Rare Signature by Cult Leader Tony Alamo LP Tony and Susan Mister DJ Signed
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Rare Signature by Cult Leader Tony Alamo
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Who Was Tony Alamo? New True Crime Series Explores the Life and Crimes of the Cult Leader
Megan Elliott | MORE ARTICLES
February 19, 2019
Like Charles Manson and Jim Jones, Alamo’s cult had its roots in California in the late 1960s. He and his wife Susan founded the Alamo Christian Foundation in Los Angeles in 1969. They began as street preachers, and their “wrathful version of Pentecostalism” attracted hippies and other disaffected youth, who took to calling themselves “Jesus Freaks,” according to the New York Times' 2017 obituary of Alamo. The group was anti-Catholic, homophobic, and pro-polygamy, according to Time Magazine. Most disturbingly, Alamo was also a proponent of child marriage, maintaining that “puberty is the age of consent.”
At some point, Alamo and his wife relocated to Arkansas. There, they established a business empire, which included gas stations, a grocery store, and a restaurant. But his most lucrative venture was a line of sequined denim jackets that were popular with celebrities in the 1970s and 1980s, including Michael Jackson, who donned a Tony Alamo jacket for the cover of his Bad album. The jackets sold for hundreds of dollars and continued to be popular even as information about Alamo’s misdeeds came to light.*
Susan Alamo died of cancer in 1982. Tony Alamo was convicted of tax evasion and eventually ten counts of Transporting minors resulting in 175 year sentence. He died in 2017.
(*Excerpts taken from piece written by Megan Elliott)
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