.gemstones.". Suddenly, von Mierers's living room appeared very small. Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. I can get you these gems at cost!' ``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. I thought, God! I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. We spoke what youd call New Age jargon. I was like, Oh my God. "I was represented by Ford," he told me. The cult was called Eternal Values. No mother, no father, no brother, no sister. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! "We must spread our message to help humanity." Everyone I am training for leadership will have perfect features. The former V.F. Who neededmoney? Any job they could think of that was a pain in the ass, theyd assign it to me. He told us about the personal tapes he would make for us that would cost $350, and he said he had eight thousand requests. 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. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. The idea was ultimately to destroy the ego and then rebuild it in a more malleable form. 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.". I asked. Von Mierers told anyone who asked that Andreadis had left the group because of an experience he had had with a black Marine. "I told her, 'A young lady should have the best of everything.' As he stared at the TV audience, his face appeared to have cheek implants, capped teeth, and freshly pulled skin. "Don't become a cock worshiper! Bey told him, "You know what I really think? I had no sleep, ever. "He just understands everything about us." He became, he said, deeply depressed, "disenchanted with the world, and wanting out.". These looked pretty good. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. Later, in therapy, I would figure out I was repeating a pattern from my childhood. In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. For that, you feel a sense of shame. Man died Wednesday. Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. One client tried to force me to hire him. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. 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. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. And a voice said to me, 'Be calm, be calm, the transition will be easy. 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. It is through such negative thoughts that the dark forces work. Instead, they sent the body to Chapel Hill for autopsy by the state medical examiner. You are here to listen to me.' 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. Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. What is the nature of this world?. People don't even know themselves, do they? It would be the final certification, for who in the psychic world could ever doubt Montgomery's famous Guides? Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. . When he had them appraised privately, he learned that this was not the case. Call the super!' "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. CURRENT ACTIVITY: Being admired in Mondo Uomo, the Italian men's magazine, which has devoted 58 pages to him in its November/December issue. "You are so pretty-pretty-pretty-pretty, my wonderful birds," he said, kissing their beaks. He knew what was at stake. He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. Did it matter? He told his friends and Ruth Montgomery that Mrs. Williams had left him "millions and millions of dollars," an income of $150,000 a year, adjusted for inflation. He kept elaborate ledger records, but he insisted on being paid in cash. someone asked. . There's no Lake Lure phone listing for Eternal Values or other names the group is known by - Unified Cosmogony or Ultimate Custom Interiors. The life-reading tapes sell for $350 each. Over the years, I spent more than $150,000 on gems. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. The stones were all set in similar simple heavy gold settings. The group now has about fifty young professionals in "leadership training" roles. "I recognized him as a phony," Jocelyn Kress told me. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. No money changed hands; Unified Cosmogony was just a new name for Eternal Values, according to the deed. It was the go-go 80s. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. 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. "Look at these emeralds," he was telling me, stroking his gems. 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. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. He exalted Germans and referred to the Aryan master race. one's own. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. . ", 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. We thought the end was at hand. . He looked at her emeralds and told her they were junk. His business began to grow. "And you'll never be a David Bowie unless you get a better story," Bey replied. "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' Scarlet and turquoise feathers drifted by. He told us to call him Freddy. Kathleen Turner and her. Sitting in the apartment near Sutton Place, I thought of the German word Maskenfreiheit: the freedom conferred by masks. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' ''I was told I would have to wait a year to get my cassette, maybe eighteen months," a painter named Glenna Hartwell told me, ''but all the money had to be paid in advance.". These are the ones that I prescribe. When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. 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. "Frederick was only trying to help him." 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. I don't think that is a spiritual pursuit," Andreadis says he once told von Mierers. .like Lalique. "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. You have to do all the therapy and the research. Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. Part of many life readings was a "gem prescription." That's what I've found about this planet. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. 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. "I come from a very rich family," he once told a TV interviewer. I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. .. . 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. 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. In January 1988, on a television show called People Are Talking, he cried, "Americans, you are going into the most crucial period of earth history! Vanity Fair Summary. She was told that it was her duty "to lie, to cheat, to make up any story" to ensure von Mierers's security. By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. He would always say, 'You know how you are.' Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. ' This last year, in the early fall, I received another call, this time from a close friend. In 1979, Andreadis was a private-school boy from a rich New York family; his father invented Man-Tan. You have to cut the ties to your family! ", GREENSBORO Jurors found TikTok star Jessica Middlebrook, known as towtruckjess on social media, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thu. Frederick insisted on cash. The cult was called Eternal Values. Why don't we call ourselves Eternal Values? 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. "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". The fairy tales of this dimension! "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. And that is all I am going to say.". Vanity Includes Mirror. "It is the beyond," he answered. ", "Things happen. My career is on the line! Studio Design Collection. A few people in the room were buzzing about her: Who is that beautiful woman? After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. ". She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. Oh. The novel opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young women, where readers are introduced to Amelia and Becky, the novel's female protagonists. We all know its not. "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Years ago, if he said he worked ten days on a modeling job, I knew that meant he worked two days! So Freddie became a prophet, so what?" ", For years, von Mierers had a television show of his own in New York. "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. "Ruth Montgomery really created Frederick," one Ford model told me. Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Parrots sat on his shoulders. Deputies in Davidson County rushed to help a 69-year-old man they'd found unresponsive in his house following a welfare check. 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. "We are not a cult," von Mierers told me angrily during the strange afternoon we spent together. 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. .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. The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. Splintered family relationships of the type familiar to anyone who has had experience with cults. As John Hoyt made his way around New York, he talked about von Mierers to other models he would meet. . I thought, This is a holy place." "He was never a good model," Eileen Ford recently told me. Only the elite will be saved. "Then it became something else. The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. I bought an emerald. She once wrote a syndicated column called "Capital Letter," until, as she says, "Arthur Ford told me that I could do automatic writing." Id fly to Tokyo for a shoot and have to be back by Monday to take an exam; I was proud I was able to graduate with my class, in1985. 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. . I gave them $28,000 in cash and traveler's checks. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. For years, Freddie Mierer, or Meyer, as he was reportedly known before he took on the name von Mierers, was like many people you meet in New York. Although on the surface Eternal Values appears smalltime, former associates of von Mierers's speculate that so far he has sold close to $2 million worth of stones. ``They were rather reclusive,' Police Chief Frank Fritts said. On the weekends I would bring up a couple friends with me from school. "The fact that this gorgeous blond Ford model was talking about how brilliant Frederick was convinced me to go to see him," one model told me. I don't know anything about this!" I realized I was being taken. In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. I just took that checkbook to the lawyer and told him, 'Do you know what this guy has been doing?' Its like: I was a promising kid from a good (if somewhat screwed up) family. Lets just say I come from a family of six, from the main line of Philadelphia, and that I had a mother who was hard toplease. 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. At times, his anti-Semitic remarks were almost comical. Frederick would bring out the coral and the lapis and he would light up like a Christmas tree. "Oh, you duchesses and lords!" His Nantucket house guests recall being sent out to scour the beach for good-looking recruits, handing out invitations to the finest physical specimens they could find. 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. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. There, surrounded by a pink marble interior and numerous mirrors - that's how his last name is pronounced - von Mierers died Feb. 4 at the age of 43. Frederick's been working like lightning. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. In other words, he's not capitulating'. 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. He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. ", 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. " 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. Still, they control ourmind. "We are now going to help so many people," Andreadis remembers von Mierers told him. By the late 1960s, he had shed his accent and become an energetic walker who trafficked in gossip and his Rolodex. I am only interested in archduchesses and lords! At that time I was high priest! Von Mierers called Andreadis his Jesus and allowed him to teach seminars at a Park Avenue church. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? They never saw that side in Lake Lure, however. "Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. We were sitting in his apartment, an elaborately decorated aerie on East Fifty-fourth Street. "Her eyes were blank, emotionally blank. A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. He had sold thousands of cassettes with titles such as Space People, Karma and Destiny, and Gems and Crystals. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. ' 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.". "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. von Mierers would tell them. Montgomery speaks with the same bald hyperbole that she uses in her prose. A year later, as a highschool senior, he ran into Frederick again. Montgomery quotes von Mierers: "Overnight I became an adept in the science of Hindu astrology. The gem and its harmonic vibrations are in harmony with your body. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. Von Mierers was still local in 1983. "Frederick encouraged us to lie, to cheat, to say anything to our families. A Wall Street banker designed the computer system that charted the planets for von Mierers's readings; a Brooklyn woman kept his books. She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. 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. 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. In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." "You have to do something! Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. He and his friends would go to Freddys parties for the free beer; for a moment, at least, Hoyt was using him. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. The gem operation was confined to New York, although von Mierers also used jewelers in Washington, D.C., and Iowa to obtain stones. I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. They can uplift you, mentally and spiritually. 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. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. 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." It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. You must now break through the wretched values that you learned in the next reincarnations in France and England!" His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. What is a famous model doing here? But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. "My first impression was that he was a crazy. LAKE LURE MANSION HOUSED STAR PROPHET LEADER SOUGHT REFUGE BEFORE DYING OF AIDS. They are, in the main, blessed with ample salaries from good jobs. 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. "Handle them carefully," one of the young men said to me. That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. Do you see the ego there? I could write three books about him. One night, in a fit of insomnia, von Mierers thumbed through the book of Revelations. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. "I was the most powerful political columnist in America," she told me. 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. 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. I thought there was the possibility for real violence. All is evil . 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. We had a mission. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. Von Mierers ordered Adams to write a letter to Ruth Montgomery. They could help you. 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. Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. " One night in January, Andreadis conducted a seminar in the Park Avenue church. There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. "I ran into her on an airplane," a close friend of hers told me. The only thing that mattered was loyalty to the group." Even today, years after Charles Manson and the Jonestown mass suicides, more than two thousand cults continue to operate in America. "I have a very large income, and I spend it helping children." Often he would take his new clients to Doubles. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! "Vuitton is too Jewish. She has a huge audience. Other principals in the von Mierers' story are equally hard to reach. 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. Eileen Ford told me. 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. "I went to one weekend seminar," a businesswoman named Christina Andrews told me. Basically, at this point, Ive shifted the shame to a place where I think of myself as a survivor. von Mierers scolded. They are as candles in the dark to prevent you from falling into delusions," he said on one cassette. "I thought John Andreadis was spiritual," she told me. Every few moments, the birds spread their wings. "It made me cry," she said. The terrible earthquakes, the storms that will beset humanity! . So what was the harm? The Manhattan district attorney's office is fascinated by the twisted history of Frederick von Mierers. In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. I have rubies and sapphires! Often he would rage at his followers. Like so many cult leaders, he appealed to his followers vanity, telling them that they were special enough to literally save the world. From the time he was twelve or thirteen years old, he had been interested in Hindu philosophy. von Mierers insisted. I was the living symbol of their hypocrisy. Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. Writer Marie Brenner, who confirmed the now-dropped investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office, compared the blank stares of von Mierers' minions to those of Jim Jones, who led his followers in a mass suicide in the jungles of Guyana in 1979. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' 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. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " 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. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. Ha, that seems so simple when you say it. 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. They're cheap! In 1977, Helen Williams was in a car crash and had a stroke, which left her unable to speak. "Frederick has helped so many people. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. During the spiritual seminars in the Park Avenue church, ugly shouting would break out. 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