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[uneasy music]
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[Raniere]
You physically could rape.
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Really, the issue is, why won't
you let yourself go there?
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[India] Keith startedwhat he referred to as working on me,
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which was him performing oral sex.
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It was repeated ongoing sexual violation.
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[Raniere]
Next Saturday
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we will start doing enslavement exercises
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amongst people.
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So no more questions?
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[uneasy music]
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I was in a master/slavesecret society of women,
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which was called DOS.
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Allison Mack was my master,and I was her slave.
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-[laughing]
-[Raniere] Did you notice
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one of the women wasn't wearing panties?
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[India]
Keith said he was my grandmaster.
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You know, in some cultures,
people fought to die.
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I felt like I will die for Keith.
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Allison told me if I really wantedto commit to DOS,
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I would need to move to Albany.
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[Catherine]
She let go of all her furniture.
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She let go of her apartment.
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It was literally like
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she was leaving the planet.
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I noticed many
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of the women in Albany
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were losing weight like crazy.
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[India] Allison told mewe were going to be branded,
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and then she said that
it was time to brand my slaves.
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♪ ♪
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[India]
How do I get this off?
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[man]
We can give you some options.
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Sometimes there are none.
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I mean, over my 40 years
as a plastic surgeon,
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I haven't seen this type of brand.
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If you could sit up for me a little bit.
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I can't imagine what you've been through,
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so I'd be delighted to help you
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get past this deformity
that was inflicted on you.
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Will this pigment or the scar
ever go away, or will it--
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-Will I--
-[Sherman] No, I-it's almost--
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-It's two years now, you said?
-Yeah.
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This is- this is
what you see is what you're gonna have.
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[heavy music]
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[Sherman]
Well, I'm glad you had the courage
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to come in here. Having examined you,
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let me tell you what I would recommend.
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-[India] Okay.
-Just a quick question.
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-Yeah.
-How was this done?
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The procedure itself
was done without anesthesia.
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-No anesthesia?
-No.
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It was done with a cauterizing pen
by a doctor.
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-But in a--
-A physician?
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-A physician, yes.
-Wow.
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I was told that it would fade over time,
but I guess that's not the case.
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[Sherman] Well, it has faded,
but it's depigmented.
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There's no remedy for depigmentation
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except some type of excision,
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which is the surgical way of doing it.
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So, in other words, we'll take out
the area that was traumatized
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so all you have is a surgical scar.
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We can do it in stages.
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[India] What's the recovery time
for something like that?
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Like, if I was gonna do it in stages,
what would I be looking at?
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[Sherman] Well, first, we would take out
a piece of it and close it.
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Then you come back in another six months,
and you do it again.
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And another six months,
and you do it again.
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So this would take, like, a year?
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-Well, that depends upon how you heal.
-Wow, I didn't know that.
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There's no simple way
of getting around this,
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with this type of brand
that is so large that it would be,
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you know, done in stages.
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♪ ♪
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Ugh.
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[Catherine]
In April of 2017,
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I received a phone call
that changed everything.
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It was from Bonnie, Mark Vicente's wife,
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who had left NXIVM.
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She said, "You have to save India."
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And I was taken aback.
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I didn't know what she was talking about.
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I said, "Well, I've always assumed
that India would wake up on her own
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and leave of her own volition,"
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And she said, "No, you don't understand.
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She's not gonna leave
unless you intervene."
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And then she proceeded to unload
everything about DOS.
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And it was an absolute horror story.
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She said that DOS was basedon a master/slave arrangement,
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that India was a slave,but she was also a master.
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She told me that they were sleep-deprived,they were doing penances,
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and that they were starving the girls.
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She told me that some of the womenin the group were branded,
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and they think
that India's been branded, too.
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They were being branded notwith some Latin symbol of the elements,
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which is what they were told,
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but actually
with Keith Raniere's initials.
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And she said, "You know, I think
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"that India's being recruitedto have sex with Keith.
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I think they're all having sexwith Keith."
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I was terrified.
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This is nothing I could possibly imagine
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my child being involved in.
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I was the one who introduced her to NXIVM,
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and I was determined to get her out.
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[voice breaking]
And I was desperate.
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I was absolutely desperate.
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[India]
In April of 2017,
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I was about to turn 26,
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and I had been in NXIVM for six years
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and in DOS for a year and a half,
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Allison announcedthat the third line of DOS slaves
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was gonna be branded,
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and the ceremony was gonna be held
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in Albany in June,
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and it was going to include my slaves.
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The brand still representedsomething positive to me,
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but I didn't want to impose iton anybody else.
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But Allison was pushing me very hard.
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My slaves were living in Los Angeles,
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and I flew out therenot knowing how I was gonna handle it.
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My mom thought I was just coming outfor my birthday.
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My strategy was to get India
to come to Los Angeles
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under the guise
of celebrating her birthday,
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get her alone,
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and somehow convince her to leave NXIVM.
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But I'd never done anything duplicitous
with my daughter,
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and it just felt awful.
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[India]
When I was back home in LA,
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my hair was still falling out.
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My family started to make commentsabout my weight at that point, too,
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because they noticedthat I was getting thinner and thinner.
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I mentioned to my mom that I hadn't hadmy period in over a year.
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[Catherine]
Now, I know information
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that she doesn't know that I know,
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and so I immediately made
an appointment with the OBGYN.
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And I was just, like, praying
that she would let me take her.
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We got in the car,
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and we were driving down PCH, and I said,
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"Are you branded?"
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[India]
I didn't know how to react.
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I just kind of told her, yeah, I have.
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I was branded
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and that it was
a positive experience for me.
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I said, "Do you even know
what you're branded with?"
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[heavy music]
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[India] I told her that it wasa symbol of the elements.
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[Catherine]
I said, "No, it's not.
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It's Keith Raniere's initials.You're branded with his initials."
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I was like, "No, they're not."
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And then I totally blew it.
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I mean, everything I did, I blew it.
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I was warned, like, don't saythe brainwashing word
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and don't mention anything
to do with cults.
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But I couldn't help myself.
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I immediately said,
"I know you're brainwashed,
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and you're in a cult."
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[India]
It turned really bad really fast.
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I remember her being very emotional,
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telling me, "You're in danger.
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"You should not go back there.
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These people are not your friends."
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And I didn't believe her.
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[Catherine] I told her that if shehad given damaging collateral about me,
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I didn't want that to be the reasonthat she didn't feel she could leave.
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[India]
When she mentioned the collateral,
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I felt really afraid.
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[Catherine] The conversation in the cardidn't go well,
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and I dropped herat the doctor's office.
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♪ ♪
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[India]
The doctor started to ask me
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all these specific questionsabout my life in Albany,
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which I thought were really strange.
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Like, she was a gynecologist.
She wasn't a therapist.
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She then told me,
"Please don't go back to Albany,"
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and I started to feel afraid.
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All of a sudden, she movedmy hand out of the way
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and exposed my brand,
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and I thought, "What the fuck?"
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[Catherine] When I picked India upfrom the appointment,
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she was so angry.
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[India]
I said, "What the fuck?
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Did you tell the doctorthese things about me?"
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I just felt like I was being set up,
and it was really scary.
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I had told the OBGYN about my fear
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that India was sleep-deprived,
calorie-deprived,
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and that she may have been branded.
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I was hoping that the doctorwould be able to get through to her
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and warn her that she was compromising
her health and her well-being.
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I was--every--
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[sighs] Everything was sort of
a desperate measure
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to get her out.
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But, my God, this group had a--
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you know, had a hold on her.
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She said, "Just drop me offat the corner."
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[car door closes]
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And I really did thinkthat I'd lost her at that point.
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[India] I went back to Albany,and that was the beginning
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of my mother and I not speaking.
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[Lalich]
Cult interventions are very difficult.
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The person usually digs in much deeper.
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For India, it essentially reinforcedwhat the cult had told her,
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you know, that her mom was against her
being on this ethical path with NXIVM.
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And so that just made her click
into her loyalty to the cult.
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[Bernstein]
Predatory alienation
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is very prevalent in cults.
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People are made to feel suspicious
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of people outside of the group
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and are made to feel like
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it would be best for them
and safest for them
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to distance themselves from people outside
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who are ultimately a threat
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to the overall control of the leader.
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[Catherine] I was convinced thatI would be able to get through to India.
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It never even occurred to methat I would have no impact whatsoever.
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I tried to explain to her dads
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that I thought Indiawas in serious danger,
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and they thought I was overreacting,
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that I was alarmist.
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[India] I had convinced both of my dadsthat I was fine.
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They didn't like Keith,but they supported me,
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and that drove a wedge
in my family, for sure.
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I was left to fight this battle
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on my own.
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And I must have called
50 people within 24 hours,
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everybody from ex-Navy SEALs
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to detectives to judges, lawyers,
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New York State Police,
and local Albany FBI agents.
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They said, "Well, is she over 18?
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"Well, then she's considereda consenting adult,
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and there's nothing we can do."
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I did tell them that the factthat she had given damning collateral
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had removed her consent,
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but it fell on deaf ears.
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In the United States,
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there really are very few laws
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to do with coercive control.
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There are more laws in Europe.
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I was convincedthat my daughter was a victim,
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but I also realizedthat if she might be responsible
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for branding somebody,
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would that be the line crossed
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that would then take her out
of being seen as a victim?
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So I was so afraid that they would get her
to do something
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that would cross that line
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and that she could risk prosecution.
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[India]
At the time, I had no idea
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they were implicating me in crimes,
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but I didn't questionwhat I was told to do.
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When Allison Mack and Nicki Clynegot married in 2017,
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they made me be the witnessat their City Hall wedding ceremony,
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and they also wrote a documentthat I had to sign,
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saying that they were in loveand that the wedding was real.
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I didn't realize at the timewhat I had done was a federal crime.
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They were not in love, and this wasjust because Nicki was Canadian
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and she needed the marriage
in order to stay in the country.
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This whole thing
was orchestrated by Keith.
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I pour on the fuel, I light the match,
but I have no way--
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Don't know how it's gonna burn,
don't know how hot it's gonna burn.
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And I help it along as it goes.
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A gardener or a fire maker,
you know, one of those.
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Just keep it hot.
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-[man] Keep it hot.
-Yeah.
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[India] Mark Vicente left NXIVMin May 2017.
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He said that he wantedto pursue a film career
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and that moving to LAwould benefit both him
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and his wife, Bonnie.
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[Debora]
I told Mark Vicente
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that I got approached for DOS.
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He also heard about it froma couple of other members,
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and he left NXIVMpretty quickly after that.
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We were about to get married just before
we started Jness Tracks, and...
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[Jill]
Mark Vicente resigned,
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and then Sarah Edmondsonand her husband, Nippy,
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very publicly resigned.
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Nippy was a bit of a hothead.
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He confronted Lauren Salzman
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about his wife being brandedand was very loud about it,
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and everyone that was presentheard the whole thing.
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The definition of personal growthisn't getting fucking branded.
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This is criminal shit!
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Branding my fucking wife!
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[Jill]
It was not normal
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for especially people that senior
to just up and resign.
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And I was like, "What's going on?
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Is this about DOS?"
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I just, you know,
had a sneaking suspicion.
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I just remember thinking this whole thing
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was bound to blow up,
and, fuck, it's happening now.
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[Catherine]
Once I had gotten no traction
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with Albany law enforcementand FBI agents,
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I started working with people
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who had defected from NXIVM and DOS,
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and we reached out
to one of NXIVM's archenemies,
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somebody called Frank Parlato
of the Frank Report.
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[Ross]
Frank Parlato was originally
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Keith Raniere's PR guy,
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but, ultimately, NXIVM turned on him.
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They claimed that he took money,
and there were criminal charges.
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So Frank Parlato decided
that he would go against NXIVM.
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[Catherine]
When we reached out to Frank
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and we told him about the branding,
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he started posting on his website.
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[Kelly]
I got a call from someone who said,
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"Have you read the Frank Report?"
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And I said, "I don't know
what you're talking about."
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So she sent me a link, and she said,
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"Don't let anyone know
that I'm sending you this link."
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And I started readingabout collateral.
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And I thought, "Collateral?
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"Oh, my God, is this
what they were asking me to come into?"
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[Naomi]
When I started reading the Frank Report
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and seeing thingsfor what they truly were,
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it just made me feel ill.
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[India] Even within NXIVM,no members outside of DOS
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were supposed to know that it existed.
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As soon as the posts started coming up,
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there was a ton of questionsand a lot of chatter.
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My slaves left immediately after that,
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and none of them had to completethe seduction assignment or be branded.
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That was a huge relief.
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[Catherine]
A lot of DOS slaves started to defect,
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and I couldn't understand
why India wasn't leaving.
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And then it occurred to me,
these other women
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had not been indoctrinated
for as many years as India.
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They weren't under the influence
the way India was.
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[India] 2017, that wasmy sixth V-Week in a row.
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It was significantly smaller.
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There were maybe 150 people.
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We were told not to believe
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what was being posted online
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and that the people that left were weak
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and the people that stayed
were, like, the true believers.
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It was a test for us to show
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how much we cared about NXIVM
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and how much we believed in Keith.
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It's really hard
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to be around me for long periods of time.
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You're liable to end up
into all sorts of...
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I just, you know, my best friend
on one side is trouble,
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and my best friend
on my other side's chaos.
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[Lalich] Scandal may causesome people to leave,
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but it also seems to have the effect
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of making some people
even more true believers
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and more deeply entrenched.
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[Ross]
When Catherine Oxenberg called me,
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she was in a lot of pain.
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She would go to politicians,
to law enforcement,
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to the people in power and say,
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"This man is an outrage.
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And why aren't you doing
anything about it?"
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[Catherine]
Rick told me that it is the small cults
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that are the most dangerousand the most vulnerable
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to ending in suicide
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because they are the most tightly woundaround their leader.
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And I was like, "Oh, my God.
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"Please tell me that this
is not where this is headed,
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"that we can intervene
before there is something
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as horrific as losing my child."
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[unsettling music]
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[Ross] Why did the peopleat Jonestown not run away?
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They took the cyanide knowingthat it would kill them
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because they were obedient to Jim Jones.
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They were isolated.
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Their other voicesthat could have helped them
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had been shut out.
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That's why Catherine Oxenberg
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endeavored so hard
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to penetrate that bubble
that Keith Raniere created
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and that Clare Bronfman herself reinforced
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and that Allison Mack supervised.
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She wanted to penetrate
through that bubble
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and communicate with her daughter
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and say,
"Something is really terribly wrong."
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That was the moment in sheer frustration
that I made the decision...
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albeit the most agonizing decision
any parent can make,
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which was to go public
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so that perhaps law enforcement
would step in.
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[Meier]
If it had been just a story
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about some cultthat was ripping off people for money,
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it wouldn't have been of interest.
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But when you got to the branding,
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it sort of tipped over
into a whole nother dimension.
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[Catherine]
After I talked to Barry Meier,
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I literally spent two monthsbiting my nails,
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waiting for their story to be published.
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And then the Harvey Weinstein story broke.
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And then it was a domino effect,
because the MeToo movement went viral.
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And on the heels of the MeToo movement,
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suddenly the NXIVM story became relevant
and front-page news.
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And there's a picture of Sarah Edmondson
showing her brand.
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Horrifying allegations
against a self-help organization...
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[reporter] This woman saysshe was held down and branded...
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[reporter 2] He's accusedof turning female members
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into sex slaves.
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[reporter 3]
Members were branded and...
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It was very well read, you know,
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like, it had a million hits
or something on the website.
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[Yusko]
It was just a shocking development.
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The New York Times has more power
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than the Albany Times Union,
more readership,
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and when that story was published,
that just set something off.
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[reporter]
Among women reportedly initiated
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into the secret sisterhoodis India Oxenberg,
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the 26-year-old daughterof actress Catherine Oxenberg
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from TV's original Dynasty.
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Aah!
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It was like a bomb went off.
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It caused a mass exodusin the NXIVM community.
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The media startedreaching out to all of us.
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They even had reportersat the Albany Center.
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Allison and Nicki told us that they wanted
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anything related to DOS
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in a text, in an email, on Dropbox,
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any communication with Keith destroyed.
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We were frantic.
People were sending me links.
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People were texting me constantly.
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I was getting tons of calls, emails.
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My mom was quotedtalking about my period and my hair loss.
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I felt betrayed and embarrassed.
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Everybody else who was in that article
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chose to be in that article,
and I did not, and I was mad.
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I knew that once India
saw that I was in this article
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and I was talking about her
and her involvement in DOS
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that she would completely shun me.
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So it was bittersweet for me.
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When the media decided
to call it a sex cult,
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everyone who was part of NXIVMwas publicly linked to DOS.
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Like, I didn't have sex,but I was in a sex cult.
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There was just grief and anger and rage
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and embarrassment and shame.
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I locked myself in my apartment
for three months.
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[Meier]
The power of the story resided
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in the insanity of the abuses
that were going on.
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[reporter] The Times reportsthat five women were told
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to undress and lie on a massage table
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while others restrainedher legs and shoulders.
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[India] People say, like,"How could you not have
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run for the hills whenthe New York Times came out?
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And I'm like, "Because that is
just not how I was seeing it."
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I thought this was a small issue
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that I needed to resolve with my mom,
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not that this was
a lot broader of a problem
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that I was involved in.
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[Catherine]
India was not remotely fazed
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by the New York Times article.
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That's when I made the decision
to do a second wave of media.
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From television star to real-life drama,
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Dynasty's Catherine Oxenberg
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has made an excruciating decision
to go public.
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[reporter]
She's a crusader on a desperate bid
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to rescue her daughter, India,
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from what some are callinga dangerous sex cult.
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India's part of a secret sisterhood
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that's really run by Keith.
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[reporter]
Oxenberg says her daughter burned
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through her entire inheritance.
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India also revealed she hadnot menstruated in a year.
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[Catherine]
This is a systematic process
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of indoctrination that goes on
through the program.
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This is years and years
of being tampered with.
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I was in the middle
of this media shitstorm,
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but I was trying to ignore it
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because it was overwhelming.
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I just wanted my mom to stop.
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I thought that I was fine,
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and I couldn't understandwhy she was so afraid.
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My daughter has every right
to be angry with me
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because I would hate my mom
if my mom came out
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and publicly exposed me in this way.
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[India] Within the community,they were telling me
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she's crazy, she's a psychopath.
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You know, she's justan actress looking for attention.
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She's trying to destroy us.
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She's trying to destroy you,ruin your reputation.
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Those types of thoughts
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were implanted
from the higher-ranking members of NXIVM
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who wanted me to think that way.
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[dramatic music]
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[Catherine]
I was really risking everything
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just to get somebody's attention.
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I had threat letters to cease and desist
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that came through Alex Betancourtand Emiliano Salinas.
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They were accusing meof fraud and harassment.
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I was warned by some friends of mine
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that, should I go to Mexico,
that I would be killed.
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But my visibility is my protection.
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If something happened to me,
it would be very suspicious.
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[unsettling music]
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[Ross] I don't thinkthat Keith Raniere is capable
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of admitting a mistake,
but if he were, he would say,
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"Gee, I wish that I had just let
India Oxenberg go."
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In fact, I should have told her to go.
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I should have said, "India, I'm sorry.
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"Your mom's making a mess.
498
00:24:11,784 --> 00:24:15,488
Would you please just go homeand be with your family?"
499
00:24:15,521 --> 00:24:19,458
But he looked at Catherine Oxenbergand said, "Who do you think you are?
500
00:24:19,492 --> 00:24:22,929
"You're just another woman,and I will destroy you.
501
00:24:22,962 --> 00:24:23,996
You are nothing."
502
00:24:26,866 --> 00:24:29,602
[India] Keith instructed meto come over to his house,
503
00:24:29,635 --> 00:24:32,672
and he said to me, "We're gonna fix this.
504
00:24:32,705 --> 00:24:36,042
We're gonna make you
the NXIVM poster child."
505
00:24:41,013 --> 00:24:43,749
Nancy, Clare, Keith, and Allison
506
00:24:43,783 --> 00:24:46,552
instructed me to write a testimony
507
00:24:46,586 --> 00:24:50,590
and put it on Facebook
about how okay I was,
508
00:24:50,623 --> 00:24:53,259
about how much I love DOS.
509
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:56,929
They had to approve every word.
510
00:24:56,963 --> 00:25:00,032
"I'm absolutely fine, great, actually.
511
00:25:00,066 --> 00:25:03,035
"I would never put myselfor the people that I love
512
00:25:03,069 --> 00:25:04,537
into any danger."
513
00:25:04,570 --> 00:25:06,272
[Vargas]
"These are my friends and colleagues.
514
00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:09,675
I've never seen anything but good
come out of this work."
515
00:25:09,709 --> 00:25:14,080
That, in my opinion, is evidence
of complete brainwashing.
516
00:25:16,582 --> 00:25:19,285
[India] Clare Bronfman paidfor me to be evaluated
517
00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:20,953
by a psychiatrist.
518
00:25:20,987 --> 00:25:23,723
The conclusion was that I was fine.
519
00:25:23,756 --> 00:25:25,658
I guess money can really pay
520
00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:28,060
for any diagnosis that you need.
521
00:25:28,094 --> 00:25:31,597
[Catherine] I heardthrough various sources in NXIVM
522
00:25:31,631 --> 00:25:34,901
that India had been subjected to more EMs
523
00:25:34,934 --> 00:25:38,070
than anybody else in the organization.
524
00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:40,172
The purpose of those EMs
525
00:25:40,206 --> 00:25:43,109
was to sever any connection,
526
00:25:43,142 --> 00:25:45,244
feelings of love, loyalty--
527
00:25:45,278 --> 00:25:48,047
specifically to me,who was a major threat.
528
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,884
That's what they're really good at.
529
00:25:55,755 --> 00:25:58,891
Keith released a statement
530
00:25:58,925 --> 00:26:01,994
to refute his involvement in DOS.
531
00:26:02,028 --> 00:26:04,997
"I feel it is importantto clarify the sorority
532
00:26:05,031 --> 00:26:06,732
"is not part of NXIVM
533
00:26:06,766 --> 00:26:10,002
and that I'm not associatedwith the group."
534
00:26:10,036 --> 00:26:13,673
As usual, lying to everybody.
535
00:26:15,641 --> 00:26:17,677
I met with several lawyers,
536
00:26:17,710 --> 00:26:19,946
and the lawyers startedto give me a perspective,
537
00:26:19,979 --> 00:26:22,682
which was these are criminals,
they're breaking the law.
538
00:26:22,715 --> 00:26:24,684
You just have to figure out how.
539
00:26:24,717 --> 00:26:27,753
I was advised to put togetherenough evidence
540
00:26:27,787 --> 00:26:29,689
to be able to get the interestof the government,
541
00:26:29,722 --> 00:26:32,358
and then I enlisted peoplewho had defected,
542
00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:35,995
and together, we started to amasstext messages, emails--
543
00:26:36,028 --> 00:26:38,064
any physical evidence
544
00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:41,200
that could be used to incriminate Keith.
545
00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:46,172
So here, "M will be paddled
for this as a consequence
546
00:26:46,205 --> 00:26:47,606
"when she gets back home.
547
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,909
"Also, if I suffer, cry,
548
00:26:49,942 --> 00:26:52,111
"or have any adverse reaction
to being hit,
549
00:26:52,144 --> 00:26:54,080
I get hit more."
550
00:26:56,048 --> 00:26:59,819
So these are the types of texts.
551
00:26:59,852 --> 00:27:01,921
And then I have a huge amount of letters
552
00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:04,857
from family members and loved ones
553
00:27:04,890 --> 00:27:06,859
really urging
the government to take action
554
00:27:06,892 --> 00:27:08,661
and to investigate this group.
555
00:27:08,694 --> 00:27:12,031
I didn't know at that point
they were already investigating.
556
00:27:14,166 --> 00:27:16,736
[Penza] When I readthe New York Times article,
557
00:27:16,769 --> 00:27:19,171
it immediately felt apparent to me
558
00:27:19,205 --> 00:27:22,341
that there was criminal conduct going on
559
00:27:22,375 --> 00:27:26,712
and that there must be a lot more
to what I was reading about,
560
00:27:26,746 --> 00:27:29,415
and so I started digging in.
561
00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:32,184
My office very quickly got
562
00:27:32,218 --> 00:27:35,154
an amazing team of FBI agents on board,
563
00:27:35,187 --> 00:27:38,357
and within days, really,
564
00:27:38,391 --> 00:27:41,694
we were interviewing
witnesses and victims.
565
00:27:44,063 --> 00:27:49,035
We were not publicly identifying ourselvesas investigating
566
00:27:49,068 --> 00:27:52,304
because we were concernedthat it would drive Keith Raniere
567
00:27:52,338 --> 00:27:56,042
deeper underground or to another country.
568
00:27:56,075 --> 00:27:59,779
So here we have a partial list
of the NXIVM crimes.
569
00:27:59,812 --> 00:28:02,148
"Blackmail, coercion,
kidnapping, trafficking,
570
00:28:02,181 --> 00:28:04,950
"aggravated assault,
aggravated harassment,
571
00:28:04,984 --> 00:28:07,787
"aggravated sexual abuse,
battery, bribery,
572
00:28:07,820 --> 00:28:09,922
"bringing undeclared money
into the U.S., coercion,
573
00:28:09,955 --> 00:28:12,158
"computer tampering, computer trespassing,
574
00:28:12,191 --> 00:28:15,361
"conducting scientific experiments
without due process,
575
00:28:15,394 --> 00:28:17,830
"criminal mischief,
criminal nuisance, defamation,
576
00:28:17,863 --> 00:28:19,932
"defrauding the government,
employment fraud,
577
00:28:19,965 --> 00:28:22,468
endangering the welfare
of a child, extortion"--
578
00:28:22,701 --> 00:28:26,906
I mean, it goes on and on
and on and on and on.
579
00:28:26,939 --> 00:28:29,975
And all of this ended up going
to the FBI and the EDNY,
580
00:28:30,009 --> 00:28:31,477
plus more.
581
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,779
Finally, I got a call from my lawyers
582
00:28:33,813 --> 00:28:36,715
saying they had just spoken
to the prosecutor, Moira Penza.
583
00:28:36,749 --> 00:28:38,050
She had a message for me
584
00:28:38,084 --> 00:28:40,252
that I didn't have to carry
the burden of this
585
00:28:40,286 --> 00:28:41,854
on my shoulders anymore.
586
00:28:41,887 --> 00:28:45,925
The government and the FBI
were moving in aggressively.
587
00:28:45,958 --> 00:28:48,961
[Penza]
By late in 2017,
588
00:28:48,994 --> 00:28:51,397
the New York Times
and the Albany Times Union
589
00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:54,967
had both written
that they believed that our office,
590
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,504
the Eastern District of New York,had a pending investigation.
591
00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,239
So we were in a situation
592
00:29:00,272 --> 00:29:02,775
where we needed to have charges
593
00:29:02,808 --> 00:29:05,211
that we could put into place quickly
594
00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:07,446
while continuing our investigation
595
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,482
so that we would be able to charge him
596
00:29:09,515 --> 00:29:11,951
with additional things down the road.
597
00:29:11,984 --> 00:29:13,919
[Raniere] So, if you're a king
and you have this kingdom
598
00:29:13,953 --> 00:29:15,488
and you live in this great life,
599
00:29:15,521 --> 00:29:18,524
and suddenly that life might end
600
00:29:18,757 --> 00:29:20,793
because there's an uprising
601
00:29:20,826 --> 00:29:22,962
and there's this group of people,
602
00:29:22,995 --> 00:29:24,964
and you're liable, and you go,
"Oh, my God,
603
00:29:24,997 --> 00:29:28,200
"with all that not thinking
of other people
604
00:29:28,234 --> 00:29:31,470
and all that fun I've had,
I'm gonna get fucked."
605
00:29:31,504 --> 00:29:34,340
[dramatic music]
606
00:29:38,477 --> 00:29:43,182
[Catherine] In November 2017,Keith fled to Mexico.
607
00:29:44,850 --> 00:29:46,886
[India] The story that was toldwithin the community
608
00:29:46,919 --> 00:29:48,888
was that Keith had to leave
609
00:29:48,921 --> 00:29:52,525
because he needed to protect himself
because people were threatening his life.
610
00:29:52,558 --> 00:29:55,060
[Penza]
He dropped his cell phone,
611
00:29:55,094 --> 00:29:56,929
dropped his email address.
612
00:29:56,962 --> 00:30:01,200
He was, in our view, on the run in Mexico.
613
00:30:04,103 --> 00:30:07,540
[India] In Albany,my whole reality was being shaken,
614
00:30:07,573 --> 00:30:09,308
and I felt very alone
615
00:30:09,341 --> 00:30:13,345
because not only was
I estranged from my mom,
616
00:30:13,379 --> 00:30:16,582
I also didn't have anyof the other support system
617
00:30:16,815 --> 00:30:21,420
that I was used to having,and everyone was leaving the community.
618
00:30:21,453 --> 00:30:25,057
And I was just sort of therein Albany, waiting.
619
00:30:26,325 --> 00:30:29,228
I felt this instinctinside of me that said,
620
00:30:29,261 --> 00:30:31,330
"You need to get out of here."
621
00:30:31,363 --> 00:30:32,998
I think that becomes very clear
622
00:30:33,032 --> 00:30:36,168
when you see
all the other people around you
623
00:30:36,202 --> 00:30:38,204
running for the hills.
624
00:30:38,237 --> 00:30:41,207
[plucky music]
625
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,175
♪ ♪
626
00:30:43,209 --> 00:30:45,277
[India]
In February, 2018,
627
00:30:45,311 --> 00:30:49,448
I moved into Allison Mack'sapartment in Brooklyn.
628
00:30:49,481 --> 00:30:53,152
Getting myself out of Albanywas a huge step forward.
629
00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:55,120
♪ ♪
630
00:30:55,154 --> 00:30:58,524
But all I really hadwas NXIVM and Allison,
631
00:30:58,557 --> 00:31:02,962
because I had let goof all the friends that I had before.
632
00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:07,266
Even though I was out of Albany,
I was not out of DOS.
633
00:31:08,934 --> 00:31:10,436
We were still doing check-ins.
634
00:31:10,469 --> 00:31:13,539
We were doing readiness drills.We were doing penances.
635
00:31:13,572 --> 00:31:16,408
I was calorie counting.I was reporting my weight.
636
00:31:16,442 --> 00:31:18,210
We were trying to hold on to something.
637
00:31:20,412 --> 00:31:23,482
Allison was paranoidabout who was watching her,
638
00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:25,551
who might know that she lived here,
639
00:31:25,584 --> 00:31:27,886
if press was gonna follow her here.
640
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,622
She was worried about all of those things.
641
00:31:31,957 --> 00:31:35,261
[Catherine] I heard that my daughterwas living somewhere in Brooklyn
642
00:31:35,294 --> 00:31:36,595
with Allison.
643
00:31:36,629 --> 00:31:39,298
I was doing this photo shootfor People magazine,
644
00:31:39,331 --> 00:31:42,434
randomly walking streetswhile the photographer was following me,
645
00:31:42,468 --> 00:31:44,570
and she had me just stop on this stoop,
646
00:31:44,603 --> 00:31:45,604
and we took a picture,
647
00:31:45,638 --> 00:31:48,907
and that was the picture
that they used in People magazine.
648
00:31:48,941 --> 00:31:51,176
[voice breaking]
Unbeknownst to me,
649
00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:55,047
Allison's apartment where India was living
was this building,
650
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,949
She literally sat here
651
00:31:56,982 --> 00:32:00,185
and was able to see into my window.
652
00:32:00,219 --> 00:32:04,623
She was that close to me,
and we had no idea.
653
00:32:04,657 --> 00:32:07,192
She just brought herself here.
654
00:32:07,226 --> 00:32:11,130
I was right there, and I didn't even know.
655
00:32:11,163 --> 00:32:14,133
[crying] It was like something
drew me straight to her.
656
00:32:14,166 --> 00:32:17,002
[dramatic music]
657
00:32:17,036 --> 00:32:20,139
♪ ♪
658
00:32:20,172 --> 00:32:22,574
[India]
I wasn't speaking to my mom,
659
00:32:22,608 --> 00:32:26,145
and I was running out of money,and I knew I needed to get a job.
660
00:32:27,346 --> 00:32:31,116
I was just trying to findsomething stable and normal
661
00:32:31,150 --> 00:32:35,321
because I felt like my life
was kind of falling apart.
662
00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:40,125
I became the managerof a café in the East Village.
663
00:32:40,159 --> 00:32:43,128
[camera shutter clicking]
664
00:32:43,162 --> 00:32:46,432
The owners knew about the media.
665
00:32:46,465 --> 00:32:48,567
There were very awarebecause they were showing up
666
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,602
at the restaurant constantly.
667
00:32:50,636 --> 00:32:53,439
Yeah, this is not appropriate,
like, it's not--you...
668
00:32:53,472 --> 00:32:57,142
And it just got worse.
669
00:32:57,176 --> 00:32:59,011
They let me stay in that job,
670
00:32:59,044 --> 00:33:02,147
even though I knowit was probably difficult for them, too.
671
00:33:02,181 --> 00:33:05,150
There were people that cameinto the restaurant and said,
672
00:33:05,184 --> 00:33:08,687
"If that cult girl works here,
we won't eat her food."
673
00:33:08,721 --> 00:33:12,324
[camera shutter clicking]
674
00:33:13,726 --> 00:33:16,395
I tried to go get an apartment.
675
00:33:16,428 --> 00:33:19,631
People would just Google me,
and they would see, you know,
676
00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:22,201
"India Oxenberg, branded sex slave,"
677
00:33:22,234 --> 00:33:25,738
and they would be like, "No way.
Not gonna room with this girl."
678
00:33:27,306 --> 00:33:29,508
I felt totally exposed
679
00:33:29,541 --> 00:33:32,478
and vulnerable and humiliated.
680
00:33:34,246 --> 00:33:35,481
[Karadjordjevic]
Catherine was desperate
681
00:33:35,514 --> 00:33:37,216
and didn't knowhow to get through to India.
682
00:33:37,249 --> 00:33:39,585
We tried to find ways to soften her up,
683
00:33:39,618 --> 00:33:42,254
to get her to remember
happy moments in her childhood
684
00:33:42,287 --> 00:33:43,355
when we were all together,
685
00:33:43,389 --> 00:33:46,191
and occasionallyI would send her photographs.
686
00:33:46,225 --> 00:33:48,727
I noticed that she would never pickthe phone up when I called her,
687
00:33:48,761 --> 00:33:52,231
but occasionally
she would answer me by SMS.
688
00:33:52,264 --> 00:33:54,533
So I went to see India,where she was working
689
00:33:54,566 --> 00:33:58,070
and trying to get her to talk to me,
and she couldn't.
690
00:33:58,103 --> 00:34:01,373
Something stopped her.
It was so painful to see and...
691
00:34:01,407 --> 00:34:03,809
I couldn't get through to her.
692
00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:08,414
After that, we were pursuedby the media outside, sadly.
693
00:34:08,447 --> 00:34:10,482
[in Spanish]
Lamentably, she hasn't woken up yet.
694
00:34:12,451 --> 00:34:14,086
-[man] No está despierta.
-No.
695
00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:16,822
[somber music]
696
00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:20,058
[Penza, in English]
By Valentine's Day 2018,
697
00:34:20,092 --> 00:34:23,662
our agents swore outa criminal complaint
698
00:34:23,695 --> 00:34:26,365
in the Eastern District before a judge.
699
00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:28,167
Based on that complaint,
700
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,737
the judge issued an arrest warrantfor Keith Raniere.
701
00:34:31,770 --> 00:34:34,807
Then we went about finding him.
702
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,508
[India]
Allison, Nicki,
703
00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:39,511
and a few other first line DOS slaves
704
00:34:39,545 --> 00:34:44,316
were ordered to go to Mexico to see Keith,but I didn't know why.
705
00:34:46,351 --> 00:34:49,188
[Catherine] What was revealedwas that Keith Raniere
706
00:34:49,221 --> 00:34:52,591
summoned all his first line slavesto come down to Mexico
707
00:34:52,624 --> 00:34:55,461
to participate
in a "recommitment ceremony"
708
00:34:55,494 --> 00:35:00,332
which consisted
of a group blow job for him.
709
00:35:00,365 --> 00:35:03,168
Unbelievable that while
NXIVM is crashing down,
710
00:35:03,202 --> 00:35:06,438
he had that much control
or power over them
711
00:35:06,472 --> 00:35:08,607
that he was able to persuade
them to go down there
712
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,844
to participate in this group sex act
713
00:35:11,877 --> 00:35:15,614
to demonstrate their undying devotion.
714
00:35:15,647 --> 00:35:18,250
[dark music]
715
00:35:18,283 --> 00:35:20,385
But before the ceremony could take place,
716
00:35:20,419 --> 00:35:24,756
Nicki Clyne idiotically posted a pictureon her Instagram of herself
717
00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:27,192
in front of a Puerto Vallarta landmark.
718
00:35:28,794 --> 00:35:32,231
And that's how they located Keith Raniere.
719
00:35:33,799 --> 00:35:37,369
[Raniere] So you're gonna loseyour life, your dignity,
720
00:35:37,402 --> 00:35:40,439
any honor, any self-respect,
721
00:35:40,472 --> 00:35:43,675
any respect that you have forever.
722
00:35:43,709 --> 00:35:46,144
You will be--where you once were the king,
723
00:35:46,178 --> 00:35:49,515
you will now be an object
of mockery and torture.
724
00:35:49,548 --> 00:35:51,350
[Catherine]
The FBI enlisted the cooperation
725
00:35:51,383 --> 00:35:54,686
of the Mexican federal police
to deport Keith
726
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,389
rather than going through
the normal channels of extradition.
727
00:35:57,422 --> 00:36:01,393
The Federales,
with machine guns and bulletproof vests,
728
00:36:01,426 --> 00:36:03,328
surrounded Keith's luxury villa.
729
00:36:03,362 --> 00:36:06,832
While Allison, Nicki, and Danihuddled in the patio,
730
00:36:06,865 --> 00:36:10,569
the police kicked down the doorto Keith Raniere's bedroom.
731
00:36:10,602 --> 00:36:12,871
They held Lauren Salzman on the floor
732
00:36:12,905 --> 00:36:15,908
with three machine guns pointed at her.
733
00:36:15,941 --> 00:36:18,477
Keith Raniere, the great Vanguard,
734
00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:21,346
conceptual founder of NXIVM and ESP,
735
00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:25,250
leader of SOP, Grandmaster of DOS,
736
00:36:25,284 --> 00:36:27,786
ends up hiding in a closet, cowering.
737
00:36:27,819 --> 00:36:30,722
[background chatter]
738
00:36:30,756 --> 00:36:33,692
[dramatic music]
739
00:36:33,725 --> 00:36:35,627
♪ ♪
740
00:36:35,661 --> 00:36:37,496
[Clyne]
Let's go, in the cart.
741
00:36:37,529 --> 00:36:39,431
We can--we're gonna
follow them.
742
00:36:41,667 --> 00:36:43,468
-Get out of the way.
-[Mack] Huh?
743
00:36:43,502 --> 00:36:45,203
[Clyne]
Lauren's coming.
744
00:36:45,237 --> 00:36:46,738
[indistinct chatter in Spanish]
745
00:36:46,772 --> 00:36:48,373
[Clyne]
Let's go, you guys.
746
00:36:48,407 --> 00:36:50,576
[India] I was walking to work,and my boss called me,
747
00:36:50,609 --> 00:36:52,744
and he told methat Keith had been arrested.
748
00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:55,948
I just couldn't believe it.
749
00:36:55,981 --> 00:36:57,849
[reporter]
This is the man the FBI says
750
00:36:57,883 --> 00:37:00,519
has committed serious crimesagainst humanity,
751
00:37:00,552 --> 00:37:03,355
alleging he createda secret society of women
752
00:37:03,388 --> 00:37:06,224
he considered sex slavesand that some of them
753
00:37:06,258 --> 00:37:09,261
were branded with a symbolincorporating his initials.
754
00:37:09,294 --> 00:37:12,931
Keith Raniere was deported
to the United States
755
00:37:12,965 --> 00:37:14,766
by the Mexican police,
756
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,436
and he was arraigned
757
00:37:17,469 --> 00:37:19,571
on the criminal complaint.
758
00:37:19,605 --> 00:37:22,941
We don't think there was any
nonconsensual criminal conduct,
759
00:37:22,975 --> 00:37:25,243
and we look forward to our day in court.
760
00:37:25,277 --> 00:37:26,878
[reporter]
The money that was offered up for bail
761
00:37:26,912 --> 00:37:29,715
was $10 millionfrom an unnamed third party
762
00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:31,817
put into a trust at the timeof Raniere's arrest.
763
00:37:31,850 --> 00:37:34,820
Keith couldn't care less about wasting
764
00:37:34,853 --> 00:37:38,023
another $10 million
of Clare Bronfman's money.
765
00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:41,293
So he was a flight risk
'cause he could have easily escaped
766
00:37:41,326 --> 00:37:45,364
to her island in Fijion her private plane.
767
00:37:45,397 --> 00:37:47,766
Keith didn't make bail.
I was incredibly relieved.
768
00:37:47,799 --> 00:37:50,602
I was thrilled at the judge's response.
769
00:37:50,636 --> 00:37:52,471
[man] How's your daughter doing
and have you spoken to her?
770
00:37:52,504 --> 00:37:53,639
[sighs]
771
00:37:53,672 --> 00:37:58,477
My daughter uh, is-
is still on the inside.
772
00:37:58,510 --> 00:38:01,046
She's not back yet.
773
00:38:01,279 --> 00:38:02,848
[camera shutters clicking]
774
00:38:02,881 --> 00:38:05,350
[Penza]
From the outset, I viewed NXIVM
775
00:38:05,384 --> 00:38:07,552
as a criminal organization
776
00:38:07,586 --> 00:38:11,823
and one that could be prosecuted
like the Mob.
777
00:38:11,857 --> 00:38:15,494
So we really focusedon not only Keith Raniere
778
00:38:15,527 --> 00:38:18,864
but also members of the inner circle
779
00:38:18,897 --> 00:38:22,567
who committed crimes for him
and needed to be held accountable.
780
00:38:22,601 --> 00:38:25,070
[Catherine] The U.S. attorney's officesent my lawyers a copy
781
00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:28,607
of the official criminal complaint
against Keith,
782
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,810
and even though the government
had warned me,
783
00:38:31,843 --> 00:38:33,512
I was still in shock.
784
00:38:33,545 --> 00:38:36,081
It was significant,
because in the criminal complaint,
785
00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:39,017
there were two unnamed coconspirators.
786
00:38:39,051 --> 00:38:41,053
It seemed clear that Allison Mack
787
00:38:41,086 --> 00:38:42,954
was coconspirator number one
788
00:38:42,988 --> 00:38:46,425
and India Oxenbergwas coconspirator number two.
789
00:38:46,458 --> 00:38:48,393
I read through the entire document,
790
00:38:48,427 --> 00:38:49,895
and I remember my hands were shaking.
791
00:38:49,928 --> 00:38:53,765
Coconspirator two was unnamed, unindicted,
792
00:38:53,799 --> 00:38:55,967
but it was clear
that it was my daughter, India.
793
00:38:56,735 --> 00:38:59,538
I found out that India had been directedby Allison Mack
794
00:38:59,571 --> 00:39:02,007
to collect people's collateral.
795
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,776
That could be construed as wire fraud.
796
00:39:04,810 --> 00:39:07,679
And also conspiracy to sex traffic,
797
00:39:07,713 --> 00:39:09,715
that was my worst fear.
798
00:39:09,748 --> 00:39:12,751
[dark music]
799
00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:17,022
[Champion]
The concern became,
800
00:39:17,055 --> 00:39:19,491
is India in danger of getting charged?
801
00:39:19,524 --> 00:39:22,394
Is she in danger of getting
hauled before a grand jury
802
00:39:22,427 --> 00:39:24,062
before she's ready to talk?
803
00:39:24,096 --> 00:39:26,765
And it's sort of one
of those situations where,
804
00:39:26,798 --> 00:39:30,402
you know, your clear choices are cooperate
805
00:39:30,435 --> 00:39:31,937
or be charged.
806
00:39:31,970 --> 00:39:34,139
[Catherine]
I immediately forwarded
807
00:39:34,372 --> 00:39:36,775
the criminal complaintto India by text, saying,
808
00:39:36,808 --> 00:39:39,478
"I'm not making this up. This is reality."
809
00:39:39,511 --> 00:39:42,514
[Catherine reading]
810
00:39:56,695 --> 00:40:01,032
I was desperately trying to convince her
that she should turn herself in.
811
00:40:01,066 --> 00:40:03,468
She did not respond.
812
00:40:03,502 --> 00:40:06,471
[India] Four days after my momsent me that text,
813
00:40:06,505 --> 00:40:11,143
two men dressed up in suitsarrived to Allison's apartment.
814
00:40:11,176 --> 00:40:12,944
They were with the FBI,
815
00:40:12,978 --> 00:40:16,815
and they wanted to talkabout Keith Raniere and NXIVM.
816
00:40:16,848 --> 00:40:20,919
I was here alone.Allison was still in Mexico.
817
00:40:20,952 --> 00:40:22,788
I was open to speaking to them
818
00:40:22,821 --> 00:40:26,057
because I didn't think
that anything was wrong at the time.
819
00:40:26,091 --> 00:40:28,460
We spoke for about three hours.
820
00:40:28,493 --> 00:40:31,429
I told them that there wasnothing bad happening in Albany
821
00:40:31,463 --> 00:40:33,064
and that it was a misunderstanding.
822
00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:36,635
I even told them that nothing sexualhad happened between Keith and I
823
00:40:36,668 --> 00:40:39,471
because that was what I believed then.
824
00:40:39,504 --> 00:40:42,140
♪ ♪
825
00:40:42,174 --> 00:40:46,011
Shortly after they left,I called Nicki and Allison in Mexico,
826
00:40:46,044 --> 00:40:48,046
and I told them what I said.
827
00:40:48,847 --> 00:40:53,018
I didn't really realize
the gravity of what I was dealing with.
828
00:40:53,051 --> 00:40:56,988
At the time, there was just so muchthat I didn't know
829
00:40:57,022 --> 00:41:01,193
and that I wasn't able to really accept.
830
00:41:02,928 --> 00:41:06,832
When Allison came back from Mexicoafter Keith's arrest,
831
00:41:06,865 --> 00:41:08,066
she was pretty paranoid.
832
00:41:08,099 --> 00:41:11,236
She was definitely afraid for herself.
833
00:41:12,938 --> 00:41:15,841
I wasn't home when they came for her.
834
00:41:15,874 --> 00:41:18,844
[reporter] FBI agents swarmedalleged NXIVM member
835
00:41:18,877 --> 00:41:21,079
Allison Mack's Brooklyn apartmentthis morning.
836
00:41:21,112 --> 00:41:25,684
We're told the Smallville
actress has been arrested.
837
00:41:25,717 --> 00:41:27,752
[Mack]
Keith has this incredible ability
838
00:41:27,786 --> 00:41:30,589
to use whatever it is that you love most
839
00:41:30,622 --> 00:41:33,124
to transform you from the inside
840
00:41:33,158 --> 00:41:36,561
so that you can have a better experience
of your whole life.
841
00:41:36,595 --> 00:41:39,564
[playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"]
842
00:41:39,598 --> 00:41:40,932
♪ ♪
843
00:41:40,966 --> 00:41:43,001
[reporter]
Mack facing sex-trafficking charges
844
00:41:43,034 --> 00:41:45,637
after being accusedof helping to recruit women
845
00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:50,609
as alleged slaves for a secret sororitywithin an organization called NXIVM.
846
00:41:50,642 --> 00:41:53,979
[reporter] Now prosecutors callAllison Mack a sex trafficker,
847
00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:57,015
forcing women to participatein bizarre cult rituals.
848
00:41:57,048 --> 00:41:59,885
Allison, did you help brand
India Oxenberg?
849
00:41:59,918 --> 00:42:03,288
[camera shutters clicking]
850
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,224
[continues playing
"Moonlight Sonata"]
851
00:42:06,258 --> 00:42:08,059
[reporter]
According to one of the prosecutors,
852
00:42:08,093 --> 00:42:11,997
additional charges will be broughtagainst not-yet-named individuals.
853
00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:15,533
[Penza]
We needed to make sure
854
00:42:15,567 --> 00:42:16,668
that we were getting
855
00:42:16,701 --> 00:42:18,103
the most culpable people
856
00:42:18,136 --> 00:42:21,673
who really helped facilitate
857
00:42:21,706 --> 00:42:24,843
Keith Raniere's criminal motives.
858
00:42:24,876 --> 00:42:27,846
♪ ♪
859
00:42:27,879 --> 00:42:29,314
[Clare]
Vanguard, there's a question
860
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:31,650
that you ask me frequently.
861
00:42:31,683 --> 00:42:35,120
Has your being a part of my life
862
00:42:35,153 --> 00:42:36,821
enhanced my life?
863
00:42:36,855 --> 00:42:41,092
And I don't have words to tell you...
864
00:42:41,126 --> 00:42:42,928
[voice breaking]
...how much it has.
865
00:42:42,961 --> 00:42:44,329
[reporter]
Clare Bronfman,
866
00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:46,264
heiress to the Seagrams liquor fortune,
867
00:42:46,298 --> 00:42:47,732
was charged with racketeering.
868
00:42:47,766 --> 00:42:49,067
[man]
I've been covering arraignments
869
00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:52,170
for more than 30 years,
and I have never seen bail
870
00:42:52,203 --> 00:42:54,339
set as high as it was today.
871
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:58,043
Clare Bronfman had her bailset at $100 million.
872
00:42:58,076 --> 00:43:00,712
[continues playing "Moonlight Sonata"]
873
00:43:00,745 --> 00:43:02,747
♪ ♪
874
00:43:02,781 --> 00:43:05,116
[Nancy] None of this would bepossible at all
875
00:43:05,150 --> 00:43:07,152
without...
876
00:43:08,853 --> 00:43:10,889
...without you, Keith.
877
00:43:10,922 --> 00:43:12,123
["Moonlight Sonata" continues]
878
00:43:12,157 --> 00:43:15,727
[reporter] Federal agentsarrested NXIVM president and co-founder
879
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,228
Nancy Salzman on Tuesday.
880
00:43:17,262 --> 00:43:20,131
[reporter] Her Waterford homewas raided by FBI agents.
881
00:43:20,165 --> 00:43:23,835
Investigators found hundredsof thousands of dollars in cash.
882
00:43:25,070 --> 00:43:27,339
[Lauren]
A heartfelt tribute to Vanguard.
883
00:43:27,372 --> 00:43:30,208
You make it possible for us
to grow ourselves every day
884
00:43:30,241 --> 00:43:32,043
into the people that we want to be.
885
00:43:32,077 --> 00:43:33,912
[reporter]
They were all indicted on charges
886
00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,747
of racketeering, conspiracy,
887
00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:37,615
including wire fraud
888
00:43:37,649 --> 00:43:40,118
and forced labor conspiracyfor Salzman's daughter Lauren,
889
00:43:40,151 --> 00:43:42,954
who served on NXIVM's executive board.
890
00:43:42,988 --> 00:43:45,991
♪ ♪
891
00:43:48,026 --> 00:43:50,328
-[off-key notes play]
-Oh, well.
892
00:43:50,362 --> 00:43:53,331
[playing flowing notes]
893
00:43:53,365 --> 00:43:56,167
♪ ♪
894
00:43:56,201 --> 00:43:59,371
[Catherine] Can't even imagine how scarythat must have been for India,
895
00:43:59,404 --> 00:44:01,740
that people she trusted and she relied on
896
00:44:01,773 --> 00:44:04,843
and she considered
her superiors in this group
897
00:44:04,876 --> 00:44:07,746
were now, like, in front of a judge.
898
00:44:09,047 --> 00:44:12,684
It was only after Allison was arrested
899
00:44:12,717 --> 00:44:15,987
that she actually reached outto me for the first time.
900
00:44:16,021 --> 00:44:19,324
It was very tentative,
but it was a beginning.
901
00:44:20,792 --> 00:44:24,362
India agreed to meet with Anne Champion,one of my lawyers,
902
00:44:24,396 --> 00:44:29,167
and Anne spent hours with her,breaking down the criminal complaint
903
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,204
so that India would understandthat NXIVM was a criminal organization
904
00:44:33,238 --> 00:44:35,240
and she was being used.
905
00:44:35,273 --> 00:44:37,108
[India]
I remember sitting with you
906
00:44:37,142 --> 00:44:40,412
and going over
the indictment page by page.
907
00:44:40,445 --> 00:44:43,415
-Yeah.
-It was significant charges.
908
00:44:43,448 --> 00:44:45,417
I could tell that you were
in a delicate state
909
00:44:45,450 --> 00:44:48,253
and not ready to talk about everything.
910
00:44:48,286 --> 00:44:49,721
-I couldn't even say it.
-Yeah, yeah.
911
00:44:49,754 --> 00:44:51,289
I couldn't even say that I was a victim.
912
00:44:51,322 --> 00:44:53,024
You know, the concern obviously was,
913
00:44:53,058 --> 00:44:56,861
is India gonna be targeted
by these prosecutors?
914
00:44:56,895 --> 00:44:59,064
You never know where
an investigation's gonna go.
915
00:44:59,097 --> 00:45:02,400
Somebody might turn on you in an effort
to help themselves.
916
00:45:02,434 --> 00:45:03,435
Right.
917
00:45:03,468 --> 00:45:06,237
I mean, honestly, I think your mom was
looking for all the help she could get.
918
00:45:06,271 --> 00:45:08,873
-Yeah.
-I think she was casting a wide net.
919
00:45:08,907 --> 00:45:11,776
I mean, she was trying to help you.
It was all about you.
920
00:45:11,810 --> 00:45:13,344
[India]
I know, I mean, it moves me
921
00:45:13,378 --> 00:45:16,247
because what she told me months later,
which is that she nee--
922
00:45:16,281 --> 00:45:20,085
[chuckles, sighs]
923
00:45:20,118 --> 00:45:22,087
Hold on.
[chuckles]
924
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,156
[voice breaking]
She didn't want to throw me under the bus
925
00:45:25,190 --> 00:45:27,192
or put me in the media in that way.
926
00:45:27,225 --> 00:45:29,394
-Yeah.
-But that she needed
927
00:45:29,427 --> 00:45:34,099
to show people that I was a victim
so that it could save me
928
00:45:34,132 --> 00:45:37,502
from being prosecuted like Allison.
929
00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,471
-Yeah, and I'm--
-And I was so mad...
930
00:45:39,504 --> 00:45:43,174
[sniffling]
...'cause I just looked, like, so stupid,
931
00:45:43,208 --> 00:45:47,045
and so, I felt so foolish,
and I just really didn't understand.
932
00:45:50,381 --> 00:45:52,217
That took me so long,
933
00:45:52,250 --> 00:45:57,055
but I can finally see
that my mom didn't have a choice.
934
00:45:57,088 --> 00:45:58,857
She had to do what she did.
935
00:45:58,890 --> 00:46:03,194
She was willing to go to the end
to get me out of this thing, and...
936
00:46:05,497 --> 00:46:10,368
...I haven't seen that level of commitment
with a lot of the other parents
937
00:46:10,401 --> 00:46:12,370
that have been involved in NXIVM
938
00:46:12,403 --> 00:46:17,175
and have seen their children
get sucked into this thing, too.
939
00:46:21,045 --> 00:46:24,382
After Allison was arrested,I had to move out.
940
00:46:24,415 --> 00:46:27,452
Allison's mom asked meto pack up all of her things
941
00:46:27,485 --> 00:46:29,487
and put them in storage.
942
00:46:29,521 --> 00:46:34,225
I went in the middle of the nightso no one would see that I was moving out.
943
00:46:34,259 --> 00:46:36,127
When I was packing up,
944
00:46:36,161 --> 00:46:39,264
I found some things
that were a little more personal
945
00:46:39,297 --> 00:46:40,899
and probably valuable.
946
00:46:40,932 --> 00:46:43,835
So I didn't think
she would want them in storage,
947
00:46:43,868 --> 00:46:46,971
like jewelry, a journal,
948
00:46:47,005 --> 00:46:49,374
and these flash drives
that I just ended up
949
00:46:49,407 --> 00:46:51,176
tossing into my duffel bag.
950
00:46:53,945 --> 00:46:57,115
I moved back from New Yorkwith my mom in Malibu,
951
00:46:57,148 --> 00:46:59,884
but things were far from normal.
952
00:46:59,918 --> 00:47:03,288
There was just so muchI wasn't ready to talk about or accept.
953
00:47:06,057 --> 00:47:10,028
It wasn't until six months laterthat I opened that duffle bag
954
00:47:10,061 --> 00:47:12,897
and realized that the flash driveswere in there.
955
00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:16,868
And I decided to see what was on them.
956
00:47:18,469 --> 00:47:21,606
[Raniere]
Do you have a piece of paper and a pencil?
957
00:47:21,839 --> 00:47:25,009
Run, hurry.
958
00:47:25,043 --> 00:47:27,078
Back. Faster!
959
00:47:28,546 --> 00:47:31,049
Well, the monogram as it is right now
960
00:47:31,082 --> 00:47:33,284
is very directly related to
961
00:47:33,318 --> 00:47:35,220
my initials.
962
00:47:37,455 --> 00:47:40,992
[Woman 1] Is the brandthe same one going to be done in
963
00:47:41,025 --> 00:47:43,962
every single personthat participates in DOS?
964
00:47:43,995 --> 00:47:45,096
[Raniere]
Yes, yes. Yes.
965
00:47:47,232 --> 00:47:51,402
When I first heard these recordings,I was in shock.
966
00:47:51,436 --> 00:47:54,038
These were Keith's own words,
967
00:47:54,072 --> 00:47:58,409
basically designingand instructing all of DOS.
968
00:47:59,410 --> 00:48:03,381
So I was sorta thinking of it like this...
969
00:48:04,148 --> 00:48:06,451
[Clyne]
Yeah, with a triangle and like a graph
970
00:48:06,484 --> 00:48:08,019
and like it's a cool...
971
00:48:08,052 --> 00:48:09,254
[Woman 2]
Or that's a V too.
972
00:48:09,287 --> 00:48:10,388
[Clyne]
...alien symbol.
973
00:48:10,421 --> 00:48:11,656
[Dani Padilla]
Victory.
974
00:48:12,657 --> 00:48:14,492
[Woman 3]
I mean you can interpret it as a KR
975
00:48:14,525 --> 00:48:16,361
but you can say like, no it's not.
976
00:48:18,096 --> 00:48:19,897
It's actually K-A-R.
977
00:48:21,266 --> 00:48:23,401
[Clyne]
I like that a lot.
978
00:48:23,434 --> 00:48:26,371
This is an order,this isn't a democracy...
979
00:48:28,206 --> 00:48:31,976
[India] Finding these flash driveswas a huge turning point for me.
980
00:48:33,478 --> 00:48:37,315
People had told methat the brand was Keith's initials,
981
00:48:37,348 --> 00:48:39,117
but I didn't believe it.
982
00:48:39,150 --> 00:48:41,986
It wasn't until I heard it
in his own voice
983
00:48:42,020 --> 00:48:44,088
that it actually sunk in,
984
00:48:44,122 --> 00:48:48,960
that DOS was just
Keith's sick, perverted idea.
985
00:48:48,993 --> 00:48:51,129
[suspenseful music]
986
00:48:51,162 --> 00:48:52,697
♪ ♪
987
00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:55,300
There wasn't just the recordingson those drives.
988
00:48:55,333 --> 00:48:58,336
There was also collateral.There were spreadsheets.
989
00:48:58,369 --> 00:49:00,305
There were photographs.
990
00:49:00,338 --> 00:49:02,674
I realized I had something
991
00:49:02,707 --> 00:49:06,077
that could be useful to the prosecution.
992
00:49:06,110 --> 00:49:08,313
I gave them those flash drives,
993
00:49:08,346 --> 00:49:12,417
and over the next few months,the prosecutors started working with me
994
00:49:12,450 --> 00:49:16,354
and preparing me to testify against Keith
and the other defendants.
995
00:49:18,589 --> 00:49:22,160
I was very active as a cooperating witnesswith the FBI,
996
00:49:22,193 --> 00:49:26,197
so every month I was in New Yorkworking with them.
997
00:49:27,532 --> 00:49:30,368
When India described her experiences,
998
00:49:30,401 --> 00:49:33,004
the prosecutors seemed to understand
999
00:49:33,037 --> 00:49:36,474
that India didn't deliberatelyabuse others for financial gain
1000
00:49:36,507 --> 00:49:39,310
or because she wantedto have power over them.
1001
00:49:39,344 --> 00:49:42,046
But just because she was not the person
1002
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,016
who was expectedto exercise active control,
1003
00:49:45,049 --> 00:49:46,517
she still had a role,
1004
00:49:46,551 --> 00:49:50,188
and Keith was using her in a certain role
to lure other people
1005
00:49:50,221 --> 00:49:52,390
or to make them feel safe to get involved.
1006
00:49:52,423 --> 00:49:54,659
[India]
I had to listen to the recordings
1007
00:49:54,692 --> 00:49:57,595
for hours and hours and hours
1008
00:49:57,628 --> 00:49:59,530
and identify every single detail.
1009
00:49:59,564 --> 00:50:02,367
[trainer]
One, two.
1010
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,335
Two. Bam!
1011
00:50:04,369 --> 00:50:07,538
[India] It forced me to have to lookat everything in a very linear way,
1012
00:50:07,572 --> 00:50:11,342
and that started to help mefill in the gaps in my own memory
1013
00:50:11,376 --> 00:50:13,544
and things that I had suppressed.
1014
00:50:13,578 --> 00:50:16,381
[dark music]
1015
00:50:16,414 --> 00:50:21,285
It took me nine months
after Keith was arrested
1016
00:50:21,319 --> 00:50:24,389
to be able to even just say the words
1017
00:50:24,422 --> 00:50:27,125
that something sexual did happen.
1018
00:50:27,158 --> 00:50:29,227
[soft music]
1019
00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:31,062
♪ ♪
1020
00:50:31,095 --> 00:50:34,766
I don't think until recently
was I able to comprehend
1021
00:50:34,799 --> 00:50:39,137
that this was rape,
that this was against my own will.
1022
00:50:39,170 --> 00:50:41,406
♪ ♪
1023
00:50:41,439 --> 00:50:44,442
I would never, ever have done this
1024
00:50:44,475 --> 00:50:47,278
if I didn't feel
like I was collateralized.
1025
00:50:47,311 --> 00:50:50,381
I would never have engaged
in any sexual acts with Keith.
1026
00:50:50,415 --> 00:50:52,316
I'd never have pursued him,
1027
00:50:52,350 --> 00:50:54,786
and I would never want this
to happen to anybody else.
1028
00:50:56,287 --> 00:50:59,791
This is not what I signed up for,
and this is not what I wanted to happen.
1029
00:51:11,469 --> 00:51:13,671
[reporter]
The leader of the suspected sex cult
1030
00:51:13,704 --> 00:51:16,441
is in court todayfor the start of his trial.
1031
00:51:16,474 --> 00:51:19,677
Keith Raniere is accused of overseeinga slave-and-master system
1032
00:51:19,710 --> 00:51:22,647
where female members were
expected to have sex with him.
1033
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,715
Keith Raniere stands alone.
1034
00:51:24,749 --> 00:51:27,385
All of his co-defendants
have pleaded guilty.
1035
00:51:27,418 --> 00:51:28,786
Those co-defendants
1036
00:51:28,820 --> 00:51:31,456
include Seagrams heiress Clare Bronfman
1037
00:51:31,489 --> 00:51:33,758
and Smallville star Allison Mack.
1038
00:51:33,791 --> 00:51:35,760
[Catherine]
He finally needs to be held accountable
1039
00:51:35,793 --> 00:51:38,529
for every single woman and child
1040
00:51:38,563 --> 00:51:40,565
that he's ever harmed, abused, exploited.
1041
00:51:40,598 --> 00:51:43,334
[reporter] Raniere has pleadednot guilty to all charges,
1042
00:51:43,367 --> 00:51:47,138
which include sex traffickingand racketeering.
1043
00:51:47,171 --> 00:51:48,573
The defense really
is a defense of good faith.
1044
00:51:48,606 --> 00:51:50,575
And if the jury finds
that Keith had good faith,
1045
00:51:50,608 --> 00:51:52,610
he's innocent of all the charges.
1046
00:51:52,643 --> 00:51:55,813
[Penza]
The biggest challenge with this case
1047
00:51:55,847 --> 00:51:57,615
is explaining to the jury
1048
00:51:57,648 --> 00:52:00,284
how any group or any person
1049
00:52:00,318 --> 00:52:02,820
who operates in this coercive manner
1050
00:52:02,854 --> 00:52:05,389
ends up victimizing someone.
1051
00:52:05,423 --> 00:52:08,392
[Catherine]
There were complicated legal arguments.
1052
00:52:08,426 --> 00:52:12,363
He had the best legal teamthat money could buy.
1053
00:52:12,396 --> 00:52:13,631
It wasn't a slam dunk.
1054
00:52:13,664 --> 00:52:15,333
I'm not gonna comment on that.
1055
00:52:15,366 --> 00:52:17,335
[Agnifilo] It might be weird.It might even be distasteful.
1056
00:52:17,368 --> 00:52:19,670
It might be inconsistentwith your morality.
1057
00:52:19,704 --> 00:52:20,771
But Keith Raniere,
1058
00:52:20,805 --> 00:52:23,508
the man that we're all studying
at this trial,
1059
00:52:23,541 --> 00:52:24,909
the man in the hot seat,
1060
00:52:25,142 --> 00:52:26,844
was he acting in good faith?
1061
00:52:26,878 --> 00:52:30,181
When he was doing these things,
was he doing them to be hurtful,
1062
00:52:30,214 --> 00:52:31,883
or was he doing them to be helpful?
1063
00:52:31,916 --> 00:52:34,218
I'm trying to focusthe jury on that concept.
1064
00:52:35,453 --> 00:52:39,624
[reporter] Mark Vicente was oncea member of NXIVM's board of directors.
1065
00:52:39,657 --> 00:52:42,860
Vicente testified NXIVM co-founderKeith Raniere's inner circle
1066
00:52:42,894 --> 00:52:45,763
believed the so-called Vanguardwas so brilliant
1067
00:52:45,796 --> 00:52:48,165
that the governmentconsidered him a threat
1068
00:52:48,199 --> 00:52:50,768
and his energy could impact the weather.
1069
00:52:50,801 --> 00:52:52,737
[Debora]
My name was mentioned 22 times
1070
00:52:52,770 --> 00:52:54,405
through Mark's testimony.
1071
00:52:54,438 --> 00:52:56,374
It turns out that I was one of the people
1072
00:52:56,407 --> 00:52:58,876
who made Mark seethat Keith had been lying--
1073
00:52:58,910 --> 00:53:01,846
not just about DOS, but about everything.
1074
00:53:01,879 --> 00:53:04,448
I'm proud of the small role I played.
1075
00:53:04,482 --> 00:53:05,950
Once you see something,
you can't unsee it.
1076
00:53:06,183 --> 00:53:07,184
It's the truth.
1077
00:53:07,218 --> 00:53:08,786
[Lalich]
What was really groundbreaking
1078
00:53:08,819 --> 00:53:10,922
in the trial of Keith Raniere
1079
00:53:10,955 --> 00:53:13,524
was the use of the concept
of coercive control,
1080
00:53:13,558 --> 00:53:15,626
to be able to convince the jury
1081
00:53:15,660 --> 00:53:18,563
that everything that was done
to these women
1082
00:53:18,596 --> 00:53:21,899
was done by force of coercion,
1083
00:53:21,933 --> 00:53:23,467
that it wasn't consensual.
1084
00:53:23,501 --> 00:53:25,403
[reporter]
Daniela testified that not only did
1085
00:53:25,436 --> 00:53:28,573
she get pregnant by Raniere,so did her baby sister.
1086
00:53:28,606 --> 00:53:31,909
Both women got abortions and were coachedon what to tell doctors
1087
00:53:31,943 --> 00:53:33,678
and not to mention Raniere.
1088
00:53:33,711 --> 00:53:35,947
[Ross]
I knew that Keith Raniere
1089
00:53:35,980 --> 00:53:37,515
had a harem of women
1090
00:53:37,548 --> 00:53:40,585
that he had groomed and that he controlled
for years.
1091
00:53:40,618 --> 00:53:44,388
But I did not realize how sadistic he was.
1092
00:53:44,422 --> 00:53:46,324
The trial brought all that out.
1093
00:53:46,357 --> 00:53:48,426
[reporter]
Raniere knowingly possessed
1094
00:53:48,459 --> 00:53:50,795
sexually explicit pictures of minors.
1095
00:53:50,828 --> 00:53:52,430
He doesn't have a moral compass.
1096
00:53:52,463 --> 00:53:53,864
He doesn't know--
1097
00:53:53,898 --> 00:53:56,968
He can't differentiate at all.
He'll justify any abuse.
1098
00:53:57,001 --> 00:53:59,971
[dark music]
1099
00:54:00,004 --> 00:54:02,406
♪ ♪
1100
00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:08,679
[India]
I wasn't allowed to be at the trial
1101
00:54:08,713 --> 00:54:11,482
because I was a cooperating witness
for the prosecution.
1102
00:54:11,515 --> 00:54:15,820
So I was just on standby,just waiting to testify.
1103
00:54:15,853 --> 00:54:18,356
[reporter]
Former NXIVM insider Lauren Salzman
1104
00:54:18,389 --> 00:54:20,791
testified today that Raniereexpected female followers
1105
00:54:20,825 --> 00:54:24,595
to follow commands as if theywere "hungry dogs."
1106
00:54:24,629 --> 00:54:26,964
[India]
When I started to hear the details
1107
00:54:26,998 --> 00:54:29,266
about each witness,
1108
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:30,568
I was in complete shock.
1109
00:54:30,601 --> 00:54:34,038
It was like, how did I not see this?
1110
00:54:34,271 --> 00:54:38,542
The prosecution presented private emailsbetween Allison and Keith
1111
00:54:38,576 --> 00:54:40,645
that had to dowith the seduction assignment
1112
00:54:40,678 --> 00:54:42,413
that Allison gave me.
1113
00:54:42,446 --> 00:54:45,483
Allison was trying to get paidfor her work in NXIVM,
1114
00:54:45,516 --> 00:54:50,454
but Keith wouldn't pay heruntil she delivered me to him.
1115
00:54:52,289 --> 00:54:55,726
That was the exchange of me for money.
1116
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,630
And I realized then that I was nothing
but a commodity to them
1117
00:54:59,664 --> 00:55:02,033
and that I had been trafficked.
1118
00:55:03,701 --> 00:55:06,904
I didn't matter at all.None of us really mattered.
1119
00:55:06,937 --> 00:55:10,975
We were just thingsthat Allison was providing for Keith.
1120
00:55:12,977 --> 00:55:16,614
This was about force, fraud, coercion
1121
00:55:16,647 --> 00:55:20,685
being used to have people engage
in commercial sex acts.
1122
00:55:20,718 --> 00:55:24,055
The law criminalizes what he did.
1123
00:55:24,088 --> 00:55:26,857
[dynamic music]
1124
00:55:26,891 --> 00:55:28,626
[reporter]
Just came out from the courtroom
1125
00:55:28,659 --> 00:55:30,961
moments ago where this witnessreferred to as Silvy,
1126
00:55:30,995 --> 00:55:35,032
finished up her testimony todaytalking about being convinced
1127
00:55:35,066 --> 00:55:39,537
to join the master-and-slave system
known as DOS...
1128
00:55:39,570 --> 00:55:42,640
I don't think he really ever wanted
to take advantage of anybody sexually.
1129
00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:47,578
People join NXIVM, you know,and they like it.
1130
00:55:47,611 --> 00:55:50,448
It was like summer camp for orgasms.
1131
00:55:50,481 --> 00:55:54,385
These are choices
that adult men and women made
1132
00:55:54,418 --> 00:55:56,487
to have a certain life with each other.
1133
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,124
And now, after the fact,
not unlike a divorce,
1134
00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:01,692
they're looking at it differently.
1135
00:56:01,726 --> 00:56:03,894
Well, maybe I was coerced,
or maybe I was brainwashed...
1136
00:56:03,928 --> 00:56:06,430
[Catherine]
I was appalled by how ruthless,
1137
00:56:06,464 --> 00:56:08,599
by how below the belt,
1138
00:56:08,632 --> 00:56:11,001
how sadistic the cross-examination was,
1139
00:56:11,035 --> 00:56:12,636
and I was terrified
1140
00:56:12,670 --> 00:56:15,072
that India was gonna
have to go through that.
1141
00:56:15,106 --> 00:56:17,908
Recordings played
in the Keith Raniere trial this week
1142
00:56:17,942 --> 00:56:20,411
give a disturbing glimpse
into the mind of the man
1143
00:56:20,444 --> 00:56:23,114
accused of running a secret society
in Saratoga County.
1144
00:56:23,147 --> 00:56:24,882
One of those recordings
1145
00:56:24,915 --> 00:56:27,151
included a conversationbetween Raniere and Mack.
1146
00:56:27,918 --> 00:56:30,421
[Keith Raniere]
So, I think...
1147
00:56:30,454 --> 00:56:32,757
the person should ask to be branded.
1148
00:56:32,790 --> 00:56:33,791
[Mack]
Okay.
1149
00:56:33,824 --> 00:56:35,426
[Raniere]
The person who is being branded
1150
00:56:35,459 --> 00:56:37,561
should be completely nude and sort of
1151
00:56:37,595 --> 00:56:39,597
held to the table like a,
1152
00:56:39,630 --> 00:56:41,699
sort of almost like a sacrifice.
1153
00:56:41,732 --> 00:56:45,636
That's a feeling of submission. You know?
1154
00:56:45,669 --> 00:56:49,440
Pain is how we know how much we love.
1155
00:56:49,473 --> 00:56:50,641
[Mack]
Mm-hmm.
1156
00:56:52,443 --> 00:56:55,946
So that could be somethingthat they say initially,
1157
00:56:55,980 --> 00:56:58,449
they should say, "Please brand me,it would be an honor,"
1158
00:56:58,482 --> 00:57:00,751
or something like that.
1159
00:57:02,052 --> 00:57:03,821
And they should probably say that
1160
00:57:03,854 --> 00:57:06,023
before they're held down,
1161
00:57:06,056 --> 00:57:08,192
so it doesn't seemlike they're being coerced.
1162
00:57:09,860 --> 00:57:14,431
And also, of course, videoing it,and videoing it
1163
00:57:14,465 --> 00:57:18,702
from different angles or whatevergives collateral.
1164
00:57:18,736 --> 00:57:20,471
Keith Raniere claimed
1165
00:57:20,504 --> 00:57:23,808
that he had no involvement in DOS,
1166
00:57:23,841 --> 00:57:26,443
so having the tapes of Keith
1167
00:57:26,477 --> 00:57:30,581
from India Oxenberg was enormous.
1168
00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:33,684
Hearing his voice in the courtroom
1169
00:57:33,717 --> 00:57:35,920
was hugely powerful evidence.
1170
00:57:37,021 --> 00:57:40,691
Being called master,talking about being the leader of DOS,
1171
00:57:40,724 --> 00:57:44,628
talking about branding,talking about collateral,
1172
00:57:44,662 --> 00:57:46,864
release of collateral if necessary.
1173
00:57:46,897 --> 00:57:49,800
It was completely contrary
1174
00:57:49,834 --> 00:57:53,204
to any defense he had
1175
00:57:53,237 --> 00:57:55,873
about the consensual nature of this
1176
00:57:55,906 --> 00:57:58,142
and his lack of involvement.
1177
00:57:58,175 --> 00:58:00,244
[Champion]
You had an individual
1178
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:02,146
who's really at the top
of an organization,
1179
00:58:02,179 --> 00:58:04,181
and he's using that organization
1180
00:58:04,215 --> 00:58:06,650
to engage in criminal activity.
1181
00:58:06,684 --> 00:58:10,187
[Penza] DOS was about powerfor Keith Raniere.
1182
00:58:10,221 --> 00:58:14,658
He really envisioned thisas a pyramid of women,
1183
00:58:14,692 --> 00:58:17,094
all blackmailable
1184
00:58:17,127 --> 00:58:21,098
to what he ultimately wanted to do.
1185
00:58:21,131 --> 00:58:24,101
[dark music]
1186
00:58:24,134 --> 00:58:28,138
[in Spanish] Noticieras Television
is the first news outlet in the world
1187
00:58:28,172 --> 00:58:30,274
to broadcast
this exclusive branding video.
1188
00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:31,742
[India, in English]
During the trial,
1189
00:58:31,775 --> 00:58:34,211
a video of Sarah Edmondson'sbranding ceremony
1190
00:58:34,245 --> 00:58:36,513
was leaked in the Mexican press.
1191
00:58:36,547 --> 00:58:40,050
I think it was probably orderedby Keith from prison
1192
00:58:40,084 --> 00:58:43,053
to be releasedthrough someone in the organization
1193
00:58:43,087 --> 00:58:45,789
in Mexico to the Mexican media
1194
00:58:45,823 --> 00:58:48,292
as a threat to Sarah Edmondson.
1195
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:52,897
It was meant to scare herand anybody else who was in DOS
1196
00:58:52,930 --> 00:58:56,700
so that they wouldn't speak outagainst NXIVM.
1197
00:58:56,734 --> 00:59:00,905
I've definitely had several panic attacks
1198
00:59:00,938 --> 00:59:04,842
around where my collateral is.
1199
00:59:04,875 --> 00:59:07,244
Like, what if he gets off?
1200
00:59:07,278 --> 00:59:09,213
What could he do? What could he do to you?
1201
00:59:09,246 --> 00:59:10,681
What could he do to your friends?
1202
00:59:10,714 --> 00:59:11,782
Like...
1203
00:59:12,783 --> 00:59:16,921
...that little piece of uncertainty
definitely kept me up at night.
1204
00:59:16,954 --> 00:59:19,924
[solemn music]
1205
00:59:19,957 --> 00:59:21,759
♪ ♪
1206
00:59:21,792 --> 00:59:25,930
After Lauren Salzman's testimony,which was huge,
1207
00:59:25,963 --> 00:59:30,234
the FBI called to release mefrom having to testify.
1208
00:59:30,267 --> 00:59:32,937
I remember thinking, like,
"You should be happy you got released.
1209
00:59:32,970 --> 00:59:34,138
"You did your job.
1210
00:59:34,171 --> 00:59:36,607
"You brought them important evidencethat they needed.
1211
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:37,942
"You gave them the tapes.
1212
00:59:37,975 --> 00:59:40,277
You sat for hours and hoursof questioning."
1213
00:59:40,311 --> 00:59:44,214
But I just felt
like my job wasn't complete.
1214
00:59:45,883 --> 00:59:49,687
I decided it was really importantfor me to be at the closing arguments.
1215
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,757
I wanted to see Moira Penzaand the rest of the FBI team.
1216
00:59:53,791 --> 00:59:56,327
I had felt really nervousabout going to court.
1217
00:59:57,795 --> 01:00:02,633
And even the night before,I had nightmares about seeing Keith.
1218
01:00:02,666 --> 01:00:05,135
[dramatic music]
1219
01:00:05,169 --> 01:00:07,838
I was in the back row of the courtroom,
1220
01:00:07,871 --> 01:00:09,640
and I looked at Keith.
1221
01:00:09,673 --> 01:00:12,276
He was sort of, like, just there,
1222
01:00:12,309 --> 01:00:15,012
and he looked really smalland really insignificant,
1223
01:00:15,045 --> 01:00:16,647
and I was thinking, like,
1224
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,083
"How did I use to think
that you were so great?
1225
01:00:19,116 --> 01:00:23,153
Like, you just look so little now."
1226
01:00:23,187 --> 01:00:26,190
♪ ♪
1227
01:00:27,024 --> 01:00:28,625
I left.
1228
01:00:28,659 --> 01:00:30,995
I did not need to see Keith again.
1229
01:00:31,028 --> 01:00:34,031
♪ ♪
1230
01:00:35,366 --> 01:00:37,034
[Cangro]
It was a dense day for jurors,
1231
01:00:37,067 --> 01:00:39,937
and, really, the hard part
is just about to begin.
1232
01:00:39,970 --> 01:00:43,774
Keith Raniere's fateis in the hands of the jury.
1233
01:00:43,807 --> 01:00:46,777
[ominous music]
1234
01:00:46,810 --> 01:00:49,780
♪ ♪
1235
01:00:49,813 --> 01:00:52,783
[somber music]
1236
01:00:52,816 --> 01:00:55,819
♪ ♪
1237
01:01:01,425 --> 01:01:04,028
[India]
Even though I had slowly started
1238
01:01:04,061 --> 01:01:06,864
to come to termswith what had really happened
1239
01:01:06,897 --> 01:01:08,966
to me and other women,
1240
01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:13,070
when you're confronted with the realityof what you were asking people to do
1241
01:01:13,103 --> 01:01:14,938
and what you were inviting them into,
1242
01:01:14,972 --> 01:01:19,710
the realization that I was capable of that
1243
01:01:19,743 --> 01:01:20,878
was so disturbing
1244
01:01:20,911 --> 01:01:24,248
because I had to remind myselfthat I wasn't a monster,
1245
01:01:24,281 --> 01:01:26,784
and I had to sit with myselfand stare at the ceiling
1246
01:01:26,817 --> 01:01:29,887
and go, like, "Do I even know who I am?"
1247
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,923
♪ ♪
1248
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,930
-[crying]
-[Vermenot] Let it out.
1249
01:01:39,963 --> 01:01:42,966
♪ ♪
1250
01:01:48,105 --> 01:01:51,075
[continues crying]
1251
01:01:51,108 --> 01:01:54,111
♪ ♪
1252
01:01:55,779 --> 01:01:58,982
Open your eyes and realize
that you're here now.
1253
01:01:59,016 --> 01:02:02,119
You're not there.
1254
01:02:02,152 --> 01:02:05,255
-Okay.
-Open your eyes.
1255
01:02:05,289 --> 01:02:08,959
[speaks indistinctly]
1256
01:02:08,992 --> 01:02:10,461
[India]
It just feels like, a lot of heat.
1257
01:02:10,494 --> 01:02:12,996
[Vermenot]
That's good. That's releasing.
1258
01:02:13,030 --> 01:02:16,867
[crying]
1259
01:02:16,900 --> 01:02:19,870
♪ ♪
1260
01:02:19,903 --> 01:02:23,307
I know that I didn't do it
because I wanted to hurt people
1261
01:02:23,340 --> 01:02:25,275
or bring them into something bad.
1262
01:02:25,309 --> 01:02:28,745
Like, I do know that,
but it doesn't take away all of the guilt.
1263
01:02:28,779 --> 01:02:32,116
Like, one of the things
that kind of haunts me now
1264
01:02:32,149 --> 01:02:34,852
is, like, people would give me collateral,
1265
01:02:34,885 --> 01:02:36,887
and I would just, like, send it
to Allison.
1266
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:40,157
I don't know where this collateral is.
I don't- I don't know who has it.
1267
01:02:40,190 --> 01:02:41,191
Okay.
1268
01:02:41,225 --> 01:02:45,362
I still feel shame about the part
that did push people.
1269
01:02:45,395 --> 01:02:47,197
Well, 'cause you think
it has to do with your character,
1270
01:02:47,231 --> 01:02:48,499
not Keith's,
1271
01:02:48,532 --> 01:02:50,934
but it has everything to do
with his character.
1272
01:02:50,968 --> 01:02:54,972
It is very much like someone
coming up from behind you,
1273
01:02:55,005 --> 01:02:57,441
like Keith, and knocking into you,
1274
01:02:57,474 --> 01:02:59,910
knocking you forward on purpose,
1275
01:02:59,943 --> 01:03:03,814
and then you knock someone else down.
1276
01:03:03,847 --> 01:03:07,284
You can take responsibility
for having knocked that person down,
1277
01:03:07,317 --> 01:03:10,521
but he was the one
who started the domino effect.
1278
01:03:10,554 --> 01:03:13,423
-Oh.
-It's his fault.
1279
01:03:18,362 --> 01:03:20,531
[reporter]
The jury began their deliberations
1280
01:03:20,564 --> 01:03:23,200
just before 9:30 this morning.
1281
01:03:23,233 --> 01:03:26,203
There's no tellingexactly how long the jury will take
1282
01:03:26,236 --> 01:03:28,205
for their deliberations.
1283
01:03:28,238 --> 01:03:30,941
If the jury thinks
that Keith is controlling,
1284
01:03:30,974 --> 01:03:32,342
which he is,
1285
01:03:32,376 --> 01:03:35,312
if he's hard on people, which he is,
1286
01:03:35,345 --> 01:03:39,349
but that he's those thingsfrom a more positive place
1287
01:03:39,383 --> 01:03:40,517
to help them,
1288
01:03:40,551 --> 01:03:42,986
then I think we have a chance
with a lot of the charges.
1289
01:03:43,020 --> 01:03:46,256
[indistinct chatter]
1290
01:03:46,290 --> 01:03:48,525
Guilty on all!
1291
01:03:48,559 --> 01:03:50,327
[man]
Yep. Guilty of all charges.
1292
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,864
[overlapping chatter]
1293
01:03:53,897 --> 01:03:55,499
Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty!
1294
01:03:55,532 --> 01:03:56,833
Guilty!
1295
01:03:56,867 --> 01:03:59,002
-Do you want to say hi to Catherine?
-Yes.
1296
01:03:59,036 --> 01:04:01,605
I'm so happy. Congratulations.
1297
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:06,176
I'm so happy. Oh, my God.
1298
01:04:06,210 --> 01:04:07,844
So I just wanted you to know.
1299
01:04:07,878 --> 01:04:10,047
[India] I sat thereon the phone and rejoiced.
1300
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:11,548
I felt a sense of relief
1301
01:04:11,582 --> 01:04:13,417
because my whole life
was in a holding pattern.
1302
01:04:13,450 --> 01:04:17,354
Like, I couldn't really move forward
until after this was done.
1303
01:04:17,387 --> 01:04:20,190
Well, she just found out. She's in shock.
1304
01:04:20,224 --> 01:04:24,895
I mean, I'm in shock as well,
because this has been kind of...
1305
01:04:24,928 --> 01:04:29,299
[sighs] ...the culmination
of such an incredible fight.
1306
01:04:29,333 --> 01:04:32,135
It's precedent-setting
for sex trafficking,
1307
01:04:32,169 --> 01:04:35,272
for labor trafficking,
for coercive control of women.
1308
01:04:35,305 --> 01:04:39,142
This trial has revealed that Raniere,
1309
01:04:39,176 --> 01:04:42,646
who portrayed himself
as a savant and a genius,
1310
01:04:42,879 --> 01:04:45,249
was, in fact, a master manipulator,
1311
01:04:45,282 --> 01:04:49,253
a con man, and the crime boss
of a cult-like organization.
1312
01:04:49,286 --> 01:04:52,189
Keith Raniere's crime spree has ended,
1313
01:04:52,222 --> 01:04:56,260
and his victims will finally see justice.
1314
01:04:56,293 --> 01:04:58,262
Is this gonna change the law
for coercion...
1315
01:04:58,295 --> 01:04:59,596
-[woman] Yes.
-...and coercive control?
1316
01:04:59,630 --> 01:05:01,098
[Donoghue]
I don't know.
1317
01:05:01,131 --> 01:05:02,366
I mean, if the law will change,
1318
01:05:02,399 --> 01:05:04,268
that would have to be
something in the legislature.
1319
01:05:04,301 --> 01:05:06,370
Thank you.
1320
01:05:06,403 --> 01:05:08,505
I hope that Keith Raniere is sentenced
1321
01:05:08,538 --> 01:05:11,341
to spend the rest
of his natural life in jail.
1322
01:05:11,375 --> 01:05:13,543
[cheers and applause]
1323
01:05:13,577 --> 01:05:16,980
I believe that if he wereto be released before that
1324
01:05:17,014 --> 01:05:18,548
that there is a substantial risk
1325
01:05:18,582 --> 01:05:22,686
that he would continue to abuse
and victimize women.
1326
01:05:22,919 --> 01:05:25,289
[Catherine] Just to be in the roomand to be able to hear
1327
01:05:25,322 --> 01:05:27,591
all these other people see the truth,
1328
01:05:27,624 --> 01:05:30,160
see this man for who he is,
1329
01:05:30,193 --> 01:05:33,196
see the harm that he's perpetrated
on so many people,
1330
01:05:33,230 --> 01:05:36,266
and make the decision
to bring an end to it...
1331
01:05:38,368 --> 01:05:41,071
...it's a great moment.
1332
01:05:41,104 --> 01:05:42,973
[India]
After a six-week trial,
1333
01:05:43,006 --> 01:05:45,309
it only took the jury four hours to decide
1334
01:05:45,342 --> 01:05:48,345
that he was guilty on all counts.
1335
01:05:48,378 --> 01:05:51,682
They knew exactlywho Keith was, what he did,
1336
01:05:51,715 --> 01:05:54,718
everything that we couldn't see
all those years.
1337
01:05:54,951 --> 01:05:57,721
[unsettling music]
1338
01:05:57,954 --> 01:06:00,957
♪ ♪
1339
01:06:08,265 --> 01:06:11,601
I think I had this expectation that...
1340
01:06:11,635 --> 01:06:15,405
when the trial was over,I'd just feel good again.
1341
01:06:17,307 --> 01:06:20,177
I just think a part of mereally liked the idea
1342
01:06:20,210 --> 01:06:23,313
that I could have some kind of closure,
1343
01:06:23,347 --> 01:06:27,117
but the realizationthat what I was involved in,
1344
01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:29,386
that the seed of it was bad,
1345
01:06:29,419 --> 01:06:32,222
it's not something that just goes away.
1346
01:06:33,557 --> 01:06:36,226
How do I learn to trust myself again?
1347
01:06:38,729 --> 01:06:42,699
[Lalich] Leaving a cultis an extremely confusing time.
1348
01:06:42,733 --> 01:06:46,436
One problem for India is how young she was
1349
01:06:46,470 --> 01:06:48,472
when she got involved.
1350
01:06:48,505 --> 01:06:51,708
The human brain isn't actually
fully developed until you're 25.
1351
01:06:51,742 --> 01:06:55,045
She had very impressionable years
1352
01:06:55,078 --> 01:06:59,249
that she was being indoctrinated by Keithand the others in the cult.
1353
01:06:59,282 --> 01:07:03,153
So coming out of that is very difficult,
1354
01:07:03,186 --> 01:07:07,124
and it means slowly kind of unpackingthe indoctrination.
1355
01:07:07,157 --> 01:07:09,760
It really takes determination
and dedication
1356
01:07:09,793 --> 01:07:12,329
and support of the people around you.
1357
01:07:12,362 --> 01:07:15,098
And I think, fortunately, India has that.
1358
01:07:18,135 --> 01:07:22,639
[India] I think the thing
that I think about a lot is...
1359
01:07:22,672 --> 01:07:26,410
I see what you did for me now
1360
01:07:26,443 --> 01:07:29,613
totally different
than how I thought before.
1361
01:07:29,646 --> 01:07:31,548
A lot of the time,
1362
01:07:31,581 --> 01:07:35,152
like, I would be there in NXIVM
1363
01:07:35,185 --> 01:07:39,356
and have to kind of, like, hide the fact
that I might communicate with you.
1364
01:07:39,389 --> 01:07:42,192
Or, like, I remember even
sending you, like, a happy Mother's Day.
1365
01:07:42,225 --> 01:07:44,261
I know, I loved that happy Mother's Day.
1366
01:07:44,294 --> 01:07:46,763
And I was like, "I can't let anybody know
1367
01:07:46,797 --> 01:07:49,666
that I kind of like you,"
1368
01:07:49,699 --> 01:07:51,701
'cause you're, like, the bad guy.
1369
01:07:51,735 --> 01:07:53,737
I'm just, like, archenemy,
villain number one.
1370
01:07:53,770 --> 01:07:57,073
When I would get those texts from you,
I would feel you.
1371
01:07:57,107 --> 01:08:00,544
Like, I would go, "She's still there.
That's my India."
1372
01:08:00,577 --> 01:08:04,147
I mean, like, I can laugh
about it now a little bit.
1373
01:08:04,181 --> 01:08:07,751
Well, the fact that you can laugh about it
means that...
1374
01:08:07,784 --> 01:08:09,686
it's behind you.
1375
01:08:09,719 --> 01:08:12,122
Yeah, most of it. Yeah.
1376
01:08:12,155 --> 01:08:14,524
It's definitely, definitely a process.
1377
01:08:14,558 --> 01:08:17,360
Yeah, that...
[sighs]
1378
01:08:17,394 --> 01:08:18,395
...I get.
1379
01:08:18,428 --> 01:08:21,131
I mean, I wish that the process
1380
01:08:21,164 --> 01:08:23,867
wasn't so challenging,
1381
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:26,603
but I recognize that it is.
1382
01:08:26,636 --> 01:08:28,505
-I know you do.
-Yeah.
1383
01:08:31,341 --> 01:08:33,176
Do you want a hug?
1384
01:08:33,210 --> 01:08:34,578
[both laugh]
1385
01:08:34,611 --> 01:08:37,581
[emotional music]
1386
01:08:37,614 --> 01:08:40,617
♪ ♪
1387
01:08:52,662 --> 01:08:55,499
[Jill] Once I found out that the brand
had Keith's initials in it,
1388
01:08:55,532 --> 01:08:57,400
every day I just remember
going to the mirror
1389
01:08:57,434 --> 01:09:00,637
and just doing that
and just being like, "Fuck,"
1390
01:09:00,670 --> 01:09:04,274
like, and almost feeling so dumb
for not having seen it before.
1391
01:09:04,307 --> 01:09:07,143
Like, how did I not see this?
1392
01:09:08,478 --> 01:09:09,913
It's been two and a half years.
1393
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:11,515
Like, I kind of had started thinking
1394
01:09:11,548 --> 01:09:13,683
I was going to have this
the rest of my life,
1395
01:09:13,717 --> 01:09:16,887
because I'm not super stoked
about surgery.
1396
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:19,155
[India] For a while, I thought
surgery was the only option.
1397
01:09:19,189 --> 01:09:21,591
And then I found out
that I could tattoo it.
1398
01:09:21,625 --> 01:09:24,528
-And I mean, I'm happy to show it to you.
-I'd love to see it.
1399
01:09:24,561 --> 01:09:27,697
It's pretty- it's pretty well concealed.
1400
01:09:27,731 --> 01:09:29,199
Let's see here.
1401
01:09:29,232 --> 01:09:31,935
-[Jill] Wow.
-[India] You can see there.
1402
01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:34,638
You can barely see
the pigment of the scar.
1403
01:09:34,671 --> 01:09:37,240
[Jill]
Oh, my God, that is amazing.
1404
01:09:37,274 --> 01:09:38,508
[India]
It says "ancora imparo,"
1405
01:09:38,542 --> 01:09:42,345
which means still learning,
which I thought was appropriate.
1406
01:09:42,379 --> 01:09:44,614
Beautiful.
1407
01:09:46,550 --> 01:09:47,584
[India]
Okay.
1408
01:09:47,617 --> 01:09:49,786
[man]
Got to put it right here.
1409
01:09:49,819 --> 01:09:51,421
[India]
And then fast.
1410
01:09:51,454 --> 01:09:54,391
-[man] That works.
-[India gasps]
1411
01:09:54,424 --> 01:09:58,929
After NXIVM, it was really hardfor me to trust anybody.
1412
01:09:58,962 --> 01:10:01,798
I didn't want to let anyone into my life.
1413
01:10:01,831 --> 01:10:03,900
Like, the last thing
I wanted was a boyfriend.
1414
01:10:03,934 --> 01:10:07,737
But Patrick was persistent.
1415
01:10:07,771 --> 01:10:10,373
It was actually Patrickwho really started
1416
01:10:10,407 --> 01:10:12,609
to help me eat regular meals,
1417
01:10:12,642 --> 01:10:14,611
'cause before then,
I was just eating one thing
1418
01:10:14,644 --> 01:10:17,647
like squash or raspberries or eggs.
1419
01:10:17,681 --> 01:10:20,850
So, when he started to cook mebreakfast, he would say,
1420
01:10:20,884 --> 01:10:24,721
"Can I make you eggs
with spinach or cheese or tomato?"
1421
01:10:24,754 --> 01:10:27,290
And he would add one ingredient at a time.
1422
01:10:27,324 --> 01:10:29,726
So I would feel comfortable
with a full meal.
1423
01:10:29,759 --> 01:10:31,428
[Patrick]
All right, let's put one more in.
1424
01:10:31,461 --> 01:10:32,929
-Okay.
-You're hired.
1425
01:10:32,963 --> 01:10:35,966
-That's upside down.
-[laughs]
1426
01:10:35,999 --> 01:10:38,735
He reminds me how to have fun.
1427
01:10:38,768 --> 01:10:43,306
You know, Patrick didn't see meas a branded sex slave.
1428
01:10:43,340 --> 01:10:46,276
He just saw me as a girlthat he wanted to know.
1429
01:10:46,309 --> 01:10:48,878
But he has to dealwith what other people think of me,
1430
01:10:48,912 --> 01:10:52,382
and sometimeshe gets dragged into that.
1431
01:10:52,415 --> 01:10:54,784
He understandsthat this is a part of my life,
1432
01:10:54,818 --> 01:10:57,454
and he supports me in what I need to do.
1433
01:10:57,487 --> 01:11:00,423
[solemn music]
1434
01:11:00,457 --> 01:11:03,026
I thought NXIVMwas gonna give me a purpose,
1435
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:06,997
but even though it turned outto be completely destructive,
1436
01:11:07,030 --> 01:11:10,467
NXIVM led me to a real purpose.
1437
01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:11,935
It made me want to figure out
1438
01:11:11,968 --> 01:11:16,606
how to use what I went throughin a positive way.
1439
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:19,609
♪ ♪
1440
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:25,682
[women]
Are we ready?
1441
01:11:25,715 --> 01:11:26,983
And I wish everybody a good time.
1442
01:11:27,017 --> 01:11:28,918
-Yes.
-Are you ready, India?
1443
01:11:28,952 --> 01:11:30,687
-Yeah.
-All right, let's do this.
1444
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,489
-Everybody's ready.
-Let's do it.
1445
01:11:32,522 --> 01:11:34,824
♪ ♪
1446
01:11:34,858 --> 01:11:37,927
[India] I realize thisis much bigger than me.
1447
01:11:37,961 --> 01:11:40,497
A group of us were invited to speak
1448
01:11:40,530 --> 01:11:43,700
at the Arizona State UniversityLaw School.
1449
01:11:43,733 --> 01:11:47,871
These law students are the oneswho can write the legislation
1450
01:11:47,904 --> 01:11:51,307
that will protectagainst future Keith Ranieres.
1451
01:11:51,341 --> 01:11:54,044
♪ ♪
1452
01:11:54,077 --> 01:11:55,945
[Kelly]
It's scary a little bit.
1453
01:11:55,979 --> 01:11:58,882
Talking about NXIVM is not okay
1454
01:11:58,915 --> 01:12:01,451
with people who are still loyal,
1455
01:12:01,484 --> 01:12:03,620
and I have been told by people
1456
01:12:03,653 --> 01:12:07,657
to basically just keep my head down
and shut the fuck up.
1457
01:12:07,691 --> 01:12:11,061
And to be honest,
1458
01:12:11,094 --> 01:12:13,730
that made me want to do this even more.
1459
01:12:19,669 --> 01:12:22,672
[students clapping]
1460
01:12:24,708 --> 01:12:28,378
So how easy was this for you to join in,
1461
01:12:28,411 --> 01:12:30,814
for you to follow me?
1462
01:12:30,847 --> 01:12:32,549
A little weird, yes?
1463
01:12:32,582 --> 01:12:34,918
But you thought, "Why not?"
1464
01:12:34,951 --> 01:12:39,089
[Kelly] NXIVM had
a brilliant micro-recruiting process.
1465
01:12:39,122 --> 01:12:41,991
I was targeted because I was intelligent,
1466
01:12:42,025 --> 01:12:44,060
I had access to resources
1467
01:12:44,094 --> 01:12:47,063
and to social and business networks.
1468
01:12:47,097 --> 01:12:51,768
I spent seven years and over $50,000,
1469
01:12:51,801 --> 01:12:54,471
followed up by another $15,000
1470
01:12:54,504 --> 01:12:57,707
in therapy to recover, for nothing.
1471
01:12:57,741 --> 01:13:00,777
Most people in cults
are either sexually abused,
1472
01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:04,080
financially enslaved,
or emotionally coerced.
1473
01:13:04,114 --> 01:13:07,417
It takes years to deprogram and unlearn
1474
01:13:07,450 --> 01:13:09,786
even if there is no physical mark.
1475
01:13:09,819 --> 01:13:12,956
Sometimes the indoctrination
is embedded so deep
1476
01:13:12,989 --> 01:13:15,091
that it never goes away.
1477
01:13:15,125 --> 01:13:17,761
Our brains are branded.
1478
01:13:17,794 --> 01:13:20,096
[India] Like everyone else
I know who joined NXIVM,
1479
01:13:20,130 --> 01:13:22,565
I came into this very optimistic,
1480
01:13:22,599 --> 01:13:25,869
searching for ways to better myself.
1481
01:13:25,902 --> 01:13:30,106
In 2016, Allison Mack
recruited me into DOS.
1482
01:13:31,708 --> 01:13:34,010
I was branded with a cauterizing pen
1483
01:13:34,043 --> 01:13:37,914
that was extremely painful procedure
that took months to heal.
1484
01:13:37,947 --> 01:13:39,983
Every woman I know
who joined DOS is intelligent
1485
01:13:40,016 --> 01:13:43,753
and passionate about life
and just wanted to be better.
1486
01:13:43,787 --> 01:13:47,023
There's no way to help victims
or solve these problems
1487
01:13:47,056 --> 01:13:49,559
unless you stop judging us.
1488
01:13:49,592 --> 01:13:52,061
I hope that bringing faces to the people
1489
01:13:52,095 --> 01:13:54,497
who have been associated
with the words like
1490
01:13:54,531 --> 01:13:57,700
"cult," "coercion," "victim"
1491
01:13:57,734 --> 01:13:59,869
will bring this room
a better understanding
1492
01:13:59,903 --> 01:14:04,140
rather than thinking,
"This could never be me."
1493
01:14:04,174 --> 01:14:06,075
So thank you.
1494
01:14:06,109 --> 01:14:09,112
[applause]
1495
01:14:09,145 --> 01:14:12,148
♪ ♪
1496
01:14:12,182 --> 01:14:14,551
When I was coming here today,
I thought to myself,
1497
01:14:14,584 --> 01:14:17,520
"There's no way
I could become involved in this."
1498
01:14:17,554 --> 01:14:19,689
And as I've listened to you,
1499
01:14:19,722 --> 01:14:21,991
I've come
to the exact opposite conclusion.
1500
01:14:22,025 --> 01:14:23,193
[laughter]
1501
01:14:23,226 --> 01:14:25,762
First, I applaud all of you
for being here.
1502
01:14:25,795 --> 01:14:27,096
Honestly, I really do.
1503
01:14:27,130 --> 01:14:31,968
Secondly, I implore you
to engage with legislators,
1504
01:14:32,001 --> 01:14:33,837
engage with policymakers,
1505
01:14:33,870 --> 01:14:38,708
because meeting you, talking to you,
that's what's gonna make it real for them.
1506
01:14:38,741 --> 01:14:41,744
[applause]
1507
01:14:43,179 --> 01:14:44,948
[Karadjordjevic]
I believe in the phoenix theory:
1508
01:14:44,981 --> 01:14:46,916
Out of ashes comes something wonderful,
1509
01:14:46,950 --> 01:14:50,119
so out of this ash is going to be
a whole new movement
1510
01:14:50,153 --> 01:14:53,523
of protecting girls from such-
such horrors.
1511
01:14:53,556 --> 01:14:55,725
And I'm sorry Indiahad to go through this,
1512
01:14:55,758 --> 01:14:58,494
but maybe she was destined.
1513
01:14:59,562 --> 01:15:00,697
[India]
For a long time,
1514
01:15:00,730 --> 01:15:02,599
I didn't want to tell my story.
1515
01:15:02,632 --> 01:15:06,135
It's overwhelming,but I feel like what we're doing now
1516
01:15:06,169 --> 01:15:08,671
can actually make a difference.
1517
01:15:08,705 --> 01:15:11,040
This is just the beginning.
1518
01:15:11,074 --> 01:15:13,910
I know that there are laws
in other countries
1519
01:15:13,943 --> 01:15:16,212
against unethical coercion,
1520
01:15:16,246 --> 01:15:18,681
and I am working on gettingthe same thing
1521
01:15:18,715 --> 01:15:20,216
here in the United States.
1522
01:15:20,250 --> 01:15:24,153
Cult leaders around the world
should live in fear, not us.
1523
01:15:24,187 --> 01:15:26,823
It hasn't been easy,but I'm not gonna give up.
1524
01:15:26,856 --> 01:15:28,691
This is a human-rights issue.
1525
01:15:28,725 --> 01:15:30,560
[Ashley]
I'm going to keep telling my story,
1526
01:15:30,593 --> 01:15:33,162
and I just completed my masters
1527
01:15:33,196 --> 01:15:35,198
in the psychology of coercive control.
1528
01:15:35,231 --> 01:15:37,667
I write stand-up, and I perform it.
1529
01:15:37,700 --> 01:15:39,269
-[cheers and applause]
-Oh, my God.
1530
01:15:39,302 --> 01:15:41,604
I just, um-
I just escaped a cult.
1531
01:15:41,638 --> 01:15:43,806
I'm just so glad I made it here.
1532
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,808
Sometimes I also feel proud
1533
01:15:45,842 --> 01:15:49,112
that I actually went through that,
and I've grown a lot, and I learned a lot.
1534
01:15:49,145 --> 01:15:52,081
It's kind of like my secret superpower.
1535
01:15:52,115 --> 01:15:54,984
There is a seaof personal-development classes,
1536
01:15:55,018 --> 01:15:57,086
but you can't just believe
that every second person
1537
01:15:57,120 --> 01:16:00,957
on Sunset Boulevard
is your transformational coach.
1538
01:16:00,990 --> 01:16:02,091
[Catherine]
In the U.S. alone,
1539
01:16:02,125 --> 01:16:06,996
self-help isan 11 billion-dollar-a-year business,
1540
01:16:07,030 --> 01:16:09,165
and it's completely unregulated.
1541
01:16:09,198 --> 01:16:13,736
You can hijack somebody's brainwithout them being aware of it.
1542
01:16:13,770 --> 01:16:15,271
You can change their belief system.
1543
01:16:15,305 --> 01:16:19,909
You can change the way they think
without them even knowing.
1544
01:16:19,943 --> 01:16:22,745
[Lalich] People don't want to thinkit can happen to them.
1545
01:16:22,779 --> 01:16:26,683
The most common misconceptionsabout people who join cults
1546
01:16:26,716 --> 01:16:29,786
is that they're stupid, crazy, weird.
1547
01:16:29,819 --> 01:16:33,623
This idea is absolutelythe opposite of the reality.
1548
01:16:33,656 --> 01:16:36,592
Cults recruit the best
and the brightest in our society.
1549
01:16:36,626 --> 01:16:39,262
I have done interventions to deprogram
1550
01:16:39,295 --> 01:16:42,966
five medical doctors
and a clinical psychologist.
1551
01:16:42,999 --> 01:16:46,169
[Catherine] It was India's intelligencethat was her liability.
1552
01:16:46,202 --> 01:16:50,173
Her altruism, she wanted to livea life bigger than hers,
1553
01:16:50,206 --> 01:16:51,975
to participate in something more noble.
1554
01:16:52,008 --> 01:16:53,810
[Ross]
Coercive persuasion
1555
01:16:53,843 --> 01:16:56,245
can happen anyplace to anyone.
1556
01:16:56,279 --> 01:16:58,614
For us to just say,"Well, why would anybody do that?"
1557
01:16:58,648 --> 01:17:01,017
We're ignoring the context.
1558
01:17:01,050 --> 01:17:04,754
We're ignoring what led up to that event.
1559
01:17:04,787 --> 01:17:06,756
[Hassan]
This is such a critical time
1560
01:17:06,789 --> 01:17:08,691
in the history of the world.
1561
01:17:08,725 --> 01:17:10,760
We're no longer in the age of information.
1562
01:17:10,793 --> 01:17:11,928
Hello, you guys.
1563
01:17:11,961 --> 01:17:13,930
[Hassan]
We're living in the age of influence.
1564
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:15,932
But there really are differences
1565
01:17:15,965 --> 01:17:18,101
between ethical forms of influence,
1566
01:17:18,134 --> 01:17:21,904
where you have choice,
free will, conscience,
1567
01:17:21,938 --> 01:17:23,940
and unethical influence
1568
01:17:23,973 --> 01:17:27,043
based on power and control.
1569
01:17:28,678 --> 01:17:33,116
The experiences I had in NXIVM
will never just go away.
1570
01:17:33,149 --> 01:17:36,219
I can't erase them.
1571
01:17:36,252 --> 01:17:40,156
I have to find a way to live
with my choices every day.
1572
01:17:40,189 --> 01:17:41,724
I'm trying to make sure
1573
01:17:41,758 --> 01:17:44,427
that others don't have
the experience that I did...
1574
01:17:46,229 --> 01:17:50,099
...because as soon as you think
that something like this
1575
01:17:50,133 --> 01:17:52,168
will never happen to you,
1576
01:17:52,201 --> 01:17:55,772
that's exactly when it can.
1577
01:17:55,805 --> 01:17:58,775
[dark music]
1578
01:17:58,808 --> 01:18:01,811
♪ ♪
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