Nxivm: Seagram Heir Clare Bronfman Captive In Sex Cult Case.

North American country heir Clare Bronfman has been sentenced to 6 years and nine months in jail for her role within the Nxivm sex trafficking cluster.

Bronfman, the heir to the Seagram liquor fortune and a helper of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere, pleaded guilty in Apr 2019 to harbouring migrants for unpaid "labour and services". She additionally admitted to Mastercard fraud.

She was brought into custody to start her jail term right away once the sentencing in Brooklyn, New York. Writing to the court last month, Bronfman aforesaid she "never meant to harm anyone, but I actually have, and for this, I'm deeply sorry".

But, she aforesaid Nxivm had "greatly modified my life for the better" which she would not denounce its leader Raniere. Nxivm - pronounced "Nexium" - was started in 1998 as an assistance program. It aforesaid it worked with over 16,000 people.

Despite its tagline of "working to make a stronger world", Raniere was last year condemned of overseeing a "slave and master" system at intervals the cluster.

The trial last year detected that Nxivm operated sort of a cult. Prosecutors told the court that members shaped a secret club of brainwashed "slaves" World Health Organization were branded with Raniere's initials and compelled to own sex with him.

Bronfman was on Nxivm's governing board and gave Raniere tens of legion greenbacks to run the group's intensive self-reformation categories. She additionally acquired the group's lawyers once a case was filed against them.