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Investigative Reporter Frank Parlato discusses Keith Raniere, NXIVM, and hypnotism on @investigationdiscovery documentary the Lost Women of NXIVM.NXIVM was a...
Nov 7, 2020 · As the layers of the NXIVM story are peeled back, sensational details abound. But it’s hard to separate rumors from reality, as Keith Raniere has a long list...
Dec 8, 2019 · Former NXIVM publicist turned investigative journalist Frank Parlato takes a deep dive into answering questions surrounding the tragic and mysterious deaths ...
- 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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December 8, 2019. ( 2019-12-08) The Lost Women of NXIVM is a two-hour documentary premiered on Investigation Discovery on December 8, 2019. Former NXIVM publicist Frank Parlato, who first revealed that NXIVM was branding women, [1] [2] takes a deep dive to answer the questions surrounding the tragic deaths and mysterious disappearances of five ...
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May 20, 2019 · Lauren Salzman, a former member of Nxivm, said women who failed as “slaves” were whipped with a leather strap. Seth Wenig/Associated Press. [What you need to know to start the day: Get New ...
Nov 8, 2020 · A chance meeting on a cruise with a documentarian named Mark Vicente led her to her first five-day NXIVM seminar, where, between clunky taped interludes with ’80s fitness-video graphics ...
