Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. www.nytimes.com › 2017/10/17 › nyregionInside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded - The New ...

   www.nytimes.com › 2017/10/17 › nyregion

   Oct 17, 2017 · Sarah Edmondson left Nxivm after being branded as part of a secret ritual. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times. ALBANY — Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret ...

2. www.academia.edu › 82294392 › NXIVM_Religion_and(PDF) NXIVM, Religion and “Cults”: Resemblances and Parallels ...

   www.academia.edu › 82294392 › NXIVM_Religion_and

   • Cached

   Sarah Edmondson and her husband Anthony “Nippy” Ames, left in 2017, and Mark Vicente and his wife Bonnie Piesse, with assistance from Toni Natalie, Catherine Oxenberg (whose campaign to rescue her daughter India, a DOS branded slave formed the basis of the HBO series “The Vow” [2020]) and others formed the main whisteblowers on Raniere ...

   • Author: Carole Cusack

3. www.nytimes.com › 2021/09/07 › nyregionNxivm Executive Helped Build a Culture of Abuse, Survivors ...

   www.nytimes.com › 2021/09/07 › nyregion

   Sep 7, 2021 · Sept. 7, 2021. Three days after her recorded message played in a Brooklyn courtroom last fall, describing the lasting pain that the Nxivm cult leader Keith Raniere had inflicted on her, Ivy ...

4. www.nytimes.com › 2019/03/12 › nyregionCo-Founder of Cultlike Group Where Women Were Branded Pleads ...

   www.nytimes.com › 2019/03/12 › nyregion

   Mar 12, 2019 · Nancy Salzman was known to her followers as “Prefect.”. She was a co-founder of Nxivm, a cultlike group near Albany in which women were branded with the leader’s initials and forced to have ...

5. www.academia.edu › 92269567 › NXIVM_Religion_and(PDF) NXIVM, Religion, and ‘Cults’: Keith Raniere as ...

   www.academia.edu › 92269567 › NXIVM_Religion_and

   • Cached

   Edmondson wryly noted “Jness training was supposed to make us women stronger and help us develop character, and while SOP [in which her husband Nippy Ames was a leader] was allegedly creating a men’s movement, it actually proved to be a platform for Keith’s latent misogyny.”32 By 2015 she was disillusioned: her mentor Bouchey had left ...

   • Author: Carole Cusack

6. filmdaily.co › obsessions › nxivm-documentariesNXIVM documentaries: Which ones are worth watching?

   filmdaily.co › obsessions › nxivm-documentaries

   • Cached

   Nov 4, 2020 · Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult Oxenberg fills in some of the details of how Keith Raniere and underlings tricked women into giving up their bodies and entire identity to the cause of NXIVM. Many say other documentaries don’t actually get into the philosophy aspect of NXIVM’s founding and that Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult provides those ...

7. People also ask

   How many women were branded by NXIVM?

   • It is not clear how many women were branded or which Nxivm officials were aware of the practice. A copy of a text message Mr. Raniere sent to a female follower indicates that he knew women were being branded and that the symbol’s design incorporated his initials.

   Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

   www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

   See all results for this question

   Who are NXIVM women?

   • The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico. Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.

   Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

   www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

   See all results for this question

   Why did NXIVM appoint MS Salzman?

   • Over the years, Ms. Salzman helped distill Mr. Raniere’s philosophical musings into supposed self-help plans they could market and which became Nxivm’s public-facing front. And behind the scenes, former members said, Mr. Raniere tasked her to deal with women in the group who he saw as causing problems.

   Nxivm Executive Helped Build a Culture of Abuse, Survivors Say - The

   www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/nyregion/nancy-salzman-nxivm-sex-cult.html

   See all results for this question

   Why did Sarah Edmondson quit NXIVM?

   • In May, Sarah Edmondson began to recoil from her embrace of the secret society. Her husband, Anthony Ames, who was also a Nxivm member, learned about her branding and the couple both wanted out. Before quitting, Mr. Ames went to Nxivm’s offices in Albany to collect money he said the group owed him.

   Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

   www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

   See all results for this question

8. www.yahoo.com › entertainment › former-membersFor its former members, leaving the NXIVM cult left lasting ...

   www.yahoo.com › entertainment › former-members

   • Cached

   Oct 16, 2020 · Other high-profile NXIVM members, including Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman and “ Smallville” actress Allison Mack, also have faced legal action. In separate interviews, Edmondson and Vicente ...