The rise and fall of Keith Raniere and NXIVM is one of the most disturbing scandals of our age. What began as a purported self-help group spiralled into a dark secretive pit of illicit sex, money laundering and exploitation. The Lost Women of NXIVM, 2019
Raniere never thought a whistleblower could bring him down. ibid.
Perhaps the darkest NXIVM secret of them all: the deaths of four women. ibid.
$90 million: I suspected Raniere had embezzled the money. ibid. Frank Parlato, investigator
NXIVM billed itself as a self-help group offering its members peace, love and happiness. But only if you were rich. Members paid thousands of dollars for the privilege of being part of NXIVM. But hidden within that organisation were more than sixty subgroups, at least two of them posing as women’s empowerment groups … code for sex-slave ring. True Crime Recaps: Inside the NXIVM Cult Nightmare: Allison Mack & Keith Raniere, Youtube 32.04, 2021
Sex trafficking, racketeering, please those don’t come close to describing the brutality and trauma they inflicted on their followers in the name of finding joy. ibid.
1998: Keith Raniere founded the group in Albany, New York, with the help of a woman named Nancy Salzman. ibid.
The organisation was an experiment in mind control. ibid.
Keith Raniere was also a sexual sadist … women were branded. ibid.