Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult

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.

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.

- 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...

- I thought he was a little odd and strange.

But he was very funny...

And really excited about it.

It was just like magic.

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.

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.

When I got to college, I discovered

the freedom it brings.