On December 2, 2010, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his conviction and sentence. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. 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. "[16] MSC sued and lost in the United States Court of Federal Claims. 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. 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) Susan Alamo, born Edith Opal Horn, married Hoffman in 1966 after which the two changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. Flippo, Chet. 100 Rock Street Years earlier, sheriffs deputies showed up at Alamos Saugus, California compound. Tony allegedly threatened to kill Arnold but was never held legally accountable. Tony renamed the business and ran the organization as a benevolent and energetic father figure. 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. The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult founded in 1969 by Christian evangelist Tony Alamo and one of his wives, Susan Alamo. Susan Alamo died in April 1982. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. The child on the right is Lizzy and Alamos daughter, Antoinette. Alamo was charged was violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, went to court, then countersued all the way to the Supreme Court. I still do, said Coie, who last saw her mother in 1971 when she quit the sect against her parents wishes. Preacher Alamo Told to Return Wife's Remains. 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. 25-May-1964) Wife: Edith Opal Horn ("Susan Alamo", b. He wont sign the papers.. 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. Susan, too, would eventually change her name from the one her parents gave her in Alma, Arkansas. 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. Pebbles agrees: I dont think it will ever be easy. In 1976, a few unhappy followers reported him to the U.S. Department of Labor, who investigated. Many of the businesses have closed down. Moseley testified during the missing-body case that Alamo had phoned him after the corpses disappearance and acknowledged ordering its removal. Tony began a concerted effort to avoid reporting his income. 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. Twice married and with a daughter, she came to Hollywood and attempted to become an actress. They legally changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo. The main campus continued to grow, adding gas stations, a restaurant and a hog farm, according to The New York Times. In 1990, Alamo failed to appear in court to answer these charges and was ruled guilty in default. Tony Alamo was looking at child porn charges. Following Susans death, rumors spread that he had taken two fifteen-year-old girls as wives. On June 23, 1984, he married Swedish native Birgitta Gyllenhammar in Las Vegas, Nevada, though this marriage ended two years later; she later claimed that Alamo wanted her to have plastic surgery to look like Susan and that he regularly beat and drugged her. Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles, Christian Cult Leader and Child Sex Abuser Tony Alamo Dies in Federal Custody. She threw Alamo out of her Los Angeles home last fall after he broke a 200 year old statue. Ten would be convicted on ten counts, all related to trafficking underage girls across state lines. Some days are easier than others.. About 18 months later, his prophecy unfulfilled, Alamo erected a mausoleum on the property and entombed her there. They launched a national television ministry in the 1970s. Below are several (but not all) of Tony Alamos alleged wives. You know, what gets me about this is [my mother] made him a multimillionaire many times over, Coie said. Theyre messed up children, Amrhein said. The girls grew up in Fouke, Arkansas, where they lived on a compound. Alamo Christian Ministries: Is He a Prophet, Promoter, or Profiteer? Los Angeles Times. He claimed Satan was behind the continuous, relentless government prosecution and that he was the ultimate victim. They have a son, Tabor, together. [22] Alamo followers still pepper the IRS with legal challenges, help with his defense, and make their presence known through their trademark brochures. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. Davis, Andy. The ministry has buildings in Moffett and Muldrow. It would turn out this marriage would be forever for only one of them. When Bernie LaZar Hoffman was born on Sept. 30, 1934, in Joplin, Missouri, he wasn't born into a particularly religious household. Factories are calling me and asking me why he doesnt pay his bills. In their prime during the 1970s and early 80s, the oddly paired Alamoshe a puffy Elvis look-alike and she a platinum-haired matroncommanded hundreds of followers, many of them living in what the government called a commune in Saugus remote Mint Canyon. Tony Alamo quickly predicted that she would be resurrected and kept her embalmed body on display at the Arkansas compound for approximately six months before placing it in a mausoleum. He kept the presses at his print shop running day and night, churning out literature about Satanic conspiracy theories perpetrated against him and the church. For Tony to say he beat out Julio as an entertainer of the year is completely crazy. Gyllenhammar was referring to Alamos claim that the American D.J. He sent their record to all my friends in Los Angeles to make me mad. ET) on Investigation Discovery. Siege of the Alamos. People Weekly, June 13, 1983, pp. 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. Many Hollywood celebrities were seen wearing them, including Michael Jackson, who wore a modified leather Alamo jacket on the cover of his album Bad. 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]. All Rights Reserved. Amrhein, who owns a real estate agency, said Alamos followers have gone to Huntington to pass out literature that says Amrhein beat his children and is emotionally unstable. Whispering in the Daylight: The Children of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Their Journey to Freedom. She said, Im a successful designer. One of the ex-communicated fathers also claimed Alamo had embezzled up to $100,000 in church funds from their trucking company. Says Randall Harris, a retired FBI agent who investigated the case: The world revolved around Tony Alamo.. He called the new entity Music Square Church and filed for tax-exempt status. As young girls, Amy Eddy and her best friend, Pebbles Rodriguez, did not have any control of their lives. 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He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1960s, claiming he was a music promoter with clients including the Beatles. Pictures are unavailable at this time. Its no wonder you get rich when you dont pay your bills. He took all my jewelry and gave it to Elizabeth. The IRS Commissioner found that "MSC was so closely operated and controlled by and for the benefit of Tony Alamo that it enjoyed no substantive independent existence; that MSC was formed and operated by Tony Alamo for the principal purpose of willfully attempting to defeat or evade federal income tax; and that MSC was inseparable from Tony Alamo, and failed to operate for exclusively charitable purposes. 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Encyclopedia of Arkansas As the government painstakingly made its case for tax evasion, Tony was fighting legal battles on multiple fronts. Son: Mark Anthony Hoffman (b. 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. She left Alamo Ministries and separated from him in the summer . But Ill get the kids, and theyll be all right. History: In California in February 1993 Tony Alamo took Lydia , an African American, as a second wife. Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist convicted in 2009 on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. History: In 1989 Alamo married Sharon Kroopf (now Sharon Miriam Hoffman), in her late 30s at the time. Like Bernie, she grew up Jewish in a mostly Christian state. 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 total number of wives he has accumulated is unclear, to be sure. Tony Alamo (1934-2017), American founder of the Alamo Christian Foundation Antonio Alamo, Jr., known as Tony Alamo, American physician and Nevada gaming official This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. Members usually lived in a commune and worked at an Alamo-owned business, turning over much of their salaries to the church. He still hasnt paid me for the clothes he bought from my store in December 1984. He was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman on September 20, 1934, in Joplin, Missouri. Her estranged daughter, Christhiaon Coie, brought a suit against Tony for stealing the body, and her stepfather obtained a court order requiring the body to be returned.[14]. 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. 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. What were they doing in New Orleans?. 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. What my mother did was wrong. They charged him with several counts related to his tax issues. They made the trip to Las Vegas in 1966 to tie the knot, each leaving their respective spouses. Shown here with their son, Sion. 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. 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. Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Preacher Tony Alamo's mugshot was released with new allegations that he had multiple wives, including a nine-year-old girl. Does Mike Murdock's 58 days seed covenant really work? She had just turned 16 years old. Kenny Feldman (no relation) of the Sunlight Mission of Santa Monica. 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. Bernard was born in 1934 and took a bus to Hollywood before graduating high school. A few years later, her estranged daughter, Christhiaoan Coie, successfully sued him in 1995 for access to her mothers body for burial. Franke, Eric W. A Brief History of the Alamo Christian Foundation. New England Institute of Religious Research. Little Rock, AR. 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. I dont get the feeling he is very smart.. She and her son are mistreated more than the others and are both referred to as nigger by Alamo. Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life. By now, he was a millionaire with a large staff of workers. Tony Alamo predicted that his wife would be resurrected. But she died a hard death and what she did is between her and God, and what hes done is so apart from anything human, anything decent. He is very talented. In 1975, the Alamos purchased land in Dyer, near Alma, and there established the main branch of the Music Square Church, which later was called the Holy Alamo Christian Church Consecrated before its present name was adopted. Hes not paying his bills at his stores. As the church expanded, it established other churches in Nashville, Chicago, Brooklyn, and Miami Beach. He and his wife legally changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo after they married in Las Vegas in 1966. 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. A bitter Gyllenhammar, who runs two successful boutiques in Los Angeles and designs clothes for such Hollywood stars as Linda Evans, Joan Collins and Barbra Streisand, this week, insisted she is still legally married to Alamo, although she wishes she had never met him. In addition to clothing, the church produced music and began distributing Christian music and sermons nationally. In 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as a hate group, citing its anti-Catholic literature and rhetoric. From his cell at the federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo., Alamo has not only filed an appeal of Spears ruling but also is seeking a new trial without Spears as its judge. Sharon Alamo seen leaving courthouse after Tony Alamo was found guilty of 10 counts of taking underage girls across state lines for sex 2009. His father was a poor immigrant from Romania who settled the family near Joplin, Missouri in the 1920s. 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. Both Tony and Susan were impressive on the stage: he with eye-catching outfits and musical ability, she with fiery sermons and deep faith. The trial included testimony from church members who proved Alamo Ministries had accumulated $9 million in income for three years when he paid zero taxes. On July 23, 1998, after a three-year legal battle, his followers brought the body to a funeral home in Van Buren (Crawford County). The show related his four-year struggle against the Alamo church on the streets of Hollywood. In 1982, his wife Susan Alamo (ne Edith Opal Horn) died of cancer. July 11, 1993. Others said they never got paid. March 1, 2023 3:00am. They had another wedding in Las Vegas, and they moved to his home in Dyer. [4][5][6][7], Susan Alamo (19251982) was born Edith Opal Horn in Alma, Arkansas. Authorities said the body was removed from its quiet hilltop the same night that dozens of Alamo followers fled the Dyer compound. Their partnership brought in more members than ever. 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. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. 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. . All Rights Reserved. Probably the strangest incident surrounding Tony Alamo Christian Ministries had to do with the body of Susan Alamo, who died of cancer on April 8, 1982. I knew how he thinks, and what he might do, she said. Dear Abby. 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. Alamos various marriages were controversial and difficult to number. He professed this great love for my mother. Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wife's Remains. Elizabeth Mercado Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo. The saga began in 1982 when, instead of burying his 59-year-old wife, Alamo brought her embalmed body back to his compound near tiny Dyer, Ark. They were awarded the largest sum of damages in Arkansas history $525 million dollars. Alamo turned fugitive in 1989 and wasnt captured till July 1991, after a tip came in from a viewer of Americas Most Wanted.. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. The housing complex in Muldrow appears to be vacant. Her mother Suzanne and step-father, Bob Streit, are still with the Alamo group. He remained in federal custody since then, spending his days at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, when he died on May 2, 2017, at the age of 82. Lydia was in her early 30's. They have a son, Tabor, together. Convicted a year later, he died in federal prison in 2017 at 82. Last week the children were taken away from her in New Orleans when authorities suspected she was trying to leave the country. She may be prosecuted not only for unlawful flight but also for trying to obtain a passport under false pretenses. She sings better than he does. Sign up to receive breakingFront Page Detectivesnews and exclusive investigations. Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Lydia was in her early 30s. 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. For years they were side by side, and Anthony said he believes she was the true mastermind of Alamo Ministries. When Tony got back into the business in 1999, he immediately went on the air. Gyllenhammar is seeking a five-figure monthly alimony as part of her settlement. [11], In 1976, the church relocated to Dyer, Arkansas, where Susan had grown up. I have a right to be angry, says Pebbles. 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