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Former television actress Allison Mack was released from federal prison early after being involved in a sex-trafficking case by the cult-like group NXIVM. The 40-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves within the NXIVM organization. Online records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Mack was released Monday from a federal prison in Dublin, California, near San Francisco. Mack managed to reduce her prison sentence by cooperating with federal authorities in the sex-trafficking case.
She was working with cult leader Keith Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years in prison after being convicted on sex-trafficking charges. The former actress -- best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend in "Smallville," -- assisted prosecutors by detailing how Raniere created the private organization. Raniere branded women with his initials, brainwashed and forced them to have sex with him. While the actress was initially facing between 14 and 17.5 years in prison, Mack expressed her "remorse and guilt" before her sentencing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, at the time. "I made choices I will forever regret," she said while reading her statement to the court in June 2021. "I am sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM.
I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man. From the deepest part of my heart and soul, I am sorry." Mack was arrested in April 2018 on federal charges for her involvement in NXIVM.
She pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges in April 2019. Other members of the cult-like group included Clare Bronfman, heiress of the
.The 1975 has cancelled upcoming shows in Taiwan and Indonesia after being officially “blacklisted” from Malaysia after frontman Matty Healy openly defied the country’s draconian anti-LGBTQ laws while headlining a musical festival in Kuala Lumpur.
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Smallville, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 for manipulating women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. She previously pleaded guilty in 2019.According to online records by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Mack was released on Monday (July 3) from federal prison in Dublin, California.Mack avoided a longer prison sentence by cooperating with prosecutors and providing information on Raniere, including an audio recording of the cult leader instructing her about the branding ceremonies for the recruited DOS slaves.As reported by the New York newspaper Albany Times Union, Mack apologised prior to her sentencing for her involvement in the group.
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Actress Allison Mack has been released from jail early after being sentenced to three years behind bars for her involvement in the sex cult NXIVM.
Allison Mack, the former actress and convicted sex cult member, has been released from prison, ET has learned. According to online records maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the 40-year-old was released from FCI Dublin, a low-security federal prison in the East Bay area outside San Francisco, on Monday, July 3, after serving nearly two of her three-year sentence for charges related to her involvement in NXIVM. Mack first entered prison in September 2021, and served out her jail time at the same facility where both Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were sent in 2019 and 2020, respectively, following convictions their for participation in the college admission bribery scandal.
Jordan Moreau Allison Mack, a former actor on “Smallville” who was a key member in leader Keith Raniere’s NXIVM cult, was released from prison on Monday after serving two years of her three-year sentence. She pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges in 2021. Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison in October 2020 on charges of sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and racketeering. Mack recruited and groomed women to the NXIVM cult, and Raniere took them as sexual partners. Some of the women were branded with Raniere’s initials and were sexually abused by him while they were members of the group. In Mack’s sentencing in June 2021, a federal judge called her an “essential accomplice” to Raniere.
According to the federal Bureau of Prisons records, Smallville actress Allison Mack was released from prison on Monday (July 3).