Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult (2026) s01e01 Episode Script
The Promise
1
[TV static drones]
[bright tone]
[tense music]
- Yeah, that's great.
It's a problem
if everybody sits,
like, right by the camera.
- Good. That's better.
OK.
- What you're taught
and what I was taught
from a very, very young age--
I was being privy to some
almost secret information
that only a very select few
were going
to be, you know,
allowed to understand.
And anyone, anyone who would
try to take me off that path
would be considered an enemy.
- Hoyt, how much money
were you putting in
or had you put in
in a year's time?
- It totaled in the millions.
- You gave them
millions of dollars?
- Everything I made.
♪
I was literally caught
in a mental prison.
- Our guests this morning
believe that they are
our space brothers
and sisters.
Let me introduce you
to them right now.
Frederick von Mierers
is known as a walk-in.
He claims that he walked
into his body nine years ago.
Hoyt is also a follower
of Frederick,
and he claims to have known
Frederick in another life
in ancient Egypt.
Is it just a coincidence
that all of you
are, like, gorgeous people?
- Hoyt Richards
is the highest-paid
male model in the world.
- World's most famous
male supermodel.
- The sexiest
male model alive.
- Even when I was
at the height of my career,
taking transatlantic flights
and staying
in five-star hotels,
I'd go back to New York,
where I was rolling out a mat
and sleeping on the floor.
It was this kind
of double life that I lived.
- Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm Frederick von Mierers
with another platform,
the Eternal Values.
- Frederick
is the self-anointed
guru of Eternal Values.
His followers appear
to be among the best
and the brightest.
- Supermodels,
influential people.
- All the people here went to
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
- Frederick told everyone,
this is your destiny now.
- All we are here to do
is to help everyone.
- We were all
part of this special faction,
dynasty, vanguard,
family, group.
- We're here
to serve and to work.
- You would
get dressed up
and get taken
to a nightclub in a limo,
and then you'd
come back to silence.
- Or you can be dancing
at the Palladium
till dawn and still maintain
a spiritual life.
- But Freddy always
wanted the beauties.
Bring me the beauties,
the beautiful people.
Yeah, it was all about
beautiful people.
- This man did more damage
to more talented
and attractive young people.
- Just underneath
the surface,
there was all kinds
of criminal shit.
♪
- I really feel he raped them
of their soul and their mind.
- Within Eternal Values,
everything was
draped in this idea
that this is the way
you could become
a better version of yourself,
become more enlightened,
become a better person,
a better friend,
a better citizen.
It just took me
20 years to figure out
that's not what it was.
- A man who had the power
to control lives and used it
in the most frightening way--
we're going
to take you inside a cult.
- I'm against cults.
Don't anybody try to tell me
that I am in a cult.
- Frederick,
you claim you're
from another planet, right?
- Yes, and I did come
from Arcturus.
You're going
into the most crucial
period of Earth's history,
the storms
that will beset humanity.
We must warn you.
We're here to warn you
of these things.
We are sincere.
♪
- That's good.
All right.
- Where does this story begin?
When I was 16,
I was on Nantucket.
[The Cars' "Bye Bye Love"]
♪
Every year, we always
went to Nantucket.
Nantucket's
this nostalgic place.
It was just what I identify
with summer and good times.
I was one of six kids, so there
was never a dull moment.
We were just a tribe.
We'd all go
to the beach together.
We'd go waterskiing.
We'd all go have picnics.
But one word I could say
about Nantucket--
it was safe.
Or at least
I perceived it to be.
- Bye, bye, love ♪
Bye, bye, love ♪
- One day, I was at the beach
with a group of friends,
and this gentleman puts
his towel down next to me
and begins immediately
engaging me in a conversation.
- He talked
about Eastern religion
and ancient civilizations,
little smattering
of astrology.
He started drawing
yin and yang signs in the sand
and talking about
the balance of the universe.
I'm like, oh,
this must be this guy
Frederick von Mierers,
or Freddy, I've heard about.
- Oh, is that gonna
be a problem?
- OK.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
Well, it's funny, because
when I think back on him,
it was Frederick,
because it was very reverent.
And the reason
I call him Freddy now
is because I know
he would probably
hate being called Freddy.
And for me,
it's just this tool that I use
to reframe this experience
on my terms now,
rather than the terms
he demanded.
♪
But back on Nantucket,
you know,
my friends had
already met Freddy
and thought he was a cool guy.
He was this big socialite
from New York,
so he was throwing a party
almost every night.
And he was known to say,
only invite the beauties.
Just the beauties--
not your friends,
just the beauties.
- He would just
have this eclectic
group of people around him.
I came to learn that they
were kind of a who's who
from the New York scene.
You know, I was
quite impressed that he
seemed to be a worldly guy.
He was into astrology
and Eastern philosophy.
And I remember him thinking
I could follow
what he was saying, and a lot
of it, I didn't follow.
But Freddy was
so incredibly friendly,
and I noticed that he spoke
to me like I was an adult,
which I really appreciated.
When I was 16,
most of my life was
thinking about
scoring touchdowns,
chasing girls,
and drinking beer.
But when I really watched
Frederick doing a horoscope
right there on the spot
- [clears throat]
- I thought he was
a little odd and strange.
- But he was very funny
- And really excited about it.
- It was just like magic.
[radio tuning]
- It's WBAB Babylon.
My guest
is Frederick von Mierers,
who's been kind enough
to join us tonight
and interrupt his summer
on the island of Nantucket.
- May I say something
to all the people out there?
Look within yourself.
And that which you know is
true about yourself, admit it.
- So Frederick
did this radio show.
People would call in.
- Hello, my name is Robert.
- This is Marian.
- My name is Hamid.
- It became clear
that Frederick
really wanted to help people.
- I've talked to you before,
haven't I?
- Yes, you have,
about two years ago.
Can you tell me
if I'm gonna be
successful
in my personal life?
- I look at this chart.
Tears almost come to my eyes.
You are the most beautiful
human being.
- Bless your heart.
- It was just this compassion
and empathy.
I was drawn to it.
And that's just kind of
the way it evolved.
In the summers,
I would see him,
and we just started to build
a bit of a friendship,
and I really didn't think
a lot of it.
[holiday music]
♪
My youth, I was very invested
in my friendships,
because my relationship with
my mother was complicated.
I felt she was too controlling
and wouldn't actually
see me for what I really was.
She had a strong idea of what
all her kids should be--
doctor, lawyer,
Ivy League graduate.
And my mother,
I always felt like she
knew better how I should
live my life than I did.
I did well at school.
I had friends.
I did well at sports.
But my mother,
she always had a criticism.
You come home from school
and you say, oh, I got a 95.
Well, why didn't you get 100?
And quite honestly,
I had issues with that,
and we used to bang heads.
I mean, at that point, I was
actually top of my class.
[dramatic music]
When I got to college,
I discovered
the freedom it brings.
I played football.
My roommates at college
were football players.
Used to pride ourselves
in the sense that on a night,
we could party with the best.
We had the beer flowing.
Like, where's the next party?
Let's go have some fun.
♪
And that's when I started
to tell people
I knew this guy
from New York who seems
to like to throw parties.
And so I reached out
to Frederick.
- Hello.
It's Frederick.
- And that's the point where
he said, well, oh, my God,
if you're gonna be
in New Jersey,
you should come to New York.
Come up with a couple friends,
and we'll go to Studio 54,
you know, meet all my friends.
And I'm thinking, awesome.
[Michael Zager Band's
" Let's All Chant"]
♪
I mean, the first time
I went there,
there's this massive
group outside.
But Freddy knew the doorman,
and literally, it's like
the parting of the Red Sea.
We got all whisked right in.
The first girl I saw
was wearing
nothing but Scotch tape.
There were piles
of cocaine on tables,
and people were literally
fucking on the dance floor.
And I just thought,
I don't want to ever leave.
- Your body, my body ♪
Everybody work your body ♪
- Freddy,
he loved to be out there,
just wanting to bring
people together.
He would say,
we're blasted off in life.
- I'm blasted off
all the time.
I have the energy
of someone 19,
and I can dance all night,
have a great time.
- After this wild night out
at Studio 54,
Frederick would invite
a bunch of people
back to his apartment.
- 405 East 54th Street,
apartment 4N,
has a naturally high
frequency.
- But I had no idea
what to expect
walking through that door.
[ethereal music]
♪
It was like time
did not exist in there.
It smelled like it had
just had a fresh rain.
It was like walking
through the looking glass
in "Alice in Wonderland."
That was Frederick's
vision of the world.
So I just looked at it as,
what a cool adventure I'm on.
4N was like a turnstile.
People were coming through
the front door all the time,
people that really
looked at Frederick,
really kind of respected him.
He had a sidekick, this guy
named John Andreadis.
- With me this evening, I have,
of course, the eternal cohost,
John Andreadis.
- John was my age.
He was going to Columbia
at the time,
and they just started
this public access show.
- John?
- At Columbia, I found
that it was quite limited--
the facilities--in terms
of the deeper spiritual
search among the students.
- It came on
very late at night.
And I remember
asking Frederick,
who's gonna see this?
And he'd be like,
oh, no, oh, dear,
you don't understand.
People who can't sleep,
and they're troubled--
that's when we will be
reaching the people
that really need to hear it.
- Also on my right,
I have Paul Hinton.
- The fifth element behind
all creation is the ether.
My adoptive mother
had passed away when I was 13.
The craving I had was
for that continual mentoring
that good parenting
would provide.
- All of us are learning
from each other.
- Frederick, he was, like,
this incredible teacher.
- Let's not judge each other
in the wrong way.
Let's judge each other
in the right way
and then help each other.
- When I first met Frederick,
I think I was 14.
- Kimberly Wong
from San Francisco.
- I was already
into the spiritual world.
The young people of today
realize so much more
at so much of a younger age.
- Her parents thought
she was up in Lake Tahoe.
Instead, she hops on a plane
and comes to New York.
- I came from California
to New York,
got away with it three times.
- I was working
as an accountant,
but I wasn't good
in a relationship.
I was terrible at my job.
And that's when I
first heard Frederick.
- Realize there are
no mistakes in this world.
There's no fear.
There's no guilt.
There's no failures.
- I was 22.
I was working at a restaurant
at night, and in comes Freddy.
You know, he was--
he was striking,
like, fit--
not an ounce of body fat,
tiny waist, and these
piercing blue eyes.
And he grabs my hand.
He goes, dear, you're so mad.
When's your birthday?
- [laughing] However--
- He seemed
happier than anybody else
that I'd ever met.
That's the way I want to be.
- After I'd been dumped,
I was heartbroken.
But when I met Frederick,
there was a joy, when
he was in that frequency,
that was contagious.
- I have with me tonight
Kimberly Wong,
duchess of Northern California.
- Frederick was always
elevating you.
Frederick was always
looking for some kind
of endearing nickname.
- Your Majesties!
Darling!
- He used to call me Nefertiti.
- Oh, you must meet Lord H.
That was my nickname.
- Lord Andreadis,
the eternal cohost.
Wait a second, Maestro.
I send you a thousand kisses,
Wonder Child.
Let's not carry on here,
Childean.
- He said, how are
you doing, Childean?
He said, you're home.
- His Childeans
for a long time.
- Frederick
called us Childeans.
But the Chaldeans,
in real life,
were a priestly group
dedicated to godly,
elevated work.
And this was something
that we hoped to achieve.
So it was like,
"Dean" became like a last name.
Oh, where's John Dean?
Where's Kimber Dean?
And so this was whole way
of creating our own culture.
♪
- In that circle,
Frederick had 20 to 25,
even 30 people.
And the real unifying force
was this spiritual commitment.
You have to remember,
this is the '80s.
- In the 1980s, the young
urban professionals,
the yuppies, are transforming
the economic system.
- There was so much
materialism going on
in New York at the time.
- Wall Street, 8:30 AM.
Many barely out of college,
the financial community's
best and brightest
rushing to become the richest.
- But Frederick
and his friends
found a way, somehow,
to balance it all.
- You can have a relationship
with the Western world,
in the business community
of Wall Street banking,
and still maintain
a spiritual life.
- In the '80s, this New Age
thing was picking up speed.
- They see mankind
at the threshold of a new era
which will usher in
a time of peace, harmony,
and unprecedented progress.
- People were starting
to pay attention to yoga,
to astrology and gurus.
- This is catching on
like wildfire.
- Naturally,
yuppies didn't want
to be caught up with all
these spiritual whack jobs.
[all chanting indistinctly]
- We have all these mad people
like Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
all these people
that set themselves up
as New Age leaders.
Most of them are all frauds.
- Freddy was really
like a bridge
between the yuppies
and the New Age.
He was unlike any
of the other gurus.
You know, he was
the Brooks Brothers version.
- We all wear Brooks Brothers
clothing with a few pink shirts
and some ties.
- Very preppy,
very put together,
and very demanding
with everyone
to be at the top of their game
with the way they would dress
and carry themselves.
- Frederick was modeling
better ways to do everything.
You know, everybody's
on the same diet.
- Lots of green
and mixed vegetable juices,
peaches, pears,
blueberries, raspberries,
dates, figs, mangoes, guavas
- Frederick said,
you should be beautifying.
Keep yourself healthy
and strong and fit.
- Glowing, shining,
radiant health
comes through discipline.
- Frederick loved being tan.
He was always tan, which meant
all of us were always tan.
He actually got
his own tanning bed.
- You are dancing through
your business day
on Wall Street or as a lawyer,
as doctor,
as a butcher,
baker, candlestick maker.
You're always happy.
- You live your life
to the utmost perfection,
and it will contribute
something to the world.
- You become part of God's
higher cocktail party on Earth.
- It's God's higher
cocktail party on Earth.
You know, it should be fun.
It should be vivacious.
We should literally be
enjoying life on that level
all the time.
- Sure,
it's a cocktail party,
but don't drink;
don't do drugs.
- The worst thing
is alcohol and smoking.
- Oh, you always have to stay
away from anything that's bad.
- Frederick, he wanted us
aware of our emotions.
And if you could become
aware of your emotions,
then you could
control your emotions.
- You were to renounce
sexual activity of any sort.
- Jesus, Ramakrishna, Buddha
did not come to promise you
another piece of ass.
- The group was living kind of
a very monastic kind of life,
so there wasn't sex going on.
- It was wonderful,
because all we cared about
was relationship
without the sexuality.
- I was making trips
into New York to visit Freddy.
But when I was at college,
my main focus
was football still.
And my junior year,
my shoulders
started giving me some issues.
That's when the trainer
basically said, listen,
I just think it's time.
I don't think--
you know, I don't think
you can do this anymore.
I remember being devastated,
and I really had
an identity crisis.
[melancholy music]
The idea of giving up football
was really hard
to kind of stomach.
I was like,
what am I gonna do now?
But at that time was
really when Freddy kind of
came in and offered to do my--
what he called a life reading.
♪
- The life reading was intended
to be a total transformation.
It was 90 minutes
of character analysis.
- Frederick would like
to look at the stars
and see patterns
in people's lives.
- I remember being
quite captivated with it.
I listened to it
several, several times.
- The truth was
that that wasn't inaccurate.
I felt insecure.
And without football,
I was really
kind of lost in the ocean,
like a ship without a rudder.
And at that time was really
when Freddy kind of came in
and said, well, you know,
I think you should consider
coming to New York and think
about modeling or acting.
And I was like, what?
And I--and he told me
that he had been
a model when he was younger.
But I was very uncomfortable
thinking about being a model.
It just didn't--
no one I knew was a model.
It just didn't seem
like something
that I would ever enjoy.
- Just do it.
There's no try.
There's do or do not.
That's the whole trip.
- But actually, at the time,
John Andreadis
was doing some commercials.
And John said, I've got
to go by and see my agent.
Maybe when he sees you,
he might be interested.
I'm like, that's ludicrous.
Sure enough,
I was sitting in the lobby,
and this one agent
sticks his head out.
He's like, are you an actor?
And I go, no, no,
I'm a football player.
He looks at me, goes, you do
have a good look, though.
I think I could
get you some work.
[When in Rome's
"The Promise"]
- When you're in doubt ♪
- I did my first photo shoot,
saw some photos of myself,
and said,
maybe I can do this.
I got a couple bigger jobs.
The next thing I know,
checks start arriving.
And I start to go,
oh, you can actually
make some money doing this.
And by the time
my senior year came around,
I actually paid
for my tuition,
I felt like a rock star.
- I promise ♪
I promise you I will ♪
- Your old behavioral patterns
are preventing you from being
the best you can be
at everything.
- I started to change.
I had a necklace
like Frederick,
and I had the rings
like Frederick.
4N was painted
in these wild colors
called Twilight Chimes.
I painted my room
in college that color.
My diet got very,
very strict and healthy.
- You have learned a great
deal about the world, John.
Now learn about yourself.
- I was becoming
a more evolved, better me.
- I know they don't sound
the way ♪
- So I was like, I'm learning
the real knowledge.
I'm not getting that knowledge
here at university.
- I promise you ♪
I promise you I will ♪
- But my senior year,
my roommates
got very concerned.
They actually went to the
school therapist at one point
and said, we're really
concerned about our roommate.
He's eating really healthy.
He's, like--
doesn't party anymore.
It's like--and the therapist
is like, doesn't sound too bad.
It's not like he's doing
anything dangerous.
- During the spring of 1985,
John had been spending
a lot of time in New York,
and John's roommates
and my parents
had arranged this meeting
to kind of confront John
about his changes in behavior.
- I was talking
to your roommates,
and they were so worried
about the stories
that Frederick was telling you.
- It was clear
my parents started
to become really concerned.
I went up to New York
and got John Andreadis,
and then we came down
and met my parents.
And my brother, Rory,
came there as well.
I wanted to set
the record straight,
let my parents know there's
nothing to be worried about.
- John and I,
when we were growing up,
we were real close.
We did everything together.
So I was giving John
the benefit of the doubt.
I was saying, OK,
he wants to do something
different at this time.
This was a healthy rebellion.
I'm just gonna let it go.
But there was really
very little
of the old, familiar John
there in that meeting.
So it was
a very contentious meeting.
- John Andreadis,
he talked so fast,
you couldn't, you know,
keep track.
And all the people were really
weird when we met with them.
And you'd start to talk,
and they'd say,
oh, he doesn't really
understand that.
He means this.
- My mother said,
oh, you showed up with all
these cronies and all that.
Because she just
looked at these people
as a bad influence.
- The truth is relative
in this dimension.
This is a world of opposites.
Therefore, nobody's
in any position
- I felt like
I wasn't being seen.
I felt like
I wasn't being heard.
They had not had
the conversations I had had.
They had not read
the things I had read.
So they're just wrong.
My mother started
calling it a cult.
And that was one
of the things that really,
really rubbed me wrong.
I'm not in a cult.
I would never join a cult.
I think,
like, that's ludicrous.
I was going to Studio 54
and all these great parties
in New York.
Cults don't do that.
But there was definitely
not very much agreement
or common ground being found.
And we basically--it ended
with it just being a stalemate.
[dramatic music]
I remember afterwards,
Frederick said,
if you don't change,
you're gonna turn out
to be just like your father
or just like your mother.
Never want to be that.
- No mother, no father,
no brother, no sister,
no country, no family
have any of you.
Your only mother
is Mother Nature,
and your only father is God.
And the rest is an illusion.
- My parents had, you know,
never been really comfortable
saying, I love you.
But within the group,
we all hugged each other,
and it was very kind of
touchy-feely.
And I remember
thinking to myself,
that's what I really needed,
an expression of love.
- We spend all our time
together, all of us,
and we're just
one big happy family.
We have a great time.
- Frederick was saying,
listen, well,
after you graduate college,
you should come
and live with us,
and you can be part
of this whole group
and what we're doing.
But my family
was not happy at all.
They were against it.
And so graduation,
there's all this tension.
And the next day
after graduation, I was gone.
[choral singing]
I was trying to do
what Frederick said:
release yourself
from your past.
Detach from your family.
I'm gonna really
give it a shot
and try and pursue
the spiritual life
at whatever cost.
- This platform,
I will surrender
and turn over to John Hoyt.
Thank you.
- Thank you, Frederick.
I think the most common
problem
When I moved into 4N,
I had, like,
a 3x3 compartment
in the closet that was mine,
and everything else
was communal.
In that building, they had,
like, six apartments.
Frederick used to say
these were all
chambers in the pyramid,
just like we were
back in Egypt.
[dramatic music]
4N was always the apex.
And certainly to live in 4N
was considered
an incredibly, you know,
heightened position.
[phone rings]
- Hello.
Get those statues
down to me, baby.
This is Frederick.
Hurry up.
- Frederick ran his house
with a ton of discipline,
like a ship.
- Work hard,
not just for yourself
but for everyone
else as well.
All of us do that to live
a life of excellence.
- A lot of people
still had their own jobs.
There was an architect.
There was a lawyer.
There was a guy who was
a computer specialist.
And the group had this very
high-end painting business,
where they would take a lot
of the interior design
approach
that Frederick had as far
as colors and color schemes.
They actually did a lot of the
painting in the apartments.
It was always kind of seeing
everybody helping,
you know, what's best
for the cause or the group.
And for me, I would wake up
and do my chores
before I left the apartment
to go even to a modeling job--
vacuuming,
polishing the mirrors.
There was always
people coming in,
and more or less, every night,
there would be a group dinner.
And then we would
go to bed at night.
4N, there would be six people
sleeping there at night.
And it's not very big,
so you would just
roll out this 1-inch futon.
- We would just fall asleep
side by side like, you know,
little matchsticks in a box.
It was so casual,
it didn't feel weird at all.
Sometimes Frederick
would tiptoe out
in the middle
of the night, and he
would come and put kind of,
like, this mint mask on,
like, oh, dear,
oh, let's keep your pores
really nice and tight.
You've got beautiful skin.
Let's--
You know, so he'd come and he'd
dab the stuff on my face
and dab it on Hoyt's face.
And we all just accepted it
as the culture there.
- Some of my favorite times
with Frederick
would be early Sunday morning.
We would meet in this
little, tiny kitchen
and just have coffee
and just have
these wonderful,
quiet conversations.
It wasn't the same sprightly
person that was--
you know, it was just--
it was wonderful.
But there was a real person
under there
that really did care.
He really cared.
- I'm only like Peter Pan
in my consciousness,
and I'm grateful
to be surrounded
by some of the most
beautiful and brilliant
young people in this country.
- Apparently,
there was this woman,
Mrs. Earl Kress Williams.
He said she was
a very wealthy socialite
and introduced him
to the whole social life.
He kind of let in
on some level
that he was maybe
a trust fund kid.
- He was always a part
of the social world
that was going on in New York.
From Paley
to the Rockefellers,
Frederick fit
into those places
because he was
so charming and good-looking.
Back in the '60s,
I was one of his agents.
- That's it.
- When he was young,
as a model,
Frederick was apple pie,
all-American.
And he was very intelligent.
He was very smart
and very quick on the dime.
And maybe
the most important thing--
he was in the Social Register,
which was a list
of people who were considered
the most influential
in New York.
- He had been to the best
cities, best restaurants
- But ultimately became
a really big partier.
During that time,
he had a lot of pain
emotionally and physically,
was just desperate
and contemplating suicide.
- I went to the doctor.
And of course,
he held my pulse.
- Frederick
had had an experience
of what can be described as
near death in January of 1978.
He had this high fever
of 104 degrees
from an inner ear infection,
and some other soul
or energy came into him.
- This is when
the new Frederick walked
into the body
of the old Frederick,
so he would technically
have the memories
of the old Frederick
but was a whole new being.
- He was shown
by this voice
that spoke
like a biblical prophet--
he was shown past lives.
He was shown
the funeral of himself
as the Pharaoh Akhenaten
in Egypt.
- Ruth Montgomery
was a very well-known psychic
who wrote a lot of books
about the concept
of alien walk-ins.
As soon as he read that,
he realized that that's
what happened to him.
- Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ
consciousness was a walk-in.
Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Jefferson,
Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Abraham Lincoln--
these were all walk-ins.
- He remembered traveling
from the star Arcturus.
And he had been told,
find the Arcturians.
And he was told
he had 10 years,
and he was to meet and train
potential future leaders
for the coming times
of sorrow, of tribulation.
[ethereal music]
- He would say,
you're one of the people
I've been looking for.
You all are the leaders
of the new age.
You may not recognize me,
but I recognize your soul.
And he's telling you this.
He's staring you
straight in the eye.
So someone saying that to you
is really powerful.
- According
to Ruth Montgomery,
Arcturus was considered
to be one
of the highest spiritual
planes in the universe.
In fact, people were kind of
excited to find out
if maybe they were a walk-in.
- Do you think
that it's possible
that there are people
or spirits or something
down here
that are unexplained?
Ruth does.
[applause]
What do you say to those people
who are completely skeptical?
- Through my writings
- You know,
Ruth Montgomery used to be
a political journalist.
So she had this
incredible credibility
- Was internationally renowned
for 30 years
and head of "The Washington
Post's" political arena.
- As time went on, she
developed psychic abilities
and just became
hugely popular.
- Do they know
that they are aliens?
- Not always at first, no.
But they feel lost here.
They keep not feeling
at home on Earth,
and they keep
looking at the stars
and wishing they could go home.
I've talked to an awful lot
of people like that.
- Ruth Montgomery talks about
walk-ins in one of her books.
- John actually reached out
to her at one point
and said, oh, you
should meet my teacher.
- It's Frederick.
- Frederick and Ruth,
they just hit it off.
- This is Ruth Montgomery,
and I'm overwhelmed.
The perfectly
beautiful necklace
and bracelet just came today.
- In her next book,
she wrote four chapters
about Frederick.
And that was really
when the game changed.
- Frederick von Mierers,
scion of an illustrious
old New York family,
sold all of his antiques
and luxurious furnishings
and dedicated himself
to a life
of service to humanity.
- And in this book,
she confirmed
that Frederick was a walk-in.
- The name of the book again
is "Aliens Among Us."
- Which is out now,
will be a bestseller,
"Aliens Among Us."
- When "Aliens Among Us"
became a bestseller,
Frederick was getting
thousands of inquiries.
- Thousands of letters,
which is hard to believe,
I understand, but you
must realize we've had all
these books written about us.
- "Aliens Among Us"
really catapulted him
into this New Age superstardom.
- People from
all over the world
started to learn
who Frederick was.
I mean, we found out even
Sammy Hagar from Van Halen
had read "Aliens Among Us"
and he loved the idea
of walk-ins.
- And we never had
a label for the group until,
all of a sudden,
it became necessary.
And that's when we came up
with the name Eternal Values.
[upbeat music]
- Good evening.
I'm Frederick von Mierers
with another platform,
The Eternal Values.
- We had a business.
We started doing
lectures and audiotapes.
- All of you
who want lectures,
they will be sent to you free,
which is almost
a $20,000 academic course.
- We had
an offshoot business,
Ultimate Fitness Opportunities.
It was a play on UFO.
We sold supplements, books,
and exercise equipment.
- This evening,
we will be discussing
a kindergarten foundation
to spirituality.
- Frederick's Rolodex
was quite extensive,
different celebrities
or people of prominence.
- I remember Freddy's like,
I have to go see Lord Stallone,
and I'm like, can't be.
But Stallone comes
to the front door,
and he goes, hey, Fred.
- Frederick had gone
to Mr. Chow's with Grace Jones.
- After "Aliens Among Us,"
Frederick had been
finally validated.
Eternal Values was exploding,
and it felt
like anything is possible.
- You can make all the money
in the world, which is great,
and you should.
But you're never going
to be happy unless you
strive to change yourself.
♪
- Just felt like everything
had kind of been dialed up
on steroids, you know?
Like, now it was time
to really kind of step up.
And I remember,
at that point,
Frederick sent me in
to see Joey Hunter,
the head of the men's division
at Ford Models.
And Joey was just, like,
the ultimate guy's guy.
[line ringing]
- Hello.
- Marian, Joey.
I'm doing an interview about--
remember Freddy von Mierers
and the aliens?
- Oy, vey.
I think it was one of those
things where they said
the aliens
were invading your body
and some shit like that.
- [sighs] I thought Freddy
was off the wall.
I mean, I used
to say to Freddy,
what do you--what aliens?
The fuck are you talking about?
But while I was at Ford,
Freddy, of course--
you know, he'd call me up
and say, I found this guy.
Would you have a look at him?
So one day,
Hoyt appeared in our office.
He was that beautiful-looking
guy from Princeton,
good background.
And he had a great look.
But at that time, you know,
he didn't have the name.
- You know, I was born
John Richards Hoyt.
And I always liked
the name John,
but I didn't like the fact
that it was such a common name.
So I thought maybe
it'd be fun to come up
with something different.
I could see "Hoyt Richards"
in lights.
You know,
maybe that's a good name.
Early on, I did a couple
shoots with Bruce Weber.
I remember he put me in,
like, a white suit,
put a towel around me,
and that's really the job
that put me on the map.
[Real Life's
"Send Me an Angel"]
- Bruce was always like
ahh, it's Bruce Weber.
If you work with them,
you're gone.
Your career took off.
- Do it again.
- All of a sudden,
I started getting calls
from Ford, like,
they want you in Milan.
They want you in Paris.
- Hoyt's rise was so fast.
Everybody knew about it
within six months.
He had that movie star look
that you would
have had with Clark Gable.
He looked like more
than just a face.
And there wasn't
anybody around like him
at that particular point.
Suddenly there were campaigns
that were not
just a single shot.
There were four or five pages.
And you would see Hoyt,
and you'd
see him in another magazine.
You'd see him in a commercial.
You would see him
in one thing after the other.
It was like a freight train.
- Send me an angel ♪
Send me an angel ♪
Right now ♪
- And the fashion industry
at that time,
it was Christy.
It was Cindy.
It was Claudia, Linda, Naomi.
But when I entered
the business,
there had been this
whole new movement where
athletes were becoming models.
- No sweat.
- There was a period
where it really
felt like it was just,
Hoyt and I
were up for all the same jobs.
Occasionally, we were like,
oh, why couldn't I
have done that one?
You know, you wanted to do
the stuff that Hoyt would do.
He was the talk of the town.
He was a supermodel,
a bona fide supermodel.
- Today we're going to meet
the most beautiful man
in the world, Hoyt Richards.
- What I loved
about being a male model
was the kinship and
camaraderie amongst the guys.
- The first time
I met Hoyt was at Ford Model
agency, and we just clicked.
Hi, I'm Fabio.
- Fabio was one of the first
models I actually met.
- He has graced the covers
of over 1,000 romance novels.
- '80s and '90s
were, like, the modeling time.
Life was really, really good.
- The top male models
can pull down as much
as $10,000 a day
strutting their stuff
on high-fashion runways.
- Hoyt was extremely
successful.
I was extremely successful.
We used to hang out a lot.
- Hoyt.
- Yeah.
- That was you and Fabio.
- That's right.
You and your dream date.
- My dream date, Fabio, yes.
[laughter]
- I mean, literally,
it was like,
off the Concorde,
going to the nightclubs,
being seen by paparazzi.
- It was just
cracking brilliant,
you know, working
five days a week,
all over the world, nonstop.
- It was a beautiful life,
traveling the world,
nice cars, beautiful clothes.
And we were making, you know,
a lot of money, a lot of money.
- As my success
started to unfold,
I kept thinking the reason
I'm miraculously kind of making
this quick rise
in that business was
because behind the scenes,
I was trying
to live this spiritual life.
I basically kept
the Eternal Values part
of my life pretty secretive.
- Now, we've shown it
with a wool crepe shirt.
- I met Hoyt when he
was with Ford Model,
which was a partner agency
of my London agency.
Everybody in the world
had to call
my desk to get time on Hoyt.
I intended for him to be
the most successful
model there had ever been.
We had an agreement
that I never booked
downtime or holiday time.
And I would say probably
around 330 days a year,
he was in the air
or in front of a camera.
- But no matter where I was,
whatever time zone,
I would virtually
check in every day
with the group.
[phone ringing]
I would struggle
with the fact that I'm
doing this job
that really seems immersed
in what the world would call
kind of superficial values.
I'm making money
off the fact that I
was basically given a costume
that people
seem to find pleasing.
So that didn't seem
very spiritual.
But I would rationalize it,
saying, well,
if I can use that opportunity
to make some money,
this is my best way
to contribute
and my way
to kind of help out.
- As long as you're in the
material world, you must act.
Renounce only the selfishness.
- You know,
it was all about this approach
of nonattachment.
You know, we're gonna be
in the material world
but not of the material world.
- When you realize
your spiritual reality,
then you can live
in the material world
and be free
and have everything.
- Your actions, although
they may be the same,
are being motivated
by a different force now,
a divine force.
- This mindset
kept me very humble.
It kept me very unattached
to this success I was having.
I would make
whatever I'd make.
A certain percentage,
I would keep,
knowing I had bills to pay.
But everything else,
I gave to Frederick.
It's almost like
you would describe
as a total team player
who's willing to sacrifice
his own gains for the benefit--
for the team to win.
The mentality
around Eternal Values
and the way Frederick
operated was,
everybody needed to give
everything that they had.
Like, this group was only gonna
work if you committed fully.
So if you had money,
like I did, you would give it.
If you didn't have money,
you would--
you maybe had more time,
and you would give your time.
- What we produce
will be only excellence.
And therefore,
the rewards are obvious.
- One of the things
he said to me was,
he goes, listen, Lord H,
you are impossible at times,
but your generosity will
always save you in the end.
And I found,
the more money that I made,
the more I could give,
and the more money I gave,
the more money I made.
- Through discipline,
we find self-respect.
Through self-respect,
we find happiness.
- It felt like I'd been given
some secret knowledge.
And over time,
there was pressure
on us to find our fellow
brothers and sisters out there.
And with the lifestyle
of living as a model,
my photo shoots
were really kind of
used as an active
recruiting ground.
I would go in there
and rave about
these incredible experiences
I was having and felt
almost a duty to share that.
If I came across someone who
seemed to be open-minded
Is that something
you've always loved?
- Yeah.
- Then I would start
a conversation
and see if it
would go anywhere,
and if it felt like
it went somewhere,
then I might introduce
them to Frederick.
I saw it as harmless
at the time.
And it's not like I--
I wanted this to go down
the way it did.
[tense music]
We were really trying
to become a sister-
and brotherhood of people
that were conscientious
and kind to one another.
But then this whole
pattern started
to develop where we also had
to watchdog one another.
And if you're
acting out of line,
it's demanded that you have
to kind of make people
aware of that, and it would
usually lead to some sort
of punishment for that person.
- We're all under
this pressure, you know,
trying to live a better life,
a more successful life.
But you knew you were
being listened to
and watched all the time.
♪
- One day, I had done,
like, five hours of laundry,
and I come back up.
It's, like, 3:00
in the morning.
So I get up to 6E,
and everyone is there.
It's, like, 20 people there.
And they're just looking
at me stone-faced.
Frederick sort of whips around
and, all of a sudden,
says, you.
I want you out of here.
I'm just like, what?
Is he talking to me?
Oh, hell, he's talking to me.
You've become a total monster.
How dare you?
I didn't feel like
I had done anything wrong.
And I burst into tears.
- You're so full of shit.
Why are you the way you are?
And everybody would
be invited to join in.
We called them
"slamming sessions."
- So sit your ass down
in the chair
and listen to what
we're saying.
Just sit down
- Slamming was Frederick's way
to get people
to, like, wake up,
kind of slam, like--
- Can I give you an example
of how it would sound?
- Yeah.
- [yelling] You fucking idiot!
What the hell do you think
you're doing?
- They were all
too fucking lazy!
- Teacher may push you
into states of mind
that are very uncomfortable.
- Wake up.
Look carefully
and change your life.
- And if you cannot
handle the unexpected,
if you cannot calmly accept
how life slaps you in the face,
you'll get nowhere.
So Frederick was a big fan
of bringing you experiences
that were unexpected.
- Only the serious ones
are the only ones
that I'm interested in.
- As time went on,
we were asked to be
more and more severe.
I didn't see it that way
at the time,
but there was
writing on the wall.
Looking back, I realized,
more and more,
people consistently agreed with
everything Frederick ordained.
♪
He was an alien walk-in,
a higher being
that stepped into his body.
What's above that?
What can control that?
- We're just friends.
We're everybody's friends.
We're grateful to give forth
the information
that we have received
and to enlarge
our family of friends, period.
Nothing is asked except
that people work hard
and become the best
they can be:
wholesome,
all-American citizens.
- OK.
How are things going?
So tell me if I'm moving
too much or too little.
All right.
- I just wanted
to center you up.
- All right.
They called themselves
Eternal Values,
and they had the answers to
make your life extraordinary.
- Jackie Adams was one
of the big models of my era.
She had a huge cosmetic
contract, Elizabeth Arden.
You'd see her
all over the place.
I had worked with Jackie
a couple times.
She was in the same agency
that I was.
And then she came
to the apartment,
and I just acted as kind of
a comfort level,
because she knew
someone else in the group
that was already there.
- I met Frederick, and he said,
oh, she's fabulous.
She's in.
Immediately, I found
a sense of belonging.
- Jackie and John
really kind of hit it off.
They spent a lot
of time together.
And they started
a romantic relationship.
And that was frowned upon.
So it was always like,
what's going on?
I mean, this is not
what we're supposed to do.
It was never something that
I ever imagined occurring,
certainly not to John.
Because John
was the golden child.
He was Frederick's protégé.
- We knew
a sexual relationship would
pull you away from the work
and devotion to Frederick
and the Eternal Values.
- The dark side
of the force will send,
if it's a man,
a woman who is beautiful,
devastating, and everything
he wants in the material world.
And here and hereafter,
he won't believe
in God or in this work.
You can't play with fire
without getting burned.
- My experience
with Eternal Values
went from happy
to scary in a heartbeat.
Anyone who had been taken
advantage of by Frederick
didn't say anything.
He was powerful,
and his friends were powerful.
They sent out tapes about
how we had to be destroyed
and we were evil
and all these things.
It was very frightening,
actually.
- I did not want
to be responsible
for another young person
getting sucked into this.
It was terrifying.
I did not want to keep silent.
[Anni-Frid Lyngstad's "I Know
There's Something Going On"]
♪
- I can see
that it won't be long ♪
♪
You grow cold
when you keep holding on ♪
♪
You know you've changed ♪
And your words, they lie ♪
That's something
you can't deny ♪
♪
If you want to leave,
then why don't you say it ♪
Your love has gone anyway ♪
I know
there's something going on ♪
♪
I know
there's something going on ♪
[bright tone]
[TV static drones]
[bright tone]
[tense music]
- Yeah, that's great.
It's a problem
if everybody sits,
like, right by the camera.
- Good. That's better.
OK.
- What you're taught
and what I was taught
from a very, very young age--
I was being privy to some
almost secret information
that only a very select few
were going
to be, you know,
allowed to understand.
And anyone, anyone who would
try to take me off that path
would be considered an enemy.
- Hoyt, how much money
were you putting in
or had you put in
in a year's time?
- It totaled in the millions.
- You gave them
millions of dollars?
- Everything I made.
♪
I was literally caught
in a mental prison.
- Our guests this morning
believe that they are
our space brothers
and sisters.
Let me introduce you
to them right now.
Frederick von Mierers
is known as a walk-in.
He claims that he walked
into his body nine years ago.
Hoyt is also a follower
of Frederick,
and he claims to have known
Frederick in another life
in ancient Egypt.
Is it just a coincidence
that all of you
are, like, gorgeous people?
- Hoyt Richards
is the highest-paid
male model in the world.
- World's most famous
male supermodel.
- The sexiest
male model alive.
- Even when I was
at the height of my career,
taking transatlantic flights
and staying
in five-star hotels,
I'd go back to New York,
where I was rolling out a mat
and sleeping on the floor.
It was this kind
of double life that I lived.
- Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm Frederick von Mierers
with another platform,
the Eternal Values.
- Frederick
is the self-anointed
guru of Eternal Values.
His followers appear
to be among the best
and the brightest.
- Supermodels,
influential people.
- All the people here went to
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
- Frederick told everyone,
this is your destiny now.
- All we are here to do
is to help everyone.
- We were all
part of this special faction,
dynasty, vanguard,
family, group.
- We're here
to serve and to work.
- You would
get dressed up
and get taken
to a nightclub in a limo,
and then you'd
come back to silence.
- Or you can be dancing
at the Palladium
till dawn and still maintain
a spiritual life.
- But Freddy always
wanted the beauties.
Bring me the beauties,
the beautiful people.
Yeah, it was all about
beautiful people.
- This man did more damage
to more talented
and attractive young people.
- Just underneath
the surface,
there was all kinds
of criminal shit.
♪
- I really feel he raped them
of their soul and their mind.
- Within Eternal Values,
everything was
draped in this idea
that this is the way
you could become
a better version of yourself,
become more enlightened,
become a better person,
a better friend,
a better citizen.
It just took me
20 years to figure out
that's not what it was.
- A man who had the power
to control lives and used it
in the most frightening way--
we're going
to take you inside a cult.
- I'm against cults.
Don't anybody try to tell me
that I am in a cult.
- Frederick,
you claim you're
from another planet, right?
- Yes, and I did come
from Arcturus.
You're going
into the most crucial
period of Earth's history,
the storms
that will beset humanity.
We must warn you.
We're here to warn you
of these things.
We are sincere.
♪
- That's good.
All right.
- Where does this story begin?
When I was 16,
I was on Nantucket.
[The Cars' "Bye Bye Love"]
♪
Every year, we always
went to Nantucket.
Nantucket's
this nostalgic place.
It was just what I identify
with summer and good times.
I was one of six kids, so there
was never a dull moment.
We were just a tribe.
We'd all go
to the beach together.
We'd go waterskiing.
We'd all go have picnics.
But one word I could say
about Nantucket--
it was safe.
Or at least
I perceived it to be.
- Bye, bye, love ♪
Bye, bye, love ♪
- One day, I was at the beach
with a group of friends,
and this gentleman puts
his towel down next to me
and begins immediately
engaging me in a conversation.
- He talked
about Eastern religion
and ancient civilizations,
little smattering
of astrology.
He started drawing
yin and yang signs in the sand
and talking about
the balance of the universe.
I'm like, oh,
this must be this guy
Frederick von Mierers,
or Freddy, I've heard about.
- Oh, is that gonna
be a problem?
- OK.
Oh, OK. Yeah.
Well, it's funny, because
when I think back on him,
it was Frederick,
because it was very reverent.
And the reason
I call him Freddy now
is because I know
he would probably
hate being called Freddy.
And for me,
it's just this tool that I use
to reframe this experience
on my terms now,
rather than the terms
he demanded.
♪
But back on Nantucket,
you know,
my friends had
already met Freddy
and thought he was a cool guy.
He was this big socialite
from New York,
so he was throwing a party
almost every night.
And he was known to say,
only invite the beauties.
Just the beauties--
not your friends,
just the beauties.
- He would just
have this eclectic
group of people around him.
I came to learn that they
were kind of a who's who
from the New York scene.
You know, I was
quite impressed that he
seemed to be a worldly guy.
He was into astrology
and Eastern philosophy.
And I remember him thinking
I could follow
what he was saying, and a lot
of it, I didn't follow.
But Freddy was
so incredibly friendly,
and I noticed that he spoke
to me like I was an adult,
which I really appreciated.
When I was 16,
most of my life was
thinking about
scoring touchdowns,
chasing girls,
and drinking beer.
But when I really watched
Frederick doing a horoscope
right there on the spot
- [clears throat]
- I thought he was
a little odd and strange.
- But he was very funny
- And really excited about it.
- It was just like magic.
[radio tuning]
- It's WBAB Babylon.
My guest
is Frederick von Mierers,
who's been kind enough
to join us tonight
and interrupt his summer
on the island of Nantucket.
- May I say something
to all the people out there?
Look within yourself.
And that which you know is
true about yourself, admit it.
- So Frederick
did this radio show.
People would call in.
- Hello, my name is Robert.
- This is Marian.
- My name is Hamid.
- It became clear
that Frederick
really wanted to help people.
- I've talked to you before,
haven't I?
- Yes, you have,
about two years ago.
Can you tell me
if I'm gonna be
successful
in my personal life?
- I look at this chart.
Tears almost come to my eyes.
You are the most beautiful
human being.
- Bless your heart.
- It was just this compassion
and empathy.
I was drawn to it.
And that's just kind of
the way it evolved.
In the summers,
I would see him,
and we just started to build
a bit of a friendship,
and I really didn't think
a lot of it.
[holiday music]
♪
My youth, I was very invested
in my friendships,
because my relationship with
my mother was complicated.
I felt she was too controlling
and wouldn't actually
see me for what I really was.
She had a strong idea of what
all her kids should be--
doctor, lawyer,
Ivy League graduate.
And my mother,
I always felt like she
knew better how I should
live my life than I did.
I did well at school.
I had friends.
I did well at sports.
But my mother,
she always had a criticism.
You come home from school
and you say, oh, I got a 95.
Well, why didn't you get 100?
And quite honestly,
I had issues with that,
and we used to bang heads.
I mean, at that point, I was
actually top of my class.
[dramatic music]
When I got to college,
I discovered
the freedom it brings.
I played football.
My roommates at college
were football players.
Used to pride ourselves
in the sense that on a night,
we could party with the best.
We had the beer flowing.
Like, where's the next party?
Let's go have some fun.
♪
And that's when I started
to tell people
I knew this guy
from New York who seems
to like to throw parties.
And so I reached out
to Frederick.
- Hello.
It's Frederick.
- And that's the point where
he said, well, oh, my God,
if you're gonna be
in New Jersey,
you should come to New York.
Come up with a couple friends,
and we'll go to Studio 54,
you know, meet all my friends.
And I'm thinking, awesome.
[Michael Zager Band's
" Let's All Chant"]
♪
I mean, the first time
I went there,
there's this massive
group outside.
But Freddy knew the doorman,
and literally, it's like
the parting of the Red Sea.
We got all whisked right in.
The first girl I saw
was wearing
nothing but Scotch tape.
There were piles
of cocaine on tables,
and people were literally
fucking on the dance floor.
And I just thought,
I don't want to ever leave.
- Your body, my body ♪
Everybody work your body ♪
- Freddy,
he loved to be out there,
just wanting to bring
people together.
He would say,
we're blasted off in life.
- I'm blasted off
all the time.
I have the energy
of someone 19,
and I can dance all night,
have a great time.
- After this wild night out
at Studio 54,
Frederick would invite
a bunch of people
back to his apartment.
- 405 East 54th Street,
apartment 4N,
has a naturally high
frequency.
- But I had no idea
what to expect
walking through that door.
[ethereal music]
♪
It was like time
did not exist in there.
It smelled like it had
just had a fresh rain.
It was like walking
through the looking glass
in "Alice in Wonderland."
That was Frederick's
vision of the world.
So I just looked at it as,
what a cool adventure I'm on.
4N was like a turnstile.
People were coming through
the front door all the time,
people that really
looked at Frederick,
really kind of respected him.
He had a sidekick, this guy
named John Andreadis.
- With me this evening, I have,
of course, the eternal cohost,
John Andreadis.
- John was my age.
He was going to Columbia
at the time,
and they just started
this public access show.
- John?
- At Columbia, I found
that it was quite limited--
the facilities--in terms
of the deeper spiritual
search among the students.
- It came on
very late at night.
And I remember
asking Frederick,
who's gonna see this?
And he'd be like,
oh, no, oh, dear,
you don't understand.
People who can't sleep,
and they're troubled--
that's when we will be
reaching the people
that really need to hear it.
- Also on my right,
I have Paul Hinton.
- The fifth element behind
all creation is the ether.
My adoptive mother
had passed away when I was 13.
The craving I had was
for that continual mentoring
that good parenting
would provide.
- All of us are learning
from each other.
- Frederick, he was, like,
this incredible teacher.
- Let's not judge each other
in the wrong way.
Let's judge each other
in the right way
and then help each other.
- When I first met Frederick,
I think I was 14.
- Kimberly Wong
from San Francisco.
- I was already
into the spiritual world.
The young people of today
realize so much more
at so much of a younger age.
- Her parents thought
she was up in Lake Tahoe.
Instead, she hops on a plane
and comes to New York.
- I came from California
to New York,
got away with it three times.
- I was working
as an accountant,
but I wasn't good
in a relationship.
I was terrible at my job.
And that's when I
first heard Frederick.
- Realize there are
no mistakes in this world.
There's no fear.
There's no guilt.
There's no failures.
- I was 22.
I was working at a restaurant
at night, and in comes Freddy.
You know, he was--
he was striking,
like, fit--
not an ounce of body fat,
tiny waist, and these
piercing blue eyes.
And he grabs my hand.
He goes, dear, you're so mad.
When's your birthday?
- [laughing] However--
- He seemed
happier than anybody else
that I'd ever met.
That's the way I want to be.
- After I'd been dumped,
I was heartbroken.
But when I met Frederick,
there was a joy, when
he was in that frequency,
that was contagious.
- I have with me tonight
Kimberly Wong,
duchess of Northern California.
- Frederick was always
elevating you.
Frederick was always
looking for some kind
of endearing nickname.
- Your Majesties!
Darling!
- He used to call me Nefertiti.
- Oh, you must meet Lord H.
That was my nickname.
- Lord Andreadis,
the eternal cohost.
Wait a second, Maestro.
I send you a thousand kisses,
Wonder Child.
Let's not carry on here,
Childean.
- He said, how are
you doing, Childean?
He said, you're home.
- His Childeans
for a long time.
- Frederick
called us Childeans.
But the Chaldeans,
in real life,
were a priestly group
dedicated to godly,
elevated work.
And this was something
that we hoped to achieve.
So it was like,
"Dean" became like a last name.
Oh, where's John Dean?
Where's Kimber Dean?
And so this was whole way
of creating our own culture.
♪
- In that circle,
Frederick had 20 to 25,
even 30 people.
And the real unifying force
was this spiritual commitment.
You have to remember,
this is the '80s.
- In the 1980s, the young
urban professionals,
the yuppies, are transforming
the economic system.
- There was so much
materialism going on
in New York at the time.
- Wall Street, 8:30 AM.
Many barely out of college,
the financial community's
best and brightest
rushing to become the richest.
- But Frederick
and his friends
found a way, somehow,
to balance it all.
- You can have a relationship
with the Western world,
in the business community
of Wall Street banking,
and still maintain
a spiritual life.
- In the '80s, this New Age
thing was picking up speed.
- They see mankind
at the threshold of a new era
which will usher in
a time of peace, harmony,
and unprecedented progress.
- People were starting
to pay attention to yoga,
to astrology and gurus.
- This is catching on
like wildfire.
- Naturally,
yuppies didn't want
to be caught up with all
these spiritual whack jobs.
[all chanting indistinctly]
- We have all these mad people
like Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
all these people
that set themselves up
as New Age leaders.
Most of them are all frauds.
- Freddy was really
like a bridge
between the yuppies
and the New Age.
He was unlike any
of the other gurus.
You know, he was
the Brooks Brothers version.
- We all wear Brooks Brothers
clothing with a few pink shirts
and some ties.
- Very preppy,
very put together,
and very demanding
with everyone
to be at the top of their game
with the way they would dress
and carry themselves.
- Frederick was modeling
better ways to do everything.
You know, everybody's
on the same diet.
- Lots of green
and mixed vegetable juices,
peaches, pears,
blueberries, raspberries,
dates, figs, mangoes, guavas
- Frederick said,
you should be beautifying.
Keep yourself healthy
and strong and fit.
- Glowing, shining,
radiant health
comes through discipline.
- Frederick loved being tan.
He was always tan, which meant
all of us were always tan.
He actually got
his own tanning bed.
- You are dancing through
your business day
on Wall Street or as a lawyer,
as doctor,
as a butcher,
baker, candlestick maker.
You're always happy.
- You live your life
to the utmost perfection,
and it will contribute
something to the world.
- You become part of God's
higher cocktail party on Earth.
- It's God's higher
cocktail party on Earth.
You know, it should be fun.
It should be vivacious.
We should literally be
enjoying life on that level
all the time.
- Sure,
it's a cocktail party,
but don't drink;
don't do drugs.
- The worst thing
is alcohol and smoking.
- Oh, you always have to stay
away from anything that's bad.
- Frederick, he wanted us
aware of our emotions.
And if you could become
aware of your emotions,
then you could
control your emotions.
- You were to renounce
sexual activity of any sort.
- Jesus, Ramakrishna, Buddha
did not come to promise you
another piece of ass.
- The group was living kind of
a very monastic kind of life,
so there wasn't sex going on.
- It was wonderful,
because all we cared about
was relationship
without the sexuality.
- I was making trips
into New York to visit Freddy.
But when I was at college,
my main focus
was football still.
And my junior year,
my shoulders
started giving me some issues.
That's when the trainer
basically said, listen,
I just think it's time.
I don't think--
you know, I don't think
you can do this anymore.
I remember being devastated,
and I really had
an identity crisis.
[melancholy music]
The idea of giving up football
was really hard
to kind of stomach.
I was like,
what am I gonna do now?
But at that time was
really when Freddy kind of
came in and offered to do my--
what he called a life reading.
♪
- The life reading was intended
to be a total transformation.
It was 90 minutes
of character analysis.
- Frederick would like
to look at the stars
and see patterns
in people's lives.
- I remember being
quite captivated with it.
I listened to it
several, several times.
- The truth was
that that wasn't inaccurate.
I felt insecure.
And without football,
I was really
kind of lost in the ocean,
like a ship without a rudder.
And at that time was really
when Freddy kind of came in
and said, well, you know,
I think you should consider
coming to New York and think
about modeling or acting.
And I was like, what?
And I--and he told me
that he had been
a model when he was younger.
But I was very uncomfortable
thinking about being a model.
It just didn't--
no one I knew was a model.
It just didn't seem
like something
that I would ever enjoy.
- Just do it.
There's no try.
There's do or do not.
That's the whole trip.
- But actually, at the time,
John Andreadis
was doing some commercials.
And John said, I've got
to go by and see my agent.
Maybe when he sees you,
he might be interested.
I'm like, that's ludicrous.
Sure enough,
I was sitting in the lobby,
and this one agent
sticks his head out.
He's like, are you an actor?
And I go, no, no,
I'm a football player.
He looks at me, goes, you do
have a good look, though.
I think I could
get you some work.
[When in Rome's
"The Promise"]
- When you're in doubt ♪
- I did my first photo shoot,
saw some photos of myself,
and said,
maybe I can do this.
I got a couple bigger jobs.
The next thing I know,
checks start arriving.
And I start to go,
oh, you can actually
make some money doing this.
And by the time
my senior year came around,
I actually paid
for my tuition,
I felt like a rock star.
- I promise ♪
I promise you I will ♪
- Your old behavioral patterns
are preventing you from being
the best you can be
at everything.
- I started to change.
I had a necklace
like Frederick,
and I had the rings
like Frederick.
4N was painted
in these wild colors
called Twilight Chimes.
I painted my room
in college that color.
My diet got very,
very strict and healthy.
- You have learned a great
deal about the world, John.
Now learn about yourself.
- I was becoming
a more evolved, better me.
- I know they don't sound
the way ♪
- So I was like, I'm learning
the real knowledge.
I'm not getting that knowledge
here at university.
- I promise you ♪
I promise you I will ♪
- But my senior year,
my roommates
got very concerned.
They actually went to the
school therapist at one point
and said, we're really
concerned about our roommate.
He's eating really healthy.
He's, like--
doesn't party anymore.
It's like--and the therapist
is like, doesn't sound too bad.
It's not like he's doing
anything dangerous.
- During the spring of 1985,
John had been spending
a lot of time in New York,
and John's roommates
and my parents
had arranged this meeting
to kind of confront John
about his changes in behavior.
- I was talking
to your roommates,
and they were so worried
about the stories
that Frederick was telling you.
- It was clear
my parents started
to become really concerned.
I went up to New York
and got John Andreadis,
and then we came down
and met my parents.
And my brother, Rory,
came there as well.
I wanted to set
the record straight,
let my parents know there's
nothing to be worried about.
- John and I,
when we were growing up,
we were real close.
We did everything together.
So I was giving John
the benefit of the doubt.
I was saying, OK,
he wants to do something
different at this time.
This was a healthy rebellion.
I'm just gonna let it go.
But there was really
very little
of the old, familiar John
there in that meeting.
So it was
a very contentious meeting.
- John Andreadis,
he talked so fast,
you couldn't, you know,
keep track.
And all the people were really
weird when we met with them.
And you'd start to talk,
and they'd say,
oh, he doesn't really
understand that.
He means this.
- My mother said,
oh, you showed up with all
these cronies and all that.
Because she just
looked at these people
as a bad influence.
- The truth is relative
in this dimension.
This is a world of opposites.
Therefore, nobody's
in any position
- I felt like
I wasn't being seen.
I felt like
I wasn't being heard.
They had not had
the conversations I had had.
They had not read
the things I had read.
So they're just wrong.
My mother started
calling it a cult.
And that was one
of the things that really,
really rubbed me wrong.
I'm not in a cult.
I would never join a cult.
I think,
like, that's ludicrous.
I was going to Studio 54
and all these great parties
in New York.
Cults don't do that.
But there was definitely
not very much agreement
or common ground being found.
And we basically--it ended
with it just being a stalemate.
[dramatic music]
I remember afterwards,
Frederick said,
if you don't change,
you're gonna turn out
to be just like your father
or just like your mother.
Never want to be that.
- No mother, no father,
no brother, no sister,
no country, no family
have any of you.
Your only mother
is Mother Nature,
and your only father is God.
And the rest is an illusion.
- My parents had, you know,
never been really comfortable
saying, I love you.
But within the group,
we all hugged each other,
and it was very kind of
touchy-feely.
And I remember
thinking to myself,
that's what I really needed,
an expression of love.
- We spend all our time
together, all of us,
and we're just
one big happy family.
We have a great time.
- Frederick was saying,
listen, well,
after you graduate college,
you should come
and live with us,
and you can be part
of this whole group
and what we're doing.
But my family
was not happy at all.
They were against it.
And so graduation,
there's all this tension.
And the next day
after graduation, I was gone.
[choral singing]
I was trying to do
what Frederick said:
release yourself
from your past.
Detach from your family.
I'm gonna really
give it a shot
and try and pursue
the spiritual life
at whatever cost.
- This platform,
I will surrender
and turn over to John Hoyt.
Thank you.
- Thank you, Frederick.
I think the most common
problem
When I moved into 4N,
I had, like,
a 3x3 compartment
in the closet that was mine,
and everything else
was communal.
In that building, they had,
like, six apartments.
Frederick used to say
these were all
chambers in the pyramid,
just like we were
back in Egypt.
[dramatic music]
4N was always the apex.
And certainly to live in 4N
was considered
an incredibly, you know,
heightened position.
[phone rings]
- Hello.
Get those statues
down to me, baby.
This is Frederick.
Hurry up.
- Frederick ran his house
with a ton of discipline,
like a ship.
- Work hard,
not just for yourself
but for everyone
else as well.
All of us do that to live
a life of excellence.
- A lot of people
still had their own jobs.
There was an architect.
There was a lawyer.
There was a guy who was
a computer specialist.
And the group had this very
high-end painting business,
where they would take a lot
of the interior design
approach
that Frederick had as far
as colors and color schemes.
They actually did a lot of the
painting in the apartments.
It was always kind of seeing
everybody helping,
you know, what's best
for the cause or the group.
And for me, I would wake up
and do my chores
before I left the apartment
to go even to a modeling job--
vacuuming,
polishing the mirrors.
There was always
people coming in,
and more or less, every night,
there would be a group dinner.
And then we would
go to bed at night.
4N, there would be six people
sleeping there at night.
And it's not very big,
so you would just
roll out this 1-inch futon.
- We would just fall asleep
side by side like, you know,
little matchsticks in a box.
It was so casual,
it didn't feel weird at all.
Sometimes Frederick
would tiptoe out
in the middle
of the night, and he
would come and put kind of,
like, this mint mask on,
like, oh, dear,
oh, let's keep your pores
really nice and tight.
You've got beautiful skin.
Let's--
You know, so he'd come and he'd
dab the stuff on my face
and dab it on Hoyt's face.
And we all just accepted it
as the culture there.
- Some of my favorite times
with Frederick
would be early Sunday morning.
We would meet in this
little, tiny kitchen
and just have coffee
and just have
these wonderful,
quiet conversations.
It wasn't the same sprightly
person that was--
you know, it was just--
it was wonderful.
But there was a real person
under there
that really did care.
He really cared.
- I'm only like Peter Pan
in my consciousness,
and I'm grateful
to be surrounded
by some of the most
beautiful and brilliant
young people in this country.
- Apparently,
there was this woman,
Mrs. Earl Kress Williams.
He said she was
a very wealthy socialite
and introduced him
to the whole social life.
He kind of let in
on some level
that he was maybe
a trust fund kid.
- He was always a part
of the social world
that was going on in New York.
From Paley
to the Rockefellers,
Frederick fit
into those places
because he was
so charming and good-looking.
Back in the '60s,
I was one of his agents.
- That's it.
- When he was young,
as a model,
Frederick was apple pie,
all-American.
And he was very intelligent.
He was very smart
and very quick on the dime.
And maybe
the most important thing--
he was in the Social Register,
which was a list
of people who were considered
the most influential
in New York.
- He had been to the best
cities, best restaurants
- But ultimately became
a really big partier.
During that time,
he had a lot of pain
emotionally and physically,
was just desperate
and contemplating suicide.
- I went to the doctor.
And of course,
he held my pulse.
- Frederick
had had an experience
of what can be described as
near death in January of 1978.
He had this high fever
of 104 degrees
from an inner ear infection,
and some other soul
or energy came into him.
- This is when
the new Frederick walked
into the body
of the old Frederick,
so he would technically
have the memories
of the old Frederick
but was a whole new being.
- He was shown
by this voice
that spoke
like a biblical prophet--
he was shown past lives.
He was shown
the funeral of himself
as the Pharaoh Akhenaten
in Egypt.
- Ruth Montgomery
was a very well-known psychic
who wrote a lot of books
about the concept
of alien walk-ins.
As soon as he read that,
he realized that that's
what happened to him.
- Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ
consciousness was a walk-in.
Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Jefferson,
Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Abraham Lincoln--
these were all walk-ins.
- He remembered traveling
from the star Arcturus.
And he had been told,
find the Arcturians.
And he was told
he had 10 years,
and he was to meet and train
potential future leaders
for the coming times
of sorrow, of tribulation.
[ethereal music]
- He would say,
you're one of the people
I've been looking for.
You all are the leaders
of the new age.
You may not recognize me,
but I recognize your soul.
And he's telling you this.
He's staring you
straight in the eye.
So someone saying that to you
is really powerful.
- According
to Ruth Montgomery,
Arcturus was considered
to be one
of the highest spiritual
planes in the universe.
In fact, people were kind of
excited to find out
if maybe they were a walk-in.
- Do you think
that it's possible
that there are people
or spirits or something
down here
that are unexplained?
Ruth does.
[applause]
What do you say to those people
who are completely skeptical?
- Through my writings
- You know,
Ruth Montgomery used to be
a political journalist.
So she had this
incredible credibility
- Was internationally renowned
for 30 years
and head of "The Washington
Post's" political arena.
- As time went on, she
developed psychic abilities
and just became
hugely popular.
- Do they know
that they are aliens?
- Not always at first, no.
But they feel lost here.
They keep not feeling
at home on Earth,
and they keep
looking at the stars
and wishing they could go home.
I've talked to an awful lot
of people like that.
- Ruth Montgomery talks about
walk-ins in one of her books.
- John actually reached out
to her at one point
and said, oh, you
should meet my teacher.
- It's Frederick.
- Frederick and Ruth,
they just hit it off.
- This is Ruth Montgomery,
and I'm overwhelmed.
The perfectly
beautiful necklace
and bracelet just came today.
- In her next book,
she wrote four chapters
about Frederick.
And that was really
when the game changed.
- Frederick von Mierers,
scion of an illustrious
old New York family,
sold all of his antiques
and luxurious furnishings
and dedicated himself
to a life
of service to humanity.
- And in this book,
she confirmed
that Frederick was a walk-in.
- The name of the book again
is "Aliens Among Us."
- Which is out now,
will be a bestseller,
"Aliens Among Us."
- When "Aliens Among Us"
became a bestseller,
Frederick was getting
thousands of inquiries.
- Thousands of letters,
which is hard to believe,
I understand, but you
must realize we've had all
these books written about us.
- "Aliens Among Us"
really catapulted him
into this New Age superstardom.
- People from
all over the world
started to learn
who Frederick was.
I mean, we found out even
Sammy Hagar from Van Halen
had read "Aliens Among Us"
and he loved the idea
of walk-ins.
- And we never had
a label for the group until,
all of a sudden,
it became necessary.
And that's when we came up
with the name Eternal Values.
[upbeat music]
- Good evening.
I'm Frederick von Mierers
with another platform,
The Eternal Values.
- We had a business.
We started doing
lectures and audiotapes.
- All of you
who want lectures,
they will be sent to you free,
which is almost
a $20,000 academic course.
- We had
an offshoot business,
Ultimate Fitness Opportunities.
It was a play on UFO.
We sold supplements, books,
and exercise equipment.
- This evening,
we will be discussing
a kindergarten foundation
to spirituality.
- Frederick's Rolodex
was quite extensive,
different celebrities
or people of prominence.
- I remember Freddy's like,
I have to go see Lord Stallone,
and I'm like, can't be.
But Stallone comes
to the front door,
and he goes, hey, Fred.
- Frederick had gone
to Mr. Chow's with Grace Jones.
- After "Aliens Among Us,"
Frederick had been
finally validated.
Eternal Values was exploding,
and it felt
like anything is possible.
- You can make all the money
in the world, which is great,
and you should.
But you're never going
to be happy unless you
strive to change yourself.
♪
- Just felt like everything
had kind of been dialed up
on steroids, you know?
Like, now it was time
to really kind of step up.
And I remember,
at that point,
Frederick sent me in
to see Joey Hunter,
the head of the men's division
at Ford Models.
And Joey was just, like,
the ultimate guy's guy.
[line ringing]
- Hello.
- Marian, Joey.
I'm doing an interview about--
remember Freddy von Mierers
and the aliens?
- Oy, vey.
I think it was one of those
things where they said
the aliens
were invading your body
and some shit like that.
- [sighs] I thought Freddy
was off the wall.
I mean, I used
to say to Freddy,
what do you--what aliens?
The fuck are you talking about?
But while I was at Ford,
Freddy, of course--
you know, he'd call me up
and say, I found this guy.
Would you have a look at him?
So one day,
Hoyt appeared in our office.
He was that beautiful-looking
guy from Princeton,
good background.
And he had a great look.
But at that time, you know,
he didn't have the name.
- You know, I was born
John Richards Hoyt.
And I always liked
the name John,
but I didn't like the fact
that it was such a common name.
So I thought maybe
it'd be fun to come up
with something different.
I could see "Hoyt Richards"
in lights.
You know,
maybe that's a good name.
Early on, I did a couple
shoots with Bruce Weber.
I remember he put me in,
like, a white suit,
put a towel around me,
and that's really the job
that put me on the map.
[Real Life's
"Send Me an Angel"]
- Bruce was always like
ahh, it's Bruce Weber.
If you work with them,
you're gone.
Your career took off.
- Do it again.
- All of a sudden,
I started getting calls
from Ford, like,
they want you in Milan.
They want you in Paris.
- Hoyt's rise was so fast.
Everybody knew about it
within six months.
He had that movie star look
that you would
have had with Clark Gable.
He looked like more
than just a face.
And there wasn't
anybody around like him
at that particular point.
Suddenly there were campaigns
that were not
just a single shot.
There were four or five pages.
And you would see Hoyt,
and you'd
see him in another magazine.
You'd see him in a commercial.
You would see him
in one thing after the other.
It was like a freight train.
- Send me an angel ♪
Send me an angel ♪
Right now ♪
- And the fashion industry
at that time,
it was Christy.
It was Cindy.
It was Claudia, Linda, Naomi.
But when I entered
the business,
there had been this
whole new movement where
athletes were becoming models.
- No sweat.
- There was a period
where it really
felt like it was just,
Hoyt and I
were up for all the same jobs.
Occasionally, we were like,
oh, why couldn't I
have done that one?
You know, you wanted to do
the stuff that Hoyt would do.
He was the talk of the town.
He was a supermodel,
a bona fide supermodel.
- Today we're going to meet
the most beautiful man
in the world, Hoyt Richards.
- What I loved
about being a male model
was the kinship and
camaraderie amongst the guys.
- The first time
I met Hoyt was at Ford Model
agency, and we just clicked.
Hi, I'm Fabio.
- Fabio was one of the first
models I actually met.
- He has graced the covers
of over 1,000 romance novels.
- '80s and '90s
were, like, the modeling time.
Life was really, really good.
- The top male models
can pull down as much
as $10,000 a day
strutting their stuff
on high-fashion runways.
- Hoyt was extremely
successful.
I was extremely successful.
We used to hang out a lot.
- Hoyt.
- Yeah.
- That was you and Fabio.
- That's right.
You and your dream date.
- My dream date, Fabio, yes.
[laughter]
- I mean, literally,
it was like,
off the Concorde,
going to the nightclubs,
being seen by paparazzi.
- It was just
cracking brilliant,
you know, working
five days a week,
all over the world, nonstop.
- It was a beautiful life,
traveling the world,
nice cars, beautiful clothes.
And we were making, you know,
a lot of money, a lot of money.
- As my success
started to unfold,
I kept thinking the reason
I'm miraculously kind of making
this quick rise
in that business was
because behind the scenes,
I was trying
to live this spiritual life.
I basically kept
the Eternal Values part
of my life pretty secretive.
- Now, we've shown it
with a wool crepe shirt.
- I met Hoyt when he
was with Ford Model,
which was a partner agency
of my London agency.
Everybody in the world
had to call
my desk to get time on Hoyt.
I intended for him to be
the most successful
model there had ever been.
We had an agreement
that I never booked
downtime or holiday time.
And I would say probably
around 330 days a year,
he was in the air
or in front of a camera.
- But no matter where I was,
whatever time zone,
I would virtually
check in every day
with the group.
[phone ringing]
I would struggle
with the fact that I'm
doing this job
that really seems immersed
in what the world would call
kind of superficial values.
I'm making money
off the fact that I
was basically given a costume
that people
seem to find pleasing.
So that didn't seem
very spiritual.
But I would rationalize it,
saying, well,
if I can use that opportunity
to make some money,
this is my best way
to contribute
and my way
to kind of help out.
- As long as you're in the
material world, you must act.
Renounce only the selfishness.
- You know,
it was all about this approach
of nonattachment.
You know, we're gonna be
in the material world
but not of the material world.
- When you realize
your spiritual reality,
then you can live
in the material world
and be free
and have everything.
- Your actions, although
they may be the same,
are being motivated
by a different force now,
a divine force.
- This mindset
kept me very humble.
It kept me very unattached
to this success I was having.
I would make
whatever I'd make.
A certain percentage,
I would keep,
knowing I had bills to pay.
But everything else,
I gave to Frederick.
It's almost like
you would describe
as a total team player
who's willing to sacrifice
his own gains for the benefit--
for the team to win.
The mentality
around Eternal Values
and the way Frederick
operated was,
everybody needed to give
everything that they had.
Like, this group was only gonna
work if you committed fully.
So if you had money,
like I did, you would give it.
If you didn't have money,
you would--
you maybe had more time,
and you would give your time.
- What we produce
will be only excellence.
And therefore,
the rewards are obvious.
- One of the things
he said to me was,
he goes, listen, Lord H,
you are impossible at times,
but your generosity will
always save you in the end.
And I found,
the more money that I made,
the more I could give,
and the more money I gave,
the more money I made.
- Through discipline,
we find self-respect.
Through self-respect,
we find happiness.
- It felt like I'd been given
some secret knowledge.
And over time,
there was pressure
on us to find our fellow
brothers and sisters out there.
And with the lifestyle
of living as a model,
my photo shoots
were really kind of
used as an active
recruiting ground.
I would go in there
and rave about
these incredible experiences
I was having and felt
almost a duty to share that.
If I came across someone who
seemed to be open-minded
Is that something
you've always loved?
- Yeah.
- Then I would start
a conversation
and see if it
would go anywhere,
and if it felt like
it went somewhere,
then I might introduce
them to Frederick.
I saw it as harmless
at the time.
And it's not like I--
I wanted this to go down
the way it did.
[tense music]
We were really trying
to become a sister-
and brotherhood of people
that were conscientious
and kind to one another.
But then this whole
pattern started
to develop where we also had
to watchdog one another.
And if you're
acting out of line,
it's demanded that you have
to kind of make people
aware of that, and it would
usually lead to some sort
of punishment for that person.
- We're all under
this pressure, you know,
trying to live a better life,
a more successful life.
But you knew you were
being listened to
and watched all the time.
♪
- One day, I had done,
like, five hours of laundry,
and I come back up.
It's, like, 3:00
in the morning.
So I get up to 6E,
and everyone is there.
It's, like, 20 people there.
And they're just looking
at me stone-faced.
Frederick sort of whips around
and, all of a sudden,
says, you.
I want you out of here.
I'm just like, what?
Is he talking to me?
Oh, hell, he's talking to me.
You've become a total monster.
How dare you?
I didn't feel like
I had done anything wrong.
And I burst into tears.
- You're so full of shit.
Why are you the way you are?
And everybody would
be invited to join in.
We called them
"slamming sessions."
- So sit your ass down
in the chair
and listen to what
we're saying.
Just sit down
- Slamming was Frederick's way
to get people
to, like, wake up,
kind of slam, like--
- Can I give you an example
of how it would sound?
- Yeah.
- [yelling] You fucking idiot!
What the hell do you think
you're doing?
- They were all
too fucking lazy!
- Teacher may push you
into states of mind
that are very uncomfortable.
- Wake up.
Look carefully
and change your life.
- And if you cannot
handle the unexpected,
if you cannot calmly accept
how life slaps you in the face,
you'll get nowhere.
So Frederick was a big fan
of bringing you experiences
that were unexpected.
- Only the serious ones
are the only ones
that I'm interested in.
- As time went on,
we were asked to be
more and more severe.
I didn't see it that way
at the time,
but there was
writing on the wall.
Looking back, I realized,
more and more,
people consistently agreed with
everything Frederick ordained.
♪
He was an alien walk-in,
a higher being
that stepped into his body.
What's above that?
What can control that?
- We're just friends.
We're everybody's friends.
We're grateful to give forth
the information
that we have received
and to enlarge
our family of friends, period.
Nothing is asked except
that people work hard
and become the best
they can be:
wholesome,
all-American citizens.
- OK.
How are things going?
So tell me if I'm moving
too much or too little.
All right.
- I just wanted
to center you up.
- All right.
They called themselves
Eternal Values,
and they had the answers to
make your life extraordinary.
- Jackie Adams was one
of the big models of my era.
She had a huge cosmetic
contract, Elizabeth Arden.
You'd see her
all over the place.
I had worked with Jackie
a couple times.
She was in the same agency
that I was.
And then she came
to the apartment,
and I just acted as kind of
a comfort level,
because she knew
someone else in the group
that was already there.
- I met Frederick, and he said,
oh, she's fabulous.
She's in.
Immediately, I found
a sense of belonging.
- Jackie and John
really kind of hit it off.
They spent a lot
of time together.
And they started
a romantic relationship.
And that was frowned upon.
So it was always like,
what's going on?
I mean, this is not
what we're supposed to do.
It was never something that
I ever imagined occurring,
certainly not to John.
Because John
was the golden child.
He was Frederick's protégé.
- We knew
a sexual relationship would
pull you away from the work
and devotion to Frederick
and the Eternal Values.
- The dark side
of the force will send,
if it's a man,
a woman who is beautiful,
devastating, and everything
he wants in the material world.
And here and hereafter,
he won't believe
in God or in this work.
You can't play with fire
without getting burned.
- My experience
with Eternal Values
went from happy
to scary in a heartbeat.
Anyone who had been taken
advantage of by Frederick
didn't say anything.
He was powerful,
and his friends were powerful.
They sent out tapes about
how we had to be destroyed
and we were evil
and all these things.
It was very frightening,
actually.
- I did not want
to be responsible
for another young person
getting sucked into this.
It was terrifying.
I did not want to keep silent.
[Anni-Frid Lyngstad's "I Know
There's Something Going On"]
♪
- I can see
that it won't be long ♪
♪
You grow cold
when you keep holding on ♪
♪
You know you've changed ♪
And your words, they lie ♪
That's something
you can't deny ♪
♪
If you want to leave,
then why don't you say it ♪
Your love has gone anyway ♪
I know
there's something going on ♪
♪
I know
there's something going on ♪
[bright tone]