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In October of 2017, she expo... As a recruiter for multi-level marketing self-help group NXIVM, Sarah Edmondson brought thousands of people to the organization. In October of 2017, she expo...
- 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 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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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.
Aug 21, 2020 · HBO. During the muggy last weeks of June 2019, Keith Raniere, the leader of the self-help organization NXIVM, sat in a downtown Brooklyn courthouse, owlish face peeking out from beneath a halo of ...
Sep 6, 2020 · So in 2017, with encouragement from Vicente, she decided to finish her NXIVM course in Los Angeles. But when Vicente failed to show up at the party she threw to celebrate completion of the program ...
