Fabio's Saving Slaves (On The Underground Railroad)

“[Top male model Hoyt Richards] was stuck deep inside a doomsday cult called Eternal Values that controlled his life and took all his money. He became so caught up in a web of lies and a spiral of damaged self-esteem that it would take a superman to save his life: Fabio.

He,…handed over most of his earnings to the religious group — a staggering $4.5 million by his own accounting. Richards’ brother,...staged an intervention at one point, but Richards told them to 'f - - k off.'

In the early aughts, Fabio allowed the broke Richards to live rent-free and provided him a non-judgmental atmosphere in which Richards could begin to process what he’d been through with the cult.”