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Smallville Actress Allison Mack Speaks the First Time About NXIVM | Crime Alert 6AM 11.12.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update, Breaking crime News. Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: Drew Nelson. Alison Max speaks out for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since her release from prison. It was a humid June
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  Speaker 1: morning in twenty twenty one when Max sat in the
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  Speaker 1: backseat of a car headed to a Brooklyn, New York, courthouse,
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  Speaker 1: wearing a black dress that she had bought just for
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  Speaker 1: the occasion. That day, the Smallville actress faced sentencing for
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  Speaker 1: her role in Nexium and XIVM, the so called self
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  Speaker 1: help empire turned sex cult run by Keith Raniery. Once
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  Speaker 1: known for playing the sharp and loyal Smallville character Chloe Sullivan,
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  Speaker 1: Mack was now branded a criminal. Victims called her a
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  Speaker 1: monster in court, the judge called her an essential accomplice.
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  Speaker 1: On the new CBC podcast Allison after Neum, Max said quote,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see myself as innocent. I think that I
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  Speaker 1: capitalized on the things I had, and so the success
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  Speaker 1: I had as an actor, I think I did capitalize
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  Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, and it was a power tool that
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  Speaker 1: I had to get people to do what I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Now forty three, Mack had served nearly two years of
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  Speaker 1: a three year federal sentence before being released in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. She has since remarried, begun a master's in
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  Speaker 1: social work, and for the first time, is confronting the
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  Speaker 1: contradictions of being both a victim and a victimizer. Mack
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Long Beach, California, the daughter of an
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  Speaker 1: opera singer and a Montessori teacher. She began acting before
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  Speaker 1: she could read. By her late teens, she was living
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  Speaker 1: on her own in Los Angeles, starring in network TV
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  Speaker 1: shows when Smallville began filming in Vancouver in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one. She was just nineteen, earning forty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a week, and suddenly surrounded by fame and pressure that
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  Speaker 1: she didn't understand. In the podcast's first episode, Mack recalls
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  Speaker 1: how her co star Kristin Krook helped lead her into
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  Speaker 1: what would become the most destructive decision of her life.
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  Speaker 1: According to Mac, Krook began taking Nexiums, so called executive
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  Speaker 1: success programs while they filmed in Vancouver, and later urged
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  Speaker 1: her to try it. Krook has long denied in any wrongdoing,
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  Speaker 1: saying in twenty eighteen she left Nexium years before the
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  Speaker 1: crimes came to light and had minimal contact afterward. She
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  Speaker 1: said she was quote horrified and disgusted by what emerged
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  Speaker 1: about DOS. That's the so called secret sorority where women
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  Speaker 1: were branded with rneri's initials. Max's first Nexium seminar was
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  Speaker 1: held in a hotel in Vancouver. Soon after, she accepted
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  Speaker 1: an invitation to fly by private jet to Albany, New York,
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  Speaker 1: where she would meet Ranieri for the first time. She
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  Speaker 1: says the meaning left her disoriented yet captivated in a
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  Speaker 1: way that she described as ground shifting. Within a few years,
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  Speaker 1: Mack had moved to Albany, leaving her acting career behind.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors later said she became Rhannieri's second in command, recruiting
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  Speaker 1: women into DOS under the guise of empowerment. Members were
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  Speaker 1: starved and forced into sexual submission. At sentencing, Max sat
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  Speaker 1: in silence as victims read their statements, My poor mom, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry you guys, you know, just like it
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  Speaker 1: was more like but I can take it like you know,
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  Speaker 1: but like you guys think, I'm so sorry. Now sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: Keith Rniery is serving a one hundred and twenty year
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  Speaker 1: sentence for sex trafficking, racketeering, and related crimes. MAC cooperated
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  Speaker 1: with prosecutors providing recordings and testimony that helped convict him.
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  Speaker 1: More Crime and Justice news after this. The founder of
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  Speaker 1: one eight hundred and four to one one PAINT is
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  Speaker 1: arrested after allegedly bringing a loaded gun onto a Miami
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  Speaker 1: Dade High school campus. Deputy SA fifty nine year old
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  Speaker 1: Robert Cash Lewin of Southwest Ranches was taken into custody
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  Speaker 1: around noon on Saturday at Miami Coral Park Senior High
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  Speaker 1: School in the Westchester area. According to the Miami Dade
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office, Lewin was seen sitting on the gym bleachers
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  Speaker 1: with a handgun tucked in his waistband. When he bent over,
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  Speaker 1: the weapon became visible, and a student snapped a photo
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  Speaker 1: that was sent to an assistant principal. Administrator's alerted law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: who found Lewin sitting inside a black Lincoln Navigator in
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  Speaker 1: the school parking lot bearing a vanity plate referring to
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  Speaker 1: the legal service four to one one PAIN. Deputies ordered
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  Speaker 1: him out of the suv and conducted a pat down,
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  Speaker 1: discovering the gun, an extra magazine, and a knife. Lewin
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  Speaker 1: told them he had brought the weapon to school quote
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  Speaker 1: by accident. He was arrested on one count of possession
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  Speaker 1: of a firearm on school property, and the gun and
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  Speaker 1: magazine were impounded as evidence. As of now, Lewin does
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  Speaker 1: not appear as an inmate on the Miami Day Jail website.
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  Speaker 1: A Michigan mother accused of killing her three year old
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  Speaker 1: son to quote unquote make room for a baby with
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend has admitted to the crime, ending a year's
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  Speaker 1: long investigation into one of Saint Clair County's most disturbing cases.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda May Mason, aged thirty three, pleaded guilty to second
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  Speaker 1: degree murder in the twenty eighteen death of her son,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Mason inside their home and Port Huron Township. Babysitters
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  Speaker 1: discovered Matthew unresponsive in his bed on f February eighteenth
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, prompting an investigation that went cold for years.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities reopened the case this year after what they called
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  Speaker 1: quote significant new developments, leading to the arrests of Mason
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  Speaker 1: and her then boyfriend, Maurice Hoole, now twenty eight. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: and prosecutors said the pair killed Matthew as part of
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  Speaker 1: a plan to quote make room for a child that
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  Speaker 1: the two of them could have together. Assistant prosecutor Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Sparling told the court that Houle regularly beat the boy
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  Speaker 1: and that Mason hid his injuries from Child Protective Services
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  Speaker 1: between twenty sixteen and eighteen. Sparling said the child was
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  Speaker 1: locked in his room for hours without food or water,
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  Speaker 1: and died of blunt force trauma and possible suffocation. During
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  Speaker 1: her plea hearing, Mason admitted to shoving her son's head
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  Speaker 1: into a wall during what she described as a quote
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  Speaker 1: military style time out. She told the judge she allowed
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  Speaker 1: an environment where Matthew was systematically abused and later helped
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  Speaker 1: Houle conceal the manner of Matthew's death. Court record show
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  Speaker 1: she also admitted to lying to investigators and covering up
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  Speaker 1: earlier child Protective Services visits that could have saved her
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  Speaker 1: son's life. Both Mason and Hull were charged with first
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  Speaker 1: degree murder in April. They initially pleaded not guilty, but
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  Speaker 1: Mason changed her plea as part of an agreement requiring
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  Speaker 1: her to testify against Hule when his trial begins early
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  Speaker 1: next year. Mason remains in custody at the Saint Clair
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  Speaker 1: County Jail and faces up to life when she is sentenced.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Drew Nelson.