A pharaoh! investigates von Mierers, MARIE BRENNER breaks the story. . ``They were rather reclusive,' Police Chief Frank Fritts said. Later, in therapy, I would figure out I was repeating a pattern from my childhood. I had it taken apart when I got back to California, and I learned it was almost worthless." Who knows? I was in this weird catch-22. 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. From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. I don't know anything about this!" He will buy everything for you." 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. I am the elite. "He would tell us how fabulous and beautiful and special we all were. 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. However, word began to spread through the Upper East Side of New York that von Mierers had genuine psychic ability. $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. Some are more abusive. Von Mierers had learned what it took to glide through New York's best drawing rooms. It's a drop in the bucket.' That's $3 million. "I almost had a breakdown. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! That summer she began her spiritual quest in earnest. I always knew Freddie was a big talker and a fantasist. Von Mierers, however, did make Gentlemen's Quarterly. She reportedly paid von Mierers $75,000 for her gems. The stones were badly scratched; their color was cloudy. Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. I sought counseling and have a little bit of a film careerwriting, acting and producing several movies. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. von Mierers scolded. "The gems are God's thoughts condensed.. .the gateways into this dimension for the ether waves.. .. As the Manhattan D.A. 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"Why do you have to be a gem salesman? "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. One appraiser on West Forty-seventh Street routinely gave von Mierers papers which showed that his stones were worth two or three times what he was charging for them. From the mind, which is the ego. "Don't ever carry a Vuitton bag!" 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! As private-school teenagers found their way to East Fiftyfourth Street, von Mierers would talk to them about his "godmother" from the "famous Kress family" and his friends the Vanderbilts. He swept into the room and said, 'I come from Arcturus. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. 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. Im making it. A terrible man has been selling him gems! I looked at them in a loupe. "We were so very close." We would party, go to Studio 54 and crash at his apartment. 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. 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 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. "Pick that up right now!" Write to her and tell her to write about aliens next." Close to sixty people attended. By the time Jacki Adams introduced herself to Andreadis, von Mierers's successor was becoming disenchanted with Eternal Values. For that offense they shaved my head. Beware.. .the path of the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. Control is subtle. His house in Nantucket, his medical insurance, his club dues. someone asked. 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. I never did. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! ", 'You must write that I am from the star Arcturus. The gem business has always been predicated on the notion of caveat emptor; a stone is worth what the customer is willing to pay. At that time I was high priest! "Maybe Freddie von Mierers is taking people for millions! Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. "It is possible to raise the vibration of your consciousness through the. Von Mierers invited him to his apartment, and Andreadis recalled, "It was Zen, it was so beautiful. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. ``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. ''Cash would come in for the gems from all over the country," Andreadis told me. Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. A cult is sort of like that same relationshiponcrack. 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. "I said to him, 'Come on, John, do you really think you're from another planet?' It was Christmas this past year at the Ford agency, and Eileen Ford was frantic. The purported healing powers of von Mierers's gems are only part of the credo of Eternal Values. Like von Mierers, they were dressed in expensive clothes. Eileen Ford told me. "I called my cousin to warn him that his mother was in terrible danger. ' "I told her, 'A young lady should have the best of everything.' 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. Please subscribe to keep reading. "Vuitton is too Jewish. 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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. You realize its kind of happening to everyone in a way. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. "Oh, you duchesses and lords!" All this pale-blue lacquer. I am not for the masses. ''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.". 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. Through the help of a friendly building representative, he had arranged leases for some of his new friends in his apartment house. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' ", 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. It was impossible not to notice that von Mierers's friends all wore large gems. He would say, 'This sapphire is $50,000, this emerald is $70,000.' It has also been eye-opening. "He was never a good model," Eileen Ford recently told me. "Then it became something else. They all had striking similarities; they were young, mostly in their twenties and early thirties, and quite good-looking, with taut, muscular bodies. . When I stayed with him and his (friend) John, we would visit studio 54, dance-atria, and strawberries underground quite often and never paid for anything. "I have just heard the wildest story from a makeup artist who works on many Ford models," she said. Plus, I was supporting them. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." They cannot raise the question . Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. If this was the road it took to get me here, so beit. Is a "Dangerous" Distortion, Says Rachel Williams. I knew at that hour they couldn't be up to any good," the tenant told me. by such friends and clients as Babe Paley, Averell Harriman, and Cole Porter. He became, he said, deeply depressed, "disenchanted with the world, and wanting out.". While I was at Fabios, I began doing a lot of reading. I could write three books about him. .From where do these thoughts arise? Within the group, the number of gems and carats possessed was treated as a sign of devoutness. "Interior decorator 28 years old . Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. They came after me and talked me into coming back. From somewhere, I heard music which sounded like an organ on a Moog synthesizer. "You have to do something! By now von Mierers had perfected his pitch. 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 . Part of mind control has always been to make people believe they are in danger from the outside world. Harper's Bazaar named him one of its "Playboys of the Eastern Coast." Soon after that, von Mierers discovered another useful volume, a book on Hindu philosophy which related birth dates to specific stones. ", Mind control inevitably follows a specific pattern. To this day I owe him everything. He had us change the locks on the door. "No one is recruiting here!" He said he had come to Earth to warn people of an impending apocalypse, and to train his students to become leaders in the aftermath. "He kept saying, 'John is not working hard enough producing the tapes.' I gave Freddy every penny I earned. Vanity Fair Summary. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" "Aren't they fabulous? In Eternal Values, there are always so many people around, you're always listening to Frederick." ''. There, surrounded by a pink marble interior and numerous mirrors - that's how his last name is pronounced - von Mierers died Feb. 4 at the age of 43. You are here to listen to me.' When I wasnt in trouble, theyd call me Dippy, but generally I was just called Dipshit. Thats how twisted around you canbecome. Members of the Kress family, however, worried about the attention he paid to their relative. Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? one's own. It is said that the chosen will be able to survive the apocalypse by being on something called the White Light Star Ship, or by owning property in certain mountain areas, or, in the case of Eternal Values, by wearing special jewels. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. ", "My grandmother-godmother was an extraordinary archduchess of New York," von Mierers told me. . "Frederick imparts information that normally you wouldn't have access to," a Princeton graduate and Ford model who is a member of Eternal Values told me. I spread them out under a lamp. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. "I was making over $300,000 a year," she said. von Mierers told me. Hunter soon signed Hoyt under the name Hoyt Richards. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. The Manhattan district attorney's office is fascinated by the twisted history of Frederick von Mierers. Adams was at first taken in by von Mierers's techniques. 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. "You are so pretty-pretty-pretty-pretty, my wonderful birds," he said, kissing their beaks. "We must spread our message to help humanity." .Frederick was hitting him in the faceabout fifty times!smashing his head against the floor and everything. What came out of John was just a hatred of Frederick instead of a complete submission, which indicates humility on the part of the soul. 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. I thought, This is a holy place." I thought, God! "It is time to go big-time," Andreadis remembers von Mierers telling him a little later. As he stared at the TV audience, his face appeared to have cheek implants, capped teeth, and freshly pulled skin. Sapphires and emeralds gleamed from their fingers and wrists. In Welcome to the Beyond, which premiered at Doc NYC on Tuesday, director Brent Huff deep-dives into Hoyts double life. In the light, it was obvious that the furniture was shabby, that the fabrics were second-rate. CURRENT ACTIVITY: Being admired in Mondo Uomo, the Italian men's magazine, which has devoted 58 pages to him in its November/December issue. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! For that, you feel a sense of shame. "I was so highly evolved," he told me. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO. It was Helen Kress Williams who had brought von Mierers and Billy Baldwin together, according to Ruth Montgomery. Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. He was a scrambling pretty boy who lived life on the edge. Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". "He was always accusing me of ego, as if that were a bad thing! We are not a cult.". You realize it didnt happen to me because Im especially flawed or have some defect. "They eat such unhealthy food." My mother was not that rich. He screamed at me, attacked my character, and told me I was being irresponsible and that the ring would fix all that.". We were on earth to help people. Without Freddy to focus on, there were an increasing number of strict rules and codes of punishment. "I recognized him as a phony," Jocelyn Kress told me. The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. 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