Back in 1990, Marie Brenner wrote an article for Vanity Fair about Frederick von Mierers, the Upper East Side guru and self-described alien who was leading a sort of elite, New Age cult called Eternal Values out of his Manhattan apartment. More than 30 years later, VF’s Dan Adler talked to one of von Mierers’s former followers, male supermodel Hoyt Richards, whose entanglement with, and ultimate escape from, Eternal Values is the subject of the new HBO documentary series Bring Me the Beauties.
Elsewhere, Erin Vanderhoof reports on a police probe of new allegations involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Noah Wyle stops by Little Gold Men to discuss the criticism he received during The Pitt’s sophomore season. Plus, we revisit Serena Williams’s 2017 cover story following the news of her return to professional tennis.
