"“It was one of those stories that you couldn't forget, understanding the journey he went on and how things unfolded,” Richards recalls. “It was just a juxtaposition of somebody who was at the height of the modeling world and also living this other double life.”"
"Richards admits he gave millions of what he earned as a model to the group while sleeping on a mat on the floor for almost 15 years. He eventually escaped the cult in 1999 with the help of his model friend Fabio Lanzoni, who appears in the docuseries."
"“When we started talking in Hawaii, Hoyt said, 'I doubt you will find anyone else that will talk to you.' It was actually a couple of years that it took to finally get people to sit down with us,” Smith said of the research behind the docuseries."
"Unlike other cultish groups with celebrity members, not a lot of information can be found online about the Eternal Values group, not even a dedicated Wikipedia page, besides an archived Vanity Fair article published shortly after von Mierers's death."
Eternal Values is portrayed as an elusive cult tied to Manhattan elites and nostalgia for the 1990s. Frederick von Mierers, a Manhattan socialite, recruited powerful and beautiful individuals after claiming he was an alien from the planet Arcturus. Supermodel Hoyt Richards describes meeting von Mierers at age 16 on a Nantucket beach and being drawn to his metaphysical and spiritual teachings. After college, Richards moved into von Mierers’s Manhattan apartment as her modeling career rose. She gave millions earned as a model to the group while sleeping on a mat on the floor for nearly 15 years. Richards escaped in 1999 with help from model friend Fabio Lanzoni. Limited public information exists, so the docuseries depends on firsthand accounts gathered over years.
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