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- Founded by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman in 1998, NXIVM first started as a multilevel marketing company that celebrated ideas of self-empowerment. According to Rolling Stone, it blended together ideologies similar to Scientology, the self-help group EST, and Ayn Rand's objectivism.
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NXIVM (/ ˈ n ɛ k s i ə m / NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. NXIVM is also the name of the defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential development, and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close ...
- July 20, 1998; 25 years ago
- Personal-growth seminars
- Self-improvement seminars
Oct 17, 2022 · In 2017, a New York Times report inspired a justice department investigation that took down an American multi-level marketing scheme turned 'sex cult' known as NXIVM. The...
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Aug 23, 2020 · Founded by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman in 1998, NXIVM first started as a multilevel marketing company that celebrated ideas of self-empowerment. According to Rolling Stone, it blended...
- Stacey Nguyen
Jul 5, 2023 · By Carla Correa. July 5, 2023. Nxivm, the cultlike organization in which a harem of sexual “slaves” were branded with its founder’s initials on their pelvises and coerced into...
May 30, 2018 · Inside Nxivm, the ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment. Why did female members follow a guru named Keith Raniere, who now stands accused of sex trafficking? He made them feel like they were...
- Vanessa Grigoriadis
Scholars in the fields of religious studies, law, and sociology describe NXIVM as a cult. [7] [8] [9] [10] Mental health professionals and cult experts such as Rick Ross, Diane Benscoter, and Steve Hassan have called Raniere a cult leader who manipulates and exerts coercive control over his followers.
Jun 19, 2019 · The Albany-based group Nxivm (pronounced nexium) described itself as a "community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people". It says it has worked with more than 16,000...