Billed as Executive Success Partners at the time, the company purported to teach clients how to become the best versions of themselves. Just over 20 years later, Raniere—called "Vanguard" by his followers—would be convicted for acts he committed as the group's leader , including sex trafficking, racketeering, and forced labor conspiracy. Actress Allison Mack, who rose through NXIVM's ranks to become a senior figure in her 12 years with the group, would make headlines for her own arrest facing similar charges. Raniere was sentenced to a years in prison on October 27, and Mack was sentenced to three years in prison on June 30, Once known for her role as Chloe Sullivan on teen Superman drama Smallville , Mack admitted to coercing a number of NXIVM's female members into a lifestyle of self-harming behavior at Raniere's command. Many say they were also pressured into sex with Vanguard, and held down as a brand featuring his and Mack's initials was seared into their skin. Here's how Mack became a prominent member, what she allegedly did, and what comes next for her. Mack attended her first meeting in after her costar Kristin Kreuk had become involved with the group, according to sources cited in a Hollywood Reporter feature.
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Actress Allison Mack arrives at the U. Mack was charged in April with sex trafficking for her involvement with a self-help organization for women that forced members into sexual acts with their leader. The group, called Nxivm, was led by founder Keith Raniere, who was arrested in March on sex-trafficking charges. The actress, known for her role on 'Smallville', is charged with sex trafficking. This photo of Allison Mack was submitted as evidence in the federal trial of Keith Raniere. Department of Justice. Mack co-starred in the superhero series "Smallville" as Chloe Sullivan, the best friend of Clark Kent. Mack, who was born in Germany, grew up in southern California and lived in Vancouver before she moved to the Capital Region to join Raniere's purported personal growth organization.
Mack's "slaves" were seared with a brand featuring her initials.
This photo of Allison Mack was submitted as evidence in the federal trial of Keith Raniere. Department of Justice. Senior U. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis told the year-old Mack she was an "willing and proactive ally" to Raniere, in the reputed cult leader's secret club, Dominus Obsequious Sororium DOS in which women were physically branded on their pelvic areas, forced to work on little sleep and food and at times assigned to seduce the convicted sex trafficker known as "Vanguard. Raniere, and to pressure them into engaging in sexual acts that — according to their testimony — they did not want to engage in and would not have engaged in voluntarily," the judge told Mack in a cavernous second-floor courtroom in Brooklyn.
There will always be another leak, because there is always curiosity in the bodies of naked celebrity women. There is always danger in being an Other. P rivacy is a privilege. It is rarely enjoyed by women or transgender men and women, queer people or people of color. When you are an Other, you are always in danger of having your body or some other intimate part of yourself exposed in one way or another.
