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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 ...
- 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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Aug 11, 2021 · In 2017, former NXIVM member, Canadian actress Sarah Edmondson, revealed details about the cult and her time there. Sarah was a member of NXIVM for 12 years before she left, and she even recruited some women to join the cult, per CBC. Sarah's revelations prompted an investigation into NXIVM and its operations, and the truth was revealed.
- Jean Mendoza
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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 ...
May 30, 2018 · Sarah Edmondson in 2017, after she left Nxivm, showing the brand she received at a ceremony. ... Mack decided to take on appealing young women as her slaves; she told me she knew she needed to ...
- Vanessa Grigoriadis
Sep 16, 2019 · Edmondson quit the group in 2017 and was a key whistleblower in the case against NXIVM. Raniere is set to return to court, Sept. 25, for sentencing. NXIVM leader Keith Raniere blackmailed women ...
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 women who all had connections ...
