Doomsday UFO Cult Behind a World‑Renowned Model
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An HBO three‑part doc dives into Hoyt Richards’ rise as the world’s top male model and his entanglement with Frederick Von Mierers’ Eternal Values, a doomsday cult that fused Arcturian alien walk‑ins, strict rules, sex‑ and drug‑fueled rites, and a lucrative wellness‑gem empire; it traces the cult’s ascent, coercive practices, a Vanity Fair exposé, and Richards’ eventual escape, through interviews and archival footage that expose the human cost behind the cult’s empire.
- ‘Bring Me the Beauties’: Inside the Doomsday Alien Sex Cult That Ensnared the First Male Supermodel Variety
- ‘We can all be susceptible’: how did a group of models get taken in by a cult? The Guardian
- Hoyt Richards, Former Model, on ‘Bring Me The Beauties’ and How to Escape a Cult The New York Times
- In Bring Me the Beauties, a 1980s New York Cult Sheds Light on Today’s “Cultish Society” Vanity Fair
- The True Story Behind 'Bring Me the Beauties' and the Eternal Values Cult Time Magazine
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