For the narcissistic young, all the talk about their diet, spiritual mission, and ego was just another way they could spend time thinking about themselves. "You'll never be a Ted Koppel unless you have manners!" She wrote in Aliens Among Us that the Guides responded, "John is from Arcturus. "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." My mother was not that rich. 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. 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"). "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. New York has always been a city of pretense, filled with mythomaniacs and con artists, most of them rank amateurs. 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. He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. "I decided not to let the moment pass," Adams told me, ''and I introduced myself to John.". summers in Nantucket and falls in Oyster Bay. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. . A decade ago, Montgomery was a Danielle Steel of New Age literature, a forerunner of Shirley MacLaine. I thought, God! At night he held court and gave his friends cleaning chores to help them to work on their inflated egos. Im making it. That's $3 million. "What is that?" "Everyone fancied him," a friend told me. He would say, 'This sapphire is $50,000, this emerald is $70,000.' At times, his anti-Semitic remarks were almost comical. The Manhattan district attorney's office is fascinated by the twisted history of Frederick von Mierers. John comes back down here and Frederick starts smashing him across the face, and just saying, 'You fucking liar!' "That's $500,000 wholesale!" Only Hermes.". It was Christmas this past year at the Ford agency, and Eileen Ford was frantic. No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. 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. In fear, Andreadis and Adams went to Jamaica. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Without Freddy to focus on, there were an increasing number of strict rules and codes of punishment. She bought the herbs for the Eternal Values diet and started the rigorous food-combining program. Frederick would bring out the coral and the lapis and he would light up like a Christmas tree. John Hoyt, another member, said, "John was a very stubborn boy. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. I was in this weird catch-22. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. . Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. It's a joke! "Freddie used to tell us all in those days that he had spent $20,000 to decorate it, which was a tremendous amount then!". and 'You are a fucking, sick, evil, satanic piece of shit! Editor's Letter: Tales of the unexpected. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. It helps that Hoyt, or John as his family calls him throughout the film, was born into such a stereotypical American existence. They're cheaper than you could get wholesale!' And Rutherford County officials in charge of von Mierers' now-cremated corpse have also said Seaman tried to get them to sign a death certificate for von Mierers. We all know its not. He later told Ruth Montgomery that he had undergone what she called a "bewildering substitution of egos." I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' "Freddie then went to a lawyer and threatened that he would sue me to get my power of attorney. 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 mind, which is the ego. . I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' One of the aspects that troubled Andreadis was Frederick's increasing desire to find members who were rich. There, he would later tell Ruth Montgomery, he was also treated for a streptococcal infection. A hydrogen-light body. 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 sobbing. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. "It is possible to raise the vibration of your consciousness through the. "I think of him as a junior type. Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. I asked. 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." For that offense they shaved my head. Who Am I? "I called my cousin to warn him that his mother was in terrible danger. ' A few days later I called him and said, 'I don't want the ring!' I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. staffer, who was conned out of $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, questions Netflix's decision to pay the proven criminal more than . Arietta 31 in. 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. Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. . Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. "You see how terrible your families are?" The cult was called Eternal Values. East Side Alien: Frederick von Mierers, who claims he's from the star Arcturus. 1913 TO TODAY. "He just understands everything about us." Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. And here I was, a male model, a symbol of all we were supposed to hate. His hair was the color of canned pineapple; his eyes were hard, cold blue, the eyes of a man who finds little surprising anymore. Pay the money or you're out.' Do you see the ego there? It was impossible not to notice that von Mierers's friends all wore large gems. As the years passed, we re-located to North Carolina. The body, the mind, and the senses are inert. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. . Please subscribe to keep reading. I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. 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. 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. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. View cart for details. "Of course, he was never a spiritual person.". ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! .immaculate dresser. Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" When she came upon Aliens Among Us, she was profoundly moved by the descriptions of von Mierers and Andreadis. Eternal Values does not approve of my marriage. " "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. Write to her and tell her to write about aliens next." "Frederick was only trying to help him." But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. ''Every other check was made out to Freddie von Mierers. Just a few things that come to mind, working from memory of course. Mr. Richards, shown above, organized and produced the . I like who I am now. "I went to one weekend seminar," a businesswoman named Christina Andrews told me. You have such powers! It would be the final certification, for who in the psychic world could ever doubt Montgomery's famous Guides? "Frederick got me an apartment in the building. We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. 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Group members began to yell at Adams and Andreadis that they were "satanic." a city detective recently asked a Ford model who had fled from the group. "If all my models were like John Hoyt, I would have a fabulous agency. He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the worlds first male supermodel, pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. "As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". Some are more abusive. 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! When asked recently about his relationship to Mrs. Williams, he said, "She was my great-aunt. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. I was the living symbol of their hypocrisy. ", 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." If this was the road it took to get me here, so beit. They all came with bogus appraisals. 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. 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. Ha, that seems so simple when you say it. "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. 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.". The former V.F. The only thing that mattered was loyalty to the group." 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