ALBANY — Former television star Allison Mack is out of federal prison, but the former NXIVM member still had an unresolved legal dilemma in the Capital Region: a 2013 arrest for allegedly driving in Albany with a suspended license. The 40-year-old gained stardom…[Continue Reading...]
A Manhattan cult is suing a former member who wrote an explosive tell-all book and compared the group’s founder to murderous svengali Jim Jones. Odyssey Study Group Horn ‘s former leader Gans Horn swindled inheritances, systematically terrorized members and was…[Continue Reading...]
A yeshiva reform group demanded Wednesday that state education officials follow up on what it believes was a lax city investigation of whether seven ultra-Orthodox schools provide students with basic education in subjects like reading and math. New York State Education…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
Famed modern artist Jackson Pollock's car crash death has been blamed on a New York cult that encouraged the alcoholic painter to hit the bottle and cheat on his wife. The cult, also known as the Sullivanians, advocated alcohol use…[Continue Reading...]
There were a number of things that might have attracted a person to the Sullivan Institute, the maverick psychoanalytic practice and cult that flourished on the Upper West Side from 1957 until its acrimonious dissolution in 1991: the twin promise…[Continue Reading...]
A RECRUITMENT firm founded and staffed by members of an alleged New York City cult used "mind games" to keep employees in line, an ex-employee told The U.S. Sun. Taylor Hodson Inc., an employment agency based in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood,…[Continue Reading...]
Screen Rant is proud to present an exclusive clip from the character-driven documentary series The Fourth Wall, which premiered in early June at the Tribeca Film Festival. The docuseries is told from the perspective of Keith Newton, who was born…[Continue Reading...]
Cults thrive in isolation, and this poses a challenge for the urban cult leader. Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple, exerted an unsettling degree of influence on San Francisco politics of the late nineteen-seventies but was eventually forced to flee…[Continue Reading...]
A Brooklyn building known for being the site of multiple homicides is no more. Early Wednesday morning, a four-story Crown Heights rowhouse erupted in flames, incinerating the home’s interior. The two-alarm fire at 222 Brooklyn Ave. began around 5 a.m.…[Continue Reading...]
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