NXIVM
Sign in to saveNXIVM ( ) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted racketeer and sex offender. It was also the name of the now-defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1998 establishments in New York (state), American companies established in 1998 and Colonie, New York.
Its subject is documented across 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Company.name
- NXIVM Corporation
- Company.logo
- NXIVM_Logo.png
- Company.image
- Former NXIVM headquarters, Albany, NY.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- NXIVM's former headquarters in Colonie, New York
- Company.type
- Privately held company
- Company.location
- Colonie, New York, U.S.
- Company.industry
- Self-improvement seminars
- Company.products
- Personal-growth seminars
- Company.homepage
- nxivm.com (Archived)
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- Commons category
- NXIVM
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2021-09-07
- inception
- 1998-07-20
- native label
- NXIVM
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Encyclopedic overview
36 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding and initial success
- Cult allegations in early 2000s
- Recruitment in Vancouver
- 2008–2010
- Related organizations
- Exposure of "DOS" and NXIVM downfall
- Whistleblowers' accounts
- Arrest of Raniere
- Indictment of Raniere and co-conspirators
- Guilty pleas, corporations and conviction
- NXIVM after Raniere's conviction
- Civil lawsuit against NXIVM leadership
- Raniere and loyalists activities
- Sentencing and appeals for Raniere and Bronfman
- ''Marc Elliot v. Lions Gate Entertainment'' libel case
- ''Raniere v. Garland'' prison case
- Personality cult of Keith Raniere
- Hagiographical claims
- Claims of Raniere's superior intellect and sexual powers
- Beliefs and practices
- Teachings
- Classes and programs
- Rituals and practices
- Tourette's treatment claims
- Human subject experimentation
- Notable participants
- Critical former members
- Other persons
- Journalists reporting on the group
- Films, documentaries and books
- Documentaries
- Books
- Other
- References
- External links
NXIVM ( ) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted racketeer and sex offender. It was also the name of the now-defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates.
NXIVM was based in the New York Capital District and had centers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The subsidiary companies of NXIVM engaged in recruitment based on the multi-level marketing model and used curricula based on teachings ("tech") of Raniere known as "Rational Inquiry". Courses attracted a variety of notable students, including actors and children of the rich and powerful. At its height, NXIVM had 700 active members. Alarmed by Raniere's behavior and NXIVM's practices, former members and families of NXIVM clients spoke to investigative journalists and described the organization as a cult. In 2017, former NXIVM members revealed damaging information about Raniere and NXIVM to The New York Times; that information included the existence of a NXIVM-connected secret society called "DOS" in which women were branded, made to record false confessions, and made to provide nude photographs for blackmail purposes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NXIVM” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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