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. In 1982, his wife Susan Alamo (ne Edith Opal Horn) died of cancer. 1A, 11A. 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. Religion News Blog posted this on Sunday October 1, 1995.Last updated if a date shows here: Saturday, December 23, 2006. For every Chris Coie out there, there are hundreds of people who would say just the opposite with regard to her allegations about the church and about Tony, James said. Special thanks to the Department of Arkansas Heritage. Tony allegedly threatened to kill Arnold but was never held legally accountable. The monthly gross went from $50,000 to $120,000.. Hed lost his best friend, business partner and favorite wife and she was only 56. "They did not leave a paper trail," said Tampa police Detective Grady Snyder. 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. 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. Amrhein is involved in a custody fight over her two children from a previous marriage but her marriage to the Alama-based minister is being called into question because Alamo's second wife, Birgitta Gyllenhammar, 43, says she is still waiting for him to sign the divorce papers. Tony Alamo was born on 20 September 1934 and his place of birth was in Joplin, Missouri, US. 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. A chancery court judge ordered Alamo to return the body in 1995 in response to a suit filed by Christhiaon Coie, Susan Alamos estranged daughter. By. 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. The jackets sold profitably and began making real money for the church members and the church itself when celebrities began purchasing them for several thousand dollars each. Alamo Ministry Resurrected. Arkansas Times, November 29, 2007, pp. He lost, and would soon lose his tax-exempt status as the lawsuits piled up and dragged on through the 1980s. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. Gyllenhammar and Alamo were married in June 1984 in Los Angeles by Rev. Spears also rejected Alamos $3.5-million counterclaim that Coie had slandered and defamed him. One of the ex-communicated fathers also claimed Alamo had embezzled up to $100,000 in church funds from their trucking company. Pictures are unavailable at this time. Among the businesses which Alamo started was decorating denim jackets and airbrushing them with bright, colorful designs. . 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. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. 25-May-1964) Wife: Edith Opal Horn ("Susan Alamo", b. 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. Between 1986 and 1990, the preacher remarried twice. However, he denies he has more than one wife but several victims have escaped and come forward with the truth. [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. 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. His efforts succeeded in having the high-end jackets designed by Tony Alamo and manufactured by unpaid cult members removed from a majority of clothing stores on Hollywood Boulevard and in bringing the abuses of the cult to the attention of the local media. The grounds included a school, a printshop, a tabernacle and a workshop for producing clothing and garments. In six months, when she didnt rise from the dead, Tony finally buried her. "Tony was more, I think, the face of that organization, it looks like," Anthony said. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Said Hutchinson: We get their literature on our windshields about every Sunday morning.. He's a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. [13], In 1991 the federal government confiscated the property, finding when its agents arrived that Susan's body had been removed. Alamo formed the cult way back in 1969 with his wife Susan when he was a flamboyant preacher on the streets of Hollywood. It lost on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals in 1999. Flippo, Chet. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. She didnt hink he will hold on to his wealth much longer. He remained in prison until his death in May 2017. . Now Tony Alamo is also a grave robberat least in the eyes of an Arkansas judge, who has ordered him to lay to rest his wifes missing 13-year-old corpse. Alamo responded by declaring bankruptcy, and his businesses imploded, although Alamo Ministries limped along. My mother learned strong-arm tactics from my father and then finessed it with religion, Coie said. You know, what gets me about this is [my mother] made him a multimillionaire many times over, Coie said. 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.. Theyd been tipped off by three former members, all men whose sons had been taken to California after their ex-wives married other Alamo Church members. She married Tony, who at the time was a fugitive, in hiding from charges of felony child abuse in California. Shown here in 1993 at Alamos birthday party before she became a wife and again after she was unofficially married to Alamo. ET) on Investigation Discovery. [4][5][6][7], Susan Alamo (19251982) was born Edith Opal Horn in Alma, Arkansas. Elizabeth Mercado Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo. The main campus continued to grow, adding gas stations, a restaurant and a hog farm, according to The New York Times. 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. Many witnesses can verify that Amy has been severely beaten by Alamo on many occasions. Ive done well. One of the fathers, Robert Miller, had previously overseen the churchs trucking company and alleged that Alamo had embezzled $100,000 from it. Many of these individuals chose to stay on to become Bible students and lay ministers. Alamo turned fugitive in 1989 and wasnt captured till July 1991, after a tip came in from a viewer of Americas Most Wanted.. The Alamo Christian Foundation was an American cult founded in 1969 by Christian evangelist Tony Alamo and one of his wives, Susan Alamo. Creating an account gives you access to all these features. But no. Twice married and with a daughter, she came to Hollywood and attempted to become an actress. When a tribute gift is given the honoree will receive a letter acknowledging your generosity and a bookplate will be placed in a book. I mean, you cant put a good face on that, she continued. Married in Las Vegas, the Alamos soon established their church, also known as the Susan and Tony Alamo Foundation. They have a son, Tabor, together. Alamo denies it. She bore a child to Tony, a girl, Antoinette, in June of 2001. There the church grew to several hundred members and it also established printing facilities, a school, and a tabernacle. Both women still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, where seemingly normal activities can sometimes trigger panic attacks and feelings of fear and loneliness. 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. 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. Years earlier, sheriffs deputies showed up at Alamos Saugus, California compound. They launched a national television ministry in the 1970s. 1A, 6A. The feds had narrowed in Tony fought Coie for custody of Susans remains. Others said they never got paid. 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. She is seeking a sizeable monthly alimony so she can take care of the bills she claims he hasnt paid. WATCH: Cult Leaders & Child Brides: Breaking Down People Magazine Investigates: Cults. The smaller compound was now in Fouke, Arkansas, but there were two extant branches in Ft. Smith and Los Angeles. 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.. Acting didnt pan out, but Susan Lipowitz made a good living as an evangelical preacher, often leaving southern California for long stretches to preach in tents across the country. It would turn out this marriage would be forever for only one of them. 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 July 1998, he was transferred to a Texarkana halfway house, from which he was released on December 8 of the same year. [8] Converting from Judaism to Christianity, she became an itinerant evangelist before she met Hoffman. Alamo has fathered three children by different women who live in his home as secretaries. In 1990, Alamo failed to appear in court to answer these charges and was ruled guilty in default. She married Solomon Lipowitz, and together, they had a daughter. [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. In 1982, the same year that Susan Alamo died,[15] the foundation was discontinued and replaced by the newly incorporated Music Square Church (MSC). Picture taken in 1993. When it became clear she wouldnt survive, she told church members she believed she would rise from the dead. 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. What were they doing in New Orleans?. You are here: Home | Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wifes Remains. [11], Seventeen days before her 57th birthday, Susan Alamo died of breast cancer on 8 April 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the City of Faith hospital. Lydia was in her early 30's. They have a son, Tabor, together. . 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. As the church expanded, it established other churches in Nashville, Chicago, Brooklyn, and Miami Beach. History: In California in February 1993 Tony Alamo took Lydia , an African American, as a second wife. Nailing Tony Alamo. This Rock 1 (October 1990). If hed married Brooke Shields I would be jealous. Mr. Alamo presently has the ability to have the body produced.. His age is 88Years. Alamos church also lives, if in a far smaller and less organized fashion, said several sources including Alamos own lawyer. All Rights Reserved. Misheal is still in the group and often reads the responses on Tonys radio broadcast. Im not jealous. 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. Welsh, Adam. She converted to Pentecostal Christianity in childhood. Hes a riot. Last week the children were taken away from her in New Orleans when authorities suspected she was trying to leave the country. 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. That was part of our custody agreement. They were even told who they were going to marry: the 62-year-old leader of their apocalyptic group. The 61-year-old Alamonow serving a six-year sentence in Colorado for failing to file tax returns and submitting a false onemust also arrange for her proper and legal entombment, Spears ruled. 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. And when she was 17, he took her virginity after making her one of the three "wives" he had at the time. Dear Abby. Angela Marie Morales Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo The term 'cult expert' is not protected. 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. 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. She and her son are mistreated more than the others and are both referred to as nigger by Alamo. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. The civil contempt differs from his criminal incarceration in that Mr. Alamo holds the key to the jailhouse in his possession, Spears wrote. 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. 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. 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. He accused me of having an ungodly statue of a man and a woman. He can be very charming.. In addition, the judgment against Alamo showed him owing another $5 million to former church members for unpaid work. She later claimed her husband beat and drugged her and demanded she undergo plastic surgery to make her look like Susan. 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. History: In 1989 Alamo married Sharon Kroopf (now Sharon Miriam Hoffman), in her late 30s at the time. They say they were planning a honeymoon cruise for later, Amrhein said. [11], In 2016, award-winning playwright Ernest Kearney produced his one-man show My Alamo War for the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles, California. I still do, said Coie, who last saw her mother in 1971 when she quit the sect against her parents wishes. 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. She sings better than he does. She had just turned 16 years old. Upon his release, the ex-felon returned home: back to his now humbler Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. I have a right to be angry, says Pebbles. Online at https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/05/13/the-barely-legal-empire-of-tony-alamo/ (accessed February 23, 2023). In the midst of his supposed third marriage, a 1986 Arkansas Gazette report concluded that Gyllenhammar had actually been Alamo's sixth wife, as he had apparently been married four times prior to Susan. 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. 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. Kenny Feldman (no relation) of the Sunlight Mission of Santa Monica. [1][2] He was 82 years old. If you can, provide 1-2 sources of information backing up this correction. After a decade of building the church, Susan and Tony moved everyone to Dyer, Arkansas, just outside Fort Smith near the Oklahoma border. Between 1986 and 1990, the preacher remarried twice. Theyre messed up children, Amrhein said. Alamo kicked Kenya out of the group and took his wife. 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At the age of 82, Tony Alamo died while serving his federal prison sentence. Alamo, 74, faces up to 175 years in prison, plus fines that could total $2.5 million. On November 13, he was sentenced to 175 years in prison and also was fined $250,000. He called the new entity Music Square Church and filed for tax-exempt status. Donations made to the CALS Foundation are tax-deductible for United States federal income tax purposes. The show was awarded the Fringe's Encore Producer Award. Ive been trying to divorce him since the end of January, she said. 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. 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. When Tony got back into the business in 1999, he immediately went on the air. Church members branched out to begin small businesses within the nearby community of Alma, Arkansas. Members usually lived in a commune and worked at an Alamo-owned business, turning over much of their salaries to the church. Alamo is the president of the Alama-based Alamo Christian Foundation. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Ill get my children back, said Nick Amrhein of Huntington, West VA. She may be prosecuted not only for unlawful flight but also for trying to obtain a passport under false pretenses. The ministry has buildings in Moffett and Muldrow. 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. The girls grew up in Fouke, Arkansas, where they lived on a compound. Alamo quickly declared bankruptcy, and his related businesses collapsed. Says Randall Harris, a retired FBI agent who investigated the case: The world revolved around Tony Alamo.. She believed a miracle would save her. 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 . 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. 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. The states medical examiner will have to verify that the remains are those of Susan Alamo, who died of cancer in 1982, more than a decade after she and Tony founded the fire-and-brimstone Holy Alamo Christian Church in Hollywood. Alamo to Return Body of Wife after 7 Years. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,July 24, 1998, pp. Davis, Andy. He sent their record to all my friends in Los Angeles to make me mad. He came to me nose to nose and pulled a Muhammad Ali on me. Alamo says he married Amrhein in December. Christian communities were good business in Hollywood, and The Alamo Christian foundation grew steadily over the next decade. It also operated a drug rehabilitation facility, and those who were involved in the church developed several businesses in the Alma area. The court concluded Alamo also owed another $5 million to ex-members for unpaid labor. That is one reason why we can provide this research service free of charge. As young girls, Amy Eddy and her best friend, Pebbles Rodriguez, did not have any control of their lives. When he was a teenager, Alamo left Joplin for the West Coast. Preacher Tony Alamo's mugshot was released with new allegations that he had multiple wives, including a nine-year-old girl. An assistant called back and said Alamo had divorced Gyllenhammar but would not say where. Preacher Alamo Told to Return Wife's Remains. Theme Ported to Wordpress by Kaushal Sheth . But he had to go back to his mother the day before his birthday. 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 . In September 2008, Alamo was charged with multiple violations of the Mann Act between 1994 and 2005. 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". Meanwhile, lawsuits filed by former church members accused the couple of controlling their flock with intimidation and beatings. 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. 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