NXIVM Celebrity Members Included Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk, and More

Allison Mack Wasn’t the Only Celebrity Member of NXIVM, the Cult on 'The Vow'

Sep. 13 2020, Updated 1:30 p.m. ET

With the docuseries The Vow currently airing on HBO, audience are understandably curious about the celebrity members of NXIVM, the organization founded by means of convicted felon Keith Raniere.

A handful of Hollywood stars joined the group — including multiple actors who have been filming Smallville or Battlestar Galactica in Vancouver, Canada, where NXIVM had opened a center. 

Cult expert Diane Benscoter informed Vice that these celebs may had been lured to the prospect of a higher function in existence. “It's something to be well-known and get just right roles in films; it's any other thing so to use that to really make a distinction in the world,” Benscoter stated. “And that is truly appealing to those that have more depth than simply the need to be rich and famous."

Keep reading learn more about the Hollywood stars with a current or former connection to NXIVM.

Allison Mack

Mack, who starred on Smallville as Chloe Sullivan, was arrested in April 2018 and accused of recruiting women into DOS, a secret society in which some recruits were exploited “both sexually and for their labor, to the defendants’ benefit,” U.S. attorney Richard P. Donoghue said, per CNN. 

Nearly a year later, Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and racketeering and admitted to state law extortion and forced labor. The actress, facing up to 40 years in prison, is currently awaiting sentencing.

“I believed Keith Raniere’s intentions were to help people, and I was wrong,” Mack said in federal court in April 2019, according to the Associated Press. “I can and will be a better person.”

Kristin Kreuk

Kreuk, who co-starred as Lana Lang on Smallville, explained her involvement with NXIVM in a 2018 Twitter post. “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 in the statement. “I left about five years ago and had minimal contact with those who were still involved."

“The accusations that I was in the ‘inside circle’ or recruited ladies as ‘sex slaves’ are blatantly false,” she added. “During my time, I never experienced any unlawful or nefarious job. I'm horrified and disgusted by means of what has pop out about DOS.”

Grace Park

Park — easiest known for her starring roles in Battlestar Galactica, Hawaii Five-0, and A Million Little Things — left NXIVM after a 2017 New York Times tale exposing DOS, consistent with Vice.

Nicki Clyne

Clyne, who performed Cally on Battlestar Galactica, was named as a co-conspirator at Raniere’s trial, with witnesses attesting that she recruited three so-called “slaves” into NXIVM’s DOS program, consistent with Vice. These days, she’s involved with a group alternately referred to as The Forgotten Ones or We Are As You, consistent with the website online, and campaigning for prisoner rights in beef up of Raniere.

In 2018, federal prosecutors printed that Clyne had married Mack, and journalist Frank Parlato advised People that the 2 actresses wed in 2017.

Sarah Edmondson

Edmondson is an actress who has seemed in the TV displays Salvation, Fringe, and The Whispers. She provides much of the remark of The Vow, detailing her experience with and departure from NXIVM.

Bonnie Piesse

Piesse, an Australian musician and actor recognized for her role as Beru Lars in the Star Wars motion pictures Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, was all in favour of NXIVM alongside her husband, filmmaker Mark Vincente, but she in the end became disillusioned with the organization and left. These days, she runs Soul + Sky, a tarot reading business, in step with Esquire.