Allison Mack's Wife Nicki Clyne Defends Convicted NXIVM Founder Keith Raniere

NXIVM, a personal development company founded by Keith Raniere, was exposed as a pyramid scheme and cult that forced its female recruits into sexual slavery, it was soon discovered that there were many prominent, highly influential members from the worlds of business, politics and Hollywood that brought legitimacy and notoriety to the organization.

The Vow on HBO aired Sunday, leaving viewers with questions about what happened to NXIVM's key players, including Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, India Oxenberg, and Clare Bronfman. The documentary series, about an alleged sex cult and multi-level marketing scheme masquerading as a self-help program, ended its first season with the arrest of Keith Raniere.

The Vow” finale hinted at several big interviews gearing up for the second installment on HBO. Any additional details on what we can expect for season two will have to wait until 2021 (when next set of episodes is scheduled to drop).

has an HBO docuseries ended with such an unexpected twist. During Sunday night’s finale of, the nine-part documentary about NXIVM, a self-help organization exposed as a pyramid scheme and cult that subjected female recruits to sexual slavery, convicted founder Keith Raniere spoke via phone from Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. “There are many ways of presenting a documentary.

The Vow on HBO aired Sunday, leaving viewers with questions about what happened to NXIVM's key players, including Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, India Oxenberg, and Clare Bronfman. The documentary series, about an alleged sex cult and multi-level marketing scheme masquerading as a self-help program, ended its first season with the arrest of Keith Raniere.

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If you’ve been watching The Vow, HBO’s bombshell docuseries about the NXIVM cult, you’ve seen India Oxenberg’s friends and family — including her mother, Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg — fight to get India out from under the thumb of cult leader Keith Raniere. Now, India is telling her own story.

India Oxenberg is taking a look back at her time spent trapped in NXIVM.  Daughter of actress Catherine Oxenberg, India, was among those under the influence of former leader, Kevin Raniere.  India will open up about her experience in the cult in "Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult," an upcoming STARZ four-part docuseries. Ahead of the show's premiere, India, 29, reflected on meeting Raniere for the first time in a clip from "The Doctors" obtained by Fox News.

NXIVM in 2018, India Oxenberg is finally ready to tell her story.

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A group of NXIVM members have enlisted the help of Amanda Knox — an American woman who was convicted for a 2007 murder but ultimately exonerated — in a bid to help the group’s leader, Keith Raniere.