A new HBO documentary is drawing renewed attention to one of New York's strangest and most disturbing cult scandals, tracing how a self-proclaimed extraterrestrial guru manipulated aspiring models, socialites and young men while hiding behind the glamour of Manhattan's fashion world.
'Bring Me the Beauties,' which premiered on HBO on 1 June, centres on former supermodel Hoyt Richards and his years inside the group Eternal Values, led by Frederick Von Mierers, a charismatic conman who claimed he was an alien consciousness sent to prepare humanity for the apocalypse.
