JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
“There’s a Jewish word, mishpucha, which means family. As soon as I met Lauren, I knew she was mishpucha,” Sarah Edmondson says of Lauren Salzman, the woman who would eventually coerce her to brand her pelvis in an excruciating initiation rite into a secretive enclave billing itself as a women’s empowerment group. It’s a particularly…
Keith Raniere, the founder of the sex-slavery cult NXIVM, was found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering on Wednesday, BuzzFeed News reported. For two decades, Raniere led NXIVM, a purported self-help company that prosecutors said was just a cult that controlled members, branded them and forced them into having sex with him. After a six-week…
Heiress Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty on Friday to being involved in the alleged sex-slavery cult Nxivm, CBS News reported. In her plea, Bronfman admitted she hid someone living in the U.S. illegally for unpaid “labor and services.” She also said she committed credit card fraud while working for Keith Raniere, who led Nxivm in upstate…
Clare Bronfman, the billionaire heiress arrested Tuesday for her role leading the alleged sex-slavery cult Nxivm, was released on a $100 million bond, Crain’s reported Wednesday. Bronfman was one of four women charged Tuesday in connection with the investigation of Nxivm, a “self-help” organization that prosecutors say was a secretive cult that branded its victims…
Clare Bronfman, one of the top leaders of the alleged sex-slavery cult Nxivm, has been arrested and is set to be indicted Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported. Bronfman, the daughter of the late Jewish philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, is accused of racketeering conspiracy in the new superseding indictment in the case. The indictment also accuses Nxium…
The arrested leader of a sex cult backed by heiresses of the prominent Jewish philanthropic Bronfman family reportedly once said that another high-ranking official in the movement was a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. Reporter Frank Parlato has heavily covered NXIVM, the movement whose leader, Keith Raniere, has been arrested on sex trafficking charges. Parlato reported…
Clare Bronfman, the daughter of the late Jewish philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, is now in charge of the alleged sex slavery cult Nxivm after its leaders were arrested, the New York Post reported Saturday. Bronfman, who along with her sister Sara has reportedly poured millions of dollars into the group, moved their headquarters from Mexico to…
A cult leader backed by heiresses of a prominent Jewish philanthropic family was arrested by authorities near a Mexican resort on Monday, The Washington Post reported. Kieth Raniere, who goes by the name “Vanguard,” had claimed to be poor but had been living with multiple women in a villa that cost up to $10,000 a…
