Isabel Mendoza Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo By now, he was a millionaire with a large staff of workers. Nailing Tony Alamo. This Rock 1 (October 1990). [9], Tony and Susan Alamo founded the Alamo Christian Foundation in 1969 in Hollywood, California. I was terrified that if I didnt do what I was supposed to do when he told me to do it no matter what it was Im going to hell, Amy tells PEOPLE, recalling her childhood in the cult. As young girls, Amy Eddy and her best friend, Pebbles Rodriguez, did not have any control of their lives. I was at a party not long ago with Julio Iglesias and Elizabeth Taylor. To treat my mother like a bag of garbage? Troubles continue to mount for Tony Alamo Christian Foundation. Rate and review titles you borrow and share your opinions on them. The main campus continued to grow, adding gas stations, a restaurant and a hog farm, according to The New York Times. Im not worried. Its putting closure to it, finally, said Alamos stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie of Reseda, who sued Alamo literally over her mothers dead body and for whom the legal decision represents a symbolic burial of her mothers and her tortured past. Ill get my children back, said Nick Amrhein of Huntington, West VA. He wont sign the papers.. 25-Apr-1925, m. 1966, d. 8-Apr-1982 cancer) Wife: Birgetta Oyllenhammer (m . [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. He accused me of having an ungodly statue of a man and a woman. Alamo responded by declaring bankruptcy, and his businesses imploded, although Alamo Ministries limped along. 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. Benjamin Risha. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. History: In 1993 Misheal Eden Jones-Williams became Tonys wife at 18 years old. The Ravening Wolf. Intelligence Report, Fall 2007. Her name was Brigitta Gyllenhammer, and she lasted two years before divorcing him. 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When a tribute gift is given the honoree will receive a letter acknowledging your generosity and a bookplate will be placed in a book. 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. The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo. Village Voice, May 13, 2008. It also operated a drug rehabilitation facility, and those who were involved in the church developed several businesses in the Alma area. Beginning in the 1960s in California, erstwhile music producer Tony Alamo became interested in authoritarian religion and, along with his charismatic wife, Susan, began gathering followers. He remained in prison until his death in May 2017. Spears also rejected Alamos $3.5-million counterclaim that Coie had slandered and defamed him. Read our Privacy Policy. Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. He left me with all the bills, she said. The foundation might have to pay up to $70,000 in back taxes. The first time you log in to our catalog you will need to create an account. Picture taken in 1993. Sadly, there are many more under age children that were forced by Alamo to be another one of his wives. . Shown here pregnant with Alamos son, Tabor. Executive summary: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. He also built a Christian empire on sex trafficking, embezzlement and lies. She may be prosecuted not only for unlawful flight but also for trying to obtain a passport under false pretenses. They launched a national television ministry in the 1970s. Both members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, they were forced to follow countless rules and required permission to go outside. Shown here holding Alamos biological son, Sion, in Palm Springs, California in 1993 and then again with her son, Jordan (picture taken in 1994) and another wife, Elizabeth Mercado (aka Lizzy Gutierrez) Alamo was convicted in 2009 on 10 counts for taking young girls, including a 9-year-old, across Arkansas state lines to have sex with them, the AP reports. I made sure he was properly dressed. It lost on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals in 1999. The other children (Tabor and Antoinette) were conceived during Alamo and Kroopfs marriage and the biological mothers (Lydia Willis and Elizabeth Mercado) are in the group and currently living with (or near) Alamo. In six months, when she didnt rise from the dead, Tony finally buried her. When Alamo was released from federal prison in 1998, he quickly reassumed his status as the head of a now smaller Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, which is headquartered in Miller County, with branches in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Los Angeles. The feds had narrowed in Tony fought Coie for custody of Susans remains. She threw Alamo out of her Los Angeles home last fall after he broke a 200 year old statue. 1416, 18. But he had to go back to his mother the day before his birthday. 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. Alamo was recently convicted by a federal court jury in Texarkana, Ark., on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. New congregants signed on, then the church transported them to a rural location of Agua Dulce, California, about an hour northeast, for a hot meal and a sermon. Gyllenhammar and Alamo were married in June 1984 in Los Angeles by Rev. ET) on Investigation Discovery. Alamo has fathered three children by different women who live in his home as secretaries. Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Alamo is the president of the Alama-based Alamo Christian Foundation. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. Gordon, Ronald J. An assistant called back and said Alamo had divorced Gyllenhammar but would not say where. Amy and Pebbles were finally freed from their torture in 2008 when Alamo was arrested and charged with 10 counts of interstate transportation of minors for illicit sexual purposes. Miss Gyllenhammar says when the romance cooled, he would often beat her. In July 1998, he was transferred to a Texarkana halfway house, from which he was released on December 8 of the same year. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Both women still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, where seemingly normal activities can sometimes trigger panic attacks and feelings of fear and loneliness. All Rights Reserved. Alamo had not been issuing checks to his employees and offered only the most menial financial recompense, leading some disgruntled followers to begin reporting his activities. Between 1986 and 1990, the preacher remarried twice. By the time the church was at its height in 1980, they had their own television ministry and were bringing in tens of thousands of dollars each week. He was heard on over a dozen radio stations in the U.S. and more in Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. The show was awarded the Fringe's Encore Producer Award. 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. Susan, too, would eventually change her name from the one her parents gave her in Alma, Arkansas. After both he and Susan converted to Christianity, they established the Music Square Church and began a Hollywood street ministry, passing out religious tracts and preaching especially to drug addicts, alcoholics, and prostitutes. In September 1994, Alamo was sentenced by the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to six years in the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1960s, claiming he was a music promoter with clients including the Beatles. On July 23, 1998, after a three-year legal battle, his followers brought the body to a funeral home in Van Buren (Crawford County). He claimed that the governments actions against him were merely the machinations of Satan, and his followers continued to attract controversy for distributing his printed literature across the United States and beyond. The smaller compound was now in Fouke, Arkansas, but there were two extant branches in Ft. Smith and Los Angeles. Tony Alamo predicted that his wife would be resurrected. Online at https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/05/13/the-barely-legal-empire-of-tony-alamo/ (accessed February 23, 2023). [16], Tony Alamo was arrested numerous times, beginning with an illegal weapons possession charge in 1966 for which he served time before he married Edith Opal Horn,[15][11] and culminating in his 2009 conviction on ten counts of transporting minors as young as 9 years old across state lines for sex. 100 Rock Street Members usually lived in a commune and worked at an Alamo-owned business, turning over much of their salaries to the church. I took care of his business. July 11, 1993. Gyllenhammar said Alamo is attracted to blond women. You know, what gets me about this is [my mother] made him a multimillionaire many times over, Coie said. 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. Susan Alamo, born Edith Opal Horn, married Hoffman in 1966 after which the two changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo. He built her a heart-shaped mausoleum, and the church kept her body on display. A few years later, her estranged daughter, Christhiaoan Coie, successfully sued him in 1995 for access to her mothers body for burial. He lost the suit as well as an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985, the same year that the IRS retroactively revoked the tax exempt status for his church for the years 1977 to 1980. She bore a child to Tony, a girl, Antoinette, in June of 2001. They made the trip to Las Vegas in 1966 to tie the knot, each leaving their respective spouses. Theyre messed up children, Amrhein 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. He claimed Satan was behind the continuous, relentless government prosecution and that he was the ultimate victim. They married each other three times within a few weeks, first in Tijuana, Mexico. 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. 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. Now Tony . Ive been asked to go to France and design clothes there. At its height, the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries had thousands of followers around the country, according to the AP. Susan and Tony Alamo met in a Hollywood Boulevard bar in the 1960s when Susan was pressing her then-teen-age daughter to become a kid performer and he was a self-styled promoter whose real name was Bernie L. Hoffman, Coie recalled last week. [1][2] He was 82 years old. 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. Alamo, who was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman, died Tuesday at the age of 82 while in custody at a federal prison hospital in Butner, N.C., the Bureau of Prisons said, according to the Associated Press. The civil contempt differs from his criminal incarceration in that Mr. Alamo holds the key to the jailhouse in his possession, Spears wrote. Additional support provided by the Arkansas Community Foundation. A hearing was held the day after her arrest. Alamo had the body of Mrs. Alamo removed from the tomb. The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult founded in 1969 by Christian evangelist Tony Alamo and one of his wives, Susan Alamo. This project is funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant award. Alamos Fort Smith attorneys say they do not know if Alamo divorced Gyllenhammar and if he properly married Amrhein. Factories are calling me and asking me why he doesnt pay his bills. When Bernie LaZar Hoffman was born on Sept. 30, 1934, in Joplin, Missouri, he wasn't born into a particularly religious household. History: Just 13 years old when she went to Tony Alamos house and became a wife. That was part of our custody agreement. Even in his later years, when the feds were pursuing him for charges ranging from embezzlement to child abusethe man calling himself Tony Alamo didnt try to hide. March 1, 2023 3:00am. They say they were planning a honeymoon cruise for later, Amrhein said. Susan Alamo died in April 1982. Alamo says he married Amrhein in December. He came to me nose to nose and pulled a Muhammad Ali on me. Ive done well. Hughes, Dave. Kenya was the son of Diana Elena Williams Alamo, a legal ex-wife of Alamos. The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult founded in 1969 by Christian evangelist Tony Alamo and one of his wives, Susan Alamo. For more on former child brides Amy Eddy and Pebbles Rodriguez, subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this weeks issue, on newsstands now. [11], In 1976, the church relocated to Dyer, Arkansas, where Susan had grown up. Sunday October 1, 1995 Alamo Christian Ministries, Tony Alamo. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. Theme Ported to Wordpress by Kaushal Sheth . People Magazine Investigates: Cults premieres Monday (9 p.m. Bernard was born in 1934 and took a bus to Hollywood before graduating high school. One of the ex-communicated fathers also claimed Alamo had embezzled up to $100,000 in church funds from their trucking company. Give a donation in someones name to mark a special occasion, honor a friend or colleague or remember a beloved family member. Ten would be convicted on ten counts, all related to trafficking underage girls across state lines. 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. http://www.alamoministries.com/ (accessed February 23, 2023). He preached he was the victim of a government conspiracy. Over the years, Alamo has alternately admitted and denied that he knew of the corpses whereaboutsmost recently maintaining he had no control over the theft or return. 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. For about a decade, beginning in the mid-1990s, Amy and Pebbles lived as child brides of Alamo and were regularly starved, beaten and raped. Amrhein said he suspected his former wife might flee the country to avoid the custody hearing in West Virginia next week. [20], Alamo died on May 2, 2017, while he was in custody at the Federal Medical Center, Butner in Butner, North Carolina. Preacher Alamo Told to Return Wife's Remains. It would turn out this marriage would be forever for only one of them. Like Bernie, she grew up Jewish in a mostly Christian state. Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life. The girls grew up in Fouke, Arkansas, where they lived on a compound. Saying he appreciated the articles about Alamo, Amrhein insisted, Ill keep the kids. Larowe, Lynn. Alamos Pentecostal theology includeed a virulent paranoia and extreme anti-Catholicism that placed the Vatican as the real power broker behind the White House, the United Nations, and the media. Gyllenhammar, who moved to California from Sweden 15 years ago, talked of a romance that had gone sour. Sensing that a panicky Alamo might move the body, Coie had obtained a restraining order, taped to the tomb, that forbade anyone from disturbing it. Years after his wife's death, Tony began taking child brides, as young as 8 years old, and in 2009, he was sentenced to 175 years in prison for transporting young girls across state lines for sex. Others said they never got paid. Among the businesses which Alamo started was decorating denim jackets and airbrushing them with bright, colorful designs. Susan became ill with breast cancer in the late 1970s, just as shed reached the height of her business success. Tony allegedly threatened to kill Arnold but was never held legally accountable. Its no wonder you get rich when you dont pay your bills. He took all my jewelry and gave it to Elizabeth. . But he wanted to spend his birthday with me so we got permission for him to stay two days longer. I dont get the feeling he is very smart.. Encyclopedia of Arkansas He's a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. Then in 1991, as federal authorities moved to seize the churchs myriad assets, the mausoleum in Dyer was broken into and Susan Alamos body disappeared. Their ministry was part of the Jesus People movement, in which many of those involved in the counterculture of the 1960s began proclaiming a spiritual transformation and an allegiance to Jesus. [22] As the government painstakingly made its case for tax evasion, Tony was fighting legal battles on multiple fronts. Tony renamed the business and ran the organization as a benevolent and energetic father figure. Siege of the Alamos. People Weekly, June 13, 1983, pp. She married Solomon Lipowitz, and together, they had a daughter. Then the couple flew to Vegas, where they went through two more marriage ceremonies. They legally changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo. The Alamo Christian Foundation had churches in Chicago, Nashville, Miami Beach and Brooklyn. Sprinkle said she, her parents and others were beaten severely. Alamos various marriages were controversial and difficult to number. [1][2] The Alamo Ministries posted a notice of his death on its website's homepage, but it has not posted a notice of succession nor has it stated what its future plans are. Lydia was in her early 30s. Son: Mark Anthony Hoffman (b. It was her second marriage. Even so, why werent my children in school last week? Jeanne, Amy, Desiree and Nikki were all born into the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry, which, some say, is a cult. Many of these individuals chose to stay on to become Bible students and lay ministers. Hes not paying his bills at his stores. Just why Alamo had the corpsewhich he claimed spoke to him from the graveremoved from its tomb was not explained in Spears order. Hed lost his best friend, business partner and favorite wife and she was only 56. In September 1994, the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee sentenced Alamo to six years in federal prison in Texarkana, Texas. (AP) Amy Eddy and Pebbles Rodriguez are speaking out about how they were controlled by apocalyptic cult leader Tony Alamo in an upcoming documentary. That is one reason why we can provide this research service free of charge. Kizers ruling upheld an earlier decision by the state Department of Finance and Administration that six Alamo businesses in Alma and Dyer have no religious purpose and must pay sales taxes. History: In California in 1993 Maria Isabel Mendoza (aka Isabel Mendoza) became another Alamo wife at age 19. In 1984, Tony Alamo married what was either his fourth or sixth wife, as there have been claims he was married four times before he wed Susan. 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. Alamo was charged was violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, went to court, then countersued all the way to the Supreme Court. The Alamos promoted UFOs as real and convinced followers to turn over their salaries, work long hours and prepare for the inevitable End Times. On December 2, 2010, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his conviction and sentence. 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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. Magazines, Digital The child on the right is Lizzy and Alamos daughter, Antoinette. They had another wedding in Las Vegas, and they moved to his home in Dyer. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. The following month, Susan Alamo was re-interred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "They did not leave a paper trail," said Tampa police Detective Grady Snyder. McNeil, Betsy. The program also charges Tony Alamo with being a child abuser, polygamist and pedophile. The Alamo Christian Foundation last year lost its status as a tax-exempt religious organization and is now treated as a for-profit group by the IRS. Bowden, Bill. Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist convicted in 2009 on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. Alamo Christian Foundation zeroed in on street kids, and there were no shortage in 1960s Hollywood. Hes a riot. Tony Alamo was looking at child porn charges. In 1990, Alamo failed to appear in court to answer these charges and was ruled guilty in default. When Amrhein was arrested last week in New Orleans for trying to leave the country, her marriage license was reportedly not certified. On June 8, 1994, he was convicted on one charge of filing a false income tax return and three charges of failing to file a tax return; testimony during the trial revealed that the church had a total income on $9 million during the three years when Alamo paid no taxes. Their wives had remarried more loyal subjects of Alamo, and their families had relocated to California. I have a right to be angry, says Pebbles. She and her son are mistreated more than the others and are both referred to as "nigger" by Alamo. Tony was a street preacher and his ministry would offer . All Rights Reserved. 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