Inside NXIVM: How a Hollywood star lured women into a sex cult

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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"Smallville" actress Allison Mack is free on $5 million bond for allegedly involvement in recruiting women for a sex cult that branded them with the initials of her and the cult leader. The former publicist of NXIVM Frank Parlato shares shocking insider details of how Mack and the group operated. Grace is joined by Seattle lawyer Anne Bremner, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, New York psychologist Caryn Stark, and RadarOnline reporter Alexis Tereszcuk.

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1:03.2	An incredible talent a star known to many her face, instantly recognizable,
1:10.9	Allison Mack, a sex cult leader? It doesn't even make sense. This is a woman we have all invited
1:20.9	into our homes a million times. This woman has starred in so many shows. You know her immediately
1:29.7	when you see her face. It's almost incomprehensible that she's a leader of a sex cult where women were
1:37.5	branded with initials. Alexis Torres, joining me from radaronline.com, investigate a reporter.
1:44.6	Alexis, it's a little hard for me to believe this. I mean, you know how it is Alexis and I'll
1:50.4	go to our shrink in a moment. Karen Stark joining us when you invite somebody into your home repeatedly,
1:56.0	even though you're sitting on the sofa and they're actually on TV and they don't really know
2:01.3	that they're in your in your den. It feels like they're there. It's really hard for me to believe
2:06.4	the state better have a good case against this woman. Start at the beginning, Alexis Torres. Oh,
2:11.3	PS, I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thanks for being with us. Alexis, what's going on?
2:16.8	So, Allison Mack, who is a famous actress, everybody knows her that TV show Smallville,
2:21.2	which everyone loves. She starred in it. She's about Superman, right? Yeah, exactly. Like Superman is a young hot guy.
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