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NXIVM (/ ˈ n ɛ k s i ə m / NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted racketeer and sex offender. [3] NXIVM is also the name of the defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential [4] and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates.
The NXIVM Executive Success Programs sign outside the office at 455 New Karner Road April 26, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. Keith Raniere, founder of NXIVM, was arrested by the FBI in Mexico in March 2018.
On November 7, 2016, another senior NXIVM member, 57-year-old Pamela Cafritz, died of renal cancer. Both Jeske and Cafritz were diagnosed with cancer while living with Raniere in his Halfmoon, New York, condominium. Two other female NXIVM members were diagnosed with cancer while residing in the same residence, although both survived.
Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult follows India Oxenberg as she grapples to make sense of her experience within NXIVM, a self-help organization which turned out to be a cult, examining her own culpability and abuse brought on to her by its leader, Keith Raniere, and rebuilds her relationship with her mother, Catherine Oxenberg who desperately fought to rescue her daughter.
In 2017, a New York Times report inspired a justice department investigation that took down an American multi-level marketing scheme turned 'sex cult' known as NXIVM. The organization had been ...
Two years on from its horrifying first season, The Vow, Part Two continues to chronicle the rise and fall of NXIVM, a cult-like organization based in upstate New York. The new episodes focus on ...
The Vow follows members who joined the self-improvement group NXIVM – whose leader, Keith Raniere, was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, among other crimes – and reveals the emotional toll of unfolding events, as well as the role actress Allison Mack played in recruiting new members. [5]
After NXIVM, a personal development company founded by Keith Raniere, was exposed as a pyramid scheme and cult that forced its female recruits into sexual slavery, it was soon discovered that ...