Upstate cult leader Keith Raniere reveled in “trying to break” “Smallville” actress Allison Mack with his misogynistic sex club Nxivm, a former member testified Monday.
When former follower Mark Vicente told Raniere that cult acolyte Mack looked emaciated and “broken,” Raniere shrugged, Vicente said during Raniere’s trial in Brooklyn federal court.
“Well, I’m trying to break her,” Raniere replied, according to Vicente.
The cavalier attitude was part and parcel of an alleged larger “formalized misogyny” that Raniere preached to his followers.
Within Raniere’s Nxivm “executive empowerment” group, the charismatic weirdo set up several smaller clubs, including the DOS sect that groomed female sex slaves for him, prosecutors say.
Another secret group within the cult was the Society of Protectors, which taught men how to dominate women while breaking women through humiliation, Vicente said.
“The whole idea is that the women had to learn that no matter what they do, it’s wrong,” he said. “These women were broken, These women were shells of themselves. Something inside them was gone. And SOP had a lot to do with that.”
The women were forced to wear “various props” as a form of humiliation.
“Somebody was given fairy angel wings. Somebody was given a jock strap — that was Clare Bronfman, for being too bossy,” Vicente said, referring to the Seagram’s liquor heiress and Nxivm bank-roller who has already pleaded guilty in the case.
The whistle blower also revealed that, while women were forced to hand over nude photos as “collateral” for their membership, Raneiere simply made men pay money to join.