Here's What We Know About Hoyt Richards' Relationship Status
The series traces how Richards’s modeling income helped finance the group and how its leader exerted control over followers’ lives.
- HBO premiered the three-part docuseries Bring Me the Beauties on June 1, chronicling former supermodel Hoyt Richards's two-decade involvement with the Eternal Values cult led by Frederick von Mierers.
- Von Mierers recruited Richards at age 16 on a Nantucket beach, promoting a belief system centered on an impending pole shift and extraterrestrial origins from the star Arcturus.
- The group enforced 'slamming sessions' and restrictive diets while Richards surrendered millions in modeling earnings, believing the group was preparing for a UFO rescue.
- Richards left the cult in 1999 and later reconciled with his family, becoming a primary caregiver for his mother before her death.
- Today, Richards, 64, serves on the board of Living Cult Free, working with other survivors to help them process experiences from their own ordeals.
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How Fabio helped a real-life supermodel escape a cult in HBO’s new documentary
This is a true story: Hoyt Richards, the world's first male supermodel, shares the story of his 20 years in Eternal Values, the cult created by Frederick Von Mierers who claimed to have come from the planet of Arcturus.
Where is Hoyt Richards now? All about the model and cult survivor from HBO's “Bring Me the Beauties”
How Hoyt Richards went from '80s male supermodel to cult survivor, and what he's been up to in the years since.Hoyt Richards in the HBO docuseries 'Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult'Credit: HBOKey PointsHBO's new docuseries Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult explores an '80s doomsday alien cult led by a charismatic New York socialite.Model and cult survivor Hoyt Richards is prominently featured in the series.Richards has had a fascinating lif…
The True Story Behind 'Bring Me the Beauties' and the Eternal Values Cult
Frederich Von Mierers, the leader of Eternal Values —Courtesy of HBOThe summer Hoyt Richards was 16, his family made their annual migration to Nantucket, where he spent long, unstructured days at Nobadeer Beach. It was there, on the pale sand, that Richards first encountered Frederick von Mierers: older, lean, striking, full of talk about Eastern philosophy, astrology, and the hidden architecture of the universe. Von Mierers threw parties nearby…
In Bring Me the Beauties, a 1980s New York Cult Sheds Light on Today’s “Cultish Society”
Director Chris Smith and former model Hoyt Richards talk to Vanity Fair about the new HBO docuseries, which traces Richards’s entanglement with Eternal Values, the New Age group led by Frederick von Mierers and first exposed by VF’s Marie Brenner in 1990.
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