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Cops: Did TV actress try to recruit Harry Potter star Emma Watson into sex slave cult? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Triumph Channel one thirty two. An incredible talent, a star
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Speaker 1: known to many, her face instantly recognizable. Alison Mac a
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Speaker 1: sex cult leader. It doesn't even make sense. This is
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Speaker 1: a woman we have all invited into our homes a
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Speaker 1: million times. This woman has starred in so many shows.
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Speaker 1: You know her immediately when you see her face. It's
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Speaker 1: almost incomprehensible that she's a leader of a sex cult
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Speaker 1: where women were branded with initials, Alexis to rus Chuck
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Speaker 1: joining me from Radar Online dot Com investigative reporter, Alexis.
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Speaker 1: It's a little hard for me to believe this. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know how it is, Alexis, And I'll go to
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Speaker 1: our shrink in a moment here and start joining us.
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Speaker 1: When you invite somebody into your home repeatedly, even though
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Speaker 1: you're sitting on the sofa and they're actually on TV
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Speaker 1: and they don't really know that they're in your in
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Speaker 1: your den, it feels like they're there, It's really hard
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Speaker 1: for me to believe. The state better have a good
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Speaker 1: case against this woman. Start at the beginning, Alexis, terrest oh, ps,
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Speaker 1: I mean as he Grace, this is crime Stories. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for being with us, Alexis. What's going on? So Alsamac
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Speaker 1: who is a famous actress. Everybody knows her that TV
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Speaker 1: show small Ville, which everyone loves. She started it she
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Speaker 1: about Superman right exactly like Superman is a young hoo.
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Speaker 1: I thought I was losing my mind and I had
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Speaker 1: her name wrong. This is the star uh the Superman
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Speaker 1: show Smallville? Okay, go ahead. She has been arrested, hauled
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Speaker 1: off out of her apartment in handcuffs for being the
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Speaker 1: leader of a sex cult with this man called Keith Ranier.
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Speaker 1: And it's called nexium, right Nexium. Isn't that some type
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Speaker 1: of like an indigestion pill? Right right now? What is nexium? Okay, Jackie?
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Speaker 1: Apparently you know it from she's shaking her head. Yes,
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Speaker 1: And there's also a sex cult named Axiom. That's a
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Speaker 1: very unfortunate choice for the sex cult to be named
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Speaker 1: after an indigestion peel. But that is neither here nor there.
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Speaker 1: And another thing to you, Missy alexis terrestro. When people
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Speaker 1: are charged with felonies, they usually are hauled out of
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Speaker 1: their apartment in handcuffs, whether they're a Hollywood star or not.
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Speaker 1: But go ahead, well, she has not been receiving Hollywood
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Speaker 1: star treatment, I don't think since this, since the arrest.
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Speaker 1: But she was a member of this cult. She met
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Speaker 1: this man, Keith, And what the police are saying is
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Speaker 1: is that they spent years recruiting women around the country,
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Speaker 1: around the world to join what was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: a female empowerment club, you know, kind of like uh,
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Speaker 1: Yoga Class extraordinaire, and you would go and then this man,
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Speaker 1: Keith is so charismatic and Alison so beautiful, and you
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of this thing that gives
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Speaker 1: women power. Instead, they were turned into sex slaves who
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Speaker 1: were branded branded literally with like a hot poker on
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Speaker 1: their bodies to become a member of this cult. And
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Speaker 1: she wait, wait, wait, Alexis, you're talking so so fast,
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Speaker 1: I can't take it all in. Did I hear you
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Speaker 1: say something about branding women with a hot something? I did.
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Speaker 1: I called it a hot poker. I'm sure there's a
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Speaker 1: medical term for it. Okay, guys, we're talking about the
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Speaker 1: thirty five year old star of the hit series Smallville. Um.
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Speaker 1: Not only is she charged with being the ringleader of
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Speaker 1: a cult that sucked women into a girl empowerment meeting,
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Speaker 1: it turned into basically kidnapping them and using them brainwashing
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Speaker 1: them as sex slaves, complete with a red hot branding
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Speaker 1: on their bodies. This, as it is emerging, apparently our
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Speaker 1: dear beloved Hermione Yes, Emma Watson from the Harry Potter
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Speaker 1: hit series was there was an attempt to recruit her
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Speaker 1: and Kelly Clarkson, who we all love from American Idol,
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Speaker 1: who goes on to be a singing sensation. Are they insane?
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Speaker 1: Is it true they try to recruit these these two
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Speaker 1: beloved stars, Emma Watson, Hermione and Kelly Clarkson. Just tell
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Speaker 1: me that much, Alexis. Yep, those are just a few
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Speaker 1: of them. That these are the most famous women in
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Speaker 1: the world. And Alison Mack and Keith and here were
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Speaker 1: trying to bring them into this cult. And there's not
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Speaker 1: a better word for it. It's not a women's group,
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Speaker 1: it's not a tennis club. It is a cult. Because
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Speaker 1: these women were having to give when they joined and
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Speaker 1: professed their faith to this cult they were having they
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Speaker 1: were black men. They had to give things like naked
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Speaker 1: pictures of themselves are the most compromising stories about themselves.
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Speaker 1: They had to give this to the leaders of the
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Speaker 1: group so that in case they ever left this because
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Speaker 1: it sounds like a freaky, weird, felonious version of scientology
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Speaker 1: where you have to have be audited and tell all
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Speaker 1: the worst things you've ever done, the extreme in your life,
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Speaker 1: and then they have it to hold over your head. Uh, guys,
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Speaker 1: hold on with me. As Alexis Torez Chuck, investigative reporter
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Speaker 1: with Radar Online dot Com. But now joining us is
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Speaker 1: the journalist who originally broke the story of this cult.
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Speaker 1: It's real n x I v M pronounced nexium. It's founder,
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Speaker 1: Keith Rainieri, allegedly subjecting women to humiliating sex acts and
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Speaker 1: branding women and their pelvic area with a series of
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Speaker 1: initials and had a large base has a large base
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Speaker 1: in Albany, New York. The guy who first cracked this
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Speaker 1: story journalist Frank Pelotto and the former next him publicist.
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Speaker 1: You can find out all about him and a lot
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Speaker 1: of his work at Art Voice. Frank Parlatto, thank you
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Speaker 1: for being with us this This is such a wildly
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Speaker 1: fantastical story. It's almost hard to believe. And when you
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Speaker 1: start arresting Hollywood stars, you better have an air tight case. Okay, Frank,
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Speaker 1: you broke the story. What happened? Well, initially it began
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Speaker 1: this cult next and on two thousand and two, they
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Speaker 1: achieved their first great recruit, and that was Seagram's heiress
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Speaker 1: Claire Brafman. With her hundreds of millions of dollars behind
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Speaker 1: the cult, they were able to recruits various celebrities such
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Speaker 1: as Kristen Krue, Grace Park, and Ellison mac Matt became
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Speaker 1: a true believer, and in time she elevated herself to
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Speaker 1: nearly the top of the cult and became the Neeres
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Speaker 1: top recruiter of young, attractive, new bile slender women Orneres
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Speaker 1: in vidious sex cults. Well wa wa wait, what did
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Speaker 1: you say? What kind of women he had? And they
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Speaker 1: were young, slender, long haired, new bile and attractive, prosperably
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of money. Okay, sorry, Jackie, We're
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Speaker 1: we're out. Okay, we're not getting into the as as
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Speaker 1: they say, the unique human development and women's movement. That
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Speaker 1: is what Alison Matc had been tweeting and sending notes
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Speaker 1: to Kelly Clarkson and also to Emma Watson, trying to
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Speaker 1: lure them in. Luckily they're smart enough to stay away
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Speaker 1: from it. Frank Parlotto with me, the former Nextian publicist.
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Speaker 1: He's in charge of an incredible site called Art Voice,
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Speaker 1: and the journalists that first broke the story. So it
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Speaker 1: all starts off with a fringe group that manages to
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Speaker 1: recruit an heiress from the Seagram's liquor dynasty, and she
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Speaker 1: pumps a lot of money into it. They they, according
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Speaker 1: to Frank, solicit young. I don't believe I've heard anybody
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Speaker 1: say the word new bile in a long time. It's
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Speaker 1: flashback to Playboy. But okay, not judging, Frank, young thin women. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what happens then, Frank? It begins innocently enough. The first
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Speaker 1: meetings are surrounded with the group of women, all of
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Speaker 1: them already in the called, who present a picture of normalcy,
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Speaker 1: a picture of a friendly, wonderful, kind of lovely sorority.
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Speaker 1: The the term that's often used in these kinds of
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Speaker 1: cult like recruitment scenarios is love bombing. A woman comes in,
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Speaker 1: she's told that this kind of program will improve her life,
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Speaker 1: she'll get life coaching, and she'll be mentored by other
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Speaker 1: women who care about her. That's the initial deception. Then
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Speaker 1: what happens, So they have the facade of normalcy. So
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Speaker 1: you think you're joining a women's group, Is that right,
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Speaker 1: Frank Plato? Yes, you are elbow to elbow with stars
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Speaker 1: like Allison Mack or Kristen Krue. You're hob nobbing with
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Speaker 1: Claire Brafman who's Seagrim's arras, and surrounded by attractive women,
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Speaker 1: all of them slender labor, and you will realize why
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Speaker 1: they're so slender. They're kept down restrictive diets. But your
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Speaker 1: initial impression is this is really quite an exciting opportunity
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Speaker 1: for me or whoever it is that's joining. And then
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Speaker 1: they be in be hypnotic induction. Okay, what's that. It's
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Speaker 1: a very carefully later plan. And Keith Raineri, the head
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Speaker 1: of Nexium, is a master hypnotist. This is his art
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Speaker 1: and this is his specialty. And you begin by attending
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Speaker 1: very long classes. They're very intense, high intensity classes. They
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Speaker 1: begin at seven in the morning and the end of
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Speaker 1: tendor eleven at night. And there is a slow hypnotic
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Speaker 1: process that goes on, very carefully laid scheme. Well, what
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Speaker 1: are the classes about, Frank. They purport to be about
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Speaker 1: new ways of doing critical thinking. In fact, it's called
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Speaker 1: rational inquiry, and they start to challenge the students on
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Speaker 1: various kinds of conceptions that they've long held as their
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Speaker 1: base of beliefs. Well, for instance, they begin kind of innocently,
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Speaker 1: they talk about the criminal code, the social maories, uh,
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Speaker 1: the They ask you, for example, to make a list
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Speaker 1: of all of the advantages that would accrue to you
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Speaker 1: if your boyfriend or husband should happen to die. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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Speaker 1: whoa Right there, right there, I've got a problem, okay,
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Speaker 1: because it sounds to me and Karen start with me
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Speaker 1: a New York psychologist, very well known, Karen Um. Please
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Speaker 1: don't hit me with a lot of psychle psychological terms.
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Speaker 1: But when somebody approaches you and starts talking to you
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Speaker 1: about what challenging your belief system, like what's right and
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Speaker 1: what's wrong? What what's wrong with being a Christian? What's
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Speaker 1: wrong with Jewish beliefs? What's wrong with your your long
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Speaker 1: your heritage, your heritage beliefs. What would happen if you
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Speaker 1: weren't confined to a relationship, a monogamous relationship with a
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Speaker 1: boyfriend or a husband. Well that that may not be
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Speaker 1: so bad. But anyway, that aside that one tiny, tiny exception,
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Speaker 1: But I hear what Frank Parlatto is saying. Everybody with
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Speaker 1: me is former next and publicist Frank Parlatto, and he
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Speaker 1: has an incredible site called art Voice. He first broke
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Speaker 1: the story. Karen Start, That's exactly what happens when you
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Speaker 1: get brainwashed your core beliefs. You you're you're encouraged to
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Speaker 1: start questioning them until suddenly what you're doing doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: wrong at all. I've seen it in gangs is the
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Speaker 1: closest thing I could compare it to where year around it.
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Speaker 1: So much crime that's suddenly selling dope or committing murderers
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Speaker 1: as part of an initiation is really no big deal.
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Speaker 1: There's a whole us versus them mentality that ensues, and
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Speaker 1: they choose people that are susceptible. And as that brainwashing
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Speaker 1: experiences occurring that you just mentioned, Nancy, what happens is
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Speaker 1: that they become more and more open to the suggestibility
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Speaker 1: of the cult and they are actual they're beginning to
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Speaker 1: discover brain changes that occur that starts, It's like an
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Speaker 1: overload of information that starts to happen, so that the
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Speaker 1: individual becomes more entrenched. And it's hard to believe how
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Speaker 1: convincing this new world becomes. But think about Matt Manson
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Speaker 1: and all the girls that he was able to attract
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Speaker 1: to him, which when we're looking on the outside, makes
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Speaker 1: no sense. But this is a very well But I
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Speaker 1: see a big difference, Karen Stark. Karen, I see a
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Speaker 1: big difference, because I mean, you're the shrink, not me.
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Speaker 1: You're You're the one with all those degrees I'm just
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Speaker 1: a trial lawyer. But Frank Parlotte with me former nexting publicist,
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Speaker 1: the journalists that broke the story and has a site
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Speaker 1: called art Voice. Frank, there's a big difference between taking
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Speaker 1: in a teen homeless team girl who's already addicted to
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Speaker 1: drugs and a Hollywood star, not just one, but several.
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Speaker 1: Somehow this guy, uh Ranieri, Keith Ranieri, managed to brainwash,
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Speaker 1: you know, powerful and educated and wealthy women. So they're
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Speaker 1: in these grueling classes about questioning their beliefs. How does
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Speaker 1: it go, Frank Pearlmatota to getting branded with a hot
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Speaker 1: iron on your pelvic region. Well, you have to consider
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Speaker 1: that it took nine years from Elson Mac's first entree
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Speaker 1: into the cult to the day she was branded and
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Speaker 1: began to brand other women, nine long years of hypnotic conduction.
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Speaker 1: So to Alexa dress Chuck investigation of Reporter with Writer
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Speaker 1: online dot com, what starts as a woman's empowerment group
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Speaker 1: with a facade of normalcy ends with sex trafficking and
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Speaker 1: literally branding women physically. And these women were expected and
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Speaker 1: impressured by Alison and and Keith into having sex with Keith.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't just Alison and Keith was all of
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Speaker 1: the women and that's what and they were they were told,
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Speaker 1: and the indictment revealed that they were threatened with physical
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Speaker 1: force and violence if they didn't submit to this, that
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Speaker 1: they would be physically harmed if they didn't submit to
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Speaker 1: have sex with with Keith, and then the branding they
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Speaker 1: were really lied to. These women were told that joining
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Speaker 1: this organization into the the upper levels of the of
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Speaker 1: the club Splash Cold, that they would just get a
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Speaker 1: small tattoo. And the first one that came out and
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Speaker 1: said I had I was fine with a small tattoo.
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Speaker 1: But instead they were taken into a room. They were
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Speaker 1: placed on a massage to table uh face up. Three
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Speaker 1: people held them. One person held each leg and the
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Speaker 1: other held their shoulders and their arms held them down
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Speaker 1: and this these initials were carrised into their body, burned,
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Speaker 1: burned into their body, and it literally took between like
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Speaker 1: twenty and thirty minutes. One of the women who came
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Speaker 1: forward said, I disassociated. I felt like I left my body.
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Speaker 1: I wept the entire time because it was so awful.
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Speaker 1: What were the initials that were branded into the women?
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Speaker 1: Keith R in years initials are in this branding. It's
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Speaker 1: a K and an R design And in fact he
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Speaker 1: has said, well, what if if they were Bill Gates
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Speaker 1: as initials, you wouldn't care. But because their mind, you're
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Speaker 1: upset about it. It's horrific that these women were burned
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Speaker 1: this way. Well, I would care no matter who initials
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Speaker 1: were branded into my skin or my daughter's skin branded
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Speaker 1: to Joseph Scott Morgan, forensics expert and professor of forensics
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Speaker 1: at Jack's State University. You know, Joseph Scott Morgan. Long
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Speaker 1: story short, no jury is going to believe a woman
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Speaker 1: willingly submitted to being branded with a hot iron a
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Speaker 1: series of initials whose initials still remain to be seen.
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Speaker 1: That is your prime forensic evidence right there. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: this is not something that's going to be going away. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's branded into the skin. It it creates this this
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Speaker 1: nasty looking kind of key. Lloyd scar I've seen these
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Speaker 1: on gang members, uh primarily, and it's really interesting, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: you paralleled this earlier talking about gang membership. One of
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Speaker 1: the things that some gangs and even fraternal organizations will
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Speaker 1: will do is take a uh take a coat hanger
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Speaker 1: for instance, and bended into a particular shape heat superheated
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Speaker 1: and then branded in and um. And it's really interesting
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Speaker 1: that that these uh, these women are so beat down
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Speaker 1: at this point mentally and emotionally where they get them
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Speaker 1: to this point where he the leader obviously feels comfortable
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Speaker 1: with doing this to them, and they allow it to
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Speaker 1: a certain degree to be done to them because they're
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Speaker 1: they're staying within this environment. It's almost like it's like
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Speaker 1: all norms have been stripped away. Of course this is
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Speaker 1: more CAREN's area, but yeah, yeah, it is. It is something.
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Speaker 1: It is a unique identifier that has left behind that
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Speaker 1: will be connected back to them when and if this
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Speaker 1: thing makes it the court, and I think it will,
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Speaker 1: you know too. And Bremner, high profile Seattle lawyer who
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Speaker 1: has been at the forefront of so many many renowned cases.
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Speaker 1: And Bremner, in what universe is it suddenly okay to
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Speaker 1: hold a woman down by force and brand her with
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Speaker 1: a hot iron. I mean, at any point didn't these
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Speaker 1: people go, WHOA, this is so wrong. I gotta it
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Speaker 1: out of here. Well, I mean it's just so alarming
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Speaker 1: and amazing. And you know what these cults that somebody does.
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Speaker 1: I think Karen mentioned the Manson cult. I mean they
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Speaker 1: went out and killed for him, and I don't we
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Speaker 1: don't understand it. You know, at some point you say,
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Speaker 1: I've got to get out of here. But now they're
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Speaker 1: branded in some way submissive, and there's so many felonies here.
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Speaker 1: Like Jessic Scott Morgan just said, this case, I think
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Speaker 1: we'll see court, and I hope it sees it sooner
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Speaker 1: rather than later. With this recent arrest, Well we'll see.
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Speaker 1: But you're right about that. Am Bremner the star now
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Speaker 1: uh formally charged Alison mac the star of the super
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Speaker 1: superhero hit series small Ville, about Superman Allison max bizarre blog,
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Speaker 1: she had detailed life and an alleged sex cult. And
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Speaker 1: while she says, what it seems like it has been
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Speaker 1: a lifetime in here already, it's not going to matter
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Speaker 1: as to her feelings about if she wanted to get out,
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Speaker 1: because her actions belive that she was taking part, according
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Speaker 1: to the state, in recruiting and using young girls women
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Speaker 1: in a sex cult where they were physically branded with
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Speaker 1: a hot iron. I want you to hear on ABC's
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty a report on this this group, this cult
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Speaker 1: next hum and it's right here in our country, and
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Speaker 1: there are Hollywood stars and wealthy educated women as part
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Speaker 1: of it. Take a Listen to this, including former members
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Speaker 1: as they describe being stripped, naked, blindfolded, tattooed, and abused.
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Speaker 1: Listen to ABC five women summoned to a house outside Albany,
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Speaker 1: New York, one night this past March. Sarah Edmondson says
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Speaker 1: she was one of them, willingly participating in a strange
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Speaker 1: initiation ritual led by a woman who told everyone to
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Speaker 1: take off their clothes and put on a blindfold. Let
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Speaker 1: us in blindfolded, and sat us in a semicircle fuck naked,
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Speaker 1: no clothes on a chepskin rug, Like, could you could
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Speaker 1: that be any weirder? No, it could not be any weirder.
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Speaker 1: We were all, you know, my goodness, what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: This is so weird. Weird doesn't begin to cover it.
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Speaker 1: Sarah told authority she thought they were there to get tattoos. Instead,
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Speaker 1: she says, they found out they were all going to
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Speaker 1: be branded. It sounds like a horror movie. It was
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Speaker 1: a horror movie. It was the most inhumane, horrific way
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Speaker 1: to treat anybody. What was that like? It was worse
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Speaker 1: than childbirth. It was worse than childbirth. It was. Imagine
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Speaker 1: a hot laser dragged to crash your fledge for thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes without anesthetic. You are here. I'm Nancy Graciss Crime
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Speaker 1: Stores with an incredible story, almost too hard to believe.
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Speaker 1: A Hollywood star, along with wealthy and educated women take
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Speaker 1: part in a sex trafficking cult where women are actually
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Speaker 1: branded and it's all happening right under our noses. And
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Speaker 1: these are educated, uh, well to do people that get
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Speaker 1: sucked into this. These are not homeless people that have
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Speaker 1: nowhere else to go, and nobody misses them. No one
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Speaker 1: knows what's happening. No, these are people with families, with income,
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Speaker 1: with education. You were just listening to ABC's twenty and
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Speaker 1: a report on Nexium. It's spelled in x I v
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Speaker 1: M and with me is the former publicist for Nexium
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Speaker 1: who broke the story, journalist Frank Parlotta. You can find
24:03
Speaker 1: him on art Voice online. Frank, I still don't understand
24:09
Speaker 1: how women were brainwashed into thinking this was okay. As
24:12
Speaker 1: now charges of sex trafficking are going down, where do
24:17
Speaker 1: those from? Where do those charges stand? Well? The charges
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Speaker 1: could have been so far revealed in the indictment and
24:25
Speaker 1: there will be superseding indictments coming soon. I am convinced
24:30
Speaker 1: emanate from two witnesses, and there are others, but strictly speaking,
24:37
Speaker 1: the indictment speaks of the Jane Joe one and the
24:41
Speaker 1: Jane Joe number two. Both of these were escaped slaves
24:45
Speaker 1: from the sex culture who told their horrifying stories first
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Speaker 1: to me, and then I encourage them to go to
24:56
Speaker 1: the FBI, who tell their entire story, which they go ahead, Frank.
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Speaker 1: Their horror emanated primarily from this, And this is a
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Speaker 1: secret that many don't yet understand. It just didn't start
25:09
Speaker 1: with Brandy. It began by the procurement, the assiduous procurement
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Speaker 1: by Allison mac of blackmail worthy material. So the slippery
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Speaker 1: slope occurred where you began as a women's empowerment, you
25:28
Speaker 1: were brainwashed, You gave blackmail worthy material to Allison and
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Speaker 1: Keith R. Neary, and suddenly you found that what you
25:37
Speaker 1: thought was voluntary no longer became voluntary. But of course,
25:43
Speaker 1: so let me understand, that's Alexis Tourez Chuck writar online
25:47
Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter. This sex cult Nexium, which allegedly
25:53
Speaker 1: forces women to have relations with its leader and brands them.
25:59
Speaker 1: We believe with his initials and others um are allegedly
26:06
Speaker 1: unquote war mode going to battle to save Keith Ranieri,
26:11
Speaker 1: their leader and Smallville actress Alison mack. Now, I'm trying
26:17
Speaker 1: to figure out what exactly the allegations are Alexis terres
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Speaker 1: Chuck as far as the sex trafficking goes, what is
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Speaker 1: the origin of the claim? So for sex trafficking, she
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Speaker 1: has been accused of recruiting these women from all over
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Speaker 1: and taking them to different places to have sex with
26:34
Speaker 1: Keith ran here. And what they're saying is they used
26:37
Speaker 1: either force or coercion. She excuse me, used forced or
26:40
Speaker 1: coercion to make them have sex with him. And so
26:44
Speaker 1: they traveled all over the world, this group did. And
26:48
Speaker 1: in fact, when she the last video we saw of
26:51
Speaker 1: Alison mac is she Keith was arrested in March in Mexico.
26:56
Speaker 1: They've been hiding out in a very very very high
26:59
Speaker 1: end home in Mexico and the authorities captured him. Allison
27:03
Speaker 1: jumps in a car and there is a video of
27:06
Speaker 1: her chasing the police and chasing the car that Keith
27:10
Speaker 1: is in in hysterics. Basically, she is so upset that
27:15
Speaker 1: her leader has been arrested, and she is She's not
27:19
Speaker 1: somebody who was like, oh, yeah, this is right, this
27:21
Speaker 1: is bad. This guy has finally been arrested, Thank goodness
27:23
Speaker 1: for me. No, she is convinced that this guy is
27:26
Speaker 1: being being treated unfairly, and so she was chasing the
27:29
Speaker 1: police down as if to try to rescue him from
27:31
Speaker 1: the cops. And well, as a matter of fact, take
27:34
Speaker 1: a listen to Hollywood star Alison Mack as she is
27:37
Speaker 1: interviewing the alleged cult leader about his program that quote
27:42
Speaker 1: helps actors be better actors. Okay, listen, I wanted to
27:48
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Source, which is the
27:49
Speaker 1: company that you've created for actors, artists, people who want
27:53
Speaker 1: to get better at expressing in general. Um. Several years ago,
27:59
Speaker 1: when we first met, I had said to you, would
28:01
Speaker 1: you be willing to work with me and becoming a
28:03
Speaker 1: better actress, and you said, yeah, you know, we'll talk
28:06
Speaker 1: about it. And then several years later you you started
28:09
Speaker 1: working with me and a bunch of other people to
28:11
Speaker 1: develop a curriculum specifically for actors. And UM, I've been
28:15
Speaker 1: talking to different people about it in like different actors
28:18
Speaker 1: and things like that, enrolling them in the idea of
28:20
Speaker 1: coming and participating and saying what you've created, because it's
28:24
Speaker 1: been incredible for me. Um And a lot of the
28:27
Speaker 1: questions that they ask is like, well, how is it
28:28
Speaker 1: different than miser How is it difference than stuff Adler
28:30
Speaker 1: or whatever? And a lot of what the answers that
28:34
Speaker 1: I've given have been like, well, it's sort of, it's
28:37
Speaker 1: sort of it's a partnership with that because it gives
28:40
Speaker 1: you the foundation underneath all of the technical skills and
28:43
Speaker 1: all of the kind of traditional approaches to acting that
28:47
Speaker 1: we've had throughout time. Um, like, it really gets to
28:52
Speaker 1: the core of the actor so that you can work
28:55
Speaker 1: on the raw material and then everything else that they
28:57
Speaker 1: produce is affected by that. But I don't know, Like
29:01
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know what your perception is of the
29:04
Speaker 1: curriculum that you created and where it came from. And well,
29:07
Speaker 1: it comes from a mix of human behavior and philosophy
29:12
Speaker 1: and also really technical communication. You know, acting is all
29:18
Speaker 1: about a type of communication and being not only more
29:24
Speaker 1: aware but more congruent in your communication. So you want
29:30
Speaker 1: people to, if you will, to be a bit common
29:36
Speaker 1: in what I say. You want people to buy your
29:38
Speaker 1: character and the way they buy it, is they find
29:44
Speaker 1: it congruent and authentic. The questions I mean, if someone
29:48
Speaker 1: could be totally congruent in a character and express authentically
29:53
Speaker 1: through that character, so they could do any sort of
29:56
Speaker 1: a scene or whatever, certainly that actor could do any thing.
30:01
Speaker 1: So the question is how do you achieve that? How
30:04
Speaker 1: do you achieve congruence, how do you achieve authenticity? And
30:08
Speaker 1: I think there are many roads to do this. The
30:11
Speaker 1: thing that I think makes the source a bit unique
30:15
Speaker 1: is I come from a non acting background. You could say,
30:19
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm talking about. So that's that's
30:23
Speaker 1: good and bad. The good aspect is it comes from
30:27
Speaker 1: a behaviorist humanists sort of UM practical and philosophical background,
30:38
Speaker 1: dealing with communication, dealing with UM all sorts of things
30:44
Speaker 1: relating to the psychodynamics of of people and humans UM
30:52
Speaker 1: without being tainted by the current pedagogy of acting. And
31:00
Speaker 1: is both a good and a bad. The good is
31:03
Speaker 1: when you have something that comes in like that fresh,
31:06
Speaker 1: it provides a tool that goes outside of the box
31:10
Speaker 1: of all the normal tool sets. You know, any actor
31:13
Speaker 1: that wants to create a methodology of acting, especially if
31:17
Speaker 1: they know those other methodologies, they're influenced in a certain way,
31:21
Speaker 1: and that can be very, very good, but at times
31:25
Speaker 1: it's also good to have something that is not influenced
31:28
Speaker 1: in the normal way by that as if coming from
31:31
Speaker 1: another planet. So to some degree, the source it's not
31:37
Speaker 1: just created for actors. It's created for human communication. It's
31:41
Speaker 1: something that can be used in arbitration, it's something that
31:44
Speaker 1: can be used in negotiations, it's something that can be
31:46
Speaker 1: used in parenting, it's something that could be used in
31:49
Speaker 1: a love relationship. And it comes from that perspective, but
31:54
Speaker 1: does have a strong application to what you would call
31:58
Speaker 1: that authentic, gruent expression mhm. And it's not tainted by
32:05
Speaker 1: the other schools that are all extraordinary, is not it's
32:10
Speaker 1: not at all that they're not great, it's that this
32:13
Speaker 1: is different. As you hear Alison mac interviewing the cult leader,
32:19
Speaker 1: compare that the dichotomy of these victims describing being strip naked, blindfolded,
32:26
Speaker 1: and tattoos. Sarah says she devoted twelve years to Nexium,
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Speaker 1: recruiting hundreds of new members, rising through the organization, even
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Speaker 1: opening and running a center in Vancouver along the way,
32:39
Speaker 1: becoming best friends with Nancy Saltzman's daughter Lauren, who was
32:44
Speaker 1: made of honor at Sarah's wedding. She's like my therapist,
32:48
Speaker 1: and in the ranking system she's also above me. Then
32:51
Speaker 1: in March, after all their years together in Nexium, Sarah says,
32:55
Speaker 1: Laura approached her about a new and mysterious opportunity. She said,
32:59
Speaker 1: I want to aviotue you to something that totally changed
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Speaker 1: my life. It was a secret sorority for women only,
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Speaker 1: life changing, but top secret. And the first step is
33:10
Speaker 1: making a valve obedience to her as me being a
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Speaker 1: slave and her being my masters. The word slave, of course, yeah.
33:21
Speaker 1: And objected every stage of the way, and she said,
33:23
Speaker 1: it's just a it's a metaphor, it's a guru disciple.
33:27
Speaker 1: Then came the night that Sarah says she and four
33:30
Speaker 1: other women submitted one by one to being branded by
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Speaker 1: this woman, she says Dr Danielle Roberts. And then the
33:39
Speaker 1: woman on the table screamed out in pain, you know,
33:42
Speaker 1: twisted and turn and yelled, and the woman I was with,
33:46
Speaker 1: holding her legs down, we looked at each other and
33:47
Speaker 1: we just wept. Why didn't you let go and run
33:50
Speaker 1: out of there, even naked? It didn't seem like a
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Speaker 1: choice at the time. She points two years of Nexium
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Speaker 1: training and all the indoctrination, all the years of women
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Speaker 1: are weak, women have no character. Now is the time
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Speaker 1: to prove I can do it, and I said. Sarah
34:05
Speaker 1: gives another explanation for her obedience. Before she joined the
34:09
Speaker 1: Secret Sorority and got branded. She says, Lawrence Saltzman had
34:13
Speaker 1: demanded highly compromising collateral. You need to provide something to
34:18
Speaker 1: me that I'm going to hold forever, just to confirm
34:21
Speaker 1: and to and to solidify that you'll never share the secret.
34:24
Speaker 1: So what did your giver? So I gave her a
34:27
Speaker 1: written confessional and she she says, for her and some others,
34:31
Speaker 1: the price of admission to the secret group also included
34:34
Speaker 1: providing nude photos of themselves. So understand when women do that,
34:38
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to say no, I'm not doing this
34:40
Speaker 1: because the person has something of you with them. Instantly,
34:44
Speaker 1: all my alarm bells are going, absolutely so why did
34:47
Speaker 1: you do it? I did it because I trusted her.
34:49
Speaker 1: That was from ABC's report on Nexium. This is how
34:54
Speaker 1: the whole thing works. Um during arrayment, a grand jury
35:00
Speaker 1: herd testimony from former members of the cult. They claim
35:06
Speaker 1: the Hollywood start MAC would lure young ladies into joining
35:11
Speaker 1: the cult cult and then demand they turned over quote collateral.
35:15
Speaker 1: The collateral would be compromising photos or their personal assets,
35:21
Speaker 1: money belongings, car titles. That collateral was then used by MAC,
35:26
Speaker 1: according to the grand jury, to control the women who
35:30
Speaker 1: were transformed into branded sex slaves. And this is all
35:36
Speaker 1: from court filings. Now the founder and Eery was arrested
35:41
Speaker 1: the way Alexis Reschuck just told us. In Mexico, the
35:47
Speaker 1: States said that during the past twenty years, Ranieri established
35:53
Speaker 1: a series of self help programs self help programs. They
36:01
Speaker 1: had centers, so they were getting a lot of money
36:05
Speaker 1: funding in the US, Mexico, Canada, South America. And it
36:10
Speaker 1: was a pyramid scheme. The courses cost thousands of dollars
36:16
Speaker 1: and the people that took them were then encouraged to
36:20
Speaker 1: pay for other classes and recruit other people to take
36:23
Speaker 1: the classes so they could rise up within the ranks.
36:27
Speaker 1: It's like, um, it's a pyramid scheme. And Bremner it's
36:32
Speaker 1: like a Ponzi scheme. And Bremner Seattle lawyer explained what
36:36
Speaker 1: I mean by pyramid. Basically, it's like ami or any
36:39
Speaker 1: of these kinds of things. That you just keep building
36:41
Speaker 1: membership by using your members to go out and get
36:43
Speaker 1: other people and just keep building that pyramid um. There's
36:46
Speaker 1: a lot of financial ones like that too, but this
36:48
Speaker 1: is human trafficking and it's just self perpetuating, and here
36:52
Speaker 1: it's criminal. And what they're also claiming is that Alison Might,
36:57
Speaker 1: the Hollywood star, would force women to become ex slaves
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Speaker 1: after they joined the group by threatening to drain all
37:04
Speaker 1: their assets or release those compromising photos. So what would
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Speaker 1: happen Frank Parlotto with me the former Nexium publicist, the
37:14
Speaker 1: journalists that first broke the story, you can find him
37:16
Speaker 1: at art Voice, What would happen if someone try to
37:21
Speaker 1: stop and leave the cult? Well, they threatened them with
37:25
Speaker 1: the release of their quote unquote collateral. It all exploded
37:30
Speaker 1: last year around May of two thousand seventeen, when the
37:33
Speaker 1: secret part of Nexium they call it dust and that
37:38
Speaker 1: stands for Dominus obsequious Sororium, or the master over the
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Speaker 1: slave women became revealed to them external group of Nexium,
37:49
Speaker 1: the women who had not yet been branded, and that
37:53
Speaker 1: caused kind of chaotic explosion with the Nexium and a
37:57
Speaker 1: rapid exodus. L Lion stuck with the group, as did
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Speaker 1: the core slaves, and even when the women's were threatened,
38:07
Speaker 1: some of them, like Sarah Edmondson, I decided to leave
38:11
Speaker 1: any way and risk the collateral being released. It's just
38:16
Speaker 1: amazing that this is happening right here under our own noses. Guys,
38:20
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with Alison mc the Hollywood star,
38:23
Speaker 1: she played Chloe in Smallville, and that was the hit
38:26
Speaker 1: show about Clark Kent, Superman, being raised in small vol
38:30
Speaker 1: Kansas before he was known as Superman, and it lasted
38:34
Speaker 1: ten seasons. She was also in Aunt Bully, she was
38:39
Speaker 1: in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. She's been in a lot
38:43
Speaker 1: of movies and is very well known in the in
38:47
Speaker 1: the celebrity community. And then there's the Seagram's heiress as well,
38:50
Speaker 1: who now apparently is um taking over a max position.
38:57
Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. According to Emotional Materials, even
39:01
Speaker 1: as a child, Raney was destined for greatness, speaking in
39:05
Speaker 1: full sentences at age one, reading at age two, judo
39:10
Speaker 1: champ and concert level pianists. At thirteen, I was told
39:16
Speaker 1: that he was one of the smartest men in the
39:18
Speaker 1: world and just an incredible man. With that, I'm going
39:22
Speaker 1: to pass the microphone over to Mr Neary. So incredible.
39:26
Speaker 1: It seems that an ordinary name just won't do. Participants
39:30
Speaker 1: say they're taught to call Ranieri Vanguard. Vanguard. Yes, Vanguard
39:35
Speaker 1: is the name that we referred to Keith as because
39:38
Speaker 1: he is a leader of a philosophical movement. The second
39:42
Speaker 1: highest ranking member of Nexium is a woman named Nancy Saltzman.
39:46
Speaker 1: Former members say she is known as Prefact, so Keith
39:49
Speaker 1: and Nancy Vanguarden Prefect. At the heart of Nexium training
39:53
Speaker 1: is something called intensives, which former members say are like
39:57
Speaker 1: group therapy, running as long as four teen hours a
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Speaker 1: day for up to sixteen days. Edmondson says she attended
40:05
Speaker 1: her first in two thousand five, when she was twenty seven.
40:09
Speaker 1: I left my five day my initial training, as if
40:12
Speaker 1: a veil had been lifted and I could see things
40:15
Speaker 1: more clearly in my life. I could communicate better with people.
40:18
Speaker 1: That sounds fantastic, Yeah, it was great. Classes are invitation
40:22
Speaker 1: only and they are not cheap. A five day intensive
40:26
Speaker 1: will run you three thousand dollars. A sixteen day is
40:30
Speaker 1: seventy hundred. In promotional videos and materials that claims more
40:34
Speaker 1: than sixteen thousand people worldwide have taken Nexium courses. Many
40:40
Speaker 1: testify to its effectiveness. I learned through the tools that
40:44
Speaker 1: there was a different way. Sarah was recruited into the
40:47
Speaker 1: group by filmmaker Mark Vicente. What was it that was
40:50
Speaker 1: so compelling to you? Just a way to break down
40:53
Speaker 1: and understand certain things in my life in a way
40:56
Speaker 1: I never had before. Ranieri is fiercely protective of his
40:59
Speaker 1: teaching is requiring participants to sign confidentiality agreements. Everyone signed it,
41:04
Speaker 1: and if you didn't sign it, you couldn't take the curriculum.
41:07
Speaker 1: We do know that Nexium has its own lingo. Students
41:11
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41:16
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42:38
Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace, and we are shocked about a cult
42:45
Speaker 1: right here under our own noses that has used women
42:50
Speaker 1: as sex slaves after branding them. And these are educated
42:56
Speaker 1: and many of them will to do women, some of
42:58
Speaker 1: them Hollywood st ours, in fact, apparently even trying to
43:03
Speaker 1: recruit Hermione, that's Emma Watson from the Harry Potter series,
43:08
Speaker 1: trying to recruit Kelly Clarkson. Of course, Harmione and Kelly
43:12
Speaker 1: Clarkson we're not involved in any way, but so many
43:16
Speaker 1: other women fell for it as it was first noted,
43:20
Speaker 1: it had the appearance of normalcy okay, and women got
43:26
Speaker 1: into it as a women empowerment group. But I want
43:28
Speaker 1: you to listen to Hollywood star Alison Mack. She is
43:33
Speaker 1: on YouTube and she is raving about a women's empowerment group.
43:41
Speaker 1: Here she's calling it by different initials, but it's Nexium.
43:46
Speaker 1: So when someone's being authentic, you get the feeling that
43:50
Speaker 1: not only that there's a person there in the moment,
43:53
Speaker 1: but somehow you you reach into their very essence and
43:56
Speaker 1: you you meet a unique individual. I don't know why
44:01
Speaker 1: that makes me want to cry. It's beautiful. I think
44:05
Speaker 1: it's sorry, okay, so but why why do you think
44:11
Speaker 1: that's so emotional for me? I don't know. I think
44:14
Speaker 1: because it seems like it's a something that I just
44:20
Speaker 1: I feel like I want it authenticity and I and
44:24
Speaker 1: I think authenticity. I think that there's a relaxed kind
44:31
Speaker 1: of exchange that happens between people when there's no pretense,
44:35
Speaker 1: And it seems like to me, those are like the
44:38
Speaker 1: most moving, most meaningful most important moments in life. I'm
44:43
Speaker 1: not disagreeing with you. Why, Yeah, it's funny. I mean
44:46
Speaker 1: it feels like it's a silly way. It's like that's
44:49
Speaker 1: where love is, Like that's where like two I guess
44:54
Speaker 1: it's the existential thing. Like it feels like two souls
44:57
Speaker 1: can come together without any sort of barrier country and
45:01
Speaker 1: somehow there's completion or not a loneness or a transcendence
45:05
Speaker 1: in some way. That feels like it's the root of
45:10
Speaker 1: my motivation and a lot of all the things that
45:14
Speaker 1: I do in life. And and I guess that's probably
45:18
Speaker 1: part of the reason why I have such an a
45:21
Speaker 1: session with art and creativity and things like that, because
45:25
Speaker 1: it feels like the sole purpose of those things is
45:28
Speaker 1: to generate that kind of an experience for people. You know,
45:33
Speaker 1: Karen Stark, New York psychologist, Karen, when you're in so
45:36
Speaker 1: deep in something, I guess it seems normal to you.
45:38
Speaker 1: It seems normal to you, and it seems normal to
45:41
Speaker 1: the people around you, and maybe for people who are
45:46
Speaker 1: vulnerable for the first time, they get a strong feeling
45:49
Speaker 1: of belonging to something. It always involves a charismatic leader,
45:54
Speaker 1: so that you're enticed and you feel like you're getting
45:58
Speaker 1: the special attention. She talks about Alice and math, the
46:01
Speaker 1: fact that he was her mentor that he mentored her
46:05
Speaker 1: in acting and the skills of acting, and they made
46:07
Speaker 1: it all sound very legitimate. You took courses, there was
46:11
Speaker 1: a curriculum. It became extremely enticing to be a part
46:16
Speaker 1: of this group, particularly because there were so many people
46:19
Speaker 1: who were celebrities or who had a great deal of money,
46:23
Speaker 1: and you begin to question, well, if they why would
46:26
Speaker 1: they be a member of this group if it were
46:28
Speaker 1: not legitimate. We are talking about a cult that started
46:32
Speaker 1: in Albany, New York, upstate New York, with connections all
46:37
Speaker 1: over the world. Now it poses as a self help
46:40
Speaker 1: organization to empower women, and it rides the coattails of
46:45
Speaker 1: girl power. It ends up in the spotlight when the
46:49
Speaker 1: New York Times investigation exposed that the women in the
46:53
Speaker 1: group were referred to as slaves and subjected to ritual humiliations.
47:01
Speaker 1: They starved themselves. They were forced to starve themselves to
47:05
Speaker 1: achieve the cult leaders beauty ideal and to have repeated
47:12
Speaker 1: relations with him. Okay, Alexis Terres Chuck writer online investigative reporter.
47:20
Speaker 1: Where is he right now, Keith Ranieri. He is in custody.
47:23
Speaker 1: He was arrested in March and extradited back to the
47:26
Speaker 1: United States, so he is awaiting trial. The interesting thing
47:30
Speaker 1: is Alison mac got released from jail, and according to
47:34
Speaker 1: court paper, she is working with federal prosecutors on a pleabial,
47:38
Speaker 1: so she might actually turn on him after having been
47:43
Speaker 1: his right hand women for all these years. You know,
47:45
Speaker 1: I'm noticing something to Anne Bremner, Seattle lawyer, and um,
47:50
Speaker 1: just like we saw with Harvey Weinstein, you know, he
47:53
Speaker 1: would have other women do his dirty work, set up meetings,
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Speaker 1: set up quote interviews with Hollywood starlettson women would see
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Speaker 1: another woman thinking, oh this is okay. Do you see
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Speaker 1: that same thing? According to prosecutors working here, Because according
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Speaker 1: to U S Attorney more A Penza, Alison Mack was
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Speaker 1: one of the top members of this scheme, which was
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Speaker 1: designed to give Ranieri sex slaves under the guys, a
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Speaker 1: female empowerment, and that she max starved women until they
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Speaker 1: fit Ranieri's sexual feminine ideal. So your lure a woman
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Speaker 1: is lured in by another woman, she thinks it's safe,
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Speaker 1: then it's too late. Well, That's why I'd be so
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Speaker 1: hard to have hers and to turn witness in a
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Speaker 1: case like this. I mean, it's just so abhorrent. You
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Speaker 1: know what she's done in the name of women's empowerment
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Speaker 1: during this mee to the tsunami in so many ways
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Speaker 1: that we're seeing and and HER's talking about women's empowerment.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all criminal all the way around, and
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Speaker 1: she's going to try and escape down she's out on it,
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Speaker 1: a million dollar bill, and he's still in custoding. She
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Speaker 1: may well turned to Frank Parlato, former Nexium publicist, founder
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Speaker 1: of Art Voice and the journalists that broke the story. Frank,
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Speaker 1: how did you become involved with Nexium as their publicist?
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Speaker 1: But I was originally retained to work for them by
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Speaker 1: Claire Broffman, the Sea Grim's heiress, who funds the entire
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Speaker 1: operation of Nexium. She funded all of the branding and
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Speaker 1: the cult network, and I was retained back in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven to try to help them um get
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Speaker 1: a better public persona. Even at that time people in
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Speaker 1: the media were labeling this group as a call Well, Frank,
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Speaker 1: how did you get out of it? Why? I had
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Speaker 1: uncovered the teeth were nearing the head of the cult.
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Speaker 1: He had embezzled or swindled Claire Broffman out of one
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. And I approached Claire and I told
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Speaker 1: her that her money was missing and that Keith was
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Speaker 1: in charge of that money. A hundred million disappeared, and
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Speaker 1: she didn't really want to accept that um finding, which
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Speaker 1: you know later wound up being proven to be true.
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Speaker 1: She was contented and swindling her on a hundred fired thing.
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Speaker 1: There is also alleged connections to um. The twenty six
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Speaker 1: year old daughter of Dynasty actress Katherine Oxenburg and the
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Speaker 1: granddaughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. We're talking about alleged
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Speaker 1: claims that India Oxenburg, the twenty six year old daughter
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Speaker 1: and granddaughter, was brainwashed by this call. She's beautiful and
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Speaker 1: she fits exactly the physical description that Rank Parlotto and
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Speaker 1: Alexis terres Chuck are describing. The tall, thin blonde again,
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Speaker 1: the twenty six year old daughter of the dynasty star
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Speaker 1: Katherine Oxenburg, the granddaughter of a princess in Yugoslavia, was
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Speaker 1: hauling plastic tubs full of restaurant fare. Uh she toiled
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Speaker 1: at menial tasks and was allegedly a sex cult slave.
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Speaker 1: This is incredible to me. Her family allegedly claiming they
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Speaker 1: believe she was indeed brainwashed by this leader, Keith ra
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Speaker 1: Neery Um. He would lure young waif like women and
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Speaker 1: groom them, brand them with a hot iron. It's it's
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Speaker 1: almost more than I can believe is happening here in
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Speaker 1: our country under of guys, the disguise, the shroud, the
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Speaker 1: facade of normalcy, or once again, women are being persecuted
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Speaker 1: and mistreated. And I do not care how much money
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Speaker 1: you have, or how rich you are, or how well
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Speaker 1: connected you are. You're going to jail. Ranieri and Mac
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Speaker 1: We're onto you. So help me. If they cut a
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Speaker 1: deal with her, I don't care what she started. They
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Speaker 1: are wrong. She needs to go to jail and rot
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Speaker 1: right along with Keith Raniery for what they have done
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Speaker 1: to these young girls. Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off,
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Speaker 1: goodbye friend,