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‘Smallville’ actor Allison Mack released from prison
for role as ‘slave master’ in Nxivm sex cult
By Priscilla DeGregory, NYPost
July 5, 2023 4:05am Updated
“Smallville” actress Allison Mack has been released from federal prison after serving less than two years behind bars for her role as a “slave master” in the upstate Nxivm sex cult.
Mack, 40, was sprung from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California outside of San Francisco Monday, Bureau of Prison records show.
The TV actress was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2021 after pleading guilty for her role in helping to brainwash women into becoming sex slaves for Nxivm leader Keith Raniere.
Allison Mack was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to charges that she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere.
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Mack — who surrendered in September 2021 — was presumably released 14 months early for good behavior. She must still serve another three years of supervised release.
The star avoided a much heftier sentence that could have been as high as 14 to 17 1/2 years by cooperating with prosecutors and pleading guilty to racketeering and conspiracy to commit extortion and forced labor in April 2019.
And while Mack — Raniere’s right-hand woman — had been prepared to testify against the Svengali-like cult guru, she was never called to the witness stand.
Allison Mack plays Chloe Sullivan in Smallville.
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But she and other cooperators helped secure a conviction against Raniere, 62, who was ultimately sentenced to 120 years behind bars for masterminding the twisted creed called DOS — which stands for Dominus Obsequious Sororium — or “master over slave women.”
The group’s victims were subjected to branding and starvation and forced to have sex with Raniere and to carry out tasks for the leaders. The women endured the treatment in part because the leaders kept “collateral” like nude photos of them.
Another Nxivm member, Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman, is still serving a six-year-and-seven-month sentence after also taking a guilty plea.
Keith Raniere, the sex cult leader of NXIVM, was sentenced to 120 years in prison.
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Mack’s ex-wife, “Battlestar Galactica” actress Nicki Clyne, was also a part of Raniere’s inner-circle and was in a 10-year relationship with him. She was not charged in the case.
Mack’s lawyers did not return a request for comment Wednesday.
With Post wires
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Former Olympic gold medal cyclist convicted
in German child sex abuse case
By The Associated Press
June 29, 2023, 7:05 AM
BERLIN -- A former champion cyclist who won two gold medals at the 1976 Olympics has been convicted by a German court in a child sexual abuse case.
Gregor Braun was found guilty on Wednesday by a regional court in the southwestern city of Tuebingen of sexually abusing a child, soliciting the serious sexual abuse of a child and soliciting the production of abuse imagery in several cases. He was sentenced to 33 months' imprisonment, the court said in a statement on Thursday.
33 Months - Good grief! Did they give him a gold watch too?
During the trial, judges heard that Braun, 67, had for years paid for a woman to bring her young daughter along to sex dates, starting when the girl was 6 years old. Prosecutors alleged that in at least one instance the 35-year-old woman, who was identified only as Yvonne L. for privacy reasons, had forced the daughter to record explicit videos of her or the two adults together. At other times, she took pictures of the girl and sent them to Braun, they said.
The case came to light after the victim filed a complaint with police in 2021, three years after running away from home. The court ruled that she is entitled to compensation from the defendants.
The mother, who made a partial confession during the trial and apologized to her daughter, was sentenced to 45 months in prison.
Braun denied the allegations against him and said that he neither requested nor wanted the girl present, German news agency dpa reported.
But the court concluded that the victim's accounts were credible and said she had been robbed of her childhood.
The verdicts can be appealed.
Braun won gold medals in the individual pursuit and team pursuit events at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, several World Championships and numerous other track and road races before retiring from professional cycling in the late 1980s.
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