She Spent 20 Years in NXIVM and Helped Put Its Leader in Jail. Now She’s Speaking Out
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Lauren Salzman didn’t have long as an adult before she became part of NXIVM, the self-help sex cult led by Keith Raniere. She had only graduated college a couple months before her mother, Nancy Salzman, brought her into the group. Nancy had met Raniere around Thanksgiving; by spring break she was in his fold. “She took us on this vacation to Florida, and she called it the transition from mother to friend vacation,” Lauren recently told podcaster Natalie Robehmed. “She spent the entire vacation in the hotel room reading Atlas Shrugged and on the phone with Keith trying to deprogram her children from being parasitic and to have real self-esteem.” Not long after this meeting, Lauren entered into a relationship with Keith; they would stay together, in some capacity or another, for the better part of two decades.
It was Lauren’s 2019 testimony that helped bring down Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years in federal prison after being convicted on several counts including racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, and wire fraud conspiracy. (Nancy Salzman was sentenced to 42 months for charges including racketeering conspiracy.) Lauren has been silent since that testimony. That is, until she agreed to be interviewed for Robehmed’s new podcast, Allison After NXIVM, from Campside Media and CBC.
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