Often he would rage at his followers. "Everyone fancied him," a friend told me. When I called Ruth Montgomery to discuss von Mierers with her, she was defensive and refused to speak for attribution. Why don't we call ourselves Eternal Values? Studio Design Collection. Von Mierers seemed to be disintegrating, and according to several former acolytes, increasing quantities of hallucinogens were being consumed by certain members of the group. 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. Deputies in Davidson County rushed to help a 69-year-old man they'd found unresponsive in his house following a welfare check. "He was always accusing me of ego, as if that were a bad thing! I never did. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the 'world's first male supermodel,' pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. 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." What's the big deal? "You'll never be a Ted Koppel unless you have manners!" The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. "There was something endearing and maybe a little sinister about that." I got suspicious when he demanded cash, but the group members said, 'This is what we've done.' They could help you. Von Mierers ordered Adams to write a letter to Ruth Montgomery. Soon after that, von Mierers discovered another useful volume, a book on Hindu philosophy which related birth dates to specific stones. 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. On the weekends I would bring up a couple friends with me from school. A few people in the room were buzzing about her: Who is that beautiful woman? I hated myself beyond loathing. .like Lalique. What is a famous model doing here? They can uplift you, mentally and spiritually. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. From the time he was twelve or thirteen years old, he had been interested in Hindu philosophy. . "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. Karr visited the house occasionally, until the ``no trespassing' signs went up several months ago. The anxiety attached to the end of an era, much less a millennium, inevitably produces collective madness. You must now break through the wretched values that you learned in the next reincarnations in France and England!" Control is subtle. He would say, 'This sapphire is $50,000, this emerald is $70,000.' Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. I had come in to interview Ford and Joe Hunter about von Mierers. 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. I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. He looked at her emeralds and told her they were junk. 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. "Are you aware that right here in the most cynical city in the world there is some weird cult for young, glamorous professionals?" In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. She was like an Audrey Hepburn, exquisite beyond words," the stylist, Richard Adams, who is no relation, told me. He's saying, 'Don't hit me!'.. They came after me and talked me into coming back. Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. "I recognized him as a phony," Jocelyn Kress told me. We were free to come and go. In 1979, Andreadis was a private-school boy from a rich New York family; his father invented Man-Tan. I am the elite. No mother, no father, no brother, no sister. I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' I thought, How can he have such sway over these attractive people? Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. It was the go-go 80s. I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. For that offense they shaved my head. As the years passed, we re-located to North Carolina. 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. Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. 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. Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. Instead, they sent the body to Chapel Hill for autopsy by the state medical examiner. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. Something went wrong. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. In 1977, Helen Williams was in a car crash and had a stroke, which left her unable to speak. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. ' 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.". They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. In fear, Andreadis and Adams went to Jamaica. "And you'll never be a David Bowie unless you get a better story," Bey replied. Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. Gunzenhausen (German pronunciation: [ntsnhazn] (); Bavarian: Gunzenhausn) is a town in the Weienburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.It is situated on the river Altmhl, 19 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Weienburg in Bayern, and 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Nuremberg.Gunzenhausen is a nationally recognized recreation area. He has a lot of good traits and a lot of bad ones. After Freddy died of AIDS in 1990, there was a power struggle within the group. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. Then the nationally syndicated TV show ``Inside Edition' and numerous tabloids featured stories on the enigmatic leader. "He teaches us how to aspire to be the best we can. Eileen Ford told me. This guy is raking in millions! When I saw him in Venice, he just sat right down with me at Harry's Bar. And when he complained to Frederick, von Mierers said to him, "You will die on the water! ' Von Mierers would invite his more attractive and richer clients to his apartment. One afternoon, I dont even remember what I was reading, but it just hit me like a thunderbolt. The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. von Mierers scolded. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. "He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. Jeremiah will take over your body.' 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. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. At times, his anti-Semitic remarks were almost comical. At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. Were they real? "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. Eternal Values was by now big business, so successful that von Mierers had anointed Andreadis as his probable successor to run the organization. " A terrible man has been selling him gems! Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. One night, in a fit of insomnia, von Mierers thumbed through the book of Revelations. ''. A few days later I called him and said, 'I don't want the ring!' Mr. Richards, shown above, organized and produced the . Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. I was in this weird catch-22. "About this time he had the idea of going into business," a friend told me. He was a "sprite," as one acquaintance phrased it, "cute, cute, cute," the toast of the beaches at Cherry Grove on Fire Island in the 1960s. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. 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. They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. The only thing that mattered was loyalty to the group." 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. The former V.F. John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. Amelia and Becky are friends, but they are nothing alike. Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? Few wind up, as von Mierers did, a canny gem salesman who was easily able to win over a popular author named Ruth Montgomery, whose books on psychic phenomena have sold millions of copies. Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. When he had them appraised privately, he learned that this was not the case. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. Frederick's been working like lightning. By the late 1960s, he had shed his accent and become an energetic walker who trafficked in gossip and his Rolodex. I could write three books about him. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. "I was so highly evolved," he told me. one exclaimed. Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." Von Mierers was still local in 1983. Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. ", For years, von Mierers had a television show of his own in New York. You're a model! "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' 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? "Vuitton is too Jewish. 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. Thats how twisted around you canbecome. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. "Frederick has helped so many people. By age eighteen she had been on the cover of British Vogue. In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. "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. 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. Catherine Edelmann, the Princeton honors graduate, said of von Mierers on a widely distributed tape, "One of the things Frederick said was 'Do not want a position! I asked. And no one could control Frederick anymore. .immaculate dresser. One time, toward the end, they said I was guilty of vanity because I supposedly looked in the mirror too much. Von Mierers waited impatiently for the publication of Aliens Among Us. Who neededmoney? I couldnt seem to live up to the community standards. ``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. His followers gave him tens of thousands of dollars for rings to prove their faith. Uproar ensued. "Her eyes were blank, emotionally blank. ", I was staring into the face of Frederick von Mierers. "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." "I was the most powerful political columnist in America," she told me. He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. One client tried to force me to hire him. A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. 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. No matter what I did, I couldnt seem to measure up. "They eat such unhealthy food." This is not phenomenalism and five-and-dimestore stupidities!" 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. "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. Other people stay at the house year-round, he said. We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. He was a scrambling pretty boy who lived life on the edge. Pulsating ionization machines cleansed the air, and billowing clouds were painted on the walls. Part of many life readings was a "gem prescription." I always knew Freddie was a big talker and a fantasist. The speaker was emaciated, obviously very ill, but swathed in white cashmere, flawlessly groomed. 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. It's a joke! Even today, years after Charles Manson and the Jonestown mass suicides, more than two thousand cults continue to operate in America. "Let me tell you something! In fact, he was represented by Wagner, a third-class agency that no longer exists. he advised one model. The evil forces are everywhere.". you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". "I had read everything. As John Hoyt made his way around New York, he talked about von Mierers to other models he would meet. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. Other principals in the von Mierers' story are equally hard to reach. " 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. They are, in the main, blessed with ample salaries from good jobs. Frederick von Mierers is one of the most complex characters I ever met. Catherine Edelmann asked on a tape. She has a huge audience. I called him in the middle of the night and he paid for a plane ticket to L.A. Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." 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. "I almost had a breakdown. "Freddie used to tell us all in those days that he had spent $20,000 to decorate it, which was a tremendous amount then!". .. Ask yourself, who am I? 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. "You see how terrible your families are?" Only the elite will be saved. ''Every other check was made out to Freddie von Mierers. I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. When I wasnt in trouble, theyd call me Dippy, but generally I was just called Dipshit. 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. Eternal Values is unusual in that many of its young devotees have a lot of cash to spend on von Mierers's healing gems. The leader was a man named Frederick Von Mierers. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. 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. Slowly, I became mesmerized by him." It was in January of 1978 that von Mierers appeared to make the bizarre mental journey that would cause him to affect so many young lives. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. . "My dear friend the great society decorator Billy Baldwin taught me everything about color,'' von Mierers told me. Do you see the ego there? 69-year-old suffers stroke in his home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. "Pick that up right now!" I knew that I had come from Arcturus. Nonnegotiable! We all know its not. 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. "I called my cousin to warn him that his mother was in terrible danger. ' Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. Pressed about other people who claimed he had cheated them, he said, "These are jealous, sick, twisted people. Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." "Aren't they fabulous? . It is through such negative thoughts that the dark forces work. The cult was called Eternal Values. I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. The fairy tales of this dimension! He told me, 'Give me $9,000 cash to paint it. We are sincere! "He would cross-reference all these books, and then he began to order sapphires," Andreadis said. 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. Only Hermes.". From the mind, which is the ego. 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. He knew what was at stake. . And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. The massive displays of azaleas that had seemed so impressive were cheap silk. 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.' He swept into the room and said, 'I come from Arcturus. Nobody forced me or twisted my arm to waste 20 years of my life. "I had found them through Ruth Montgomery's book. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. He would always say, 'You know how you are.' What is the nature of this world?. As unbelievable as it sounds, never once during my two decades with the group did I ever consider I might be a member of a cult. " 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." 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. "The root of all thought is the I thought," he might say while lecturing opaquely on his views of Eastern philosophy. EVERY PAGE. . 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. They all came with bogus appraisals. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. and 'You are a fucking, sick, evil, satanic piece of shit! "Jews have been evil since the beginning of time. Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. "We must spread our message to help humanity." Vanity Includes Mirror. However, word began to spread through the Upper East Side of New York that von Mierers had genuine psychic ability. 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. 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. But little did the world know that he was deeply involved in a terrifying cult. Basically, at this point, Ive shifted the shame to a place where I think of myself as a survivor. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. 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. I gave them $28,000 in cash and traveler's checks. 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. Mostly it was menial jobsdoing dishes and laundry, scrubbing toilets, doing vacuum packing. In the beginning, von Mierers would tell them to avoid sex. Were all in one kind of cult or another. "I decided not to let the moment pass," Adams told me, ''and I introduced myself to John.". . ' This last year, in the early fall, I received another call, this time from a close friend. John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. 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. Like best-selling author Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation), who details his visitations from space people, Montgomery seems completely in the thrall of her vision. Im making it. "How could an obvious phony like this convince so many smart, attractive young people in New York that he was for real?" Every few moments, the birds spread their wings. Some are more abusive. He is making tapes for him that are anti-Semitic and anti-women! I thought, God! "Frederick immediately saw that we needed an organization, merchandise, a name!" But when I got the ring, I could immediately tell they had switched the stones. Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. 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 says that he realized 'even then' that Helen Williams had been his mother in several previous lifetimes, and they were almost inseparable. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. "We were so very close." Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. ", 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. He would tell us, 'We are living a high spiritual life.' Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. "The gems are God's thoughts condensed.. .the gateways into this dimension for the ether waves.. .. von Mierers told a TV talkshow host named Richard Bey in 1988 to characterize the followers he had with him on the show. . 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! The message was simple: Adams and Andreadis were evil; their egos would have to be ' 'destroyed. ' "Do you understand? "Don't become a cock worshiper! ". ", 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. he would say. 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. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. 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. In 1992, the Italian mens magazine Mondo Uomo did a 58 page spread onme. . There is no punctuation in it.' 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. Montgomery had been so moved by Andreadis's letter that she felt compelled to consult the Guides. I worked with photographers like Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. "Of course, he was never a spiritual person.". I can get you these gems at cost!' He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." . 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. I was appalled by Frederick. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. And that is all I am going to say.". 1913 TO TODAY. "Frederick never trusted me," Adams told me. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. 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