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Sep 15, 2021 · Allison Mack, the former “Smallville” actor who pleaded guilty last year to her actions in Keith Raniere’s cult-like group NXIVM, has reported more than two weeks early to start serving...
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Jun 30, 2021 · US actress Allison Mack has been sentenced to three years in prison for her role in the Nxivm sex cult. The 38-year-old admitted racketeering and conspiracy charges in April 2019 related to her...
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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.
- Corina Knoll
- 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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India Oxenberg broke her silence Tuesday about her life and eventual escape from NXIVM, the purported self-help organization whose co-founder and leader was found guilty of sex trafficking and...
Oct 17, 2022 · While most were not directly involved in the more nefarious aspects of the organization, particularly the sex cult that was created by a group of women within NXIVM, one of the most shocking and ...
Aug 7, 2018 · Back in 2011, when Catherine Oxenberg first brought her daughter, India, to a workshop of the controversial group Nxivm, which billed itself as a self-help group, she thought it would be a way...
