How NXIVM, a so-called self-help company, crumbled after former members exposed it as a cult that abused sex slaves
Allison Mack leaves Federal court Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II
NXIVM was formed by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman in the 1990s and billed itself as a self-help multi-level marketing company.
The company ceased operations last year after a New York Times exposé alleged that female members were used as sex slaves within the group.
The exposé prompted a federal investigation, and several members, including Raniere and “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, were charged with federal crimes.
January 2018: Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama was linked to NXIVM, the controversial self-help organization described by former members as a ‘sex cult’ He spoke at an event in Albany, New York, in 2009 and put a Tibetan scarf round the neck of its founder Keith Raniere in what was said to be a ‘victory’ for NXIVM DailyMail.com can disclose the Dalai Lama was given $1 million to spend on causes he backs in return for attending the function The deal to get him to go was made by Sara Bronfman, a billionaire heiress to the Seagram fortune, and Lama Tenzin Dhonden, head of the Dalal Lama’s U.S trust