From bizarre sex games to women in cages, all the dirt on Nxivm leader Keith Raniere is finally coming out.
A one-time disciple of the cult leader testified in court yesterday that Raniere was planning to construct an underground dungeon equipped with cages.
Lauren Salzman shocked those present in the courtroom of, among other things, whipping female “slave masters’’; paddling them with a rubber-spiked sex toy; and ordering a bunch of supplies that included BDSM sex-torture handcuffs and nipple clamps.
Salzman also chronicled Raniere’s sexual conquests, which she said included seven of the eight members of his all-female inner circle, one of whom was “Smallville” actress Allison Mack and Mack’s now-wife, Nicki Clyne. There were also threesomes and naked photos.
“We would take the naked picture, and everyone would take the number of whips commensurate with our failures,’’ Salzman explained. Raniere “would call in” in case people weren’t being beaten sufficiently brutally.
Salzman went on to say she could remember a “psychotic break” suffered by another women back in 2002. “The woman became violent and was “pilled,” which meant someone forced a Valium down her throat, Salzman said. A second Valium was allegedly given to the woman in scrambled eggs,” buzzfeednews.com reported. “Salzman said she wanted to use the pilling admission as part of her “collateral” — compromising information about members that was allegedly kept as a form of control — for joining the sex cult within NXIVM, called DOS, but it was rejected and she was asked to submit nude photos of herself instead.”
Salzman “is among the four NXIVM members—including Mack, and her mother—who were arrested in 2018 with Raniere. After pleading guilty to racketeering charges in March, she is the first co-defendant to testify against Raniere, who is standing the trial alone,” thedailybeast.com noted. “He was my most important person. I respected him. I looked up to him,” she said. “He was my master.”
But was it really as bad as that? Not according to Raniere’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo. He has said that one-time cult members “had “fun” living upstate with the man accused of demanding sex from his underlings Opens a New Window,” radaronline.com said. “You can’t really understand a man until you crawl around his skin and walk around in it,” Agnifilo said, quoting hero lawyer Atticus Finch from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The audience gasped at the bizarre reference.”
During his testimony, Sean Welch, an executive with sex toy manufacturer XR, L.L.C., showed the court documents he said indicated “that Daniela Padilla, a member of NXIVM, ordered $900 of BDSM-inspired sex toys off his website ExtremeRestraints.com, including a remote-controlled electrified collar (dubbed a “puppy trainer”), a studded rubber paddle, a hanging, rubber-strapped cage and ankle shackles,” according to Rolling Stone. “The May 26th, 2017 order was delivered to Padilla’s Albany-area home.”