"As far as I'm concerned, he's a crumbum.". "I almost had a nervous breakdown," she told me. 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. 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. "Look at these emeralds," he was telling me, stroking his gems. His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. We've had stones in our family for years. Von Mierers describes on them past lives of clients; this one was a "healer'' in Egypt, that one a "courtesan" in ancient Rome. All this pale-blue lacquer. She was told that it was her duty "to lie, to cheat, to make up any story" to ensure von Mierers's security. 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 would never have made it without the help of my old friend Fabio, the spokesmodel. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. When he had them appraised privately, he learned that this was not the case. Your parents have been horrible for you. Adams was at first taken in by von Mierers's techniques. All is evil . We never would have signed him." Freddys successors were even more extreme. His Manhattan number is unpublished, and there's no listing for him in Lake Lure. . . I work for a gemologist, and I told her to bring in the stones. 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. You will survive the storms and be the leaders of the millennium." He knew what was at stake. Plus, I was supporting them. You are guilty of ego!" "I can't begin to tell you how handsome he was." John Hoyt, another member, said, "John was a very stubborn boy. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. Part of mind control has always been to make people believe they are in danger from the outside world. "I had read everything. Every few moments, the birds spread their wings. Eileen Ford asked me. I am here to train the leaders of the New Age. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. Jesus, Rama, Krishna, Buddha did not come to promise you another piece of ass. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. As the Manhattan D.A. Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. It was right at that time when models were becoming celebrities. One night, in a fit of insomnia, von Mierers thumbed through the book of Revelations. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. If this was the road it took to get me here, so beit. 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. "Vuitton is too Jewish. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' To whom do these thoughts arise and whence do they come? 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. 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. It became evil. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. His friends even thought it was charmingly eccentric that Helen Williams, as rich as she was, always took the subway to meet him for their dates. There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. I was appalled by Frederick. Much of her childhood was spent in rural poverty. "I recognized him as a phony," Jocelyn Kress told me. I can get you these gems at cost!' Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. ", 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. 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. "That's $500,000 wholesale!" When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. We were free to come and go. Von Mierers called Andreadis his Jesus and allowed him to teach seminars at a Park Avenue church. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! On a black January night just six days after American jets began bombing Iraq, Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr., the 66-year-old bad boy of the Texas oil and gas industry, faced more than 1,100 well-heeled . "How could an obvious phony like this convince so many smart, attractive young people in New York that he was for real?" Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. Uproar ensued. How could I have been duped like that for solong? We are not a cult.". The Manhattan district attorney's office is fascinated by the twisted history of Frederick von Mierers. Von Mierers believed in impending doomthat he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings, an intergalactic team of emergency responders. Andreadis's mother, Barbara, who owns a New York talent agency, began to worry. They told me then to make two payments in cashone $8,000, one $3,000. Enrolled now at Columbia as a freshman, Andreadis often helped von Mierers do the charts. In Aliens Among Us, Montgomery, a former journalist, devotes sixty pages to von Mierers and his persona as a citizen of Arcturus, as well as his astonishing psychic abilities. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. . "Frederick has helped so many people. We all want the gems,'' I had heard a Princeton honors graduate and devotee of Eternal Values say on a cassette about the stones. 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. 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." I first heard about von Mierers three years ago. He was a fringe player who appeared "to know everybody," as he might have said. He even let me drive one of his Porches. In four months, she claims, she paid more than $100,000 to von Mierers and Eternal Values. They never saw that side in Lake Lure, however. I gave Freddy every penny I earned. Sutherland 48 in. Frederick would bring out the coral and the lapis and he would light up like a Christmas tree. That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. Still, they control ourmind. 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. A West Coast money manager with Prudential-Bache met von Mierers in a grand Virginia house. Like anyone suffering from Stockholm syndromewhere a hostage identifies with his captorsI had no ability to objectify my experience. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. He looked at her emeralds and told her they were junk. At that time I was high priest! ' One cassette was sent all over the country. .From where do these thoughts arise? As my career picked up, people began calling me the first male supermodel. . Everyone I am training for leadership will have perfect features. Did it matter? "There are people like the Warburgs and the Schiffs, who are acceptable, and then there are the others, like Allen Funt." "He kept saying, 'John is not working hard enough producing the tapes.' Control of diet was an important first step. Frederick Von Mierers, a deeply tanned cult leader with a shocking crown of platinum blond hair, spoke to his followers through their television sets. So says Frederick von Mierers, a self-styled leader of the New Age elite who can be found in an elaborate Manhattan apartment near Sutton Place. Who knows? In the last five years, close to eight thousand people have contacted Eternal Values seeking its merchandisecassettes and videos, books and pamphlets, diet plans which urge specific food combinations and colon cleansing, personalized astrology, and psychic "life readings.'' Im a textbook cultvictim.. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. One of the aspects that troubled Andreadis was Frederick's increasing desire to find members who were rich. " When Douglas Wyatt was introduced to Eternal Values, Andreadis claims von Mierers told him, "Be nice to him. "It is not working! 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. They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. Life after a cult has been challenging and terrifying and liberating. Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. Von Mierers would stare at the camera with his cold blue eyes and talk about Satan and "the dark forces." 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