REWIND: Hoyt Richards - From Supermodel to Cult Member

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Trust Me has joined Exactly Right Media. Hosts Lola Blanc & Meagan Elizabeth will be back with new episodes on Wednesday, July 30th.

What do you model your life after? For producer, actor, and former supermodel Hoyt Richards, it was the teachings of a charming man from Nantucket who spoke about the impending apocalypse and a distant star named Arcturus. Hoyt shares how he was indoctrinated into the Eternal Values cult as his modeling career was taking off, what he describes as "cultic relationships," and how Fabio (yes, that Fabio) was involved in his recovery. Original Airdate: 07/07/2021.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:06.2	You're about to listen to one of our favorite episodes of Trust Me from July 7th, 2021,
0:11.3	about how Hoyt Richards was indoctrinated into the Eternal Values cult.
0:15.3	If you're new here, follow the show so you don't miss the July 30th return of Trust Me on the exactly right network.
0:21.4	If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group,
0:24.6	or if you've had an experience with manipulation or abuse of power you'd like to share,
0:27.9	leave us a message on our hotline number at 513-900-2955.
0:32.4	Or shoot us an email at trust me pod at gmail.com.
0:36.6	Trust me.
0:37.5	Dude, you trust me.
0:39.0	Trust me.
0:40.0	I'm like a smart person.
0:41.6	I've never lied to you.
0:43.5	I never have lied to you.
0:45.0	If you think that one person has all the answers, don't.
0:49.1	Welcome to Trust Me, the podcast about Colts, extreme belief belief and the abusive power from two supermodels
0:55.5	who've actually experienced it. I am Lola Blanc. And I'm Megan Elizabeth. And today our guest is
1:00.2	the endlessly fascinating Hoyt Richards. He is a producer, actor, and former supermodel who was
1:06.4	in a cult called Eternal Values. He's going to tell us about being approached by a mysterious
1:10.5	older man
1:11.2	in Nantucket named Frederick von Meier's. I actually don't remember Meirers, let's say, when he was a
1:16.9	teenager. This man had a lot to say about Eastern philosophy, astrology, and New Age thinking, and he's
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