"Why do you have to be a gem salesman? EVERY PAGE. 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. 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. Were they real? Behind him were a golden Buddha and a massive display of pink azaleas and lilies that seemed to take up an entire wall. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. . you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. 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. Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. "When I owned a modeling agency, Freddie was always around. The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. Her office was filled with poinsettias; she wore layers of red wool and plaid Christmas stockings. We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. 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. The anxiety attached to the end of an era, much less a millennium, inevitably produces collective madness. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! Catherine Edelmann asked on a tape. 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 . Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. "I said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' Adams was at first taken in by von Mierers's techniques. I asked. John Hoyt, another member, said, "John was a very stubborn boy. Sitting in the apartment near Sutton Place, I thought of the German word Maskenfreiheit: the freedom conferred by masks. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. As the Manhattan D.A. One afternoon, I dont even remember what I was reading, but it just hit me like a thunderbolt. She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' "He kept saying, 'John is not working hard enough producing the tapes.' I have rubies and sapphires! We were sitting in his apartment, an elaborately decorated aerie on East Fifty-fourth Street. . I don't know anything about this!" 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. "Frederick was only trying to help him." But when I got the ring, I could immediately tell they had switched the stones. "Ruth Montgomery really created Frederick," one Ford model told me. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." I am the chosen one. He's saying, 'Don't hit me!'.. We were on earth to help people. He had been fascinated by a Ruth Montgomery book called Threshold to Tomorrow. He described Frederick as "an internationally renowned Hindu astrologer and lecturer in the underlying unity between science and religion. "Don't ever carry a Vuitton bag!" 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. That's what I've found about this planet. It was sort of pathetic.". . There is no punctuation in it.' Vanity Includes Mirror. I always knew Freddie was a big talker and a fantasist. On the weekends I would bring up a couple friends with me from school. Eileen Ford asked me. 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. Hunter soon signed Hoyt under the name Hoyt Richards. 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. Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. You have to cut the ties to your family! 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. "Freddie then went to a lawyer and threatened that he would sue me to get my power of attorney. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' a city detective recently asked a Ford model who had fled from the group. We had a mission. 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I am the elite. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. Perhaps as a way of breaking free, Andreadis and Adams married in November. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." I asked. His hair was the color of canned pineapple; his eyes were hard, cold blue, the eyes of a man who finds little surprising anymore. At first glance, the flowers appeared real. 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. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. She once wrote a syndicated column called "Capital Letter," until, as she says, "Arthur Ford told me that I could do automatic writing." They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. "This is a holy place.". ''Cash would come in for the gems from all over the country," Andreadis told me. 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. Von Mierers believed in impending doomthat he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings, an intergalactic team of emergency responders. When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. I thought, This is crazy.". Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. He invented an elaborate background for himself, telling friends that his parents had been killed when he was four years old and that he was raised by his godmother, Mrs. Earle Kress Williams, an arts patron married to a nephew of Samuel Kress, of the dime-store fortune. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the worlds first male supermodel, pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. . . What's the big deal? by such friends and clients as Babe Paley, Averell Harriman, and Cole Porter. "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?" "I have a very large income, and I spend it helping children." They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. I was appalled by Frederick. He exalted Germans and referred to the Aryan master race. And no one could control Frederick anymore. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. He was strewn with stones! "I think of him as a junior type. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' We were free to come and go. 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. We spoke what youd call New Age jargon. He is making tapes for him that are anti-Semitic and anti-women! "I wanted to get married and I wanted out!" When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. 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." Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. "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. 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. Karr visited the house occasionally, until the ``no trespassing' signs went up several months ago. You have such powers! Look around. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. We all know its not. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. Think of your body as a Lalique vase. Although not a member of the group, the great New York arts patron Alice Tully reportedly had a life reading, as did Sylvester Stallone, the actress Rae Dawn Chong, and the daughter of an Iranian Cabinet minister close to the Shah. Von Mierers had espoused the ways of his mysterious group ``Eternal Values' through mail-order cassettes, at a Park Avenue church and on talk shows, including a cable television show for which he was host. When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. 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. The New York Post reported that the late male model and interior decorator was under investigation for possible involvement in a multimillion-dollar drug ring. Insight is given as to the inner workings of the Universal Magnetic Field, as well as how the stones can help you tune in to higher intelligence.") Mr. Richards, shown above, organized and produced the . " 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. Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. As John Hoyt made his way around New York, he talked about von Mierers to other models he would meet. That's $3 million. Studio Design Collection. Instead, they sent the body to Chapel Hill for autopsy by the state medical examiner. The inner circle of Eternal Values calls itself "the group." Who neededmoney? von Mierers told me. I am only interested in archduchesses and lords! A dozen of the group share apartments in von Mierers's building, at 405 East Fifty-fourth Street, where Noel Coward and Hermione Gingold once lived. They can uplift you, mentally and spiritually. Like anyone suffering from Stockholm syndromewhere a hostage identifies with his captorsI had no ability to objectify my experience. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. 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." I never did. They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. During the spiritual seminars in the Park Avenue church, ugly shouting would break out. I can get you these gems at cost!' Arietta 31 in. "He teaches us how to aspire to be the best we can. "He was always accusing me of ego, as if that were a bad thing! 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