The television actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to the cult-like group Nxivm, has been released from a California prison, according to a government website.
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Mack, best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on “Smallville,” was sentenced to three years behind bars in 2021 after pleading guilty two years earlier to charges that she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for Nxivm leader Keith Raniere.
Online records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Mack, 40, was released Monday from a federal prison in Dublin, California, near San Francisco. Her release was first reported by the Albany Times-Union.
Mack avoided a longer prison term by cooperating with federal authorities in their case against Raniere, who was ultimately sentenced to 120 years in prison after being convicted on sex-trafficking charges.
Read More: Actor Allison Mack Gets 3 Years In Nxivm Sex-Slave Case
Mack, best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on “Smallville,” was sentenced to three years behind bars in 2021 after pleading guilty two years earlier to charges that she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for Nxivm leader Keith Raniere.
Online records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Mack, 40, was released Monday from a federal prison in Dublin, California, near San Francisco. Her release was first reported by the Albany Times-Union.
Mack avoided a longer prison term by cooperating with federal authorities in their case against Raniere, who was ultimately sentenced to 120 years in prison after being convicted on sex-trafficking charges.
- 7/5/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
As King Charles III is officially crowned, we revisit all the actors who’ve played him on “The Crown” and other productions about the British Royal Family.
Christopher Baines in “The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana”
Baines played the future king in this 1982 TV movie opposite “Dynasty” star Catherine Oxenberg’s Princess Diana.
Jack Farthing in “The Queen”
In this 2006 feature film about the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death in 1997, Farthing plays Charles. Helen Mirren won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of his mother, Elizabeth I.
Tim Pigott-Smith in “King Charles III”
The late actor, who was known for his roles in “V for Vendetta,” “Remains of the Day,” and “Victoria and Abdul,” starred in this filmed adaptation of the play “King Charles III.”
Pigott-Smith, who died in April 2017, received a posthumous BAFTA nomination for the play, which was set in the then-future as Charles ascended the throne.
Christopher Baines in “The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana”
Baines played the future king in this 1982 TV movie opposite “Dynasty” star Catherine Oxenberg’s Princess Diana.
Jack Farthing in “The Queen”
In this 2006 feature film about the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death in 1997, Farthing plays Charles. Helen Mirren won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of his mother, Elizabeth I.
Tim Pigott-Smith in “King Charles III”
The late actor, who was known for his roles in “V for Vendetta,” “Remains of the Day,” and “Victoria and Abdul,” starred in this filmed adaptation of the play “King Charles III.”
Pigott-Smith, who died in April 2017, received a posthumous BAFTA nomination for the play, which was set in the then-future as Charles ascended the throne.
- 5/6/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
From the early 1980s until the present day, actresses have been taking on the challenge of portraying Princess Diana.
Despite being a member of the House of Windsor for only 15 years, the Princess of Wales’ life story remains fascinating. She began to make headlines during her courtship with Prince Charles and continued to captivate the world when she decided to leave the House of Windsor. Diana, who died in a tragic car accident in 1997, was recognized globally for her charity work, style and beauty.
Though Princess Diana’s life was the subject of multiple movies while she was still alive,...
Despite being a member of the House of Windsor for only 15 years, the Princess of Wales’ life story remains fascinating. She began to make headlines during her courtship with Prince Charles and continued to captivate the world when she decided to leave the House of Windsor. Diana, who died in a tragic car accident in 1997, was recognized globally for her charity work, style and beauty.
Though Princess Diana’s life was the subject of multiple movies while she was still alive,...
- 11/7/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Carrington family is officially expanding.
Per TV Line, Sweet/Vicious alum Eliza Bennett has landed the role of Amanda Carrington on The CW's Dynasty.
“The long-lost Carrington relative, born and raised in Europe, [Amanda] arrives on the Carrington doorstep holding a treasure trove of secrets from their past… and hers,” according to the character’s official description.
“Amanda is smart, confident, and can hold her own against any Carrington who comes at her. By day she’s a savvy lawyer, but by night she’s a bit of a party girl. Ashe has no problem stirring up trouble in a family full of troublemakers.”
If you watch Dynasty online, you know Alexis lifted the lid on Amanda when she was trapped in the mine below the Carrington manor with Dominique.
It was clearly foreshadowing, and the good news for fans is that Amanda is here to stay. She has been...
Per TV Line, Sweet/Vicious alum Eliza Bennett has landed the role of Amanda Carrington on The CW's Dynasty.
“The long-lost Carrington relative, born and raised in Europe, [Amanda] arrives on the Carrington doorstep holding a treasure trove of secrets from their past… and hers,” according to the character’s official description.
“Amanda is smart, confident, and can hold her own against any Carrington who comes at her. By day she’s a savvy lawyer, but by night she’s a bit of a party girl. Ashe has no problem stirring up trouble in a family full of troublemakers.”
If you watch Dynasty online, you know Alexis lifted the lid on Amanda when she was trapped in the mine below the Carrington manor with Dominique.
It was clearly foreshadowing, and the good news for fans is that Amanda is here to stay. She has been...
- 8/19/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Eliza Bennett has been cast in the role of Amanda Carrington on The CW’s “Dynasty.”
Bennett joins Season 4 in a recurring guest star role, with her first episode being “The British Are Coming” on Aug. 27. She will be a series regular in the forthcoming fifth season.
The original 1980s primetime soap opera “Dynasty” featured Catherine Oxenberg in the role of Amanda for the first three years of the character’s existence. (Her apt entrance was in the fifth season episode titled “Amanda.”) Karen Cellini stepped in in recasting.
This version of Amanda is described as a long-lost Carrington relative who was born and raised in Europe but arrives now “holding a treasure trove of secrets” — both from her past, as well as the Carrington family’s past. She is also described as smart and confident, a character who can hold her own against those who come at her. She is a lawyer,...
Bennett joins Season 4 in a recurring guest star role, with her first episode being “The British Are Coming” on Aug. 27. She will be a series regular in the forthcoming fifth season.
The original 1980s primetime soap opera “Dynasty” featured Catherine Oxenberg in the role of Amanda for the first three years of the character’s existence. (Her apt entrance was in the fifth season episode titled “Amanda.”) Karen Cellini stepped in in recasting.
This version of Amanda is described as a long-lost Carrington relative who was born and raised in Europe but arrives now “holding a treasure trove of secrets” — both from her past, as well as the Carrington family’s past. She is also described as smart and confident, a character who can hold her own against those who come at her. She is a lawyer,...
- 8/19/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Few things stay buried for long on Dynasty, be they diamonds, corpses or secret half-children. Enter Eliza Bennett as Amanda Carrington.
Bennett, best known as one half of MTV’s gone-too-soon Sweet/Vicious, is joining the cast of The CW’s reboot as Alexis’ estranged daughter, TVLine has learned. Though Bennett has yet to make her Season 4 debut, we have confirmed that she’s already set to return for Season 5 as a series regular.
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Bennett, best known as one half of MTV’s gone-too-soon Sweet/Vicious, is joining the cast of The CW’s reboot as Alexis’ estranged daughter, TVLine has learned. Though Bennett has yet to make her Season 4 debut, we have confirmed that she’s already set to return for Season 5 as a series regular.
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- 8/19/2021
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Roughly 16,000 people once participated in Keith Raniere's professional development program Nxivm, and that number, as we saw on HBO's The Vow and Starz's Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, included a handful of celebrities. One Hollywood star who became devastatingly aware of the cult's darker secrets was Dynasty's Catherine Oxenberg (shown above with daughter India and ex-husband Casper Van Dien in 2007). The actress brought her daughter, India, into the group before knowing the full extent of Raniere's abuses. Following years of mistreatment, India left Nxivm after Raniere's arrest and has been keeping her profile low ever since.
In 2011, Catherine introduced India, then 19, to Nxivm, believing that the company's self-help courses would help her daughter start her business and transition into adulthood. Little did she know that the multilevel marketing scheme had also been a funnel for Raniere to recruit women into Nxivm's sex-slave cult, Dos. Before Nxivm's legacy went tumbling down,...
In 2011, Catherine introduced India, then 19, to Nxivm, believing that the company's self-help courses would help her daughter start her business and transition into adulthood. Little did she know that the multilevel marketing scheme had also been a funnel for Raniere to recruit women into Nxivm's sex-slave cult, Dos. Before Nxivm's legacy went tumbling down,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
India Oxenberg, the daughter of former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, has spoken out on the sentencing of Allison Mack, the Smallville star who recruited her into an insidious sex-cult led by Keith Raniere. Mack, who faced up to 17 years for her actions, was given three years in federal prison on Wednesday. Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in October of 2020.
“I’m still in a state of disbelief, but I trust and honor the judge’s decision. I hope that her victims, including myself, feel vindicated and safer, given that she has denounced Keith Raniere. We all need time to process and digest ...
“I’m still in a state of disbelief, but I trust and honor the judge’s decision. I hope that her victims, including myself, feel vindicated and safer, given that she has denounced Keith Raniere. We all need time to process and digest ...
- 6/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
India Oxenberg, the daughter of former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, has spoken out on the sentencing of Allison Mack, the Smallville star who recruited her into an insidious sex-cult led by Keith Raniere. Mack, who faced up to 17 years for her actions, was given three years in federal prison on Wednesday. Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in October of 2020.
“I’m still in a state of disbelief, but I trust and honor the judge’s decision. I hope that her victims, including myself, feel vindicated and safer, given that she has denounced Keith Raniere. We all need time to process and digest ...
“I’m still in a state of disbelief, but I trust and honor the judge’s decision. I hope that her victims, including myself, feel vindicated and safer, given that she has denounced Keith Raniere. We all need time to process and digest ...
- 6/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Allison Mack offered a series of apologies in her statement to the federal judge who will decide her fate on June 30 when she is set to be sentenced after pleading guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with the Nxivm sex cult case.
“I have experienced overwhelming shame as I have worked to accept and understand all that went on and all that I chose,” Mack wrote.
The “Smallville” star’s comments were included with more than a half-dozen letters from friends and family members to U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis testifying to Mack’s transformation since breaking with Nxivm mastermind Keith Raniere following her arrest in April 2018. Raniere was sentenced in October to 120 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Mack pleaded guilty in April 2019. Prosecutors asked the judge for leniency given Mack’s cooperation in the case, which included providing a crucial audio...
“I have experienced overwhelming shame as I have worked to accept and understand all that went on and all that I chose,” Mack wrote.
The “Smallville” star’s comments were included with more than a half-dozen letters from friends and family members to U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis testifying to Mack’s transformation since breaking with Nxivm mastermind Keith Raniere following her arrest in April 2018. Raniere was sentenced in October to 120 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Mack pleaded guilty in April 2019. Prosecutors asked the judge for leniency given Mack’s cooperation in the case, which included providing a crucial audio...
- 6/27/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Nxivm was presented as a self-help group, boasting such enticing but vaguely named seminars as Executive Success Programs (Esp), but the reality was that it was actually a sex cult that targeted young women, masterminded by founder Keith Raniere. And Cecilia Peck, director and co-executive producer of “Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult,” was one of the many women targeted for recruitment.
“Inbal [B. Lessner, lead editor and co-executive producer of the series] and I had an intern from a former project who was a college graduate and extremely intelligent and motivated. We had lost touch with her but in 2013 and ’14, I started receiving emails inviting me first to a women’s group and becoming more and more persistent in telling me I should come and it would change my life,” Peck shares at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Documentary panel. “And I never ended up attending any of the events, but when she emerged from Nxivm, she called and said,...
“Inbal [B. Lessner, lead editor and co-executive producer of the series] and I had an intern from a former project who was a college graduate and extremely intelligent and motivated. We had lost touch with her but in 2013 and ’14, I started receiving emails inviting me first to a women’s group and becoming more and more persistent in telling me I should come and it would change my life,” Peck shares at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Documentary panel. “And I never ended up attending any of the events, but when she emerged from Nxivm, she called and said,...
- 5/17/2021
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Nxivm marketed itself as a self-help program that would show participants the way to more meaningful lives and greater professional success. The reality was far more sinister.
The four-part Starz documentary Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult reveals the organization was actually set up to fleece participants out of their money and, chillingly, to satisfy the misogynistic sexual desires of founder Keith Raniere.
“[Raniere] really was a master salesman and he knew how to target, how to build this product and how to micro-target his customers,” producer Inbal B. Lessner said during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event. “He implemented…manipulation tactics to get people hooked, get people in, really all in. …They started manipulating your thinking and brain and making you push and forget your boundaries.”
Nxivm recruited among the wealthy and individuals connected with Hollywood. Actress Catherine Oxenberg signed up for an introductory session and brought her daughter India along.
The four-part Starz documentary Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult reveals the organization was actually set up to fleece participants out of their money and, chillingly, to satisfy the misogynistic sexual desires of founder Keith Raniere.
“[Raniere] really was a master salesman and he knew how to target, how to build this product and how to micro-target his customers,” producer Inbal B. Lessner said during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event. “He implemented…manipulation tactics to get people hooked, get people in, really all in. …They started manipulating your thinking and brain and making you push and forget your boundaries.”
Nxivm recruited among the wealthy and individuals connected with Hollywood. Actress Catherine Oxenberg signed up for an introductory session and brought her daughter India along.
- 5/1/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
In describing how Nxivm operated, ‘Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult” showrunners Cecilia Peck and Inbal Lessner explain that it really is on the same level as being in a physically or emotionally abusive relationship. “I think so many people have been in a coercive relationship that’s hard to get out of. There’s really no difference between a domestic abuse relationship, where you just feel so broken down and you feel there’s nowhere to go,” Peck explains. She hopes that this documentary can help viewers understand how people can become involved with harmful groups like Nxivm. “That’s what these women were in and especially someone like India [Oxenburg], who went in at 19 and was broken down by them for seven years. It’s very hard to imagine that you can have another life.”
“Seduced” is a four-part docuseries, currently available on Starz, that explores the group known as Nxivm.
“Seduced” is a four-part docuseries, currently available on Starz, that explores the group known as Nxivm.
- 12/29/2020
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
In tonight’s season finale of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host invoked the case of New York-based sex cult Nxivm in suggesting a way to handle Donald Trump supporters who believe the election was stolen.
“The challenge for us is, how do you get people out of a cult?” Maher asked. “Especially when every time you present evidence of what is obvious reality, they take it as proof of you being in on a conspiracy to destroy them?” A recent poll found that 88% of Trump voters believe he won the election, he noted, and their conviction could cleave a large swath of America from the workings of democracy and society.
For a living example of how to rise to such an existential challenge, Maher saluted Catherine Oxenberg. The former Dynasty star’s dogged work to free her daughter, India, is depicted in two documentary series, HBO’s The Vow...
“The challenge for us is, how do you get people out of a cult?” Maher asked. “Especially when every time you present evidence of what is obvious reality, they take it as proof of you being in on a conspiracy to destroy them?” A recent poll found that 88% of Trump voters believe he won the election, he noted, and their conviction could cleave a large swath of America from the workings of democracy and society.
For a living example of how to rise to such an existential challenge, Maher saluted Catherine Oxenberg. The former Dynasty star’s dogged work to free her daughter, India, is depicted in two documentary series, HBO’s The Vow...
- 11/21/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
First Catherine Oxenberg relayed her elation to The Hollywood Reporter over Keith Raniere’s sentence of 120 years, handed down Oct. 27, related to his running of the organization Nxivm — a sex cult dressed up as a self-help program that enslaved her daughter, India Oxenberg.
Now, nearly two years into a deprogramming regimen that has allowed her to reaccess her individuality and “laugh again,” 29-year-old India herself — who tells her own story in Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult — sits down with THR to process her dark nightmare and the light that lies ahead.
Was there any part of you ...
Now, nearly two years into a deprogramming regimen that has allowed her to reaccess her individuality and “laugh again,” 29-year-old India herself — who tells her own story in Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult — sits down with THR to process her dark nightmare and the light that lies ahead.
Was there any part of you ...
- 10/30/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
First Catherine Oxenberg relayed her elation to The Hollywood Reporter over Keith Raniere’s sentence of 120 years, handed down Oct. 27, related to his running of the organization Nxivm — a sex cult dressed up as a self-help program that enslaved her daughter, India Oxenberg.
Now, nearly two years into a deprogramming regimen that has allowed her to reaccess her individuality and “laugh again,” 29-year-old India herself — who tells her own story in Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult — sits down with THR to process her dark nightmare and the light that lies ahead.
Was there any part of you ...
Now, nearly two years into a deprogramming regimen that has allowed her to reaccess her individuality and “laugh again,” 29-year-old India herself — who tells her own story in Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult — sits down with THR to process her dark nightmare and the light that lies ahead.
Was there any part of you ...
- 10/30/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the final episode of Starz’s documentary “Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult,” there’s a discussion about how cult founder Keith Raniere — sentenced this week to 120 years in prison — specifically preyed on smart, intelligent women of influence. Cecilia Peck, director and showrunner of “Seduced,” might have been one of those women. “I had a personal experience with Nxivm,” Peck told IndieWire. “Someone who I had worked with on a previous project actually targeted me for recruitment. [She] emailed me over the course of about a year and a half about an incredible women’s group that she was a part of; she told me it would change my life and, eventually, she wanted me to meet Allison Mack.”
Mack, the former “Smallville” actress, was one of Raniere’s most devout acolytes, and the women’s group was Dos, a subsidiary of Nxivm revealed in 2017 to be branding and trafficking women as sex slaves.
Mack, the former “Smallville” actress, was one of Raniere’s most devout acolytes, and the women’s group was Dos, a subsidiary of Nxivm revealed in 2017 to be branding and trafficking women as sex slaves.
- 10/29/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
With Keith Raniere’s sentencing on Tuesday of 120 years behind bars for a litany of horrific Nxivm-related crimes, a chapter closes for Catherine Oxenberg, the former Dynasty star who spent nearly four years on a solo crusade to rescue her indoctrinated daughter India Oxenberg from his clutches. (Their story is told in two documentary series on the subject — HBO’s The Vow and Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, the second of which India produced and participates in.)
Hours after that resounding judgment, Oxenberg, 59, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the message the punishment sends to would-be sex traffickers and ...
Hours after that resounding judgment, Oxenberg, 59, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the message the punishment sends to would-be sex traffickers and ...
- 10/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With Keith Raniere’s sentencing on Tuesday of 120 years behind bars for a litany of horrific Nxivm-related crimes, a chapter closes for Catherine Oxenberg, the former Dynasty star who spent nearly four years on a solo crusade to rescue her indoctrinated daughter India Oxenberg from his clutches. (Their story is told in two documentary series on the subject — HBO’s The Vow and Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, the second of which India produced and participates in.)
Hours after that resounding judgment, Oxenberg, 59, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the message the punishment sends to would-be sex traffickers and ...
Hours after that resounding judgment, Oxenberg, 59, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the message the punishment sends to would-be sex traffickers and ...
- 10/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spoiler alert for Season 2 of HBO’s The Vow: Keith Raniere is going to prison for a very long time.
The Nxivm leader was sentenced on Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes committed in connection with his “self-improvement” cult.
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More than a dozen of Raniere’s victims —including India Oxenberg, daughter of Dynasty actress and Vow star Catherine Oxenberg — gave testimony during the trial.
The Nxivm leader was sentenced on Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes committed in connection with his “self-improvement” cult.
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More than a dozen of Raniere’s victims —including India Oxenberg, daughter of Dynasty actress and Vow star Catherine Oxenberg — gave testimony during the trial.
- 10/27/2020
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
On Monday afternoon, the day before Keith Raniere was set to be sentenced, Make Justice Blind, an assortment of ardent Nxivm devotees, gathered to hold a press conference in front of the Brooklyn federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn. The group, including Battlestar Galactica‘s Nicki Clyne, set out to present what they referred to as “smoking gun” evidence that would supposedly justify a call for a delay in sentencing for Keith Raniere, the leader of the alleged sex cult Nxivm who has been incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center since his 2018 arrest.
- 10/27/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
HBO’s buzzy Nxivm sex cult docuseries “The Vow” has been criticized for dragging at times over the course of its nine-episode run. But the closing moments of Sunday’s season finale left no doubt about where the storyline is headed in season two, which HBO formally ordered last week.
Warning, spoilers for the finale episode of “The Vow” ahead.
Here comes the counterspin from now-convicted felons Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman, co-founders of the self-help programs at the heart of the whole of shocking story that led to federal human trafficking, sex abuse and racketeering charges. “The Fall,” episode 9 of “The Vow,” ends with hints that the pair will go on camera, or at least on the record, with “Vow” directors/executive producers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer.
The closing sequence features what appears to be a glimpse of Salzman under house arrest, complete with a shot of her...
Warning, spoilers for the finale episode of “The Vow” ahead.
Here comes the counterspin from now-convicted felons Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman, co-founders of the self-help programs at the heart of the whole of shocking story that led to federal human trafficking, sex abuse and racketeering charges. “The Fall,” episode 9 of “The Vow,” ends with hints that the pair will go on camera, or at least on the record, with “Vow” directors/executive producers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer.
The closing sequence features what appears to be a glimpse of Salzman under house arrest, complete with a shot of her...
- 10/19/2020
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Celebrity connections played a key role in the righteous media crusade of 2017 to 2020 that led to the Nxivm cult’s downfall and its leader Keith Raniere’s possible life imprisonment. (Raniere is set to be sentenced later this month.) But one of Nxivm’s most prominent members, the until-now spotlight-shy India Oxenberg, has become solely famous for her victimization by the cult, especially after HBO’s The Vow foregrounded her mother Catherine Oxenberg’s multi-year attempt to wrest her daughter from Raniere’s influence.
Silent save for her tense correspondence with her mother in The Vow, the younger Oxenberg tells her own story in Starz’s ...
Silent save for her tense correspondence with her mother in The Vow, the younger Oxenberg tells her own story in Starz’s ...
- 10/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Celebrity connections played a key role in the righteous media crusade of 2017 to 2020 that led to the Nxivm cult’s downfall and its leader Keith Raniere’s possible life imprisonment. (Raniere is set to be sentenced later this month.) But one of Nxivm’s most prominent members, the until-now spotlight-shy India Oxenberg, has become solely famous for her victimization by the cult, especially after HBO’s The Vow foregrounded her mother Catherine Oxenberg’s multi-year attempt to wrest her daughter from Raniere’s influence.
Silent save for her tense correspondence with her mother in The Vow, the younger Oxenberg tells her own story in Starz’s ...
Silent save for her tense correspondence with her mother in The Vow, the younger Oxenberg tells her own story in Starz’s ...
- 10/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO has picked up additional episodes of the Nxivm docuseries “The Vow,” the premium cable network announced Friday.
Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will return to direct and executive produce the second installment, which will examine the federal trial of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere and delve into the cult leader’s “innermost circle.” The new episodes will air in 2021.
Per HBO, the new episodes follow “the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors as new evidence and stunning revelations come to light while federal prosecutors and defense attorneys battle for opposing views of justice in a case caught in the national spotlight.”
The first season of “The Vow” premiered back in August, following former members of the purported self-help group Nxivm as they worked to bring down the organization from the outside, cooperating with a bombshell New York Times investigation into the alleged sex cult and subsequent FBI investigation.
Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will return to direct and executive produce the second installment, which will examine the federal trial of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere and delve into the cult leader’s “innermost circle.” The new episodes will air in 2021.
Per HBO, the new episodes follow “the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors as new evidence and stunning revelations come to light while federal prosecutors and defense attorneys battle for opposing views of justice in a case caught in the national spotlight.”
The first season of “The Vow” premiered back in August, following former members of the purported self-help group Nxivm as they worked to bring down the organization from the outside, cooperating with a bombshell New York Times investigation into the alleged sex cult and subsequent FBI investigation.
- 10/16/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
With an organization as twisted as Nxivm, there are always more stories to tell.
Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will deliver a second installment of their docuseries “The Vow,” coming to HBO in 2021, the premium cabler announced Friday.
Back in September, Noujaim teased this possibility with Variety, saying, “We reached out to everybody involved — many people, on all sides of the story — and we are continuing to film.”
The new installment, being called “The Vow Part Two, will be set against the backdrop of Nxivm head Keith Raniere’s federal trial. Raniere started Nxivm as a multi-level marketing company, selling courses on self-improvement and self-empowerment. As the years went on, subgroups within the larger organization began to pop up, including Jness, a women’s only group, and Dos, a master-slave subgroup that came with sexual abuse and physical branding of its female members or “slaves.”
Raniere was convicted of...
Filmmakers Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will deliver a second installment of their docuseries “The Vow,” coming to HBO in 2021, the premium cabler announced Friday.
Back in September, Noujaim teased this possibility with Variety, saying, “We reached out to everybody involved — many people, on all sides of the story — and we are continuing to film.”
The new installment, being called “The Vow Part Two, will be set against the backdrop of Nxivm head Keith Raniere’s federal trial. Raniere started Nxivm as a multi-level marketing company, selling courses on self-improvement and self-empowerment. As the years went on, subgroups within the larger organization began to pop up, including Jness, a women’s only group, and Dos, a master-slave subgroup that came with sexual abuse and physical branding of its female members or “slaves.”
Raniere was convicted of...
- 10/16/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Nxivm is known as the branding cult, and India Oxenberg was the first person to submit her flesh to the irons. She was told the symbol represented the elements, but will now tell her own story of coercion, abuse, and recovery in Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult. The four-part Starz Original docuseries will premiere on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 9 p.m.
Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult centers on India Oxenberg, the daughter of Hollywood actress Catherine Oxenberg and a descendant of European royalty. “This is the first time India Oxenberg will speak publicly about her experience with the cult’s abuses as she retraces her steps, taking viewers deep inside the cult, meeting with former members, lawyers, therapists and cult analysts,” Starz President of Original Programming Christina Davis said in a statement.
The series follows India’s seduction, indoctrination, enslavement, escape — and her role as “co-conspirator” in assisting the U.S. government...
Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult centers on India Oxenberg, the daughter of Hollywood actress Catherine Oxenberg and a descendant of European royalty. “This is the first time India Oxenberg will speak publicly about her experience with the cult’s abuses as she retraces her steps, taking viewers deep inside the cult, meeting with former members, lawyers, therapists and cult analysts,” Starz President of Original Programming Christina Davis said in a statement.
The series follows India’s seduction, indoctrination, enslavement, escape — and her role as “co-conspirator” in assisting the U.S. government...
- 10/13/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
For seven years, India Oxenberg was the frog slowly boiling in the pot of water that was so-called self-empowerment group Nxivm. For about three years she was a supporting character in stories told by everyone from directors Karim Amer and Jehan Noujaim to her own mother, Catherine Oxenberg. Now, she has reclaimed her life and is reclaiming her narrative along with it in “Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult,” a new four-part docuseries premiering Oct. 18 on Starz.
“I felt like it was my chance to take the story back into my own hands and say, ‘Hey, there’s a person here! Not just branded, sex slave, cult girl — a human being,'” India Oxenberg tells Variety.
For many who have been following the Nxivm saga, including Clare Bronfman’s recent sentencing and the fact that group founder Keith Raniere and his right-hand woman who was one of the heads of Dos,...
“I felt like it was my chance to take the story back into my own hands and say, ‘Hey, there’s a person here! Not just branded, sex slave, cult girl — a human being,'” India Oxenberg tells Variety.
For many who have been following the Nxivm saga, including Clare Bronfman’s recent sentencing and the fact that group founder Keith Raniere and his right-hand woman who was one of the heads of Dos,...
- 10/13/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
It was the kind of story Hollywood might dream up — but not only was it real, it had some ties to the industry. Starz has set Sunday for the premiere of Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, a four-part documentary series that takes a first-person look at the sex cult that was broken open in April 2018. It premieres at 9 p.m. this Sunday, October 16. Watch the trailer above and see the key art below.
Hailing from the filmmaking team of Cecilia Peck and Inbal B. Lessner (Brave Miss World), Seduced follows the harrowing journey of India Oxenberg, the daughter of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg and a descendant of European royalty — who was seduced into the modern-day sex-slave cult Nxivm. More than 17,000 people, including India, enrolled in its “Executive Success Programs,” a front for the cult and a hunting ground for its leader, master predator Keith Raniere — who was convicted on...
Hailing from the filmmaking team of Cecilia Peck and Inbal B. Lessner (Brave Miss World), Seduced follows the harrowing journey of India Oxenberg, the daughter of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg and a descendant of European royalty — who was seduced into the modern-day sex-slave cult Nxivm. More than 17,000 people, including India, enrolled in its “Executive Success Programs,” a front for the cult and a hunting ground for its leader, master predator Keith Raniere — who was convicted on...
- 10/13/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
India Oxenberg is breaking her silence on life inside Nxivm, the sex cult led by convicted guru Keith Raniere, who is now facing life in prison.
Oxenberg and her mother, Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, have been a focus of HBO’s true-crime series on Nxivm, The Vow. The series has followed Catherine Oxenberg’s fight to rescue her daughter from Raniere’s clutches and, with one episode still remaining, has teased a sit-down with India Oxenberg on the outcome.
On Tuesday morning, ahead of India Oxenberg’s participation in another documentary on Nxivm, Starz’ upcoming four-part docuseries called Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, the mother-daughter ...
Oxenberg and her mother, Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, have been a focus of HBO’s true-crime series on Nxivm, The Vow. The series has followed Catherine Oxenberg’s fight to rescue her daughter from Raniere’s clutches and, with one episode still remaining, has teased a sit-down with India Oxenberg on the outcome.
On Tuesday morning, ahead of India Oxenberg’s participation in another documentary on Nxivm, Starz’ upcoming four-part docuseries called Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, the mother-daughter ...
- 10/13/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
India Oxenberg is breaking her silence on life inside Nxivm, the sex cult led by convicted guru Keith Raniere, who is now facing life in prison.
Oxenberg and her mother, Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, have been a focus of HBO’s true-crime series on Nxivm, The Vow. The series has followed Catherine Oxenberg’s fight to rescue her daughter from Raniere’s clutches and, with one episode still remaining, has teased a sit-down with India Oxenberg on the outcome.
On Tuesday morning, ahead of India Oxenberg’s participation in another documentary on Nxivm, Starz’ upcoming four-part docuseries called Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, the mother-daughter ...
Oxenberg and her mother, Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, have been a focus of HBO’s true-crime series on Nxivm, The Vow. The series has followed Catherine Oxenberg’s fight to rescue her daughter from Raniere’s clutches and, with one episode still remaining, has teased a sit-down with India Oxenberg on the outcome.
On Tuesday morning, ahead of India Oxenberg’s participation in another documentary on Nxivm, Starz’ upcoming four-part docuseries called Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, the mother-daughter ...
- 10/13/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor, author and producer Catherine Oxenberg would stop at nothing to save her daughter India from the clutches of Keith Raniere, Allison Mack and their dangerous so-called self-empowerment group Nxivm, a subgroup of which subjected the younger Oxenberg to sexual assault and branding.
Her tireless work included deep-dives on the history of predatory behavior in cults, in addition to equally extensive research into Raniere and Nxivm themselves. She told her story to Frank Parlato of the “Frank Report” blog, as well as to Barry Meier of the New York Times, who ultimately broke the story about the branding practice. She wrote a book (“Captive: A Mother’s Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult”), and she allowed documentary filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim to follow her in real-time as she did these things – all with the goal of bringing India home.
“If [India] had listened to me in...
Her tireless work included deep-dives on the history of predatory behavior in cults, in addition to equally extensive research into Raniere and Nxivm themselves. She told her story to Frank Parlato of the “Frank Report” blog, as well as to Barry Meier of the New York Times, who ultimately broke the story about the branding practice. She wrote a book (“Captive: A Mother’s Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult”), and she allowed documentary filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim to follow her in real-time as she did these things – all with the goal of bringing India home.
“If [India] had listened to me in...
- 10/11/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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HBO's The Vow exposes the inner workings of the dark world of Nxivm by shedding light on founder Keith Raniere and former members. Throughout the documentary, we follow Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg's journey to save her daughter, India, from the clutches of Raniere, but we also discover Oxenberg's surprising relation to the British royal family.
Oxenberg's mom is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, who just so happens to be second cousins with Prince Charles, making Oxenberg third cousins with Prince William and Prince Harry. "She's very close with Prince Charles," Oxenberg said about her mom's relationship with the royal in a 2019 interview with Studio 10.
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Coincidentally, Oxenberg's breakout role was as Princess Diana in the 1982 TV movie The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana. While this was a big moment for Oxenberg and her career,...
HBO's The Vow exposes the inner workings of the dark world of Nxivm by shedding light on founder Keith Raniere and former members. Throughout the documentary, we follow Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg's journey to save her daughter, India, from the clutches of Raniere, but we also discover Oxenberg's surprising relation to the British royal family.
Oxenberg's mom is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, who just so happens to be second cousins with Prince Charles, making Oxenberg third cousins with Prince William and Prince Harry. "She's very close with Prince Charles," Oxenberg said about her mom's relationship with the royal in a 2019 interview with Studio 10.
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Coincidentally, Oxenberg's breakout role was as Princess Diana in the 1982 TV movie The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana. While this was a big moment for Oxenberg and her career,...
- 10/5/2020
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, directors of “The Vow,” HBO’s limited series about Nxivm, never want to hear the organization referred to as only “a sex cult” again.
Although Nxivm made major news headlines three years ago, first with a New York Times story about Dos, a group-within-the-group that was collecting embarrassing material on its members (called “collateral”), as well as branding them and in some cases allegedly manipulating them into sexual situations, the group itself was founded in 1998 as a self-proclaimed “multi-level marketing company.” Co-founder Keith Raniere led thousands of workshops and classes on self-improvement and self-actualization, and the company opened centers around the world. To label it just a sex cult now, Amer tells Variety, is “deeply problematic.”
That is why he and his wife and documentary filmmaking partner Noujaim are “trying to tell a story with dignity.” He explains, “People put a lot of faith in the documentary.
Although Nxivm made major news headlines three years ago, first with a New York Times story about Dos, a group-within-the-group that was collecting embarrassing material on its members (called “collateral”), as well as branding them and in some cases allegedly manipulating them into sexual situations, the group itself was founded in 1998 as a self-proclaimed “multi-level marketing company.” Co-founder Keith Raniere led thousands of workshops and classes on self-improvement and self-actualization, and the company opened centers around the world. To label it just a sex cult now, Amer tells Variety, is “deeply problematic.”
That is why he and his wife and documentary filmmaking partner Noujaim are “trying to tell a story with dignity.” He explains, “People put a lot of faith in the documentary.
- 9/11/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
During the muggy last weeks of June 2019, Keith Raniere, the leader of the self-help organization Nxivm, sat in a downtown Brooklyn courthouse, owlish face peeking out from beneath a halo of pewter hair, looking like an overgrown prep-school boy in a jewel-toned crewneck, as prosecutors recounted a litany of his alleged crimes and peccadilloes, each more depraved and debauched than the last.
Raniere, they alleged, coerced a bevy of bright, ambitious women, including a former WB star and the daughter of an actress from Dynasty, into sending him photos of...
Raniere, they alleged, coerced a bevy of bright, ambitious women, including a former WB star and the daughter of an actress from Dynasty, into sending him photos of...
- 8/21/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The case of Nxivm, the Albany, N.Y.-based “self-help group” whose bizarre and seemingly cult-like aspects have been covered widely — merges a sort of enormity of evil with the prosaic in ways that can make it hard to connect with at first. What was done to aspirants within the group, who allege having been starved as well as held down and scarred with a cauterizing pen in order to be marked as slaves, represents perhaps the height of inhumanity. Yet such cruel behavior was enacted by individuals whose bland pleasantness reads more like the stuff of contemporary wellness culture than like, well, cult leaders.
This is among the contradictions explored by “The Vow,” HBO’s intriguing true-crime documentary series that captures the world of Nxivm through a couple of key voices. One of those belongs to Sarah Edmondson, a Canadian actor whose thinking about Nxivm radically shifted after she was forcibly branded.
This is among the contradictions explored by “The Vow,” HBO’s intriguing true-crime documentary series that captures the world of Nxivm through a couple of key voices. One of those belongs to Sarah Edmondson, a Canadian actor whose thinking about Nxivm radically shifted after she was forcibly branded.
- 8/18/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
You might recognize Catherine Oxenberg as she’s been around since the 80s and has taken on some fairly popular roles in her time, one of which was none other than Lady Diana, twice. What’s amusing about that is the fact that she’s actually related to English royalty in a manner, though she’s been open about how glad she is not to have a title throughout the length of her career. As she’s said it’s better to walk into a job without the expectation of people knowing that she’s related to royalty and wanting to give her special treatment. It’s very
Whatever Happened to Catherine Oxenberg?...
Whatever Happened to Catherine Oxenberg?...
- 3/8/2020
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Tony Sokol Oct 28, 2019
The kid who stayed in pictures dies after a long life worthy of a movie of its own. Robert Evans brought film into a new era.
Robert Evans, actor-turned-producer-turned-Paramount Pictures president, who made films like Chinatown, Marathon Man, Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II possible, died Saturday, October 26, according to Variety. He was 89. No cause of death was announced.
Evans' movies were not intended to be blockbusters. He didn't even care if they were commercial. He wanted his films to be original. The Godfather got made because Evans thought Hollywood presented a false depiction of the mob. He had a friend get the rights to Mario Puzo's as-yet-incomplete novel and persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to direct the film. His life was as original as any of the films he was responsible for. Evans' third wife Ali MacGraw was stolen from...
The kid who stayed in pictures dies after a long life worthy of a movie of its own. Robert Evans brought film into a new era.
Robert Evans, actor-turned-producer-turned-Paramount Pictures president, who made films like Chinatown, Marathon Man, Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II possible, died Saturday, October 26, according to Variety. He was 89. No cause of death was announced.
Evans' movies were not intended to be blockbusters. He didn't even care if they were commercial. He wanted his films to be original. The Godfather got made because Evans thought Hollywood presented a false depiction of the mob. He had a friend get the rights to Mario Puzo's as-yet-incomplete novel and persuaded Francis Ford Coppola to direct the film. His life was as original as any of the films he was responsible for. Evans' third wife Ali MacGraw was stolen from...
- 10/29/2019
- Den of Geek
Robert Evans, a prolific Hollywood producer with a very colorful life, died on Saturday, People confirms. He was 89.
For decades, Evans was closely associated with Paramount Pictures, where he started working in 1967 as a production chief at 36 years old. Evans stayed with the studio until this past July, when they parted way after a rich 52-year history.
“Paramount wanted me to remake my 1997 movie The Saint. I don’t want to remake The Saint — there are other pictures that I want to do — so they decided not to extend my deal. I understand that and have no hard feelings. I...
For decades, Evans was closely associated with Paramount Pictures, where he started working in 1967 as a production chief at 36 years old. Evans stayed with the studio until this past July, when they parted way after a rich 52-year history.
“Paramount wanted me to remake my 1997 movie The Saint. I don’t want to remake The Saint — there are other pictures that I want to do — so they decided not to extend my deal. I understand that and have no hard feelings. I...
- 10/28/2019
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Academy Award-nominated “Chinatown” producer Robert Evans died on Saturday night. He was 89.
From a cocaine-trafficking conviction in 1980 to his connection to the murder of Roy Radin during the making of “The Cotton Club” in 1983, Evans’ life was the stuff of Hollywood legend, as were his credits. Following a brief acting career that pulled him out of his day job of selling women’s clothing, beginning with 1957’s “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” Evans took the reins as an executive at Paramount overseeing such films as “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” and “True Grit.” He went out on his own as a producer, beginning with Roman Polanski’s 1974 noir “Chinatown” (which earned him his Best Picture Oscar nomination), followed by “Marathon Man,” “Black Sunday,” “Popeye,” “The Cotton Club,” and more, making him one of the most influential figures of the New Hollywood of the 1970s.
From a cocaine-trafficking conviction in 1980 to his connection to the murder of Roy Radin during the making of “The Cotton Club” in 1983, Evans’ life was the stuff of Hollywood legend, as were his credits. Following a brief acting career that pulled him out of his day job of selling women’s clothing, beginning with 1957’s “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” Evans took the reins as an executive at Paramount overseeing such films as “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” and “True Grit.” He went out on his own as a producer, beginning with Roman Polanski’s 1974 noir “Chinatown” (which earned him his Best Picture Oscar nomination), followed by “Marathon Man,” “Black Sunday,” “Popeye,” “The Cotton Club,” and more, making him one of the most influential figures of the New Hollywood of the 1970s.
- 10/28/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Robert Evans, the colorful, Oscar-nominated Chinatown producer and former Paramount Pictures production chief during the late 1960s and ’70s, has died, a source has confirmed to Deadline. He was 89.
Evans began at Paramount in 1967 at age 36, the youngest studio production boss at the time. During his tenure he revitalized 1970s cinema with such blockbusters as The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II and Love Story and as a producer of such classics as Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby.
Earlier this year Paramount announced that it would dedicate the Robert Evans Screening Room in the Redstone Building on the studio’s lot.
The studio released a statement Monday acknowledging the passing of a signature figure from its storied history: “Hollywood has lost one of its most influential and iconic figures in the inimitable Bob Evans. He was a valued and beloved partner to Paramount Pictures for over half a century, and his...
Evans began at Paramount in 1967 at age 36, the youngest studio production boss at the time. During his tenure he revitalized 1970s cinema with such blockbusters as The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II and Love Story and as a producer of such classics as Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby.
Earlier this year Paramount announced that it would dedicate the Robert Evans Screening Room in the Redstone Building on the studio’s lot.
The studio released a statement Monday acknowledging the passing of a signature figure from its storied history: “Hollywood has lost one of its most influential and iconic figures in the inimitable Bob Evans. He was a valued and beloved partner to Paramount Pictures for over half a century, and his...
- 10/28/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Robin Roberts. Gretchen Carlson. Alex Cooper. Wendy Williams. Jo Frost. Ashley Graham. As Lifetime hits its 35th anniversary as a network, it does so with a plethora of pivotal partnerships to further the brand’s promise to keep women’s perspectives the drivers of their narrative stories.
“Our women are survivors, not victims,” says Tanya Lopez, executive vice president, movies, limited series and original acquisitions, Lifetime and Lifetime Movies. “It’s something we’ve seen that we as a network — only on Lifetime — will do. And that’s the big theme that we have now used as a filter for everything that we are doing: Only on Lifetime will you hear this way of telling a story.”
Although Lifetime’s goal was always to put women’s stories at the forefront, Lopez feels the brand began evolving to its current theme in 2016 when it released “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le,...
“Our women are survivors, not victims,” says Tanya Lopez, executive vice president, movies, limited series and original acquisitions, Lifetime and Lifetime Movies. “It’s something we’ve seen that we as a network — only on Lifetime — will do. And that’s the big theme that we have now used as a filter for everything that we are doing: Only on Lifetime will you hear this way of telling a story.”
Although Lifetime’s goal was always to put women’s stories at the forefront, Lopez feels the brand began evolving to its current theme in 2016 when it released “Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le,...
- 10/10/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
An internal conflict. In this clip from the season premiere of E! True Hollywood Story, Catherine Oxenberg shares the struggle she faced when choosing to walk away from Nxivm. After a nearly two-year involvement with Keith Raniere's purported self-help program, the Dynasty actress reveals she was ready to walk away. "I didn't want to give up my life for these people," Oxenberg notes in regards to the since fallen cult. "I wasn't interested in being part of their community." Sadly, her daughter India Oxenberg didn't feel the same way. As India took more Nxivm courses, Catherine says she became "concerned about the amount of money that...
- 10/4/2019
- E! Online
India Oxenberg was an active Nxivm member for six years before her mother heard anything about foul play within the organization. "April 16, 2017, a defector called me up and said, 'You need to save India.' And I didn't know what she was talking about," recalls Catherine Oxenberg—who details her family's experience with the purported self-help group during True Hollywood Story's upcoming Oct. 6 premiere—in this clip from Tuesday's E! News. Speaking about the insidious toll Nxivm's influence took on her daughter's life and personality, she tells E! News correspondent Nina Parker and chief correspondent Melanie...
- 10/2/2019
- E! Online
When Catherine Oxenberg met Keith Raniere at a Nxivm event in 2012, she suspected there might be more to his professed "self-help" group than the success seminars it advertised. Months after her daughter India Oxenberg's introduction to the organization, Catherine traveled to Nxivm headquarters alongside then-husband Casper Van Dien to attend a "training." In this clip from the upcoming season premiere of E!'s True Hollywood Story, the Dynasty actor recalls seeing Raniere for the first...
- 10/2/2019
- E! Online
A mother's worst nightmare. In this clip from the season premiere of E! True Hollywood Story, Catherine Oxenberg details her daughter India Oxenberg's involvement in Keith Raniere's fallen Nxivm cult. "I found out that India's involved in this secret inner group within Nxivm. And it's just women," the 58-year-old actress reflects. "And it's based on this slave-master hierarchy. And they sign a lifetime vow of obedience. And they're on these starvation diets. Like, 500 to 800 calories a day." As was previously reported, the Nxivm co-founder was found guilty of sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy,...
- 9/27/2019
- E! Online
Based on the Nxivm cult scandal that implicated Smallville actress Allison Mack, Lifetime is airing Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter on Saturday night, followed by a documentary that dives deeper into the story.
The movie is a dramatization of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg's book Captive, which details how her daughter India was exposed to mental and physical abuse in the cult.
Lifetime's official synopsis reads, "When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm, she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely ...
The movie is a dramatization of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg's book Captive, which details how her daughter India was exposed to mental and physical abuse in the cult.
Lifetime's official synopsis reads, "When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm, she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely ...
- 9/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Based on the Nxivm cult scandal that implicated Smallville actress Allison Mack, Lifetime is airing Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter on Saturday night, followed by a documentary that dives deeper into the story.
The movie is a dramatization of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg's book Captive, which details how her daughter India was exposed to mental and physical abuse in the cult.
Lifetime's official synopsis reads, "When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm, she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely ...
The movie is a dramatization of former Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg's book Captive, which details how her daughter India was exposed to mental and physical abuse in the cult.
Lifetime's official synopsis reads, "When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm, she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely ...
- 9/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
For seven years, Catherine Oxenberg says, individuals within the Nxivm organization groomed her daughter India and made her believe in their group as one of empowerment, despite many of their practices being abusive towards women. Now, those years have been condensed into a 90-minute dramatization of Oxenberg’s story for Lifetime, entitled “Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter.”
Starting the story in the pre-nxivm days for the Oxenberg family, the movie explores why the mother and daughter duo both took an early workshop and why only India continued on with the group. When the two have differences of opinions on how much time and energy India is putting into this organization, the movie splits its point of view to spend time alone with both characters. Catherine’s experiences, portrayed by Andrea Roth, are pulled from Oxenberg’s own memories and writing in “Captive: A...
Starting the story in the pre-nxivm days for the Oxenberg family, the movie explores why the mother and daughter duo both took an early workshop and why only India continued on with the group. When the two have differences of opinions on how much time and energy India is putting into this organization, the movie splits its point of view to spend time alone with both characters. Catherine’s experiences, portrayed by Andrea Roth, are pulled from Oxenberg’s own memories and writing in “Captive: A...
- 9/20/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Lifetime has released the trailer for its upcoming TV movie, “Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter,” and it features chilling depictions of how women were coerced into sex slavery for Nxivm founder Keith Raniere.
Based on the memoir “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter, India, became embroiled in the darkest aspects of the group, the movie focuses on “a mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back and exposes the intricate seductive power of Allison and Keith and the mental and physical abuse India fell victim to,” according to Lifetime.
Andrea Roth plays Oxenberg, with Peter Facinelli playing cult-leader Raniere, Jasper Polish as India, and Sara Fletcher as “Smallville” actress Alison Mack.
Also Read: Here Are All The Hollywood Productions About Nxivm
“This is much more than just top secret. This is about learning to reach your maximum potential,” Raniere (Facinelli) says in the trailer,...
Based on the memoir “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter, India, became embroiled in the darkest aspects of the group, the movie focuses on “a mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back and exposes the intricate seductive power of Allison and Keith and the mental and physical abuse India fell victim to,” according to Lifetime.
Andrea Roth plays Oxenberg, with Peter Facinelli playing cult-leader Raniere, Jasper Polish as India, and Sara Fletcher as “Smallville” actress Alison Mack.
Also Read: Here Are All The Hollywood Productions About Nxivm
“This is much more than just top secret. This is about learning to reach your maximum potential,” Raniere (Facinelli) says in the trailer,...
- 8/23/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
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