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Summary: Actress Kristin Kreuk has denied recruiting women into a controversial group labeled a cult.
Smallville, a teen drama about Superman that aired in the early 2000s, may have hosted bigger villains than Lex Luther. In a wild story fit for Hollywood, two of its female stars allegedly were a part of a real-life sex cult.
Smallville stars Allison Mack and Kristin Kreuk allegedly helped women join NXIVM, the New York Post stated. NXIVM was a self-help group that has recently been labeled a cult. Its creator, Keith Raniere, was arrested on Monday on charges of sex trafficking.
According to Fox News, Kreuk, 35, has denied reports of her involvement as a recruiter. On Twitter, she said she joined NXIVM when she was 23 because she needed help battling “shyness” but she left about five years ago.
“When I was about 23, I took an Executive Success Programs/NXIVM ‘intensive,’ what I understood to be a self help/personal growth course that helped me handle my previous shyness, which is why I continued with the program,” Kreuk wrote. “I left about five years ago and had minimal contact with those who were still involved.”
The New York Post said that Kreuk had been apart of NXIVM’s “Dominus Obsequious Sororium,” which means “Master Over the Slave Woman.” The group’s founder, Raniere, allegedly dominated numerous women, controlling what they ate and making them perform sexual favors on him. The New York Post said that Kreuk and Mack had helped find women to become Raniere’s sex slaves.
Kreuk said that these accusations were false.
“The accusations that I was in the ‘inner circle’ or recruited women as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false,” Kreuk said. “During my time, I never experienced any illegal or nefarious activity. I am horrified and disgusted by what has come out about DOS.”
Raniere was known in the organization as “The Vanguard,” and he allegedly coerced women into having sex with him and doing menial chores. Reports stated that he liked thin women so the sex slaves in his group were only allowed to eat 500 to 800 calories a day.
Mack allegedly started off in the group as a sex slave but moved upwards to become a master of them. She allegedly came up with the idea to brand women, and there are reportedly videotapes of Ranier and Mack burning initials into sex slaves’ pelvic areas.
The New York Post said that Mack and Kreuk used their fame from Smallville to lure women into joining DOS. The newspaper said that Kreuk left in 2012 when the Albany Times Union printed allegations that the cult leader had sex with underage girls.
Ranier was arrested on Monday in Mexico, and he was reportedly staying at a $10,000 a week villa with numerous women. Reports state that Mack has been running the cult while Ranier is detained and that she is more than likely to be arrested soon.
The Albany Times Union said that Mack is identified in the New York complaint against Ranier as an “unnamed co-conspirator.” The newspaper had published an article in October 2017 that detailed the group’s abusive behavior by five former members.
Authorities said that Ranier’s group was financed by Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the liquor company Seagram. She allegedly gave NXIVM millions of dollars to cover expenses such as private jet travel.