The Vow, currently airing on HBO, offers a compelling inside glimpse at the world of NXIVM — on the surface a self-improvement program that recruited a good number of film and TV actors; but in actuality a front for an insidious sex-cult revolving around one man, Keith Raniere.
A former Amway salesman, Raniere, 60, employedSmallvillestar Alison Mack to recruit him female sex partners —who famously branded his initials into their pubic regions with a cauterizing wand.
After fleeing to Mexico in March 2018, Raniere was arrested by authorities and extradited to the U.S. On June 19, 2019, after five hours of deliberation, a jury found him guilty of all charges laid out against him, including sexual exploitation of a child and possession of.
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