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Oct 17, 2022 · On October 17, Season Two of The Vow premieres on HBO. While Season One dove deep into the origin and downfall of the cult founded by Keith Raniere, Season Two will follow the arrests and trials ...
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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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Nov 1, 2020 · Camila left NXIVM in 2017 as a 27-year-old with no work experience or higher education. She struggled to find a job with such a large unexplained gap in her résumé.
Nov 20, 2023 · A source familiar with Movers + Shakers says that Horowitz and Goldberg cut ties with NXIVM around 2016 or 2017, after the agency was founded, but prior to the massive success of the e.l.f. Campaign.
Aug 28, 2020 · The Vow is HBO's nine-part, incredibly exhaustive documentary about NXIVM, a cult and multi-level marketing scheme masquerading as an empowerment group. The documentary looks into founders Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman; influential members like Allison Mack; and whistleblowers like Bonnie Piesse and her husband Mark Vicente, who saw the dangers of NXIVM before the mainstream media caught on.
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Apr 2, 2024 · In February of 2004, Yusko reported on the death of Nxivm student Kristin Marie Snyder. Snyder disappeared in Anchorage during her second 16-day intensive course. She left a note in her truck ...
Sep 2, 2020 · In 2017, a decade after she first enrolled in a Nxivm class, which she paused because of a work commitment, Noujaim reconnected with Vicente in Los Angeles, who encouraged her to finish the program.
