TV Actresses Grace Park, Nicki Clyne, Kristin Kreuk were active in NXIVM – the Cult now busted for branding and blackmailing women

Raniere claimed to be the Vanguard or founder of  a “philosophical movement,” but which primarily sold expensive self-help courses. In reality he operated a pyramid scheme (Members who sold courses could make commission on new recruits) and a sex cult. He used the classes as a tool to find wealthy and or attractive women to enslave, many ex members told Artvoice.

One of his offshoot groups – and he had many – he called it DOS – which was a women-only secret society of “masters” and “slaves,” – with Raniere at the top – as the only man in the group – is what landed Raniere into trouble.  Some women were ordered under threat of extortion to have sex with Raniere. Women recruited into the group were coerced into giving “collateral” in the form of graphic nude photos and damaging information, which they were told would be released publicly if they told anyone about DOS or failed to obey what Raniere or Mack told them to do. Mack was second in command of DOS.  Women were branded on their pubic region with Mack and Raniere’s initials with a hot iron cauterizing pen not dissimilar to a cattle brand.

Vice quoted Artvoice publisher, who is widely credited with breaking the blackmail and branding story. Vice wrote, “Former Nxivm publicist Frank Parlato was first to expose the alleged ‘sex cult’ on his website before the New York Times picked up on the story last year…. Parlato says high-profile actresses and heiresses were prime targets for Nxivm recruitment, because they added glamour and success to an organization that was constantly fighting off bad press.

… Since 2006 the organization would bring on … Hawaii Five-O’s Grace Park, Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk and Battlestar Galactica’s Nicki Clyne. …

“Parlato says that cult allegations first surfaced around 2003 and slowed recruitment for the self-help course[s]…  He says that’s why Kristin Kreuk joining in 2006 was a ‘major breakthrough’ for the organization. While busy working on the set of Smallville in Vancouver, fellow Vancouverite and actor Mark Hildreth convinced her to attend her first session, says Parlato.

“’When that lucky, or unlucky day happened, Nxivm turned a corner in their marketing,’ he said. ‘They now had a famous actress.’

“Though she wasn’t often involved in recruiting directly, Kreuk’s membership helped salespeople pushing $5,000+ courses counter negative press, according to Parlato. ‘Nobody who sold the Nxivm courses failed to mention Kristin Kreuk and Allison Mack are members—not only members but coaches,’ Parlato told VICE. ‘Every spiel included their participation as proof of not being a cult.'”

Kreuk claims she left five years ago and maintained minimal contact with those involved.

Vice continued: “According to Parlato and a leaked 2011 coach list, Kreuk did more than take a few courses. ‘She was not just a mere fringe player, she was a major integrated person into Nxivm—and was a coach, not just a student,’ he said. VICE reached out to Kreuk’s management for comment, but did not hear back by press time.”

Kreuk recruited Mack into Nxivm during their time on Smallville. Kreuk also founded an organization called Girls by Design in partnership with fellow Nxivm coach Kendra Voth—a project purportedly aimed at fostering self-esteem among teen girls but which ex NXIVM members believe was something Raniere wanted from Kreuk to start recruiting teenage girls into NXIVM. There is no evidence that Kruek knowingly participated in teen sex recruitment. In fact Kruek quit the cult after the Albany Times Union revealed that Raniere was a pedophile who enjoyed statutory raping of girls as young as 12.

Vice reported: “According to Parlato and an interview Mack did with Fine magazine, Raniere advised Mack to leave television and try stage acting…  She and Raniere went on to develop a $10,000 Nxivm course on acting called The Source. Though unpopular and prohibitively expensive for most struggling actors, Parlato says young women who tended to fit Raniere’s ideal body type would sometimes get a free pass.

“Kreuk finally left Nxivm in 2012, around the time a bombshell Albany Times Union story interviewed two women who say Raniere had sex with them when they were underage, one of them as young as 12. Even with these allegations out in the open, much of Nxivm’s star power reportedly remained faithful.”

Even after a 2017 New York Times story recounted the coercive aspects of the vicious sex cult, it was not clear if Grace Park left the cult. Sources say she continued to pay her monthly dues and participated in weekly meetings by Skype with DOS slave India Oxenberg, Nicki Clyne and others.

With Raniere in prison, Mack runs the DOS slave cult and remains loyal to Raniere. She was with him in Mexico when he was arrested on March 25 on sex trafficking charges.

Raniere’s Mexican supporters seem to be distancing themselves from the cult leader. Last week top ranking Mexican NXIVM supporters claimed they knew nothing of the branding and blackmail slave group. Sources in Mexico say that the leaders in Mexico was fully aware of the slave cult but  now that Raniere is in prison they are seeking to avoid arrest themselves.