Were free! Gordon, Ronald J. The assistant said there were many Scriptural reasons why they divorced. The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult founded in 1969 by Christian evangelist Tony Alamo and one of his wives, Susan Alamo. Bowden, Bill. Pre-European Exploration, Prehistory through 1540, European Exploration and Settlement, 1541 through 1802, Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood, 1803 through 1860, Civil War through Reconstruction, 1861 through 1874, Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, 1875 through 1900, Early Twentieth Century, 1901 through 1940, World War II through the Faubus Era, 1941 through 1967, Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform, 19682022, https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/05/13/the-barely-legal-empire-of-tony-alamo/, Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform (19682022). I didnt respect anything she ever did in her life but shes still my mother and I loved her completely. In 1966, after serving jail time for a weapons charge, Alamo married Edith Opal Horn from Alma (Crawford County), also of Jewish descent. Acting didnt pan out, but Susan Lipowitz made a good living as an evangelical preacher, often leaving southern California for long stretches to preach in tents across the country. On September 20, 2008, state and federal officials raided Alamos Fouke (Miller County)compound as part of a two-year investigation into allegations of child abuse and child pornography. She married Solomon Lipowitz, and together, they had a daughter. While they live states apart Pebbles, a stay-at-home mom who is in the process of getting a divorce, is in the Phoenix area with her two young sons; and Amy is studying to get into college in Oklahoma City, where she is also raising two boys with her boyfriend they are forever linked and speak with each other daily. Tony was found guilty of 10 charges of transporting minor females across state borders for sex after being brought to court and sentenced to 175 years in prison in 2009. The show related his four-year struggle against the Alamo church on the streets of Hollywood. This is how he shows his gratitude? ___ Its no wonder you get rich when you dont pay your bills. He took all my jewelry and gave it to Elizabeth. They have a son, Tabor, together. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2018. All Rights Reserved. Among the businesses which Alamo started was decorating denim jackets and airbrushing them with bright, colorful designs. It lost on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals in 1999. Both Tony and Susan were impressive on the stage: he with eye-catching outfits and musical ability, she with fiery sermons and deep faith. But after Susan died in 1982, Alamos behavior turned more deviant as he extolled the righteousness of polygamy and marrying young girls. They charged him with several counts related to his tax issues. People Magazine Investigates: Cults premieres Monday (9 p.m. He called the new entity Music Square Church and filed for tax-exempt status. Alamo is the president of the Alama-based Alamo Christian Foundation. Susan died in the early Spring of 1982. 3.2K views 2 years ago NASHVILLE Tony Alamo his church Alamo Christian Ministries, his store The Alamo, or the Al-ah-mo, and his wife Susan's dead body were one of the first phenomena. Copyright 2023 Empire Media Group, Inc. Front Page Detectives is a registered trademark. Her name was Susan (born Edith Opal Horn) Lipowitz, nine years his senior. She said an address on his posters the urge music fans to send in the votes for entertainer of the year is Alamos post office box in Los Angeles. But he had to go back to his mother the day before his birthday. Many Hollywood celebrities were seen wearing them, including Michael Jackson, who wore a modified leather Alamo jacket on the cover of his album Bad. They say they were planning a honeymoon cruise for later, Amrhein said. The Alamo Christian Foundation had churches in Chicago, Nashville, Miami Beach and Brooklyn. Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical conversion to Christianity, founded what is now called Tony Alamo Christian Ministries with his wife, Susan, later establishing its headquarters in Dyer (Crawford County). John Wesley Hall, a lawyer who represented Alamo, told the AP that several former members of his evangelist community expressed relief upon learning news of his passing was true. The flashy evangelist did business in the backwoods of western Arkansas, but when the law caught up with him, he was living in Tampa, Florida, where he ran a restaurant and regularly broadcast religious talk shows. Susan, too, would eventually change her name from the one her parents gave her in Alma, Arkansas. In 1976, a few unhappy followers reported him to the U.S. Department of Labor, who investigated. He remained in prison until his death in May 2017. 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The only thing thats ungodly is if you have a statue of another God., I tried to make the marriage work, Miss Gyllenhammar said. Regardless of his motive, if Alamo doesnt comply with Spears ruling, hell go straight to Crawford County Jail in Arkansas after completing his federal prison sentence and be held there indefinitely. The imprisoned Evangelist preacher Tony Alamo, who sexually abused young girls he considered to be his wives, has died after serving more than seven years of a 175-year prison sentence, authorities said. There are things that are out of my control, like recurring nightmares. In the reported belief that she would rise from the dead,[4] her embalmed body was kept on display for six months,[8] before it was entombed in a heart-shaped marble mausoleum on church property. If you can, provide 1-2 sources of information backing up this correction. Mr. Alamo presently has the ability to have the body produced.. Spears also rejected Alamos $3.5-million counterclaim that Coie had slandered and defamed him. Read our Privacy Policy. That was part of our custody agreement. His age is 88Years. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. I have a right to be angry, says Pebbles. The following month, Susan Alamo was re-interred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her brother, Erik, who is out of the group, called Ark Child Protection in 2000, but no action was taken. Soon, the organization established yet another compound in Nashville, Tennessee. The main campus continued to grow, adding gas stations, a restaurant and a hog farm, according to The New York Times. Association chose him as entertainer of the year in 1985. The girls grew up in Fouke, Arkansas, where they lived on a compound of the eponymous religious organization created in the late 1960s by Tony Alamo and his wife, Susan. Tony and Sharon had a son, Sion, together in the summer of 1991, while Tony was in jail awaiting trial for threatening Federal Judge Morris Arnold. She and her son are mistreated more than the others and are both referred to as "nigger" by Alamo. Acting upon reports of child abuse, on March 25, 1988, sheriffs deputies raided the Saugus, California, compound in order to reunite three boys with their natural fathers; the fathers had been members of the Arkansas compound but had been excommunicated. [20], Alamo died on May 2, 2017, while he was in custody at the Federal Medical Center, Butner in Butner, North Carolina. The smaller compound was now in Fouke, Arkansas, but there were two extant branches in Ft. Smith and Los Angeles. Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist convicted in 2009 on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. He was working as a music promoter. Amrhein said he suspected his former wife might flee the country to avoid the custody hearing in West Virginia next week. The total number of wives he has accumulated is unclear, to be sure. Chancery Judge Bernice Kizer ruled Monday that the foundations local business must pay back sales taxes. [11] The church's projects included Nashville's largest country and western clothing store. on July 23, 2009. He was convicted on July 4, 2009. March 1, 2023 3:00am. Amrhein is involved in a custody fight over her two children from a previous marriage but her marriage to the Alama-based minister is being called into question because Alamo's second wife, Birgitta Gyllenhammar, 43, says she is still waiting for him to sign the divorce papers. Around the time of his wifes death, Tony changed the name of the church and consolidated its power. She married Tony, who at the time was a fugitive, in hiding from charges of felony child abuse in California. A judge granted Alamo the maximum sentence for his crimes,175 years in prison. Alamo also claimed that UFOs are divine messengers from heaven and signs of the end times. Ill tell you how bad a shape theyre in. Hes a riot. They legally changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo. The church quickly expanded its holdings, buying several businesses and establishing a compound in nearby Saugus. Communal living was a staple of the Music Square Church. Click on the link above to open the article, Fashion designer claims he wont sign legal papers even though he married another woman. An assistant called back and said Alamo had divorced Gyllenhammar but would not say where. Larowe, Lynn. Alamo formed the cult way back in 1969 with his wife Susan when he was a flamboyant preacher on the streets of Hollywood. He's a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. In 1982, his wife Susan Alamo (ne Edith Opal Horn) died of cancer. My mother learned strong-arm tactics from my father and then finessed it with religion, Coie said. The miniseries describes their founding and running of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation which the program characterizes as a "cult" through which the Alamos became rich by exploiting their followers who truly believed in them. After he hooked up with Susan, his ambition, combined with her knowledge of Pentecostal life, along with the burgeoning pro-Jesus counterculture movement of the mid-1960s, resulted runaway success. In February 2014, a Miller County judgein the largest personal-injury judgment in Arkansas historyawarded $525 million in actual and punitive damages to seven former members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Nailing Tony Alamo. This Rock 1 (October 1990). At one time she had to go to a Van Buren chiropractor because of the pain she suffered from the beatings. In February 1991, Alamo ordered his followers to vacate the Arkansas compound prior to a federal raid and to bring along the body of Susan Alamo. They scooped up runaways and drug users off the streets of Hollywood, giving them food, shelter and fundamentalist religion tinged with anti-Catholic and anti-government messages. When he announced to his followers they would all need to leave the compound in 1991, certain the feds were about to raid the place, Tony took Susans body along. [11], In 2016, award-winning playwright Ernest Kearney produced his one-man show My Alamo War for the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles, California. http://www.alamoministries.com/ (accessed February 23, 2023). One business was particularly successful airbrushing denim jackets to produce beautiful pop art. The Ravening Wolf. Intelligence Report, Fall 2007. There are still many, many people nationally and internationally who have great admiration for him., But Spears also ordered Alamo to pay Coie $100,000, finding that he had committed a so-called tort of outrage against her by withholding her mothers bodyoutrageous conduct that any person knows would cause much grief and anguish to a child.. Ive been asked to go to France and design clothes there. Arkansas authorities report that Alamo (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman) died while in custody at the Federal Medical Center in. Donations made to the CALS Foundation are tax-deductible for United States federal income tax purposes. Tucker, Maria Luisa. In 2019, the American television channel Sundance TV broadcast the four-part miniseries Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo, based on the lives of Tony and Susan Alamo. In 1976, the U.S. Department of Labor brought charges against Alamo for violations of the Fair Labor Standard Act. [1][2] In the 1960s, he worked in Hollywood as a pop singer under the names Mark Hoffman and Marcus Abad. She was already married to Kenya Williams (African American) and pregnant with his child at the time. Online at https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/05/13/the-barely-legal-empire-of-tony-alamo/ (accessed February 23, 2023). For more about the harrowing experiences of Amy Eddy and Pebbles Rodriguez and how they reclaimed their lives, watch tonights episode of People Magazine Investigates: Cults at 9 oclock ET on Investigation Discovery. Widely regarded as a cult, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was at the center of a number of lawsuits and government actions, and its leader was jailed on a variety of charges, including income tax evasion, the theft of his late wifes body, and taking underage girls across state lines for sex. Alamo was living at the time in Tampa, Fla., a fugitive from charges that he had ordered the beating of an 11-year-old church member at the Saugus commune. She said Alamo had sent her a telegram saying they were divorced, but she has been unable to get a divorce decree either in Van Buren or Nashville because he will not appear in court. Alamo says he married Amrhein in December. Witnesses at his trial described being taken as child brides, with some as young as 9 years old. She threw Alamo out of her Los Angeles home last fall after he broke a 200 year old statue. The documentary series also features archival footage, including Tony Alamo's videotaped deposition, as well as interviews with former members of the cult and the FBI agent who brought Alamo down.[23][24]. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. He still hasnt paid me for the clothes he bought from my store in December 1984. Attorney Susan James of Montgomery, Ala., who represented Alamo during the trial in Ft. Smith, Ark., noted that Alamo was challenging Spears decision and said he had denied all of Coies allegations. In September 1994, the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee sentenced Alamo to six years in federal prison in Texarkana, Texas. Enriquez, Sam. The foundation might have to pay up to $70,000 in back taxes. The court concluded Alamo also owed another $5 million to ex-members for unpaid labor. Bernard was born in 1934 and took a bus to Hollywood before graduating high school. History: In California in 1993 Maria Isabel Mendoza (aka Isabel Mendoza) became another Alamo wife at age 19. During his outlaw years, hed threatened to kidnap a federal judge, dug up and removed with late wifes body from her heart-shaped mausoleum and made millions of dollars selling high-end painted jeans jackets to celebrities. Christian communities were good business in Hollywood, and The Alamo Christian foundation grew steadily over the next decade. As the government painstakingly made its case for tax evasion, Tony was fighting legal battles on multiple fronts. She and her son are mistreated more than the others and are both referred to as nigger by Alamo. The two immediately clicked, having much in common from midwestern, Jewish roots to a talent for showmanship and within months, Susan converted Bernie/Mark to hard-core Protestantism. On September 25, 2008, Alamo himself was arrested in Flagstaff, Arizona, on a federal warrant charging him with violating the Mann Act, a federal statute enacted to stop the trafficking of women or girls across state lines, over a period from March 1994 through October 2005. If hed married Brooke Shields I would be jealous. Elizabeth Mercado Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo. Tony Alamo and his wife, Susan, established a church in Nashville called the Music Square Church, located near Printers Alley. Gyllenhammar and Alamo were married in June 1984 in Los Angeles by Rev. He was heard on over a dozen radio stations in the U.S. and more in Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Theme Ported to Wordpress by Kaushal Sheth . You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. Alamo kicked Kenya out of the group and took his wife. He served slightly less than four years, was transferred to a Texarkana halfway house, and by Christmas 1998, he was a free man again. They were awarded the largest sum of damages in Arkansas history $525 million dollars. Original Design by Gurpartap Singh, Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse. The Alamos were multi-millionaires by the time Susan died, although their followers were often forced to scrounge through dumpsters for food, according to The Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Siege of the Alamos. People Weekly, June 13, 1983, pp. However, one thing is clear, only one of his children (Sion) is born from his legal wife, Sharon. Coie said that when she was trying to leave the sect years ago, her mother and stepfather tried to keep her there by threatening to take away her young daughter. Its embarrassing to have a husband who gives stupid interviews and gives out crazy literature, she went on, referring to his statements that the country is run by the Vatican. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. The case of the boys went before U.S. District Judge Morris Arnold, who ruled that child abuse had taken place and awarded damages to the plaintiffs. Between 1986 and 1990, the preacher remarried twice. Upon his release, the ex-felon returned home: back to his now humbler Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life. In 1990, Alamo failed to appear in court to answer these charges and was ruled guilty in default. Sign up to receive breakingFront Page Detectivesnews and exclusive investigations. Dear Abby: My boyfriend is using me for sex and money. Jeanne, Amy, Desiree and Nikki were all born into the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry, which, some say, is a cult. His father was a poor immigrant from Romania who settled the family near Joplin, Missouri in the 1920s. He professed this great love for my mother. They complained of long shifts, and some revealed the organization required absolute loyalty. After years of legal troubles during which he was accused of engaging in abusive behavior against his followers,[3] Alamo was convicted of ten child rape offenses in 2009. Alamo was recently convicted by a federal court jury in Texarkana, Ark., on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. The term cult has a precise definition or rather, Religion News Blog is a service provided by, Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wifes Remains, No jail sentence for Phil Aguilar, founder of Christian motorcycle club, FLDS sells cult fashion online; Ex-member helps FLDS victims, Minister removed after confession of sexual misconduct, Controversial Reverend Carl H. Stevens of Greater Grace World Outreach Dies. The civil contempt differs from his criminal incarceration in that Mr. Alamo holds the key to the jailhouse in his possession, Spears wrote. ET) on Investigation Discovery. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. Dear Abby advises a woman whose boyfriend is using her. Amrhein is involved in a custody fight over her two children from a previous marriage but her marriage to the Alama-based minister is being called into question because Alamos second wife, Birgitta Gyllenhammar, 43, says she is still waiting for him to sign the divorce papers. Tony allegedly threatened to kill Arnold but was never held legally accountable. He's a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. Williams, John. 1A, 10A. Her mother Suzanne and step-father, Bob Streit, are still with the Alamo group. What were they doing in New Orleans?. Alamo claimed that he and his followers had no assets and were living hand to mouth; he also apparently issued a death threat against Arnold, though he was later acquitted of that charge. To show you how much he has changed, at the hearing in New Orleans, he said I would beat him. The full weight of the crimes hed committed was finally coming to light, and in 2014, a judge from Miller County, Arkansas, ruled in a case brought by seven ex-cult members. Additional support provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Coie, a 45-year-old singer, said last week she had not expected a monetary award but sued to preserve some semblance of her mothers dignity. Lizzy and her parents were threatened with expulsion from the group and eternal damnation if they did not comply with Alamos demand for her virginity. [4], After divorcing their respective spouses, Horn and Hoffman married in a 1966 Las Vegas ceremony, legally changing their names to Tony Alamo and Susan Alamo. Now Tony . When Amrhein was arrested last week in New Orleans for trying to leave the country, her marriage license was reportedly not certified. Long Waits, Short Appointments, Huge Bills. The IRS and the labor board will take it all away from him, she said, referring to court rulings that have ordered Alamo to pay his followers minimum wage, as well as taxes on his businesses. (Diane Elana Williams Alamo testified against Tony in the IRS trial which could account for the revenge of taking Kenyas wife and his hatred of the child). All Rights Reserved. According to the Sept. 14 ruling by Arkansas Chancery Court Judge Jim Spears, Alamo illegally removed his wife Susan Alamos body from its mountaintop mausoleum in Dyer, Ark., four years ago, and will be held in contempt of court until he produces it. [11] MSC was granted 501c tax-exempt status in 1981,[16] but this was retroactively revoked by the IRS on April 5, 1996. Alamos church also lives, if in a far smaller and less organized fashion, said several sources including Alamos own lawyer. After years of legal troubles during which he was accused of engaging in abusive behavior against his followers, Alamo was convicted of ten child rape offenses in 2009. 100 Rock Street Her mother, Debbie Ondrisek, is still in the group and feels privileged that her daughter is married to the World Pastor. Hes not paying his bills at his stores. For more on former child brides Amy Eddy and Pebbles Rodriguez, subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this weeks issue, on newsstands now. Alamo Ministry Resurrected. Arkansas Times, November 29, 2007, pp. He can be very charming.. Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Susan Alamo died in April 1982. The 61-year-old Alamonow serving a six-year sentence in Colorado for failing to file tax returns and submitting a false onemust also arrange for her proper and legal entombment, Spears ruled. Authorities said the body was removed from its quiet hilltop the same night that dozens of Alamo followers fled the Dyer compound. He eventually moved his headquarters to Arkansas with his wife, Susan, where he held secret ceremonies at his compound to authorize his marriage to girls as young as 15-years-old. Sharon Alamo seen leaving courthouse after Tony Alamo was found guilty of 10 counts of taking underage girls across state lines for sex 2009. The Alamo Christian Foundation. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 76 (Autumn 2017): 218247. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. "[16] MSC sued and lost in the United States Court of Federal Claims. The child on the right is Lizzy and Alamos daughter, Antoinette. Much of the information on Alamos early, pre-conversion life is spurious at best, on account of Alamos constant exaggerations of his importance and/or sinfulness. In October 2007, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center on account of its anti-Catholic rhetoric. Even so, why werent my children in school last week? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The term 'cult expert' is not protected. They married each other three times within a few weeks, first in Tijuana, Mexico. Tony Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman on Sept. 20, 1934, to a Jewish family in Joplin, Missouri. 25-Apr-1925, m. 1966, d. 8-Apr-1982 cancer) Wife: Birgetta Oyllenhammer (m . 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