When Aliens Among Us was published, his fantasy was realized. ''Every other check was made out to Freddie von Mierers. What is the nature of this world?. They can uplift you, mentally and spiritually. 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! ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. .immaculate dresser. Fritz Diekmann, the TV executive, yelled out, "Stop bullshitting everyone." I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. The model, who was involved with Eternal Values for almost a year, has given a sworn secret statement to the Manhattan D.A. "I went to one weekend seminar," a businesswoman named Christina Andrews told me. Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. All this pale-blue lacquer. Bob Parks of nearby Bob's Marina wasn't familiar with von Mierers either, at least not until an ``Inside Edition' camera crew rented one of his boats to shoot the lakeside mansion. This guy is raking in millions! As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. It was late summer 1987, and Jacki Adams, the Elizabeth Arden model, at twenty-two was earning more than $300,000 a year. .. . I could give these kids almost a Harvard course in metaphysics." 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. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. The gems are Gods thoughts condensed, he always told us. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. No money changed hands; Unified Cosmogony was just a new name for Eternal Values, according to the deed. My whole body was encompassed in a blazing white light. Shortly after Jacki Adams and John Andreadis fled from von Mierers, group members put out three cassettes. There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." Frederick Von Mierers, a deeply tanned cult leader with a shocking crown of platinum blond hair, spoke to his followers through their television sets. "Why do you have to be a gem salesman? CURRENT ACTIVITY: Being admired in Mondo Uomo, the Italian men's magazine, which has devoted 58 pages to him in its November/December issue. .like Lalique. They quickly annulled their marriage, but they have remained friends. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. ", I was staring into the face of Frederick von Mierers. I was sobbing. . They are, in the main, blessed with ample salaries from good jobs. " When Douglas Wyatt was introduced to Eternal Values, Andreadis claims von Mierers told him, "Be nice to him. I was in this weird catch-22. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. "These are the light lasers! The dark forces controlling this world are working not only through the obvious avenues of bombs, chemicals, and drugs but also through New Age spirituality. It is through such negative thoughts that the dark forces work. For a time, he supported himself handily as a model. ''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.". "He's harmless," Hunter 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. I had it taken apart when I got back to California, and I learned it was almost worthless." He kept elaborate ledger records, but he insisted on being paid in cash. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. ", 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. "Frederick got me an apartment in the building. Perhaps as a way of breaking free, Andreadis and Adams married in November. I never did. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! Olson, the head of quality control for IBM's Latin-American division, owns gems von Mierers sold him for more than $100,000. "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. "All the people here went to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton!'' If this was the road it took to get me here, so beit. . 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. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. He enlisted appraisers who worked on percentages of the stones they evaluated. "Don't become a cock worshiper! Von Mierers began to talk about the great psychic Edgar Cayce and his gem prescriptions. He put me up in his house for almost 18 months. ", For years, von Mierers had a television show of his own in New York. It became evil. 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. and that was the end of that.". David Seaman was a New York chiropractor. The idea was ultimately to destroy the ego and then rebuild it in a more malleable form. "I thought John Andreadis was spiritual," she told me. Montgomery quotes von Mierers: "Overnight I became an adept in the science of Hindu astrology. I like who I am now. .. protege of Billy Baldwin.. . Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. At first glance, the flowers appeared real. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." "Frederick immediately saw that we needed an organization, merchandise, a name!" 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." "He saves them from their egos. These looked pretty good. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. It is true that our space brothers and sisters have arrived. "My gems help me to see things clearly," an IBM executive named Pete Olson told me. They bought his pitchand the gems he said would make them New Age lords and duchesses. Von Mierers, however, did make Gentlemen's Quarterly. Later, Hoyt went to Princeton and became a member of Cap and Gown. "You are so pretty-pretty-pretty-pretty, my wonderful birds," he said, kissing their beaks. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. 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. 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. "Frederick was brilliant at puffing us all up," Adams told me. You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. They cannot raise the question . 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. "We must spread our message to help humanity." Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. someone asked. Every movement was a tremendous effort. His business began to grow. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." .. Andreadis often did ten astrology charts a week for von Mierers. 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. ' I can help you to transcend.' Montgomery's belief in von Mierers so overwhelmed him that he would read her chapters out loud again and again to his followers, as if to convince himself that they were true. I asked. I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' Von Mierers believed in impending doomthat he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings, an intergalactic team of emergency responders. ' This last year, in the early fall, I received another call, this time from a close friend. "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. "All they ever talked about was money," Andreadis told me. Jesus, Rama, Krishna, Buddha did not come to promise you another piece of ass. She attended a seminar and saw "a young man who was so attractive I knew it had to be John Andreadis." Eileen Ford said "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". Each apartment had immense displays of pink azaleas and tiger lilies, arranged as if for a garden show. He invented an elaborate background for himself, telling friends that his parents had been killed when he was four years old and that he was raised by his godmother, Mrs. Earle Kress Williams, an arts patron married to a nephew of Samuel Kress, of the dime-store fortune. 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. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. You realize it didnt happen to me because Im especially flawed or have some defect. he raged at the young man, who scurried to obey him. Beware.. .the path of the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. A lot of it I think has to do with learning to find acceptance within yourself, and not relying on others for your self esteem. We always used to kid about the old neighborhood. EVERY PAGE. There was a big Vanity Fair expos at one point . 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. 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 was right at that time when models were becoming celebrities. 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. "Handle them carefully," one of the young men said to me. "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. I would never have made it without the help of my old friend Fabio, the spokesmodel. A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. The spirit of Jeremiah walked into my body. There, in 1978, he met a sixteen-year-old named John Hoyt. While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. 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. Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. I thought, God! In other words, he's not capitulating'. When the money manager demanded a refund, he says, von Mierers at first screamed at him, then refused to take his calls. But there is no way Freddie got rich on the Ford models that are his followers! Kathleen Turner and her. 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. Later, in therapy, I would figure out I was repeating a pattern from my childhood. In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. I gave Freddy every penny I earned. It would be the final certification, for who in the psychic world could ever doubt Montgomery's famous Guides? You must write that I am the reincarnation of Jeremiah from the Old Testament. After Aliens Among Us came out, everyone wanted to come to dinner with us," a follower of von Mierers's named Monty Karp told me. I thought there was the possibility for real violence. The gem and its harmonic vibrations are in harmony with your body. 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. "It made me cry," she said. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. 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. But I was impressed with the people he had managed to have around. She has a huge audience. When asked recently about his relationship to Mrs. Williams, he said, "She was my great-aunt. "My first impression was that he was a crazy. Group members were encouraged to patronize special doctors, nutritionists, and the chiropractor David Seaman. I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. ". ", When asked later about his reaction to the departure of Adams and Andreadis, von Mierers lapsed into a long silence and then, speaking with difficulty, said, "I don't know who such people are." The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. "Interior decorator 28 years old . There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. I have so many fabulous, fabulous things.". "He showed me a pamphlet called something like 'The I Is Life' that he was going to sell. Thats how twisted around you canbecome. He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." "There are really two kinds of Jews," a friend remembers him saying. Nonnegotiable! Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. . As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. The evil forces are everywhere.". As I came and went to work, I was often accused of being resistant to our rules and way of life. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. People don't even know themselves, do they? Group members began to yell at Adams and Andreadis that they were "satanic." Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." Mostly it was menial jobsdoing dishes and laundry, scrubbing toilets, doing vacuum packing. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. To me, I was in a special group on an important mission; I believed I was one of the Chosen who would lead the Earth into a new era of peace and prosperity. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. 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