Keith Raniere, the leader of the alleged sex cult Nxivm, has given an interview which aired on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight and will also be featured on the network’s Dateline.
In the interview, Raniere denies his convictions for sex trafficking, racketeering and possession of child pornography. Raniere said he was the victim of unethical prosecution in the interview. He asked for a new trial, but was denied Friday by a judge. He will be sentenced on Tuesday and could face life in prison.
The activities of Nvxim was captured by the documentary series The Vow, which is coming back in 2021 for a second season on HBO. Directors and exec producers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, to continue to the story of the Nxivm cult and its top leadership.
Raniere admitted to NBC interviewer Frank Parlato and Dateline NBC that he was the leader of Nxivm, which...
In the interview, Raniere denies his convictions for sex trafficking, racketeering and possession of child pornography. Raniere said he was the victim of unethical prosecution in the interview. He asked for a new trial, but was denied Friday by a judge. He will be sentenced on Tuesday and could face life in prison.
The activities of Nvxim was captured by the documentary series The Vow, which is coming back in 2021 for a second season on HBO. Directors and exec producers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, to continue to the story of the Nxivm cult and its top leadership.
Raniere admitted to NBC interviewer Frank Parlato and Dateline NBC that he was the leader of Nxivm, which...
- 10/24/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: Clare Bronfman was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison Wednesday after previously pleading guilty for her role in the cult-like Nxivm, New York Times reports. In 2019, Bronfman – who spent at least $116 million of her Seagram fortune to bankroll Nxivm – pleaded guilty in April 2019 to charges related to the alleged self-help group’s federal racketeering case. Nxivm leader Keith Raniere, found guilty of all charges, still faces sentencing.
Seth DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement, “Defendant Bronfman...
Seth DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement, “Defendant Bronfman...
- 9/30/2020
- by Sarah Grant
- Rollingstone.com
Beginning Tuesday, Keith Raniere, founder and leader of the self-empowerment group and alleged sex cult Nxivm, will stand trial for criminal charges including racketeering and sex trafficking, and faces life imprisonment if convicted on all counts. The details of the allegations against him are as well-publicized as they are horrific: Raniere stands accused of running Nxivm as his own personal sex cult, coercing female followers into sleeping with him, having his initials branded into their flesh and punishing them by threatening to release “collateral,” such as pornographic photos, if they...
- 5/6/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
"Smallville" actress Allison Mack has pleaded guilty to blackmailing two women into becoming sex slaves for the leader of the Nxivm sex slave cult. Mack entered a guilty plea to multiple felonies in a Brooklyn court on Monday, reports dailymail.co.uk. Mack, 36, sobbed as she admitted her crimes and apologized to the women who prosecutors say were exploited by Keith Raniere and the purported self-help group called Nxivm.
"Through it all, I believed that Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people," Mack told a judge. "I was wrong. I now realise that I and others engaged in criminal conduct."
The "Smallville" actress was sobbing so much at one point that the judge stopped to offer her tissues.?
She had been charged with racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy forced labour conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking.?
Mack was facing life in prison if convicted on those charges,...
"Through it all, I believed that Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people," Mack told a judge. "I was wrong. I now realise that I and others engaged in criminal conduct."
The "Smallville" actress was sobbing so much at one point that the judge stopped to offer her tissues.?
She had been charged with racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy forced labour conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking.?
Mack was facing life in prison if convicted on those charges,...
- 4/11/2019
- GlamSham
Nancy Salzman, the president and co-founder of Nxivm – an alleged sex cult based in Albany, New York that claimed to be a self-help group – pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of racketeering conspiracy, USA Today reports.
The 64-year old, who was known by Nxivm members as “Prefect,” admitted to hacking into email accounts and altering a videotape used in a lawsuit against an Nxivm detractor.
“It has taken me some time and some soul-searching to come to this place,” she said during her hearing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn,...
The 64-year old, who was known by Nxivm members as “Prefect,” admitted to hacking into email accounts and altering a videotape used in a lawsuit against an Nxivm detractor.
“It has taken me some time and some soul-searching to come to this place,” she said during her hearing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
At a hearing in Brooklyn today, a federal judge agreed to move the trial of Nxivm founder Keith Raniere and his co-defendants from October to January 7th, at the government’s request.
This scheduling change comes a day after prosecutors brought charges against four more members of the alleged cult; Clare Bronfman (an heiress to the Seagram’s liquor company fortune), Nancy Salzman (Nxivm’s co-founder and president), her daughter Lauren Salzman (a high-ranking recruiter) and bookkeeper Kathy Russell join Raniere and Alison Mack, a former actress turned Nxivm staffer,...
This scheduling change comes a day after prosecutors brought charges against four more members of the alleged cult; Clare Bronfman (an heiress to the Seagram’s liquor company fortune), Nancy Salzman (Nxivm’s co-founder and president), her daughter Lauren Salzman (a high-ranking recruiter) and bookkeeper Kathy Russell join Raniere and Alison Mack, a former actress turned Nxivm staffer,...
- 7/25/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Canadian-based Seagram’s liquor company, was arrested on Tuesday in connection with her ongoing work with self-help group Nxivm and charged with racketeering conspiracy.
Once an international equestrian competitor, Bronfman is the 39-year-old daughter of the late billionaire and former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr. In addition to Bronfman, Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman a.k.a. “Prefect,” 64, her daughter Lauren Salzman, 42, and bookkeeper Kathy Russell, 60, were accused of the same crimes. According to a court information officer with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New...
Once an international equestrian competitor, Bronfman is the 39-year-old daughter of the late billionaire and former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr. In addition to Bronfman, Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman a.k.a. “Prefect,” 64, her daughter Lauren Salzman, 42, and bookkeeper Kathy Russell, 60, were accused of the same crimes. According to a court information officer with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New...
- 7/24/2018
- by Eric Killelea
- Rollingstone.com
Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman was among four women charged with racketeering and other crimes in connection with the sex cult case brought against Keith Raniere and former “Smallville” star Allison Mack.
The indictments unsealed on Tuesday added 10 counts of racketeering to the federal sex trafficking charges already pending against Raniere and Mack. Bronfman and three others — Nancy Salzman, her daughter Lauren Salzman, and Kathy Russell — were charged with racketeering, forced labor, money laundering, identity theft, and wire fraud. The four women were scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday, Bronfman in Brooklyn and the Salzmans and Russell in Albany, N.Y. They face as much as 20 years in prison if convicted for racketeering, and a minimum sentence of 15 years for identity theft.
Raniere and Mack face additional charges of racketeering along with the sex trafficking counts they were originally charged with in April. Raniere has been in jail since March. Mack...
The indictments unsealed on Tuesday added 10 counts of racketeering to the federal sex trafficking charges already pending against Raniere and Mack. Bronfman and three others — Nancy Salzman, her daughter Lauren Salzman, and Kathy Russell — were charged with racketeering, forced labor, money laundering, identity theft, and wire fraud. The four women were scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday, Bronfman in Brooklyn and the Salzmans and Russell in Albany, N.Y. They face as much as 20 years in prison if convicted for racketeering, and a minimum sentence of 15 years for identity theft.
Raniere and Mack face additional charges of racketeering along with the sex trafficking counts they were originally charged with in April. Raniere has been in jail since March. Mack...
- 7/24/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Jetta Fosberg's hair is shorter than the flowing locks of a lot of other girls her age. That's because a few weeks ago, the 10-year-old donated fourteen inches of it to Wigs for Kids, an organization dedicated to children who've lost their hair during cancer treatments. According to her mom, Heidi, Jetta came up with the idea on her own. "Of course we were super proud," Fosberg told Boston NBC affiliate Whdh. Fosberg's actions haven't gone unnoticed at her school, either - though they've garnered a different reaction there. A group of her male classmates started bullying her for her new haircut,...
- 10/21/2014
- PEOPLE.com
When Kathy Russell was a young hospital administrator, she saw something she didn't like. "Every day I'd come up on the elevator and I'd walk through radiology and I'd see all these kids in metal cribs with their parents lined up to go through whatever test they had in the morning," she tells People. "It really dawned on me that the whole business of people queuing up to go through radiology was really kind of ridiculous." So Russell, with the help of a group of congressional spouses and some of her hospital colleagues, co-founded the Children's Inn, a residential facility...
- 10/16/2014
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
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