One of the stars of the TV series “Smallville,” Allison Mack, has started serving a three-year prison term for her role manipulating women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. NXIVM portrayed itself as a women’s self-help group. Raniere paid her to enlist the women to perform menial tasks. She pleaded guilty to racketeering. She cooperated with the government to collect evidence against the organization’s leader Keith Rainiere, who was sentenced to 120 years in prison. Mack still faces a civil suit along with Raniere and others. She earned several awards and nominations for her portrayal of Chloe on the smalltown show. A documentary has been made of the scandal, entitled “Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter.” The Associated Press has the story:
Allison Mack begins three-year prison sentence
NEW YORK (AP) — TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in the cultlike group NXIVM, has surrendered to a California prison to serve her sentence in a New York case against the group’s spiritual leader.
Mack, best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on “Smallville,” was sentenced to three years behind bars in June. She had previously pleaded guilty to the charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere.
A prison website showed Thursday that she had entered a low-security facility in Dublin, California, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) east of San Francisco.
Mack, 39, dodged a longer prison term by becoming a government cooperator in the federal case. Prosecutors credited her with helping them mount evidence showing how Raniere created a secret society of brainwashed women who were branded with his initials.
Raniere was sentenced last year to 120 years in prison for his conviction on sex-trafficking charges.
