SEX CULT TRIAL: Svengali told followers women liked rape
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A sick buffet of debauchery, cruelty, child abuse and rape have been the main course for a cult leader on trial for sex trafficking and other charges.
Keith Raniere, 58, is on trial in Brooklyn federal court where a parade of alleged former sex slaves have told their stories about the inner workings of NXIVM.
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Raniere attracted a slew of B-list starlets, society high-fliers and heiresses to his kooky self-help organization.
But beyond the platitudes, a sinister malevolence lurked and the feds allege that Raniere was behind it. Here is a brief summation of the last week in court.
The defence is expected to begin their case next week. He has pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison.
WOMEN LIKE RAPE
Court heard that Raniere taught his disciples that women enjoy being raped.
“As you move up [in NXIVM course work], the rhetoric in the curriculum appears to be more misogynistic and there’s a great deal of sexual overtone,” FBI special agent Michael Weniger told jurors, pointing to a course called Sex, Rape and Orgasm.
In one of the Svengali’s missives, he wrote: “Often women report an unexpected experience of freedom which occurs during rape.”
He also denied child sexual abuse is actually abuse. He mused: “Where is the injury if an adult parent has sex with a child and the child enjoys it?” and “An adult and child are having sex, what’s the difference between the child being tickled and the child being stimulated?”
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VIRGINAL TEEN SACRIFICE
One of Raniere’s most fanatical followers and a top-tier sex slave offered her teen daughter as a sacrifice.
“I am 100% clear that you are what I want for my daughter (and obviously myself),” slave Rosa Laura Junco wrote to Raniere in August of 2015, adding she had attached her underage daughter’s school schedule. The twisted mom said her daughter “just needs a little time.”
Court has heard that Raniere was desperate for virgins, urging his sex slaves to find them.
THANKS FOR THE THREESOME
Court heard that former Smallville star Allison Mack, a sex slave and Raniere’s second banana, thanked the leader and another slave for a threesome.
She wrote: “I love that I smell like a mixture of you both.”
WHERE’S BLAKE CARRINGTON?
In another exchange, Raniere tells Mack to send along her private slave: India Oxenberg, the daughter of Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg. “Does India know in order to complete her [assignment] she needs to take all her clothes off, while I am clothed, pose in the most revealing way, and have me take a picture?” Raniere writes.
FAMILY PHOTOS
Top-tier slaves gathered weekly for “family photos” at Mack’s house. Women like Mack and Battlestar Gallactica star Nicki Clyne along with others would pose naked in a group photo. The prosecution noted the amount of public hair adorning the women’s bodies.
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The sex slaves were not allowed to groom their pubic hair because Raniere liked a hirsute nether region. Raniere wrote on the back of one of the photos “all mine” with a devil emoji.
STARVED HALF TO DEATH
India Oxenberg was Allison Mack’s personal slave. She spent a year on a 500-calorie-a-day diet while in Nxivm’s secret sex cult, a former slave testified Friday.
The portrait painted of former Smallville sweetheart Mack is bleak.
“Alison was trying to have [Oxenberg] get down to a certain weight, and they decided that goal weight was 107 pounds,” a woman named Nicole testified. Raniere preferred his slaves to be stiletto thin.
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