Actress' letter of help for NXIVM cult chief going through life behind bars unsealed

Actress Nicki Clyne has provided up a letter of help for NXIVM DOS sex-cult chief Keith Raniere, revealing she dated him for a decade.

The Battlestar Galactica star’s notice to the Brooklyn federal courtroom choose overseeing Raniere’s upcoming sentencing has been unsealed and in it she argues the person she dated shouldn’t be the man going through life behind bars for making a cult so he may very well be surrounded by intercourse slaves.

“I discover this concept utterly absurd and even offensive – as a lady and a companion of Keith’s for over a decade,” Clyne wrote. “I’ve by no means identified Keith to need intimacy with somebody who doesn’t need it, and it’s a ridiculous notion to assume he would have gone to all that bother for intercourse.”

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Clyne’s letter was one in all dozens written by former college students and supporters forward of his sentencing for sex-trafficking and different expenses subsequent week.

The actress was beforehand recognized by federal prosecutors as having been part of Raniere’s “internal circle” at DOS, alongside former Smallville star Allison Mack, who can also be going through sentencing after pleading responsible to racketeering and conspiracy expenses.

Mack has confessed she instructed ladies “to carry out providers”, including the system was designed to make them assume “they may endure severe hurt” in the event that they didn’t carry out these duties.

Throughout Raniere’s trial, prosecutors claimed DOS (Dominus Obsequious Sororium) slaves have been branded together with his initials and compelled to have intercourse with him.

Clyne, who was not charged within the scheme, insists she would have preferred to have set the report straight in courtroom.

“My testimony would have countered a lot of what the prosecution’s witnesses alleged and dismantled the Authorities’s complete concept about DOS, reframing it from a sinister ‘intercourse cult’, to a gaggle of ladies who sought steerage from a trusted and clever man, and created a secret sorority for girls that carried out some considerably unconventional practices within the pursuit of progress and private freedom,” she wrote.

The actress additionally opened up about Mack, who prosecutors declare wed Clyne in 2018, revealing she hasn’t spoken to her for 18 months: “A part of the situations of her bail is that she will be able to’t converse to anybody who’s affiliated in any method with the case or NXIVM.”