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She made the process so easy. Vicente was taking courses that he said helped him expose his fears and learn strategies that made him feel more resolute. Vicente says in the film. Raniere has used those words to describe himself. In the mids, several state attorneys general investigated it as a suspected pyramid scheme; Mr. Raniere and his associates agreed to shut it down. Through Nxivm, Mr. Raniere transformed himself into a New Age teacher with long hair and a guru-like manner of speaking.
By many accounts, Mr. Raniere sleeps during the day and goes out at night to play volleyball or take female followers for long walks. Several women described him as warm, funny and eager to talk about subjects that interested them. Others saw a different side. Nxivm sued several former members, accusing them of stealing its trade secrets, among other things.
Vicente said he was aware of the negative publicity, including a series by The Albany Times-Union that described alleged abuses inside Nxivm. Vicente said he got evasive answers when he asked Mr. Raniere about the group. Vicente said he suspected Mr. Raniere was lying to him and might have done so before.
Suddenly, self-awareness techniques he had learned felt like tools that had been used to control him. In May, Sarah Edmondson began to recoil from her embrace of the secret society. Her husband, Anthony Ames, who was also a Nxivm member, learned about her branding and the couple both wanted out.
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Before quitting, Mr. On the recording, Mr. Ames tells another member that Ms. Edmondson was branded and that other women told him about handing over collateral. Ames says.
The voice of a woman — who Mr. Ames said is Lauren Salzman — is heard trying to calm him. A few days later, many of Mr. Parlato Jr. Parlato had been locked in a long legal battle with two sisters, Sara and Clare Bronfman, who are members of Nxivm and the daughters of Edgar Bronfman, the deceased chairman of Seagram Company.
In , the Bronfman sisters sued Mr. Four years later, in , the Justice Department indicted him on charges of fraud and other crimes arising from alleged activities, including defrauding the Bronfmans. Parlato has denied the claims and the case is pending. Parlato started a website, The Frank Report, which he uses to lambaste prosecutors, Mr. Raniere and the Bronfmans.
In early June, Mr. A Nxivm follower, Soukaina Mehdaoui, said she reached out to Mr. Raniere after reading the post. Mehdaoui, 25, was a newcomer to Nxivm, but the two had grown close. She said Mr. Raniere told her the secret sorority began after three women offered damaging collateral to seal lifetime vows of obedience to him.
While Ms. Mehdaoui had joined the sorority, the women in her circle were not branded.