We are here to warn you! The weird thing was, in this crazy screwed up way, I believed they were right to punish me. I think you have found some young, impressionable people who are on a quest for spiritual, moral values." 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. Sapphires and emeralds gleamed from their fingers and wrists. Rich kids with troubled psyches took themselves off to Tibet to see the Dalai Lama or invited plump Indian swamis to move in. His hair was the color of canned pineapple; his eyes were hard, cold blue, the eyes of a man who finds little surprising anymore. And that is all I am going to say.". Tickle Me Kaczynski: How the Inventor of the Ultimate Elmo Toy Became a Unabomber Suspect, Real Italians Put Hot Dogs and French Fries on Their Pizza, The Other Drug War: Inside the World of Counterfeit Viagra, The $65 Million Art Heist That Put Oceans Eleven to Shame. It's a drop in the bucket.' 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. "Vuitton is too Jewish. "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." We met on a beach in Nantucket when I was 16he was drawing this cool yin and yang diagram in the sand, talking all this Eastern philosophy. 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. You have such powers! I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. "I thought John Andreadis was spiritual," she told me. 1913 TO TODAY. From the mind, which is the ego. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. 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? They came after me and talked me into coming back. The message was simple: Adams and Andreadis were evil; their egos would have to be ' 'destroyed. ' During the spiritual seminars in the Park Avenue church, ugly shouting would break out. The dark and evil forces are perpetuating the idea of soul mates. It's real bottom-line. 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. 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. He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. No mother, no father, no brother, no sister. Oh. When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. he raged at the young man, who scurried to obey him. 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. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. And no one could control Frederick anymore. As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. The leader was a man named Frederick Von Mierers. Behind him were a golden Buddha and a massive display of pink azaleas and lilies that seemed to take up an entire wall. 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. This is not phenomenalism and five-and-dimestore stupidities!" Fabulous emeralds. A popular series called The Dark Forces sold as a complete set for twenty-five dollars. Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. 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. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. "It is possible to raise the vibration of your consciousness through the. "He was always accusing me of ego, as if that were a bad thing! "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. "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! We spoke what youd call New Age jargon. 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. Studio Design Collection. 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." . 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. 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. The fairy tales of this dimension! Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. Think of your body as a Lalique vase. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. The house was on a lake. An endorsement by Ruth Montgomery would confirm everything he had told his young followers about his life. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. 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. His maid did my laundry. "No one is recruiting here!" . She was like an Audrey Hepburn, exquisite beyond words," the stylist, Richard Adams, who is no relation, told me. I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. ", "Things happen. "All the people here went to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton!'' They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. 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. One of the aspects that troubled Andreadis was Frederick's increasing desire to find members who were rich. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." But I was impressed with the people he had managed to have around. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. 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. Frederick gave me spending cash. She was told that it was her duty "to lie, to cheat, to make up any story" to ensure von Mierers's security. You have to do all the therapy and the research. 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. Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. In those days, he would hold seminars for hundreds of people at a church on Park Avenue or at a downtown school. "Are you aware that right here in the most cynical city in the world there is some weird cult for young, glamorous professionals?" It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. 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. No matter what I did, I couldnt seem to measure up. .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. he would say. No money changed hands; Unified Cosmogony was just a new name for Eternal Values, according to the deed. 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. "What is that?" To whom do these thoughts arise and whence do they come? Always, he was immaculate; he combed his hair, which was dark then, straight back like an heir to Morgan Stanley. Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. EVERY PAGE. I hung out with Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell. ", Mind control inevitably follows a specific pattern. Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. Im making it. After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. Why don't we call ourselves Eternal Values? His Manhattan number is unpublished, and there's no listing for him in Lake Lure. 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.'' Writer Marie Brenner, who confirmed the now-dropped investigation by the . Arietta 31 in. Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. Man died Wednesday. The model, who was involved with Eternal Values for almost a year, has given a sworn secret statement to the Manhattan D.A. Andreadis dismisses this as pure invention. . ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. He enlisted appraisers who worked on percentages of the stones they evaluated. von Mierers told me. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. "Why do you have to be a gem salesman? Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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He demanded $20,000 in cash or money orders immediately." I was in this weird catch-22. ''Cash would come in for the gems from all over the country," Andreadis told me. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. The life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. 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. The gem operation was confined to New York, although von Mierers also used jewelers in Washington, D.C., and Iowa to obtain stones. "I thought I was in love with Jacki," he told me. View cart for details. "When we started Eternal Values, it was completely benign, really nothing more than a spiritual merchandising scheme," a former associate of von Mierers's who is now cooperating with the Manhattan district attorney's office told me. . "When I owned a modeling agency, Freddie was always around. 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 would always say, 'You know how you are.' "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. I bought an emerald. Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. Helen Kress Williams's will, filed in Manhattan in 1981, did not mention Frederick von Mierers. He used to tell friends that he went to the Professional Children's School, although there is no record of him there. Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. How could I have been duped like that for solong? Montgomery's deadly-earnest oeuvre details the advice of her spirit guides and includes titles such as A Search for the Truth, A World Beyond, and Aliens Among Us ("Dazzling true testimony that extraterrestrials are on earthabout to usher in the New Age"). Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. Were all in one kind of cult or another. Part of many life readings was a "gem prescription." Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our. by such friends and clients as Babe Paley, Averell Harriman, and Cole Porter. I don't think that is a spiritual pursuit," Andreadis says he once told von Mierers. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." "We are not a cult," von Mierers told me angrily during the strange afternoon we spent together. . And Freddie just laughed." Von Mierers began to talk about the great psychic Edgar Cayce and his gem prescriptions. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. "My first impression was that he was a crazy. 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. "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! "Don't ever carry a Vuitton bag!" My mother was not that rich. He no longer needed to suffer the dreadful slights that often beset ambitious and aging pretty boys. In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. "I wanted to get married and I wanted out!" Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. . Von Mierers, however, did make Gentlemen's Quarterly. 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." . Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. He and his friends would go to Freddys parties for the free beer; for a moment, at least, Hoyt was using him. 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. Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. 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. "It is the beyond," he answered. one exclaimed. It was impossible not to notice that von Mierers's friends all wore large gems. It bears the signature of Unified Cosmogony's then-president, New York City TV producer Fritz Diekmann, who is featured in the 14-page Vanity Fair spread. It is through such negative thoughts that the dark forces work. "Aren't they fabulous? He seemed to enjoy titillating the group with talk of "chocolate lords." They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. 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. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") Over the years, I spent more than $150,000 on gems. The anxiety attached to the end of an era, much less a millennium, inevitably produces collective madness. 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." 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. Nobody forced me or twisted my arm to waste 20 years of my life. "These kids are legal age." When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. One client tried to force me to hire him. 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. Seaman was at the house when von Mierers died, Fritts said. When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. Ha, that seems so simple when you say it. "Oh, you duchesses and lords!" Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. I would never have made it without the help of my old friend Fabio, the spokesmodel. We had four years of stored food and a whole lot of weapons by thispoint. 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! From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. Natural Vanity with Engineered Marble Top. Members have included well-known models from the Ford agency, such as Jacki Adams, John Hoyt, and Susan Bearden; an honors graduate of Princeton named Catherine Edelmann; a West Coast money manager; Harvard alumni; Fritz Diekmann, a TV executive; Tracey Miller, a Florida model; an officer of Marine Midland Bank; and Douglas Wyatt, a Houston lawyer whose mother, Lynn, is the famous blonde socialite married to Oscar Wyatt, the head of an oil-and-gas empire. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO - Page 2. For that offense they shaved my head. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. In a new documentary, Welcome to the Beyond, Hoyt recalls his introduction to the cult leader who would alter the course of his life. I could write three books about him. She retreated from her friends and family, and even her booker at Ford noticed something was wrong. But when I got the ring, I could immediately tell they had switched the stones. "Think about the white light and the violet light!" Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). "He saves them from their egos. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. 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Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. Call the super!' The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. "Then it became something else. Pay the money or you're out.' He will buy everything for you." $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. The only thing that mattered was loyalty to the group." 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. "You have to do something! Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. I thought, This is a holy place." His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. "He's harmless," Hunter told me. They could help you. It was sort of pathetic.". I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. We always used to kid about the old neighborhood. They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. " 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. . By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. I could give these kids almost a Harvard course in metaphysics." ", For years, von Mierers had a television show of his own in New York. Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." 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