Allison Mack Gets Parole After NXIVM Cult Scandal

Actress Allison Mak has been released from prison early after being sentenced to three years behind bars for her involvement in the sex cult NXIVM.

The Smallville alum, 40, was released from prison on Monday, July 3, the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. Mack was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2021 after pleading guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges related to NXIVM in April 2018. She started her jail term in September 2021. The reason behind Mack’s early release from prison is currently unknown.

Mack’s legal drama began in April 2018 after she was arrested for allegedly recruiting women into the sex trafficking group to become sex slaves to its leader, Keith Raniere, in addition to identity fraud and money laundering. “The victims were then exploited, both sexually and for work, for the benefit of the defendants,” said the United States Attorney. Richard P. Donoghue said in a statement to the Hollywood reporter at the time.

According to court documents obtained by Us weekly in April 2018, Mack – who is best known for playing young Clark Kent’s (Tom Welling) boyfriend Chloe Sullivan on The CW’s Smallville from 2001 to 2011 – recruited women for NXIVM by describing it as “an empowerment group or sorority for women”. After joining, members were forced to “provide [NXIVM] with naked photos, assets, criminal confessions and other damaging information, known as collateral.”

The documents also stated that Mack would “perform ceremonies branding her slaves” with Raniere’s initials and that she would “put her hands on the slaves’ chests and tell them to ‘feel the pain’ and ‘to their master to think’.” as slaves cried in pain. Old tweets from Mack resurfaced during the scandal, in which she seemingly tried to recruit Emma Watson And Kelly Clarkson to NXIVM.

After her arrest, Mack was released on $5 million bail and sentenced to house arrest. In April 2019, she changed her plea of ​​not guilty and pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges not long after NXIVM co-founder, Nancy Saltmannand her daughter, Lauren Saltmanboth pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges a month earlier.

Raniere, 62, for his part, was sentenced to 120 years behind bars in October 2020 after being convicted of seven felonies related to child sex trafficking, conspiracy and conspiracy to commit forced labour. At the time he told NBC news that he was “innocent” of his crimes.

Mack was initially sentenced to 17 years in prison, but she received a lighter sentence in exchange for testifying to prosecutors and helping with their case against Raniere.

Prior to her sentencing, Mack filed for divorce from her wife Nicky Clynewith whom she got married in 2017. She also apologized to NXIVM’s victims in a June 2021 statement Usadmitted that she had “committed serious mistakes”.

Mack continued, “I threw everything I had into Keith Raniere’s teachings. I believed with all my heart that his mentorship was leading me to a better, more enlightened version of myself. I devoted my loyalty, my resources, and ultimately my life to him. This was the biggest mistake and the biggest regret of my life.”

A memo accompanying the statement said Mack’s lawyers asked that she not face jail time. As part of her June 2021 sentencing, the German-born actress was fined $20,000 in addition to her three-year prison sentence. She began her prison sentence in early September.

Different from Mack’s Smallville costars have spoken out about their NXIVM experiences over the years. In March 2018, Kristin Kreuk revealed that she had joined the organization when she was 23 on the assumption that it was a “self-help/personal growth course” and that she had left NXIVM five years earlier.

However, Kreuk, now 40, clarified that she was not part of the group’s “inner circle” and that she did not “recruit women as ‘sex slaves'”, and was “appalled and disgusted” by the allegations about Mack.

Alan Huffman shared in May 2019 that she was invited by Mack to NXIVM meetings, but always felt there was “something wrong” with the group. “It was just a feeling, and I was like, ‘No, I’m good,’ and I stayed away,” she exclusively shared. Us at the time. “I don’t know if it’s because I had my own village, I wasn’t very susceptible or vulnerable. I had a great group of friends when I got married, and I had my kids.