new friends how unhappy their lives really werea fairly safe assumption to make about young people seeking a psychic. What's the big deal? 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. von Mierers was recently asked. He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" It was impossible not to notice that von Mierers's friends all wore large gems. Her mother next married a man who, Jacki says, was hostile to her and her sister. "I was making over $300,000 a year," she said. Close to sixty people attended. someone asked. ''. Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. The first time I tried to leave the group, I fled to New York. Basically, at this point, Ive shifted the shame to a place where I think of myself as a survivor. 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. A terrible man has been selling him gems! What's the harm?" Adams turned over the cash. "And you'll never be a David Bowie unless you get a better story," Bey replied. One afternoon, I dont even remember what I was reading, but it just hit me like a thunderbolt. "Oh, you duchesses and lords!" "Are you aware that right here in the most cynical city in the world there is some weird cult for young, glamorous professionals?" "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. "I almost had a breakdown. Parrots sat on his shoulders. I bought an emerald. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. As the Manhattan D.A. "Why do you have to be a gem salesman? I am the elite. She attended a seminar and saw "a young man who was so attractive I knew it had to be John Andreadis." What is the nature of this world?. '. 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. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". We spoke what youd call New Age jargon. After consulting with "the Guides," Montgomery explained gravely to her readers, she had decided that von Mierers's account of his past lives was correct. She was impressed by the "hypnotic atmosphere" and the attractive young people; Andreadis did an astrological reading for her which, she said, "blew me away." You're a model! ''Cash would come in for the gems from all over the country," Andreadis told me. . I said, 'Freddie, you can't put this out! I thought, This is crazy.". Often he would rage at his followers. The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. "We must spread our message to help humanity." The evil forces are everywhere.". "These kids are legal age." I knew that I had come from Arcturus. It's a drop in the bucket.' Find out who is the source at the source of the I thought, who is the author of the / thought? ", 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. Group members were encouraged to patronize special doctors, nutritionists, and the chiropractor David Seaman. You have to cut the ties to your family! 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. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. "He was always accusing me of ego, as if that were a bad thing! They're cheap! He knew what was at stake. From the mind, which is the ego. After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. Von Mierers called Andreadis his Jesus and allowed him to teach seminars at a Park Avenue church. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. 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. . "No one is being kept here," he told me. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Nebraska cheerleader competes by herself at state competition, but crowd doesn't let her feel alone. Ruth Montgomery detailed von Mierers's relationship with Mrs. Williams in Aliens Among Us: "In company with his dowager godmother, Frederick traveled the high roads of Europe, meeting socially with the Queen of England and European aristocracy. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. We all know its not. John Andreadis, a former longtime von Mierers' aide who became one of his biggest detractors, didn't return telephone messages, although his answering machine repeatedly said he was only unavailable for about an hour. As unbelievable as it sounds, never once during my two decades with the group did I ever consider I might be a member of a cult. They all had striking similarities; they were young, mostly in their twenties and early thirties, and quite good-looking, with taut, muscular bodies. Man died Wednesday. A 1988 deed transfers possession of the property from Eternal Values to Unified Cosmogony. 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. Eternal Values was my reality. and that was the end of that.". The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. " 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." John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. I had a Life Reading done by Frederick von Miers in the late 1980's. Although I did not get to meet him, I believe he was honest in the concept he passed on to some of us and that he was a Walk-In. 1913 TO TODAY. Your parents have been horrible for you. It was common knowledge in the inner group that von Mierers had a collection of Polaroids he had taken of black men endowed with huge organs. . He told me, 'Give me $9,000 cash to paint it. It would be the final certification, for who in the psychic world could ever doubt Montgomery's famous Guides? Ha, that seems so simple when you say it. No matter how hard I tried, I was always Dipshit. A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. His business began to grow. I can get you these gems at cost!' 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