Tonys behavior after Susans death became troubling, but it turned out he had a long history of shady dealings and violent confrontations dating back to his days in Los Angeles. His booming voice could be heard on the radio from Alabama to Africa, trying to convert a new flock. Hes not paying his bills at his stores. The first time you log in to our catalog you will need to create an account. In 1982, his wife Susan Alamo (ne Edith Opal Horn) died of cancer. They charged him with several counts related to his tax issues. Amrhein called the Press Argus Courier this week after cult awareness groups sent him clippings that have appeared in this newspaper. Below are several (but not all) of Tony Alamos alleged wives. 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.. In November of that year, the judge sentenced him to 175 years in prison. Copyright 2023 Empire Media Group, Inc. Front Page Detectives is a registered trademark. Mrs. Alamo, 33, a soft-spoken woman whose second child is due to be born Tuesday, said she expected the raid, if not Friday then someday. Then the couple flew to Vegas, where they went through two more marriage ceremonies. History: In Arkansas in January 1994, Elizabeth Mercado (aka Lizzy Gutierrez) became Tonys wife. They were awarded the largest sum of damages in Arkansas history $525 million dollars. Sign up to receive breakingFront Page Detectivesnews and exclusive investigations. Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist convicted in 2009 on 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. My mother learned strong-arm tactics from my father and then finessed it with religion, Coie said. The term 'cult expert' is not protected. A judge granted Alamo the maximum sentence for his crimes,175 years in prison. Many Hollywood celebrities were seen wearing them, including Michael Jackson, who wore a modified leather Alamo jacket on the cover of his album Bad. Now Tony Alamo is also a grave robber-at least in the eyes of an Arkansas judge, who has . Alamo to Return Body of Wife after 7 Years. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,July 24, 1998, pp. She believed a miracle would save her. Both women still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, where seemingly normal activities can sometimes trigger panic attacks and feelings of fear and loneliness. Magazines, Digital This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. 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. In this paragraph, we have covered all details of his relationship and wife in this article. Soon, the organization established yet another compound in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 1986 and 1990, the preacher remarried twice. 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. 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]. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo. Village Voice, May 13, 2008. [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. Susan Alamo died in April 1982. Mrs. Alamo had temporary custody of the two children. [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. Benjamin Risha. She sings better than he does. They launched a national television ministry in the 1970s. They also ran a nationwide network of lucrative, church-owned businesses, authorities said, including a distributor of designer denim and leather jackets, studded with rhinestones, that sold for $1,000 or more. Amy E. Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo 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. Eddy was 14 and Rodriguez just 12 when they. Ten would be convicted on ten counts, all related to trafficking underage girls across state lines. But after his wife died in 1982, Alamo's behavior grew deviant and he began preaching the purported righteousness of polygamy and underage brides.In the mid-1990s, Alamo, then 62 years old . 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. Her body was taken to the foundation's compound on a ridge overlooking the town of Dyer, Arkansas, where Susan Alamo was born as Edith . Among the businesses which Alamo started was decorating denim jackets and airbrushing them with bright, colorful designs. This project is funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant award. The various publications his ministry offered, such as The Vatican Moscow Washington Alliance, detailed his conspiracy theories. She may be prosecuted not only for unlawful flight but also for trying to obtain a passport under false pretenses. 2833. In return, their own needs would be met and their children would receive basic education through high school. 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. Tony Alamos second wife says they have never divorced and insists that his third marriage to Elizabeth Amrhein is invalid. Guilty Alamo Hears Bye, Bye outside Court. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,July 25, 2009, pp. Larowe, Lynn. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. Whispering in the Daylight: The Children of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Their Journey to Freedom. Asked about his wealth, Gyllenhammar said she is not entitled to any of his property because all of it belongs to the foundation. Pebbles, now 32, and Amy, 34, are sharing their story, which is also featured in the premiere episode of People Magazine Investigates: Cults, airing June 4 on Investigation Discovery. I dont get the feeling he is very smart.. The Arkansas compound had much in common with Jonestown, the South American outpost run by Jim Jones that resulted in 909 deaths by cyanide poisoning on Nov. 18, 1978. Original Design by Gurpartap Singh, Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse, Tony Alamos second wife says theyre not divorced, 1986-03-06 Press Argus Courier Alamos second wife says theyre not divorced. Gyllenhammar, who moved to California from Sweden 15 years ago, talked of a romance that had gone sour. By the 1970s, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries had established particularly strong footholds in Arkansas, as well as maintaining outposts in California. 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. . He claimed that he recorded a hit record single in the early 1960s, Little Yankee Girl, and that he was asked to manage musical acts including the Beatles, the Doors, and the Rolling Stones. The Alamo Christian Foundation. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 76 (Autumn 2017): 218247. History: Alys went to Tony Alamos house in Fouke, Ark at 11 yrs old to become Alamos wife. He was 82 years old. I made sure he was properly dressed. Families Torn by Their Loved Ones Faith in Tony Alamo. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,June 11, 2000, pp. At its height, the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries had thousands of followers around the country, according to the AP. Mr. Alamo presently has the ability to have the body produced.. It was also extremely anti-Catholic, only accepted the King James Version of the Bible, and its members adhered to a moral code which condemned and forbade the use of drugs, homosexuality, adultery, birth control, and abortion. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Church members branched out to begin small businesses within the nearby community of Alma, Arkansas. Some sources say that they changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo after their marriage, though Tony Alamo has claimed that he changed his own name earlier to mimic the Italian-American singers who were popular at the time. The program also charges Tony Alamo with being a child abuser, polygamist and pedophile. He called the new entity Music Square Church and filed for tax-exempt status. Kenya was the son of Diana Elena Williams Alamo, a legal ex-wife of Alamos. Many of these individuals chose to stay on to become Bible students and lay ministers. Tony Alamo predicted that his wife would be resurrected. Another former wife of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo has been added as a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit that names the ministry, church-run businesses and high-ranking individuals in the organization as defendants. Like Bernie, she grew up Jewish in a mostly Christian state. The foundation might have to pay up to $70,000 in back taxes. Tony Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman on Sept. 20, 1934, to a Jewish family in Joplin, Missouri. 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) The Ravening Wolf. Intelligence Report, Fall 2007. Isabel Mendoza Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo 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. There the church grew to several hundred members and it also established printing facilities, a school, and a tabernacle. This is so perverse.. Creating an account gives you access to all these features. There are things that are out of my control, like recurring nightmares. She is seeking a sizeable monthly alimony so she can take care of the bills she claims he hasnt paid. Their partnership brought in more members than ever. I still do, said Coie, who last saw her mother in 1971 when she quit the sect against her parents wishes. Christian communities were good business in Hollywood, and The Alamo Christian foundation grew steadily over the next decade. She converted to Pentecostal Christianity in childhood. Amrhein said he suspected his former wife might flee the country to avoid the custody hearing in West Virginia next week. Alamo had the body of Mrs. Alamo removed from the tomb. Also he owned the Little Mark, Alamo, and Talamo Records record labels. Her mother Suzanne and step-father, Bob Streit, are still with the Alamo group. Little Rock, AR. Alamo denies it. About 18 months later, his prophecy unfulfilled, Alamo erected a mausoleum on the property and entombed her there. Tucker, Maria Luisa. 1A, 11A. Susan died in the early Spring of 1982. In 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center listed the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as a hate group, citing its anti-Catholic literature and rhetoric. 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. Im not jealous. One of the fathers, Robert Miller, had previously overseen the churchs trucking company and alleged that Alamo had embezzled $100,000 from it. 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. 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. Communal living was a staple of the Music Square Church. But he wanted to spend his birthday with me so we got permission for him to stay two days longer. DEAR ABBY: I am in love with my best . 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. Others said they never got paid. He was convicted on July 4, 2009. Picture taken in 1993. Gyllenhammar and Alamo were married in June 1984 in Los Angeles by Rev. Through this church, the Alamos perpetuated some of their many. 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. They made the trip to Las Vegas in 1966 to tie the knot, each leaving their respective spouses. That was part of our custody agreement. When Tony got back into the business in 1999, he immediately went on the air. I have a right to be angry, says Pebbles. Pictures are unavailable at this time. Tony and Susan Alamo on one of their album covers. Major support provided through a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. In the early 1940s, Susan moved west to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. 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. July 11, 1993. http://www.alamoministries.com/ (accessed February 23, 2023). Meanwhile, lawsuits filed by former church members accused the couple of controlling their flock with intimidation and beatings. Hed lost his best friend, business partner and favorite wife and she was only 56. He left me with all the bills, she said. He was ambitious, but few facts about his early life are verifiable as Tony tended to self-aggrandize. Pebbles agrees: I dont think it will ever be easy. Tony Alamo died in prison on Tuesday night. Its no wonder you get rich when you dont pay your bills. He took all my jewelry and gave it to Elizabeth. He has written and spoken favorably about polygamy over the years. Angela Marie Morales Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo I mean, you cant put a good face on that, she continued. She said, Im a successful designer. The U.S. State Department isnt sure either if Alamo and Amrhein are married. Sadly, there are many more under age children that were forced by Alamo to be another one of his wives. For more information, contact 501-918-3025 orcalsfoundation@cals.org. I took care of his business. But Coie said she believes the dark-haired preacher did it because he knows no bounds of decency, because he could use her [Susan Alamo] two times around like a marionette to control [their followers].. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2018. Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wife's Remains. Tony Alamo (19342017) was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman to a Jewish family. Dear Abby. Elizabeth Mercado Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo. 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. Alamos church also lives, if in a far smaller and less organized fashion, said several sources including Alamos own lawyer. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. If hed married Brooke Shields I would be jealous. She left Alamo Ministries and separated from him in the summer . 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. She and her son are mistreated more than the others and are both referred to as "nigger" by Alamo. In 1990, Alamo failed to appear in court to answer these charges and was ruled guilty in default. Schriver, Debby. Preacher Alamo Told to Return Wife's Remains. 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. Gyllenhammar said Alamo is attracted to blond women. Alamo Christian Ministries: Is He a Prophet, Promoter, or Profiteer? Los Angeles Times. The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult founded in 1969 by Christian evangelist Tony Alamo and one of his wives, Susan Alamo. Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. He was heard on over a dozen radio stations in the U.S. and more in Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. History: In California in 1993 Maria Isabel Mendoza (aka Isabel Mendoza) became another Alamo wife at age 19. Sharon Ast-Kroopf-Hoffman Legal wife of Tony Alamo. 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. He had his fist clenched and started making noises. 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. Moseley testified during the missing-body case that Alamo had phoned him after the corpses disappearance and acknowledged ordering its removal. 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. Hes a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. In the official record, Tony Alamo is listed as a pastor. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. She met Alamo in 1983 while he was buying clothes from her for his Nashville store. Hes a riot. 72201. They made a record together, and they cant sing. [11] MSC was granted 501c tax-exempt status in 1981,[16] but this was retroactively revoked by the IRS on April 5, 1996. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. [1][2] He was 82 years old. 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 Alamo talks to reporters as he is escorted to a waiting police car outside the federal courthouse in Texarkana, Ark. Said Hutchinson: We get their literature on our windshields about every Sunday morning.. Saying he appreciated the articles about Alamo, Amrhein insisted, Ill keep the kids. You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. Anyone can use it regardless of ability, approach, or level of acceptance by recognized authorities in the field. Gordon, Ronald J. Alamo was charged was violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, went to court, then countersued all the way to the Supreme Court. 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. . 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. ___ If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Additional support provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Tony began a concerted effort to avoid reporting his income. 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. 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. People Magazine Investigates: Cults premieres Monday (9 p.m. He claimed Satan was behind the continuous, relentless government prosecution and that he was the ultimate victim. Married in Las Vegas, the Alamos soon established their church, also known as the Susan and Tony Alamo Foundation. The couple first grew a following in Hollywood, preaching peace and salvation. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. 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. 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. On November 13, he was sentenced to 175 years in prison and also was fined $250,000. 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 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. 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. Even so, why werent my children in school last week? 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. Susan, too, would eventually change her name from the one her parents gave her in Alma, Arkansas. The civil contempt differs from his criminal incarceration in that Mr. Alamo holds the key to the jailhouse in his possession, Spears wrote. 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. 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. Alamo responded by declaring bankruptcy, and his businesses imploded, although Alamo Ministries limped along. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1960s, claiming he was a music promoter with clients including the Beatles. He sent their record to all my friends in Los Angeles to make me mad. 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. Tony Alamo was looking at child porn charges. But no. Click on the link above to open the article, Fashion designer claims he wont sign legal papers even though he married another woman. This is how he shows his gratitude? 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. Spears also rejected Alamos $3.5-million counterclaim that Coie had slandered and defamed him. [12], The church published religious tracts and distributed tapes of sermons by the Alamos. Georgia cop killed on first shift in retaliation for an arrest hour earlier, investigators say, Remains Found And Believed To Be Man Reported Missing In May 2021, Brother Accused Of Murder, Subscribe to Front Page Detectives Newsletter. Claiming resurrection was imminent, hed kept Susan displayed in the compound for months before interring her body. 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. 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. Both members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, they were forced to follow countless rules and required permission to go outside. 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". In 1966, after serving jail time for a weapons charge, Alamo married Edith Opal Horn from Alma (Crawford County), also of Jewish descent. Lets make the most of it.. He remained in prison until his death in May 2017 . Religion News Blog posted this on Sunday October 1, 1995.Last updated if a date shows here: Saturday, December 23, 2006. He accused me of having an ungodly statue of a man and a woman. All Rights Reserved. Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life. [11], In 1976, the church relocated to Dyer, Arkansas, where Susan had grown up. Millions Awarded to 7 Tied to Alamo. 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