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  1. Apr 30, 2021 · Her hair was long and dark, reaching for her waist, which appeared preposterously small in a fitted gray blazer.

    • Alison Mack. Mack was recruited in 2010 by her ‘Smallville’ co-star Kristin Kreuk. Soon she became second-in-command after Keith Raniere and began brainwashing young women to join the self-help group.
    • Nicki Clyne. After being introduced to the group by former member Sarah Edmondson in 2006, Nicki was mesmerized by the teachings of Raniere. So much, that she reportedly quit the show ‘Battlestar Galactica’ in 2008 to continue her journey with NXIVM.
    • Sarah Edmondson. Since leaving the group in 2017, Canadian actor Sarah has been one of the most vocal denouncers of the organization. In a New York Times exposé of the company, Sarah shared her story in detail about how Raniere and Mack roped her into the secret society and later branded their initials on her pelvis area, against her wishes.
    • Catherine Oxenberg. Catherine Oxenberg is an American actor, best known for her portrayal of the character Amanda Carrington on the 1980s soap opera ‘Dynasty.’
  2. May 29, 2019 · Daniela, a Mexican-born woman who was living in the US undocumented and who had first joined the NXIVM (pronounced “nex-ee-um”) mentoring group as a 16-year-old, had testified Tuesday that both she and her two sisters were impregnated by Raniere and then led to get abortions.

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  3. For seven years, Catherine Oxenberg says, individuals within the NXIVM organization groomed her daughter India and made her believe in their group as one of empowerment, despite many of their...

    • 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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  4. May 13, 2019 · It was Ms. Kreuk who brought Ms. Mack to her first meeting of Jness, a women’s group under the umbrella of Nxivm (pronounced Nex-ee-um), in 2006.

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  6. Sep 16, 2019 · Sarah Edmondson dedicated 12 years of her life to the notorious cult-like group NXIVM and her new memoir reveals the physical and mental anguish she and other female members endured in what U.S...

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