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NXIVM defectors seek leniency for blogger Frank Parlato

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal charges, Frank Parloto, New York, NXIVM, sentencing

ALBANY — Frank Parlato Jr. played a major role in the story of NXIVM — first as a publicist for Keith Raniere’s secretive organization, then as a fierce critic whose blog first exposed the abusive “master/slave” group within Raniere’s inner circle, revelations that eventually…[Continue Reading...]

Danny Masterson will NOT be retried on rape charge in which jurors failed to reach a verdict – and is now set to be sentenced in September for sexually assaulting two women at his Hollywood Hills home

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged convicted rapist, criminal convictions, Danny Masterson, Los Angeles, Scientology, sentencing

Prosecutors announced on Tuesday they will not retry actor Danny Masterson on a rape charge jurors failed to reach a verdict on earlier this year. In May, Masterson, 47, was convicted on two of three rape charges, but the jury was…[Continue Reading...]

Celebrities who have been in cults

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged celebrities in cults, cult members, cults, Hollywood

'One Tree Hill' alum Bethany Joy Lenz is finally ready to speak out about her experience in a cult for 10 years. On the July 10 episode of the 'Drama Queens' podcast, she told her former co-stars that she would…[Continue Reading...]

Charles Manson: Who was the infamous cult leader and what did he do?

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, Charles Manson, cults, Manson murders, Tate LaBianca murders

Charles Manson, the cult leader who orchestrated a string of gruesome murders by his “Family” of young acolytes in Los Angeles during the momentous summer of 1969, died aged 83 on 19 November 2017 after suffering a cardiac arrest arising…[Continue Reading...]

The Manson ‘family’: A look at key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings

Published July 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, Charles Manson, Manson Family murders, Tate LaBianca murders

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 1969, Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorized Los Angeles. The killings remain etched in the American consciousness. On Tuesday, Leslie Van Houten was released after…[Continue Reading...]

Leslie Van Houten, follower of cult leader Charles Manson, released from California prison

Published July 11, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged California, Charles Manson, cult follower, cult leader, Leslie Van Houten, Manson murders, parole release, Tate LaBianca murders

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders. Van Houten “was released to parole…[Continue Reading...]

Conspiracy theorists now think nuclear bombs are fake

Published July 11, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorist, nuclear bombs

As interest in nuclear weapons history grows ahead of the anticipated release of director Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, some conspiracy theorists have decided that such explosive devices never actually existed. In a tweet last week, Owen Benjamin, a disgraced comedian…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya starvation cult investigation unearths 40 new mass graves

Published July 11, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, starvation deaths

Police in Kenya discovered 40 more mass graves on Monday in their investigation into a starvation cult led by a pastor. Authorities disinterred 12 more bodies as they kicked off the fourth phase of the exhumation process of followers linked…[Continue Reading...]

‘One Tree Hill’ Alum Bethany Joy Lenz Reveals She Was in a Cult for 10 Years, Hopes to Write a Book

Published July 11, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Abusive controlling relationships, cults, former member story

One Tree Hill alum Bethany Joy Lenz revealed she was in a cult for a decade, and she hopes that her experience can eventually help others. “I was in a cult for 10 years,” Lenz, 42, shared on the Monday,…[Continue Reading...]

I Narrowly Escaped Being Recruited By A Cult. Then I Realized I Was Already In One.

Published July 11, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cults, Gwen Shamblin, leaving cults, Remnant Fellowship

The author is pictured at church camp. While visiting an exhibit at the Frist Art Museum in Tennessee, I recognized the familiar face of an old schoolmate. “Oh, hey E,” I greeted her.She made eye contact but turned away without…[Continue Reading...]