Fighting back tears, Allison Mack said she had joined the organisation, led by self-described spiritual guide Keith Raniere, to find purpose in life.
New York - "Smallville" actress Allison Mack on Monday pleaded guilty to blackmailing two women as part of an alleged New York sex cult that prosecutors called a racketeering operation that carried out sex trafficking and other crimes.
"Through it all, I believed that Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people," she said. "I was wrong. I now realize that I and others engaged in criminal conduct." Prosecutors accused Raniere of running a cult-like secret society within his organization, Nxivm , in which women were branded with his initials, put on extremely restrictive diets and forced to have sex with him.
Nxivm on its website calls itself "a community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people and answer important questions about what it means to be human." The website now carries a message saying that all "enrollment, curriculum and events" are cancelled "until further notice," adding that "we continue to believe in the value and importance of our work.
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