Jeffrey Epstein was an American money manager and registered sex offender. [18], By 1990, Raniere founded his own multi-level marketing company, Consumers' Buyline Inc. [216][217][218], As sentencing proceeded, federal prosecutors asked for life imprisonment for the severity of Raniere's crimes and his lack of remorse, arguing that he would continue to commit crimes if released. Daniela said Raniere also attempted to coax her into a sex act with her sister Marianna. [106][107][108], According to Daniela's testimony as a prosecution witness at the 2019 trial, Raniere claimed to all three sisters that he had "mystical" powers, including the ability to heal through sex. "[65] Snyder was last seen leaving this session of the course. Univision Investiga El rentable IQ de Keith Raniere El reconocimiento que hizo la revista World Guinness Records en 1989 al gur de la superacin mental en EEUU como uno de los hombres ms. '"[47] A witness at Raniere's trial later testified that Bronfman's computer was compromised and his emails monitored by group members for a period of years. Allegations of Raniere's sex crimes against underage girls appeared in an investigative series published by The Albany Times-Union in 2012. "[81][82] In a 2010 Albany Times Union article, NXIVM former coaches characterized students as "prey" for Raniere to satisfy either his gambling or sexual proclivities. Among Raniere's followers were several famous names: Emiliano Salinas, the son of a former Mexican president; heiresses Sara and Clare Bronfman, who provided NXIVM and Raniere with enormous sums; actress Allison Mack, star of the television show Smallville; and India Oxenberg, daughter of actress Catherine Oxenberg. In 1990, her mother worked for Raniere's multi-level marketing company, Consumers' Buyline Inc. [125] An estimated 150 women joined DOS. 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Raniere's IQ was listed in the "Mega" genius category in an Australian edition of the Guinness Book of World Records in 1989. [237][238], Mental, physical and sexual abuse of members, Loyalists' activities at Metropolitan Detention Complex. (the last edition to include a category for highest IQ) described the Hoeflin Research Group as "the most exclusive ultrahigh IQ society", and the 1989 . The child, born in 2007, had earlier been reported to be an orphan adopted by Raniere and Keeffe, rather than their biological child. [147][174][175] At Raniere's trial, prosecutors introduced a recording of a private meeting with DOS inner circle members in which Raniere stated: "The monogram as it is right now is very directly related to my initials." "[53], Also in 1998, Raniere met Christine Marie Melanakos, a recently divorced mother who had won the title of Mrs. Michigan 1995. Raniere pressured many of his female followers to follow near-starvation diets; some became so thin they stopped menstruating (he was attracted to very thin women). He attended a Waldorf school, before leaving for a public junior high school. An early critique of The Vow's first season was that they never countered all of Raniere's bogus claims. A frustrated Raniere instructed his followers to help get him moved back by ingratiating themselves to prison staff, including offering coffee and donuts as they left their shifts. The Federal Bureau of Prisons first transferred him temporarily to United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, a medium-security penitentiary, followed by a transfer to his permanent prison at United States Penitentiary, Tucson. However, when Rolling Stone dug deeper into this, they found plenty of shaky foundations in his claim. [52] In the mid-1990s, Raniere and Natalie operated a health-products store.[49]. [195][196] The unsealed complaint accused Raniere of a variety of crimes related to DOS, including sex trafficking, conspiracy for sex trafficking, and conspiracy to commit forced labor. After Gina's sister Heidi found Raniere climbing into her bedroom window and confronted the pair, Raniere told her that Gina was a "Buddhist goddess meant to be with him. Keith Raniere was the head of NXIVM, an organization that promised self-improvement, but devolved into a cult of criminality and coercion. The complaint was not forwarded to prosecutors because she had declined to wear a wire to obtain a confession from Raniere. Keith Raniere was the head of NXIVM, an organization that promised self-improvement, but devolved into a cult of criminality and coercion. Raniere pleaded not guilty to the slew of crimes he was charged with, and in June of 2019, was convicted by a Brooklyn jury of all counts against himracketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor. Daniela described her spartan conditions as a room with blacked-out windows with only a mattress on the floor, a pen, and paper. [210] Raniere was thereafter forbidden by MDC officials from contacting Chakravorty. He's a member of Mega, a high-IQ society with a minimum requirement at the one-in-a-million level. The family's three daughters were sexually groomed by Raniere as teenagers, with the sisters eventually becoming sexual partners of Raniere. . [116][117][118][119][120] Prosecutors also introduced WhatsApp messages between Raniere and Camila, which showed that Raniere considered her as his "slave" and tasked her with finding more sex slaves, which Raniere calls "successors" and expresses a preference for women shorter than him, younger and virgins. . [72][73], Eight years later, it was revealed that, in 2009, Sara Bronfman had a sexual relationship with Lama Tenzin Dhonden, the Dalai Lama's gatekeeper who arranged the appearance; and who, as a monk, had taken a vow of celibacy. I was brainwashed and my emotional center of the brain was killed/turned off. The structure of NXIVM classes meant that students offered up personal details, which could later make them vulnerable to manipulation. Hawking once said, people who boast about their IQs are losers, and in the case of Raniere, Hawking is spot on. "[235], Judge Raner Collins granted the Department of Justice's motion to dismiss the suit on grounds that Raniere failed to exhaust administrative remedies (in line with the Prison Litigation Reform Act), and his lawyer's insufficient service of process. Though they initially claimed to be entertaining all of the detainees, they were seen with a sign addressed to "Kay Rose," a name sharing Raniere's initials. They should probably say that before they're held down, so it doesn't seem like they're being coerced. What Was Keith Raniere IQ? Of the approximately 17,000. On October 11, 2002, she was found dead of a gunshot wound to her head on the grounds of the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, an apparent suicide. Raniere was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 26, 1960. Mack pleaded guilty on April 8, 2019, to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of racketeering for her role in NXIVM. Camila said she met Raniere at age 13 and began a sexual relationship with Raniere when she was 15 years old, which lasted for twelve years. 2023 Biography and the Biography logo are registered trademarks of A&E Television Networks, LLC. [3][4][5][6] In NXIVM, Raniere was referred to by members as "Vanguard". When he was around eight-years-old, his parents separated. In addition, Daniela testified that Raniere's partner Pamela Cafritz coached each sister to refuse to answer questions about paternity to prevent Raniere's abuse from becoming known to any nurse who might be a mandated reporter. Keith Raniere Boasts of an Extremely High IQ, but Is He Telling the Truth? [37] In a January 2003 ruling, federal judge Robert Littlefield implied Raniere was using a legal suit to harass his former partner. Following a seven-week trial, jurors took less than. 4 min read. Raniere actually claims himself as the worlds smartest man and says that he has an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records to back this up. After showing adverse childhood experiences, she received counseling for victims of sex abuse and filed a State Police report against Raniere in 1993. Not only that, it was a take home IQ test, which means no one monitored for the possibility of his cheating. [18] Soon after his arrest in 2018, prosecutors opposed bail, writing that Raniere had "a decades long history of abusing women and girls. On October 27, 2020, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison. On June 19, 2019, the jury found Raniere guilty on all charges after five hours of deliberation. [48], Kristin Keeffe was a longtime partner of Raniere and the mother of his first child. Police recovered a note that read: "I attended a course called Executive Success Programs based out of Anchorage, AK, and Albany, NY. '"[37] In 1982, Raniere graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a 2.26 GPA "having failed or barely passed many of the upper-level math and science classes he bragged about taking. In May 2022, Keith Raniere filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons, alleging that his civil rights are violated as a prisoner in United States Penitentiary, Tucson. [190][191][192] Lauren Salzman later testified at the trial that Raniere and his inner circle members were preparing for a "recommitment ceremony" when the authorities arrived to arrest him. April 7, 2018 - 4:07PM. He's a sociopath" They met and four days later she came out with the glazed eyes and gave me the, "You don't know who he is," and I was like, "Wow, there goes another one. [109][103], Beginning in 2010, Daniela was kept under an extralegal house arrest verging on solitary confinement for two years in her family home. Read about what drew Sarah Edmondson to Raniere and his followers and how she ended up turning on him. The best slave derives the highest pleasure from being her Master's ultimate tool. Sadistic Nxivm svengali Keith Raniere appeared virtually in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday wearing a big grin -- then learned he has to shell out a total of nearly $3.5 million in restitution to a . The complaint alleged that at least one woman was coerced into sex with Raniere, who forced DOS members to undergo the branding ritual alleged by former DOS member Sarah Edmondson and others. [31][32], Raniere attended Suffern High School for ninth grade before transferring to Rockland Country Day School in Congers. Most thought the brand was a symbol representing the elements, but it in fact contained Raniere's initials. He Has a Son with a Partner Who Fled Nxivm. Raniere was . [56][57][58] A few years later, the program was rebranded under the name NXIVM. [121], While Camila did not testify during the trial, she confirmed the sexual abuse at Raniere's sentencing in her victim impact statement. BB: No you don't, because the only company before this was Consumers Buyline and that in my understanding fell apart within a few years or was on the downhill after a couple years when you got sued or whatever it was. Operating from 1998 to 2018, at its height, NXIVM had 700 members, including celebrities and the wealthy. In 2009, Raniere was filmed claiming, "I've had people killed because of my beliefs. [84] Keeffe stated at Raniere's sentencing that Raniere had never paid child support for their teenage son. [29][18][39], In June 1988, the Times Union profiled Raniere, reporting on his membership in the Mega Society after he achieved a high score on founder Ronald K. Hoeflin's MEGA test, an unsupervised, 48-question test published in the April 1985 issue of Omni magazine. [193][194][177], American authorities took custody of Raniere and presented him in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas and later transferred him to custody in New York at Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. What upset them above all were Edgar Bronfman's remarks. Raniere's dictates within NXIVM could be misogynistic, controlling and odd. A federal judge ruled that 21 people should receive a total of $3.46 million in restitution from Keith Raniere, the founder of Nxivm, for being victims of his racketeering, sex trafficking and . [47], In February 2014, Keeffe broke with Raniere and his group. His own company called Raniere the "smartest man in the world," which came from his score on a take-home IQ test in the 1980s. The organization offered personal development and emotional management seminars intended to help attendees better achieve self-fulfillment. When the police arrived, Salzman and Raniere barricaded themselves in the master suite, with Raniere attempting to hide in a walk-in closet. American artist Keith Haring was best known for his graffiti-inspired drawings, which he first made in subway stations and later exhibited in museums. He was a celebrity judge of 'American Idol' and is married to actress Nicole Kidman. Raniere told Salzman to ignore a letter sent by Daniela pleading to be let out and brushed it off as "a tantrum". 48-Fragen-Test unterzogen hatte, der im April 1985 in der Zeitschrift Omni verffentlicht worden war, gab er an, einen IQ von 178 zu besitzen. Slaves owed service not only to their own masters but also to masters above them in the DOS pyramid. Though Raniere was intimately involved in NXIVM, he held no official role. Keith Raniere is at the center of 9-part HBO documentary The Vow. The group discussed how to obscure the connection to Raniere's initials from DOS members. . Their father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., took a NXIVM course the following year.[63]. [183][184], At Raniere's trial, a DOS slave testified that when she finally confronted Raniere, he told her that DOS was "a walk in the park", saying, "You guys think you have it so bad. Keith Raniere has claimed to have an IQ of 240. [145][146] Slaves were told that their collateral could be released for any number of reasons, including if they left DOS, spoke publicly about DOS, or repeatedly failed DOS obligations or assignments. According to that program, a woman who lived with Raniere and developed bladder cancer submitted a hair sample that reportedly revealed the evidence of dangerous levels of bismuth and barium. Salzman admitted that she and others were incredibly abusive to Daniela, and nothing Daniela did was the right thing. That's what makes me feel really bad. Raniere actually claims himself as the world's smartest man and says that he has an entry in the . The following year, the case was dismissed with prejudice. [68] Her vehicle was discovered two days later in Seward, Alaska, 120 miles from Anchorage. In response, authorities at the MDC moved Raniere to another unit to keep the dancers out of his line of sight. The pretext to her family was that she had stolen money. [77] The Dalai Lama additionally wrote the foreword to the book The Sphinx and Thelxiepeia, which Raniere co-authored in 2009. In the 1989 edition, the last edition to have this achievement, the three people marked to have the highest IQ were Marilyn vos Savant, Eric Hart, and Keith Raniere. [8][9][10][11][12] Journalists, mental health professionals and cult experts such as Rick Ross, Diane Benscoter, and Steve Hassan call Raniere a cult leader who manipulates and exerts coercive control over his followers. Lynn on 9/2/2016)", "Self-help guru must pay Microsoft, AT&T attorneys' fees for patent dispute Fed. ", "Controversial monk and Dalai Lama aide replaced amid corruption accusations", "Dalai Lama Secretary denies $1 million paid to speak for Raniere; Yet Dalai Lama Trust founded 10 days after Albany speech with $2 million in donations", "Keith Raniere revamps website, keithraniere.com", "Nxivm witness: Keith Raniere put women through brutal humiliation to 'toughen' them The Underground Bunker", "Legal papers: NXIVM officials probed finances of 6 federal judges, Senator Schumer, others", "The Alleged Plot to Put NXIVM's Critics in a Mexican Prison", "Memorandum Opinion and Order granting 158 Motion for Attorney Fees. Snyder's mother recalled that her daughter "had come to believe she was responsible for the Columbia shuttle disaster" and "thought Keith was incredible". After joining DOS, initiates were branded with a cauterizing pen. Snyder signed up for a second sixteen-day course in Anchorage. [164][165][166] NXIVM member Dr. Danielle Roberts performed the "ceremonial branding" of DOS members using a cauterizing pen. [203][1] The charged acts included: While awaiting sentencing, Raniere's attorney Marc Agnifilo filed two motions for a new trial: in a March 2020 motion claiming witnesses perjured themselves;[206] then, in an October 2020 motion, claiming that prosecutors had intimidated witnesses. Raniere was arrested in 2018 and tried in 2019 on federal charges that included racketeering, sex trafficking, extortion and forced labor. He was convicted and in 2020 was sentenced to 120 years in prison. [237] Live-in girlfriends Barbara Jeske and Pam Cafritz both died from what was diagnosed as cancer at the time but is alleged to have actually been subtle poisoning. Some went into debt to continue taking NXIVM's classes, while others moved to live near Raniere in upstate New York. [47][31], Eager to distance themselves from "cult" allegations in the press, NXIVM members sought the endorsement of the Dalai Lama, spending $2 million on the project. The aim of the "readiness drills" was to reinforce the idea that responding to a master was the most important part of any slave's life. [7], Scholars in the fields of religious studies, law and sociology describe NXIVM as a cult. A former girlfriend, Toni Natalie, said he hounded her into bankruptcy. [47], Vanity Fair subsequently reported on the Forbes article's impact within the group: "People at NXIVM were stunned.
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