Actress Allison Mack is expected to testify later in the trial. In the early, frigid months of , Nicole was struggling. An aspiring actress with pin-straight dark hair and small, delicate features, Nicole had lived for years in Los Angeles, where she had had some minor success booking commercial work; she had just moved to New York City to build her stage career. But almost immediately, Nicole regretted the move.
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Asked how she managed to navigate that change in her life, she said, "I have a wonderful teacher and mentor named Keith Raniere , who really gave me some incredible guidance. If you aren't willing to be humble enough to seek wisdom from other people, I think you're missing a lot of really incredible opportunities to build a certain amount of depth and value in your life that you wouldn't have if you didn't have somebody to help guide you. I chose to have this mentor in my life, and I was talking to him about my struggle, confusion, and not knowing what to do. He said, 'Why don't you take some time and think about? Give yourself some space to figure out who you are now. At the time, maybe, that just sounded like glowing praise.
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It was at this conference that Nxivm allegedly made plans, as reported by John Tighe on Saratoga in Decline, to expand their racketeering enterprise. They also conducted a Nxivm intensive and partied hardy. Nxivm leader Keith Alan Raniere did not attend the retreat. No one is suggesting that participants like Kristin Kreuk or especially the owner of the island, Richard Branson, had anything to do with the criminal elements of the Nxivm racketeering enterprise.
In the years since, Raniere was arrested and later indicted on federal charges. In July , the founder was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. During that time, various people were revealed to be members or recruits -- from an heiress to the Seagram Company fortune to a daughter of a former Dynasty actress -- but none were more shocking than former Smallville star Allison Mack.