He is being sentenced today.īoth the recent nine-part HBO miniseries, The Vow, and a four-part Starz documentary, Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, attempt to explain the organization’s appeal. Raniere was found guilty of charges including sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, and human trafficking. So far, Clare Bronfman was sentenced to almost seven years in prison, and Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges, but hasn’t been sentenced yet. Many wondered how these privileged, supposedly self-empowered women could end up in such a violently misogynist enterprise, serving a greasy-haired, Napoleonic, nebbish huckster. Seagram heir Clare Bronfman, who had long been bankrolling the NXIVM, was also arrested. Soon after came the arrests of Raniere and Mack, the Smallville actor who was deemed his co-conspirator by authorities. The following year, Dynasty actor Catherine Oxenberg went on shows like Inside Edition and Megyn Kelly Today with claims that her daughter India Oxenberg was being victimized by the organization. It featured bizarre sex rituals, including the branding of women members with a cauterizing pen in what turned out to be an homage to founder Keith Raniere and Allison Mack. NXIVM, a banal multilevel marketing company peddling “executive success programs,” first made national headlines in 2017, thanks to a big New York Times exposé about an underground sorority within the organization. Stories about so-called cults fascinate - and repel - because the extreme behavior at their core exposes uncomfortable truths about the way ideology works on people.
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