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  1. Jul 5, 2023 · 2017. Former members sought an investigation into the group. By 2017, several former members had asked New York State authorities to investigate Nxivm.

  2. On June 5, 2017, Frank Parlato became the first NXIVM member to report the existence of DOS and the practice of human branding. On October 17, 2017, The New York Times published a story detailing DOS abuses, including the requirement of slaves to provide collateral.

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  4. Jan 29, 2020 · Published Jan. 29, 2020 Updated July 20, 2021. The self-help group Nxivm gained a reputation as a “sex cult” last year after its leader, Keith Raniere, was convicted of coercing some of his ...

    • Keith Raniere
    • Allison Mack
    • Nancy Salzman
    • Lauren Salzman
    • Clare Bronfman
    • Kathy Russell

    In 1998, Raniere co-founded NXIVM as a purported self-help group alongside Nancy Salzman. Raniere styled himself as a New Age philosopher heavily influenced by Ayn Rand; he was known as “Vanguard” within the group and began teaching classes promising personal and professional development by eliminating psychological and emotional barriers. An estim...

    Mack, an actress who played Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent’s friend, on the WB/CW Superman series Smallville for ten seasons, said she joined NXIVM to “find purpose.” She soon joined its inner circle, and in a 2018 New York Times interview, said that she herself came up with the idea to brand women. “I was like: ‘Y’all, a tattoo? People get drunk and t...

    Salzman is a former psychiatric nurse who co-founded NXIVM alongside Raniere and served as its president. Members of the group called her “Prefect,” according to court documents. After Raniere and Mack were arrested, Salzman’s home was raided by federal agents, who seized $523,000 in cash. Several months later, she was arrested and charged with rac...

    The daughter of Nancy Salzman, Lauren served on NXIVM’s executive board for many years. During that time, she oversaw branding ceremonies, according to the Times. She pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in March. The New York Post reportedthat she admitted she had “knowingly and intentionally harbored” an unnamed woman in a locked room for more th...

    Bronfman is an heiress to the Seagram liquor company. She also served on NXIVM’s executive board and allegedly created an access point for the company to dip into her family’s fortune. In 2010, a lawsuit claimed that many millions of her family’s money had been spent in connection with NXIVM. In recent years, Bronfman financed and pursued lawsuits ...

    According to court documents, Russell served as NXIVM’s bookkeeper for more than a decade. She was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy along with the rest of the inner circle in 2018. Prosecutors allegeRussell conspired with Raniere to smuggle a nonresident alien into the United States through Canada by giving the person an ID card wi...

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  5. Oct 1, 2020 · During her 15 years with the group, prosecutors estimate Bronfman spent $116 million on NXIVM and Raneire, according to the Times. Bronfman used her seemingly endless well of money to fund ...

  6. Oct 27, 2020 · In May 2017, she and her husband and fellow NXIVM member Anthony Ames told Lauren that they were leaving the program. Months later, NXIVM filed a criminal report against Edmondson and two...

  7. Oct 29, 2020 · Camila left Nxivm in 2017 as a 27-year-old with no work experience or higher education. She struggled to find a job with such a large unexplained gap in her résumé.

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