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Aug 11, 2021 · NXIVM was a cult disguised as a multi-level marketing enterprise and self-help group. Founded in the 1990s by Keith Raniere, the cult gained many followers and thrived throughout the years until it was exposed by former members as a sex cult that involved physical, mental, and emotional abuse. In 2017, former NXIVM member, Canadian actress ...
- Jean Mendoza
May 30, 2018 · May 30, 2018. Leer en español. 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 ...
- Vanessa Grigoriadis
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- 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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Jun 30, 2021 · In this courtroom sketch Keith Raniere, second from right, leader of the secretive group NXIVM, attends a court hearing Friday, April 13, 2018. Elizabeth Williams via AP. Raniere — who ...
- Julia Naftulin
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 ...
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Oct 20, 2017 · One said she was told she would get a small tattoo but instead was held down by three women while a 2-inch-wide symbol including NXIVM founder Keith Raniere's initials was seared into her skin ...
nxivm.com ( Archived) NXIVM ( / ˈnɛksiəm / NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. [3] NXIVM is also the name of the defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential development, [4] and served as a front organization for criminal activity by ...
