NXIVM Leader Keith Raniere: His Life Today After Starting the Cult

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When Keith Raniere launched NXIVM, he billed it as a personal-development program and promised would-be members to help them improve their lives in ways no one else could.

The group, with Raniere as its leader, grew to attract thousands of members, including successful professionals, politicians and even celebrities, such as Smallville actress Allison Mack.

But beneath the self-help facade lurked a predatory pyramid scheme built on psychological manipulation—one that law enforcement officials would later say led to racketeering, forced labor and fraud. Raniere, who called himself “Vanguard,” wielded control over NXIVM’s members, officials said, employing science-tinged rhetoric, self-help jargon and escalating pressure to recruit others.

He also secretly operated an even more nefarious subgroup: DOS or “Dominus Obsequious Sororum,” Latin for “master over slave women.” Inside the clandestine subgroup, women were branded, shamed and coerced into sexual servitude.

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