Allison Mack: How Smallville star came to be embroiled in criminal sex cult NXIVM

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Let me know if you’re willing to chat.” open image in gallery Allison Mack attends an event for the play ‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’ on 29 July 2010 in New York City It was in 2016 that a woman named Nicole says Mack allegedly invited her to join “a really cool women’s mentorship ”, which turned out to be DOS. “If I wanted to get more information on this mentorship, I’d have to provide collateral,” Nicole said during Raniere’s trial, according to court testimony published by Rolling Stone. As part of DOS, Nicole alleges she was made to refer as Mack as her “master” and take part in “readiness drills” in which she was expected to reply to Mack’s texts within 30 seconds. Back in September 2020, Judge Nicholas G Garaufis sentenced Clare Bronfman, described by prosecutors as “a high-ranking member of NXIVM’s executive board”, to almost seven years in prison.