"How did Ruth Montgomery find out about you?" He put me up in his house for almost 18 months. 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. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! A year later, as a highschool senior, he ran into Frederick again. There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. Id hurt my shoulder playing football at Princeton; Id come to the city for a doctors appointment. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. "When I owned a modeling agency, Freddie was always around. He knew what was at stake. Perhaps von Mierers's ability to mesmerize so many young peopie comes from the very persona he labored to develop as he made his way up the social ladder of New York. 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. It is all very positive," the Houston lawyer Douglas Wyatt told me. (''Only a clear understanding of how the Evil Forces work will enable people to make it through the precarious times that lie ahead. "It is not working! Williams, who was later the executor of his mother's will and had her power of attorney, changed the locks on his mother's apartment and told the doorman never to let von Mierers up again. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. Frederick gave me spending cash. Frederick would talk about their mission and explain the need to eat grains and vegetables; he would place them on rigorous diets, which involved an elaborate system of eating known as food-combining. 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. Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. I thought, This is crazy.". ``I have no complaints about them at all,' Karr told The Asheville Citizen. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. They bought his pitchand the gems he said would make them New Age lords and duchesses. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" So what was the harm? When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. 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." East Side Alien: Frederick von Mierers, who claims he's from the star Arcturus. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. The novel opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young women, where readers are introduced to Amelia and Becky, the novel's female protagonists. I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. Find out who is the source at the source of the I thought, who is the author of the / thought? When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. The gem operation was confined to New York, although von Mierers also used jewelers in Washington, D.C., and Iowa to obtain stones. 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 . " When Douglas Wyatt was introduced to Eternal Values, Andreadis claims von Mierers told him, "Be nice to him. . He is making tapes for him that are anti-Semitic and anti-women! It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. She told me they had her do things! 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. One client tried to force me to hire him. Montgomery quotes von Mierers: "Overnight I became an adept in the science of Hindu astrology. He used to tell friends that he went to the Professional Children's School, although there is no record of him there. 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. 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. You realize it didnt happen to me because Im especially flawed or have some defect. "I said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' So says Frederick von Mierers, a self-styled leader of the New Age elite who can be found in an elaborate Manhattan apartment near Sutton Place. We never would have signed him." I had no sleep, ever. Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. He looked at her emeralds and told her they were junk. Ha, that seems so simple when you say it. .. By then he had given up modeling and taken up with Billy Baldwin, the dean of American decorators, called "Billy B." .like Lalique. Amelia is kind and innocent and comes from a family with money. Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. Parrots sat on his shoulders. 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 can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." "How does Frederick know so much?" "You'll never be a Ted Koppel unless you have manners!" Even William Scranton III, the former lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and son of the former governor William Scranton, once bought gems. ' 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.". A hydrogen-light body. By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. 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. 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. 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. 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He could no longer walk; a Lucite cane rested by his side. I just took that checkbook to the lawyer and told him, 'Do you know what this guy has been doing?' Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. From the mind, which is the ego. "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. "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?" "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. The group now has about fifty young professionals in "leadership training" roles. It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. 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." 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. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. 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. Karr said he couldn't remember the name of one man he remembers meeting at the house. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! He enlisted appraisers who worked on percentages of the stones they evaluated. David Seaman was a New York chiropractor. Deputies in Davidson County rushed to help a 69-year-old man they'd found unresponsive in his house following a welfare check. Von Mierers ordered Adams to write a letter to Ruth Montgomery. At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. I spread them out under a lamp. Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. Other people stay at the house year-round, he said. 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. I never did. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. His actual childhood remains a mystery. The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. Artist: Frederick Von Mierers, John Andreadis, & IasosTitle: The Eternal Values: Karma & DestinyLabel: The Eternal Values Corporation & Inter-Dimensional Mus. Von Mierers waited impatiently for the publication of Aliens Among Us. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. She once wrote a syndicated column called "Capital Letter," until, as she says, "Arthur Ford told me that I could do automatic writing." I thought, God! Von Mierers would often warn his New Age leaders to beware of Jews. I am creating the greatest comedy on earth. She has a huge audience. ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. Instead, they sent the body to Chapel Hill for autopsy by the state medical examiner. I had come in to interview Ford and Joe Hunter about von Mierers. So Freddie became a prophet, so what?" During the spiritual seminars in the Park Avenue church, ugly shouting would break out. "I was the most powerful political columnist in America," she told me. The first time I tried to leave the group, I fled to New York. People don't even know themselves, do they? What's the big deal? Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. The life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. 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. The fairy tales of this dimension! "I ran into her on an airplane," a close friend of hers told me. It became evil. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. 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. 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. John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. Suddenly, von Mierers's living room appeared very small. He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. ''Cash would come in for the gems from all over the country," Andreadis told me. The house was on a lake. 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. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. 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. 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"). They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. . "Think about the white light and the violet light!" "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. All is evil . ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. 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. "Of course, he was never a spiritual person.". ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." "Do you understand? Catherine Edelmann asked on a tape. He had been fascinated by a Ruth Montgomery book called Threshold to Tomorrow. ". Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. As he stared at the TV audience, his face appeared to have cheek implants, capped teeth, and freshly pulled skin. 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 always used to kid about the old neighborhood. von Mierers told Jacki Adams, the Ford model who had come to see me, on one cassette. I knew that I had come from Arcturus. Scarlet and turquoise feathers drifted by. "I was represented by Ford," he told me. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." The terrible earthquakes, the storms that will beset humanity! Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. 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. "They eat such unhealthy food." My nickname in the group was Dipshit. Something went wrong. He would say, 'This sapphire is $50,000, this emerald is $70,000.' 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." There, in 1978, he met a sixteen-year-old named John Hoyt. As the Manhattan D.A. Still, they control ourmind. "Freddie was always bringing me kids to sign," Hunter told me. he would say. Devastated by illness, he twisted on his tiny lavender slipper-chair perch and clapped his hands for one of his followers to open his bedroom vault. {{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. In fear, Andreadis and Adams went to Jamaica. To this day I owe him everything. EVERY PAGE. Karr visited the house occasionally, until the ``no trespassing' signs went up several months ago. "How could an obvious phony like this convince so many smart, attractive young people in New York that he was for real?" "These kids are legal age." My career is on the line! The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. . But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. He seemed to enjoy titillating the group with talk of "chocolate lords." 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. We would party, go to Studio 54 and crash at his apartment. I was sobbing. Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. . " One night in January, Andreadis conducted a seminar in the Park Avenue church. Seaman was at the house when von Mierers died, Fritts said. These looked pretty good. When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. Fritz Diekmann, the TV executive, yelled out, "Stop bullshitting everyone." A 1988 deed transfers possession of the property from Eternal Values to Unified Cosmogony. It's a drop in the bucket.' '. 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. Studio Design Collection. von Mierers scolded. Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. Jeremiah will take over your body.' 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. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. Part of mind control has always been to make people believe they are in danger from the outside world. Ive also tried to deal with some of the deep-seated family issues that may have made me a bit more susceptible to joining a cult than someone else. 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. He told me, 'Give me $9,000 cash to paint it. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. "It is time to go big-time," Andreadis remembers von Mierers telling him a little later. Please subscribe to keep reading. You're a model! "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. You will survive the storms and be the leaders of the millennium." I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". von Mierers told me. John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. "That's $500,000 wholesale!" Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. CURRENT ACTIVITY: Being admired in Mondo Uomo, the Italian men's magazine, which has devoted 58 pages to him in its November/December issue. Natural Vanity with Engineered Marble Top. "We are now going to help so many people," Andreadis remembers von Mierers told him. Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. John Richards Hoyt was 16 when the 30-something Von Mierers approached him at the beach. On the weekends I would bring up a couple friends with me from school. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. She wrote in Aliens Among Us that the Guides responded, "John is from Arcturus. Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. 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. ' Only Hermes.". Jesus, Rama, Krishna, Buddha did not come to promise you another piece of ass. . From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. "He was never a good model," Eileen Ford recently told me. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. I think you have found some young, impressionable people who are on a quest for spiritual, moral values." But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. This is not phenomenalism and five-and-dimestore stupidities!" She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. Frederick von Mierers is one of the most complex characters I ever met. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. He is currently under criminal investigation for several potential charges. $699.99 / piece Size: 31in. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the 'world's first male supermodel,' pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. Frederick insisted on cash. he advised one model. From somewhere, I heard music which sounded like an organ on a Moog synthesizer. "I called my cousin to warn him that his mother was in terrible danger. ' He became, he said, deeply depressed, "disenchanted with the world, and wanting out.". vanity fair: [noun] a scene or place characterized by frivolity and ostentation. We were on earth to help people. A terrible man has been selling him gems! Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. "He and I went way back together. Got a tip? I won back some of my money; the group went broke after that and eventually disbandedas you can imagine, that victory went a long way toward some sort of closure and vindication. I believe in the master race!". 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.' "We must spread our message to help humanity." Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. Within months, hundreds and then thousands of letters were forwarded to von Mierers from Ruth Montgomery, Andreadis remembered. .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. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. It's real bottom-line. Helen Kress Williams's will, filed in Manhattan in 1981, did not mention Frederick von Mierers. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. Its hard to imagine just how strange it would all seem without context, an insomniac flipping through the channels, stumbling upon this exaggeration of a man who claimed to be an alien from the star Arcturus. And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. .. protege of Billy Baldwin.. . They cannot raise the question . What's the harm?" one exclaimed. I work for a gemologist, and I told her to bring in the stones. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! How could I have been duped like that for solong? We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. Later, in therapy, I would figure out I was repeating a pattern from my childhood. Like best-selling author Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation), who details his visitations from space people, Montgomery seems completely in the thrall of her vision. "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. They all came with bogus appraisals. These are the ones that I prescribe. Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. And that is all I am going to say.". I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. "This is a holy place.". That's what I've found about this planet. "About this time he had the idea of going into business," a friend told me. They're cheaper than you could get wholesale!' No mother, no father, no brother, no sister. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. 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. 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. I gave them $28,000 in cash and traveler's checks. " 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." I can help you to transcend.' . He told us to call him Freddy. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. von Mierers insisted. One appraiser on West Forty-seventh Street routinely gave von Mierers papers which showed that his stones were worth two or three times what he was charging for them. With marketing, with the news, with politics, with the military and different religions and forms of government, I see forms of mind control all the time, everywhere. 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. I thought there was the possibility for real violence. 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