Copyright 2023 Empire Media Group, Inc. Front Page Detectives is a registered trademark. Like Bernie, she grew up Jewish in a mostly Christian state. There is no doubt in my mind.. Alamo had the body of Mrs. Alamo removed from the tomb. 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. Hughes, Dave. Read our Privacy Policy. Tony Alamo, a Jewish kid from Joplin, Missouri, met his perfect match when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams in Hollywood. Tony Alamo (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman; September 20, 1934) is an American religious leader and convicted child sex offender.He and his late wife Susan are best known as the founders of an organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.The organization is based in and around Fouke and Alma, Arkansas, United States, and has been referred to as a cult. Some days are easier than others.. When Bernie, sometimes called Mark, met Susan in 1965, they were both on their second marriages--at least thats what he told her. All Rights Reserved. It would be three more years before Alamo followers would finally deliver Susan Alamos remains to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for proper burial under Coies supervision. 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. The monthly gross went from $50,000 to $120,000.. 1A, 11A. He lost, and would soon lose his tax-exempt status as the lawsuits piled up and dragged on through the 1980s. One of the ex-communicated fathers also claimed Alamo had embezzled up to $100,000 in church funds from their trucking company. 1416, 18. Alamos Fort Smith attorneys say they do not know if Alamo divorced Gyllenhammar and if he properly married Amrhein. Ill get my children back, said Nick Amrhein of Huntington, West VA. 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. With the labor of their followers, the Alamos turned their church into a hefty financial empire, even as many members had to scavenge food from supermarket dumpsters and were forbidden from flushing the toilets more than every two or three days. The Daughters Tale: Anti-Catholic Cult Leaders Child Recounts Abuse. Intelligence Report, Spring 2008. For instance, as an Amazon Associate, Religion News Blog earns from qualifying purchases. He professed this great love for my mother. Also he owned the Little Mark, Alamo, and Talamo Records record labels. I wanted to push him to see if he could keep his balance in his elevator shoes. Amrhein called the Press Argus Courier this week after cult awareness groups sent him clippings that have appeared in this newspaper. 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. The main campus continued to grow, adding gas stations, a restaurant and a hog farm, according to The New York Times. Alamo, whose real name is Bernie Lazar . Said Hutchinson: We get their literature on our windshields about every Sunday morning.. March 1, 2023 3:00am. [11] Individuals who sought to join the church and become involved in its rehabilitation program took a vow of poverty and agreed to turn all of their money and property over to the church. History: In 1989 Alamo married Sharon Kroopf (now Sharon Miriam Hoffman), in her late 30s at the time. 72201. He was walking down the hallway in his black regalia and five-inch elevator shoes, Amrhein recalls. Although Alamo was unable to bring his wife back to life, he intends to keep the controversy over her body alive in court, according to Coie and one of her lawyers, Asa Hutchinson of Ft. Smith. 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. Gyllenhammar said Alamo is attracted to blond women. After a decade of building the church, Susan and Tony moved everyone to Dyer, Arkansas, just outside Fort Smith near the Oklahoma border. The civil contempt differs from his criminal incarceration in that Mr. Alamo holds the key to the jailhouse in his possession, Spears wrote. 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. Special thanks to the Department of Arkansas Heritage. Lydia was in her early 30s. Were free! Sharon Alamo seen leaving courthouse after Tony Alamo was found guilty of 10 counts of taking underage girls across state lines for sex 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. But he had to go back to his mother the day before his birthday. He has written and spoken favorably about polygamy over the years. She was arrested as she went to pick up her passport. [9], Tony and Susan Alamo founded the Alamo Christian Foundation in 1969 in Hollywood, California. . His age is 88Years. To treat my mother like a bag of garbage? Witnesses at his trial described being taken as child brides, with some as young as 9 years old. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. Bowden, Bill. In 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as a hate group, citing its anti-Catholic literature and rhetoric. And when she was 17, he took her virginity after making her one of the three "wives" he had at the time. Factories are calling me and asking me why he doesnt pay his bills. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. His booming voice could be heard on the radio from Alabama to Africa, trying to convert a new flock. It was her second marriage. Angela Marie Morales Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo Between 1986 and 1990, the preacher remarried twice. Amrhein said he suspected his former wife might flee the country to avoid the custody hearing in West Virginia next week. Members could stop by the compound in Dyer, from its perch looking out over the Ozark Mountains, and view the embalmed body of Susan Alamo. 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]. 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. Additional support provided by the Arkansas General Assembly. The Ravening Wolf. Intelligence Report, Fall 2007. The following month, Susan Alamo was re-interred in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups, "Tony Alamo, Apocalyptic Ministry Leader Convicted of Sex Abuse, Dies at 82", "Christian Cult Leader and Child Sex Abuser Tony Alamo Dies in Federal Custody". (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). Susan, too, would eventually change her name from the one her parents gave her in Alma, Arkansas. 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. July 11, 1993. I dont get the feeling he is very smart.. Mrs. Alamo had temporary custody of the two children. Kenny Feldman (no relation) of the Sunlight Mission of Santa Monica. They launched a national television ministry in the 1970s. 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. Lydia was in her early 30's. They have a son, Tabor, together. Many witnesses can verify that Amy has been severely beaten by Alamo on many occasions. "[16] MSC sued and lost in the United States Court of Federal Claims. WATCH: Cult Leaders & Child Brides: Breaking Down People Magazine Investigates: Cults. Families Torn by Their Loved Ones Faith in Tony Alamo. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,June 11, 2000, pp. Sunday October 1, 1995 Alamo Christian Ministries, Tony Alamo. Tony and Susan Alamo on one of their album covers. Click on the link above to open the article, Fashion designer claims he wont sign legal papers even though he married another woman. He accused me of having an ungodly statue of a man and a woman. The court concluded Alamo also owed another $5 million to ex-members for unpaid labor. Alamo is the president of the Alama-based Alamo Christian Foundation. Christian communities were good business in Hollywood, and The Alamo Christian foundation grew steadily over the next decade. Misheal Eden Jones-Williams Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo. Like a cheap carnival act, Coie recalled last week, he kept it on display in an open casket, telling church followers that Susan Alamo would rise from the dead. Tony Alamo's Wife, Girlfriend His marital status is not known. ET) on Investigation Discovery. In addition, the judgment against Alamo showed him owing another $5 million to former church members for unpaid work. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. The children are brainwashed, but they will be OK, said Amrhein, who is involved in a bitter custody fight with his former wife, Elizabeth Amrhein-Alamo, who claims to have married, Tony Alamo, the Alma-based evangelist and has been living at his Dyer home with her children. Preacher Tony Alamo's mugshot was released with new allegations that he had multiple wives, including a nine-year-old girl. Amrhein doesnt believe the children went to school while they lived at the foundation in Dyer. He's a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. 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. The CALS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. Sharon Ast-Kroopf-Hoffman Legal wife of Tony Alamo. Alamo formed the cult way back in 1969 with his wife Susan when he was a flamboyant preacher on the streets of Hollywood. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. If hed married Brooke Shields I would be jealous. 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. 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. I have a right to be angry, says Pebbles. . Pebbles Rodriguez claims Alamo married her in 1999 when she was 12. [17][18][19][1][2], In June 2013, the federal government filed forfeiture and collection actions in federal court on 27 properties which were owned by members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, in an attempt to collect $2.5 million in restitution that Alamo was ordered to pay to his victims. She said she did not plan to leave the country, although Amrhein thinks she and Alamo and the children were about to take a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth II. 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.. Jordan (Kenyas son) was born in Alamos house and Alamo currently refers to him as the bastard and the nigger. Tony began a concerted effort to avoid reporting his income. Pictures are unavailable at this time. The U.S. Attorney's Office argued that the owners were "owners in name only" because the properties were still under Alamo's control. Her name was Brigitta Gyllenhammer, and she lasted two years before divorcing him. 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. All Rights Reserved. She said, Im a successful designer. Specific details about his death were not immediately known, though he reportedly suffered from a number of health problems, including diabetes and a 2011 heart attack. 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. Again, followers worked in these businesses for practically nothing. His motions allege that Spears cannot objectively judge the case because he was endorsed by local newspaper editor Jack Moseley. It would later be determined that the church was mostly optics, as it became the way an increasingly erratic and unhinged Tony evaded paying any taxes on his growing fortune. She said last week that the financial award from her suit against Alamo, if it comes through, might see her daughters through college, or help pay her lawyer Charles Karr, whom she credited with sticking by her throughout the bizarre body case.. Troubles continue to mount for Tony Alamo Christian Foundation. Miss Gyllenhammar says when the romance cooled, he would often beat her. Franke, Eric W. A Brief History of the Alamo Christian Foundation. New England Institute of Religious Research. In this paragraph, we have covered all details of his relationship and wife in this article. The grounds included a school, a printshop, a tabernacle and a workshop for producing clothing and garments. But Ill get the kids, and theyll be all right. Susan became ill with breast cancer in the late 1970s, just as shed reached the height of her business success. He built her a heart-shaped mausoleum, and the church kept her body on display. [1][2] In the 1960s, he worked in Hollywood as a pop singer under the names Mark Hoffman and Marcus Abad. Susan wasnt., I fell in love with Tony, she said. Staff of the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Both members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, they were forced to follow countless rules and required permission to go outside. [11], In 1976, the church relocated to Dyer, Arkansas, where Susan had grown up. On December 2, 2010, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his conviction and sentence. This is how he shows his gratitude? The Alamo Christian Foundation was set up in 1969 by husband and wife Tony and Susan Alamo, born Bernie Lazar Hoffman and Edith Opal Horn. 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Nickys birthday is on January 4, and he was staying with me for a few days before then. 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. Below are several (but not all) of Tony Alamos alleged wives. In return, Jody says, Tony Alamo took away her childhood at the age of 10 by putting her to work eight hours or more a day in the church's denim jacket business. The feds had narrowed in Tony fought Coie for custody of Susans remains. 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. The assistant said there were many Scriptural reasons why they divorced. 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. 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. As the government painstakingly made its case for tax evasion, Tony was fighting legal battles on multiple fronts. Gordon, Ronald J. Her name was Susan (born Edith Opal Horn) Lipowitz, nine years his senior. "They did not leave a paper trail," said Tampa police Detective Grady Snyder. Alamo died in federal custody in North Carolina on May 2, 2017. Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. By the 1970s, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries had established particularly strong footholds in Arkansas, as well as maintaining outposts in California. 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. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. 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. 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. Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist convicted in 2009 on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. He preached he was the victim of a government conspiracy. Alamo also claimed that UFOs are divine messengers from heaven and signs of the end times. (AP) Amy Eddy and Pebbles Rodriguez are speaking out about how they were controlled by apocalyptic cult leader Tony Alamo in an upcoming documentary. She believed a miracle would save her. Schriver, Debby. 1A, 10A. Does Mike Murdock's 58 days seed covenant really work? U.S. District Judge Morris Arnold, finding that they had indeed been abused, later awarded damages to the boys in question. Ill tell you how bad a shape theyre in. Alamo was recently convicted by a federal court jury in Texarkana, Ark., on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. In the midst of his supposed third marriage, a 1986 Arkansas Gazette report concluded that Gyllenhammar had actually been Alamos sixth wife, as he had apparently been married four times prior to Susan. When it became clear she wouldnt survive, she told church members she believed she would rise from the dead. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. Their wives had remarried more loyal subjects of Alamo, and their families had relocated to California. She married Solomon Lipowitz, and together, they had a daughter. 1986-03-06 Press Argus Courier Alamos second wife says theyre not divorced History: Just 13 years old when she went to Tony Alamos house and became a wife. He left me with all the bills, she said. He served slightly less than four years, was transferred to a Texarkana halfway house, and by Christmas 1998, he was a free man again. 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. In 1982, his wife Susan Alamo (ne Edith Opal Horn) died of cancer. In 1982, the same year that Susan Alamo died,[15] the foundation was discontinued and replaced by the newly incorporated Music Square Church (MSC). One of the fathers, Robert Miller, had previously overseen the churchs trucking company and alleged that Alamo had embezzled $100,000 from it. Tony Alamo died in prison on Tuesday night. She may be prosecuted not only for unlawful flight but also for trying to obtain a passport under false pretenses. Others said they never got paid. 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. 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. Says Randall Harris, a retired FBI agent who investigated the case: The world revolved around Tony Alamo.. 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. I took care of his business. Alamo Christian Ministries: Is He a Prophet, Promoter, or Profiteer? Los Angeles Times. History: In California in 1993 Maria Isabel Mendoza (aka Isabel Mendoza) became another Alamo wife at age 19. Additional support provided by the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation Inc. Nine years his senior, Edith Horn, a two-time divorce who already had a daughter, had moved to Hollywood to become an actress but ended up supporting herself partly by scamming churches into believing her to be a missionary in need of money. 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. At one time, Alamo owned as many as twenty-nine businesses in nearby Alma, including Alamo Western Wear, as well as Alamo Restaurant and Alamo Discount Grocery. She met Alamo in 1983 while he was buying clothes from her for his Nashville store. Mr. Alamo presently has the ability to have the body produced.. But look who he married? When Tony got back into the business in 1999, he immediately went on the air. In July 1998, he was transferred to a Texarkana halfway house, from which he was released on December 8 of the same year. Isabel Mendoza Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo [8] Converting from Judaism to Christianity, she became an itinerant evangelist before she met Hoffman. I mean, you cant put a good face on that, she continued. Last week the children were taken away from her in New Orleans when authorities suspected she was trying to leave the country. She sings better than he does. Updated. While Alamo was tied up in the courts on federal tax evasion charges, other allegations were levied against him from various quarters. But the church began to falter in 1985, when the Internal Revenue Service stripped it of its tax-exempt status, charging it was nothing more than a front for Alamo-owned businesses. There are things that are out of my control, like recurring nightmares. 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In addition to clothing, the church produced music and began distributing Christian music and sermons nationally. At the age of 82, Tony Alamo died while serving his federal prison sentence. The ministry has buildings in Moffett and Muldrow. A hearing was held the day after her arrest. He came to me nose to nose and pulled a Muhammad Ali on me. Sadly, there are many more under age children that were forced by Alamo to be another one of his wives. I knew how he thinks, and what he might do, she said. The smaller compound was now in Fouke, Arkansas, but there were two extant branches in Ft. Smith and Los Angeles. He became unhinged and, convinced he could raise her from the dead, kept her embalmed body on display for six months with members of his church praying around it. 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. 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. Tony Alamos second wife says they have never divorced and insists that his third marriage to Elizabeth Amrhein is invalid. 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. Their partnership brought in more members than ever. Religion News Blog posted this on Sunday October 1, 1995.Last updated if a date shows here: Saturday, December 23, 2006. In September 1994, the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee sentenced Alamo to six years in federal prison in Texarkana, Texas. Ten would be convicted on ten counts, all related to trafficking underage girls across state lines. But he wanted to spend his birthday with me so we got permission for him to stay two days longer. Special Trial Judge Larry L. Nameroff ruled, however, that the organization was essentially operated for Tonys and Susans private benefit, and the IRS seized some of the church property for an auction. [11] The church's projects included Nashville's largest country and western clothing store. Alamos attorneys kept the issue before the courts from 1985 to 1992, arguing that church-owned enterprises were exempt from federal income taxes because they were churches in disguise. He remained in prison until his death in May 2017 . She converted to Pentecostal Christianity in childhood. They have a son, Tabor, together. 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