Keith Raniere — the cult leader who allegedly branded and blackmailed women into sexual slavery and included “Smallville” actress Allison Mack among his twisted acolytes — remains in FBI custody as The National ENQUIRER exposes shocking claims about his cult-like operation! Read more….
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Raniere, who lured the daughters of "Dynasty" vixen
Catherine Oxenberg (left) and billionaire booze mogul
Edgar Bronfman into his sect’s kinky clutches, has been on the run for months, accused on federal charges of forced labor and sex trafficking.
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The FBI began in 2017 to investigate complaints of torture and blackmail at his NXIVM (pronounced "Nexium") cult headquarters near Albany, N.Y. The sleaze, who went by the name "Vanguard," had been living with a harem of babes in a $40,000-a-month villa in celeb-studded Puerto Vallarta.
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Mexican cops closed in and arrested the Raniere on March 26. He was extradited to the U.S. to face federal sex-trafficking and forced-labor charges. On April 20 the feds nabbed Allison and claimed that the actress is part of the master-slave sect’s inner circle — and was with Raniere when he was caught.
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Investigators accused Allison, who played Chloe Sullivan on "Smallville" from 2001 to 2011, of participating in the group’s bizarre branding tactics. She also used social media in direct attempts to lure "Harry Potter" star
Emma Watson and singer
Kelly Clarkson into the cult-like organization.
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Oxenberg (left) said that she “greatly hopes Raniere’s arrest will go far in reuniting her with her daughter, India (right),” The ENQUIRER learned from a source. After joining the cult as a teenager in 2011, India was brainwashed and turned against her family, her mother charged.
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Sex-crazed Raniere also sunk his evil talons in Seagram liquor heiresses
Sara and
Clare Bronfman, who reportedly bankrolled him to the tune of $150 million from their trust funds, sources say. Reports also count "
Battlestar Galactica" actress
Nicki Clyne (left) among the group's inductees.
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Describing Raniere’s tactics as a “disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney said: “We are putting an end to this torture today.”
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Since Raniere co-founded NXIVM in 2003, the group has collected as much as $3,400 from each of the 16,000 people who signed up seeking personal discovery and development. Within the a secret society — Dominus Obsequious Sororium, or DOS — facilitated Raniere’s system of sexual enslavement, sources said.
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The beauties were first emotionally broken with physical torture — forced to take freezing showers and stand still for hours after being woken at 4 a.m., all while receiving orders to stay “exceptionally thin” and chaste. Later, they would become part of Raniere’s harem — “a rotating group of 12 to 20 women.”
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Raniere also made them his personal property by branding his initials into their pubic area with a cauterizing pen, say sources. During the painful ceremony, “slaves were required to be fully naked and the master would order one slave to film while the other held down the slave being branded,” says a federal complaint.
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The women were also tricked into giving embarrassing information and sex photos, which the cult threatened to release if the gals ever squealed. Oxenberg, who has worked to expose the twisted group, says the women “are victims of human trafficking” and adds: “I want my daughter to know I love her and want her back in my life.”
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Raniere, who lured the daughters of "Dynasty" vixen
Catherine Oxenberg (left) and billionaire booze mogul
Edgar Bronfman into his sect’s kinky clutches, has been on the run for months, accused on federal charges of forced labor and sex trafficking.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The FBI began in 2017 to investigate complaints of torture and blackmail at his NXIVM (pronounced "Nexium") cult headquarters near Albany, N.Y. The sleaze, who went by the name "Vanguard," had been living with a harem of babes in a $40,000-a-month villa in celeb-studded Puerto Vallarta.
Mexican cops closed in and arrested the Raniere on March 26. He was extradited to the U.S. to face federal sex-trafficking and forced-labor charges. On April 20 the feds nabbed Allison and claimed that the actress is part of the master-slave sect’s inner circle — and was with Raniere when he was caught.
Investigators accused Allison, who played Chloe Sullivan on "Smallville" from 2001 to 2011, of participating in the group’s bizarre branding tactics. She also used social media in direct attempts to lure "Harry Potter" star
Emma Watson and singer
Kelly Clarkson into the cult-like organization.
Oxenberg (left) said that she “greatly hopes Raniere’s arrest will go far in reuniting her with her daughter, India (right),” The ENQUIRER learned from a source. After joining the cult as a teenager in 2011, India was brainwashed and turned against her family, her mother charged.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Sex-crazed Raniere also sunk his evil talons in Seagram liquor heiresses
Sara and
Clare Bronfman, who reportedly bankrolled him to the tune of $150 million from their trust funds, sources say. Reports also count "
Battlestar Galactica" actress
Nicki Clyne (left) among the group's inductees.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Describing Raniere’s tactics as a “disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney said: “We are putting an end to this torture today.”
Since Raniere co-founded NXIVM in 2003, the group has collected as much as $3,400 from each of the 16,000 people who signed up seeking personal discovery and development. Within the a secret society — Dominus Obsequious Sororium, or DOS — facilitated Raniere’s system of sexual enslavement, sources said.
The beauties were first emotionally broken with physical torture — forced to take freezing showers and stand still for hours after being woken at 4 a.m., all while receiving orders to stay “exceptionally thin” and chaste. Later, they would become part of Raniere’s harem — “a rotating group of 12 to 20 women.”
Raniere also made them his personal property by branding his initials into their pubic area with a cauterizing pen, say sources. During the painful ceremony, “slaves were required to be fully naked and the master would order one slave to film while the other held down the slave being branded,” says a federal complaint.
The women were also tricked into giving embarrassing information and sex photos, which the cult threatened to release if the gals ever squealed. Oxenberg, who has worked to expose the twisted group, says the women “are victims of human trafficking” and adds: “I want my daughter to know I love her and want her back in my life.”
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