I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. 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. I'm going to smash the shit out of you!' I gave them $28,000 in cash and traveler's checks. He screamed at me, attacked my character, and told me I was being irresponsible and that the ring would fix all that.". After that things were pretty crazy. "It is possible to raise the vibration of your consciousness through the. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. Von Mierers, in the company of Helen Williams, began to study the teachings of the famous psychic Edgar Cayce and to learn astrology; he talked constantly of planetary aspects and charts at Doubles and Studio 54. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." Plus, I was supporting them. one's own. The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." Pressed about other people who claimed he had cheated them, he said, "These are jealous, sick, twisted people. 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 thought, How can he have such sway over these attractive people? And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. We all lived together in the same apartment building. Please subscribe to keep reading. 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! 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." They are essential for every sincere seeker of the Truth. ") I could write three books about him. It is materialized, objectified thoughts. What is a famous model doing here? "I think of him as a junior type. ", 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. Always, he was immaculate; he combed his hair, which was dark then, straight back like an heir to Morgan Stanley. Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. " Adams, at her most psychologically fragile, agreed to do her time on "mail duties." . 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. Frederick told me that my deficiencies were so horrendous that I needed a stone that was at least two to three and a half carats. 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 elite. By age eighteen she had been on the cover of British Vogue. "John was out for position," Wyatt told me after a long pause. . "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. "No one is recruiting here! At first glance, the flowers appeared real. "It made me cry," she said. But there is no way Freddie got rich on the Ford models that are his followers! I knew that I had come from Arcturus. He no longer needed to suffer the dreadful slights that often beset ambitious and aging pretty boys. . "How did Ruth Montgomery find out about you?" ", "Things happen. "It was Frederick's idea to strip us of our egos through sexual humiliation," a model told a prosecutor in the office of the Manhattan district attorney. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. I work for a gemologist, and I told her to bring in the stones. . ''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.". The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. By 1976 he was listed in the New York Social Register, and he carried it with him everywhere, as if to call attention to his social stature. We all know its not. Von Mierers, like the leaders of the People's Temple, talked constantly of Satan's influence in the world, the dark forces, and viciously belittled the notion of family ties. You have permission to edit this article. I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' 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. The novel opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young women, where readers are introduced to Amelia and Becky, the novel's female protagonists. 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. $699.99 / piece Size: 31in. Soon he was attempting to find work as a society decorator and furniture restorer, living in a tiny apartment on East Forty-ninth Street which he had decorated in Baldwin style. 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. We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. "How does Frederick know so much?" From the mind, which is the ego. Von Mierers called Andreadis his Jesus and allowed him to teach seminars at a Park Avenue church. Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". They speak in New Age jargon and talk of "highly evolved" personalities and "ego renunciation." "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. "I was so highly evolved," he told me. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. He would tell prospective buyers that he was able to get stones at a tremendous discount, which the inflated appraisal papers would confirm. I am the chosen one. Amelia and Becky are friends, but they are nothing alike. It has also been eye-opening. Who Am I? The message was simple: Adams and Andreadis were evil; their egos would have to be ' 'destroyed. ' I took the heaviest piece in my hand, a gold bracelet with what appeared to be lavender sapphires. And we are they!" A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. As the Manhattan D.A. Years ago, if he said he worked ten days on a modeling job, I knew that meant he worked two days! A year later, as a highschool senior, he ran into Frederick again. The former V.F. Im here. I was appalled by Frederick. They came after me and talked me into coming back. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. I called him in the middle of the night and he paid for a plane ticket to L.A. Its like: I was a promising kid from a good (if somewhat screwed up) family. How could I have been duped like that for solong? The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. They are as candles in the dark to prevent you from falling into delusions," he said on one cassette. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. "I said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' People don't even know themselves, do they? All this pale-blue lacquer. he advised one model. ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." Only Hermes.". Eternal Values does not approve of my marriage. " Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" Frederick insisted on cash. The man's famil, Growing up in Goldsboro, Greensboro Day senior Jaydon Young averaged 25.9 points per game as a freshman at Wayne Christian. The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. Jeremiah will take over your body.' Without Freddy to focus on, there were an increasing number of strict rules and codes of punishment. Von Mierers rented a house on Nantucket, where Baldwin always spent his summers. At that time I was high priest! Pulsating ionization machines cleansed the air, and billowing clouds were painted on the walls. What's the big deal? "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. I thought there was the possibility for real violence. .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. My nickname in the group was Dipshit. 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She has a huge audience. "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. His followers gave him tens of thousands of dollars for rings to prove their faith. Fritz Diekmann, the TV executive, yelled out, "Stop bullshitting everyone." I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. "It was like being in a meeting of Nazi storm troopers," Hartwell told me. He had sold thousands of cassettes with titles such as Space People, Karma and Destiny, and Gems and Crystals. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. "I ran into her on an airplane," a close friend of hers told me. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our. Frederick's been working like lightning. We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. For that offense they shaved my head. I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. Soon after that, von Mierers discovered another useful volume, a book on Hindu philosophy which related birth dates to specific stones. Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. "We had a conversation about various things that had already occurred in my life, ' ' Hoyt told an interviewer. 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. ". I was the living symbol of their hypocrisy. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. "No one is being kept here," he told me. Karr said he couldn't remember the name of one man he remembers meeting at the house. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. Group members began to yell at Adams and Andreadis that they were "satanic." Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. 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. Still, they control ourmind. Oh. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. You realize its kind of happening to everyone in a way. He described Frederick as "an internationally renowned Hindu astrologer and lecturer in the underlying unity between science and religion. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. ``They were rather reclusive,' Police Chief Frank Fritts said. "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers told me. "You see how terrible your families are?" "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. The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. "When I first met Frederick, I was only sixteen years old, and I was so naive I still believed that anyone who said he was spiritual was holy," a young man named John Andreadis told me. In a new documentary, Welcome to the Beyond, Hoyt recalls his introduction to the cult leader who would alter the course of his life. A cult is sort of like that same relationshiponcrack. I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. 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