Tony and susan5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Put your dress on,” she would tell her daughter Christhianon Coie, “we’re gonna go do a church.” According to an interview Christianon did for the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2008, she was present when her mother met her match. She had moved to Hollywood to become an actress, but was supporting herself in the meantime scamming churches. Susan was born Edith Opal Horn, also of Jewish descent, in Alma, Arkansas. From Tony Alamo News, Tony singing at his restaurant banquet hall. He would tell everyone who would listen that he was a hotshot music promoter who’d worked with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Sonny and Cher. ![]() He recorded a single “Little Yankee Girl” that’s weird as hell, but mostly he just talked the big talk. As a teenager, he left Missouri for Los Angeles, CA to find fame in the music industry. He claimed his father, a Jewish immigrant from Romania, had been a dance instructor for Rudolph Valentino. Tony Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman in 1934, in Joplin, MO. This is the story of Tony and Susan Alamo. The story of a bad boy who wants to be Elvis, a girl with a bleached blonde bouffant, a stolen corpse, the mind-altering power of Jesus Christ, –all encrusted in rhinestones. If I had been born about 20 years earlier and one hour south of here, I may have appeared in this story. ![]()
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