Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. time.com › 5568135Here Are All the Major Players in the NXIVM Case | TIME

   time.com › 5568135

   • Cached

   Apr 12, 2019 · Keith Raniere appears in a YouTube video dated January 26, 2017. The founder of NXIVM has been arrested on charges of sex trafficking. YouTube/Keith Raniere Conversations. In 1998, Raniere co ...

   • Video Duration: 1 min

2. www.nytimes.com › 2017/10/17 › nyregionInside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded - The New ...

   www.nytimes.com › 2017/10/17 › nyregion

   Oct 17, 2017 · Sarah Edmondson left Nxivm after being branded as part of a secret ritual. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times. ALBANY — Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret ...

3. People also ask

   What happened to NXIVM?

   • The downfall of NXIVM (pronounced Nex-ee-um) began in October 2017, when the Times published an exposé in which former members claimed that they had been blackmailed, branded and nearly starved during their time inside the organization. (“There is no playbook for leaving a cult,” former member Sarah Edmondson said.)

   Here Are All the Major Players in the NXIVM Case | TIME

   time.com/5568135/nxivm-allison-mack-raniere/

   See all results for this question

   Who founded NXIVM?

   • 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.

   Here Are All the Major Players in the NXIVM Case | TIME

   time.com/5568135/nxivm-allison-mack-raniere/

   See all results for this question

   How many women were branded by NXIVM?

   • It is not clear how many women were branded or which Nxivm officials were aware of the practice. A copy of a text message Mr. Raniere sent to a female follower indicates that he knew women were being branded and that the symbol’s design incorporated his initials.

   Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

   www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

   See all results for this question

   Who are NXIVM women?

   • The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico. Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.

   Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded

   www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html

   See all results for this question

4. www.nytimes.com › 2019/05/20 › nyregionLife as a Nxivm ‘Slave’: Branding, Whippings and Cold Showers

   www.nytimes.com › 2019/05/20 › nyregion

   May 20, 2019 · Ms. Salzman also testified on Monday about how women who joined the clandestine sect, called The Vow or D.O.S., made secret commitments to become lifelong “slaves” to Mr. Raniere. Those women ...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2018/05/30 › magazineInside Nxivm, the ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment

   www.nytimes.com › 2018/05/30 › magazine

   May 30, 2018 · O ne winter morning in a conventional suburb outside Albany, N.Y., Nancy Salzman, the 63-year-old president of a self-improvement company named Nxivm, sat on a mahogany-colored stool in her ...

   • Author: Vanessa Grigoriadis

6. www.newsweek.com › nxivm-keith-raniere-sexWhat Is NXIVM? Founder of Secretive Self-Help Group Charged ...

   www.newsweek.com › nxivm-keith-raniere-sex

   • Cached

   Mar 27, 2018 · Keith Raniere appears in a YouTube video dated January 26, 2017. The founder of NXIVM has been arrested on charges of sex trafficking. YouTube/Keith Raniere Conversations

7. www.lohud.com › story › newsABC's 20/20 examines NXIVM, branding incident: What to know

   www.lohud.com › story › news

   • Cached

   Dec 15, 2017 · Raniere rarely speaks in public, though he appears in a lengthy video series on YouTube in discussion with NXIVM members. For years, NXIVM has drawn scrutiny from news outlets in the Capital Region.

8. www.yahoo.com › entertainment › former-membersFor its former members, leaving the NXIVM cult left lasting ...

   www.yahoo.com › entertainment › former-members

   • Cached

   Oct 16, 2020 · But more recently, they were key players in the downfall of the group, speaking out in an explosive 2017 New York Times story detailing a secret society within NXIVM, known as DOS, whose female ...