Will NXIVM Sex Cult's Allison Mack Do the Time for Her Crime?
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Smallville actress Allison Mack heads to court tomorrow, where she receives a sentence for her role in NXIVM and its secret sex cult, DOS. Will her public apology be enough to keep the judge from giving her life in prison?
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| 0:00.0 | It's a bird. It's a plane. Wait, no. It's actually Alice and Mack. The former Smallville actress is heading to court tomorrow, |
| 0:15.0 | where she will be sentenced for her connection with the sex calls Nexium. |
| 0:19.0 | Yep, she pled guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges |
| 0:22.8 | as one of Nexium's top lieutenants. |
| 0:25.3 | But anyone who's watched The Vow on HBO, like me, |
| 0:28.8 | you know that it's way, way more than that. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, so Nexium was founded in the late 90s by a guy named |
| 0:34.6 | Keith Renieri. It claimed to be this self-help marketing company but was |
| 0:39.1 | actually much much darker than that. Yeah, and over the weekend, Allison put out a statement apologizing and calling Nexium the biggest |
| 0:48.1 | regret of her life. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't know if I'm totally convinced though. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, me either. |
| 0:53.2 | I mean, it could just be her attempt to avoid jail. |
| 0:55.9 | That's kind of what I think too. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.3 | From Wondery, I'm Ereisha Skidmore Williams. |
| 1:00.8 | And I'm Nicky Boyer, filling in for Brooke Ziffon. Today is Tuesday, June 29. |
| 1:05.6 | And you're listening to Rich and Daily. |
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| 1:14.0 | I see that hair toss, give me that loss |
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| 1:20.0 | So my co-host and Bestie Brooke is out today. So we have the incredible Nicky Boyer with us. |
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