Bring Me the Beauties: Hoyt Richards and the Cult-like World of Eternal Values

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Hoyt Richards, a pioneering male supermodel, was drawn into a cult‑like movement led by Frederick von Mierers, escaped years later with Fabio’s help, and now warns others through Living Cult Free, a story framed by an HBO docuseries within the broader pre‑internet wave of New Age wellness and alien intrigue.

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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.