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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #1a1717;"><strong>E<span style="font-size: inherit;">xotic commitment renewal ceremony with his front-line followers was nothing more than a “group [oral sex]” session for alleged sex cult leader Keith Raniere, 58</span></strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #1a1717;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">The ceremony was interrupted when federal agents busted into his Mexican hideaway to arrest him former </span>NXIVM member Lauren Salzman, 42, testifies </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #1a1717;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">The self-styled guru left his slave master and longtime lover, Lauren Salzman, to confront the heavily armed police at their Puerto Vallarta compound during the March 2018 raid, she told the court </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #1a1717;"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;">“I chose what I believed we had been training for this entire time. I chose love,” she said. “It never occurred to me that I would choose Keith and Keith would also choose Keith,” Salzman testified</span></strong></span></h6>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-319735" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Lauren-Salzman-2.jpg" alt="Lauren Salzman 2" width="618" height="410" />Blinded by love: <span style="font-size: inherit;">“I chose what I believed we had been training for this entire time. I chose love,” she said. “It never occurred to me that I would choose Keith and Keith would also choose Keith.” </span>NXIVM leader&#8217;s ex-lover Lauren Salzman, testified</strong></h6>
<div><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Nxivm leader Keith Raniere, 58, fancied himself an all-powerful “Grandmaster” to his harem of sex slaves, yet ran and hid in a closet when the feds stormed his Mexico hideout, a key witness testified Tuesday<br />
The self-styled guru left his slave master and longtime lover, 42-year-old Lauren Salzman, to confront the heavily armed police at their Puerto Vallarta compound during the March 2018 raid, she recalled.<br />
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Lauren who is also the daughter of co-founder Nancy Salzman said: “I could see outside the window that federal police with machine guns and vests, some wearing masks, were surrounding the property,” Salzman testified.<br />
“They were banging on the door” as Raniere made his way toward a closet in their locked suite, she said.<br />
Salzman previously testified that she spent years as a high-level slave master as part of Raniere’s secret sex-slave sorority called DOS, for Dominant Over Submissive.<br />
The court heard that Raniere had been planning a “re-commitment” orgy in Mexico with his upper-crust slave masters, including Salzman, “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, “Battlestar Galactica” star Nicki Clyne and others.<br />
“My understanding of it is that it’s going to be us pleasuring him,” said Salzman, recalling not wanting to partake in the sex act.<br />
Clyne, however, pressured her, she said.<br />
“I have no way of surrendering except to a group blow job,” Salzman said.<br />
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The exotic commitment renewal ceremony with his front-line followers was nothing more than a “group (oral sex)” session for alleged sex cult leader Keith Raniere that was interrupted when federal agents busted into his Mexican hideaway to arrest him, a former member testified Tuesday.<br />
<span style="font-size: inherit;">NXIVM lieutenant Lauren Salzman said she was taking a nap with Raniere before the “ceremony” began when agents surrounded the villa in March 2018.Nancy Salzman took the first plea deal and got the best deal. Lauren came a few weeks later. Her deal was not as good.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-319734" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Nancy-Salzman-and-her-daughter-Lauren-Salzman-1.jpg" alt="Nancy Salzman and her daughter Lauren Salzman 1" width="649" height="432" /><strong>Among the NXIVM top members Nancy Salzman [right] took the first plea deal and got the best deal. Her daughter Lauren [right] came a few weeks later. Her deal was not as good.</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: inherit;">Inside were several other women followers, one of whom screamed out “The police are at the door &#8230; They’re here for Keith.”<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Salzman said she immediately went into protective mode, urging Raniere to flee while she tried to stall the feds, who stood outside the house armed with machine guns.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“I ran and tried to protect Keith,” Saltzman told jurors at Raniere’s sex trafficking trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, on Tuesday.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“`You need to leave,’” she said she told him, begging him to flee out a window.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Honestly, I went into one mode — protect Keith. I closed all the doors, all the blinds.”<br />
Earlier testimonies by cult members revealed that the alleged </span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Nxivm cult leader played twisted sex games with his top female lieutenants — and even planned to build a basement dungeon to cage some of them, a former disciple testified Monday.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Supposed self-help guru Keith Raniere’s sick methods of control included having his female “slave masters’’ whipped when he thought they transgressed and viciously paddling them with a rubber-spiked sex toy, Lauren Salzman said in Brooklyn federal court.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Other oddball information that emerged was that Raniere was planning to build a dungeon in a home the group bought in upstate Waterford, while one of his top lieutenants was ordering “BDSM sex-torture things … handcuffs, nipple clamps … all things that were sexual in nature,’’ said Salzman, 42.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“They were making a dungeon in the basement. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth,’’ Salzman, a onetime “slave master’’ and longtime lover of Raniere, said she was told by the Svengali and a top sidekick, Daniela Padilla Bergeron.<br />
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<div><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-291283" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Keith-Raniere-6.jpg" alt="Keith Raniere 6" width="943" height="1024" />Alleged sex cult leader Keith Raniere is on trial for <span style="font-size: inherit;">sex-trafficking in Brooklyn federal court<br />
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<div><span style="font-size: inherit;">While “they were banging on the door” Raniere made his way toward a closet in their locked suite, she said.<br />
“Ask them if they have a warrant,” he directed Salzman before hiding.<br />
Salzman relived the harrowing ordeal in the third week of Raniere’s sex-trafficking trial in Brooklyn federal court.<br />
“The whole time I kept thinking they could just shoot in this door, thinking really legitimately, ‘I could get shot right now,&#8217;” the 42-year-old testified.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“They were banging on the door,” Salzman said. “The whole time I was thinking they could just shoot through the door. Legitimately, I could get shot right now,” the 42-year-old testified.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: inherit;"> “I kept interacting with them because my higher priority was Keith.”<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Raniere told her to ask if they had a warrant.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“Open the door and I’ll show it to you,” the agent said.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Moments later, the agents knocked down the door and made the arrest.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Frightened by officers who kicked in the door, threw her to the floor and surrounded her with guns drawn, Salzman uttered Raniere’s name — effectively ratting him out.<br />
“They held me on the floor with four machine guns pointing at me,” Salzman said.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">For months afterwards, Salzman said, she blamed herself for Raniere’s arrest. &#8211; Although frightened, all the while, her focus was still on protecting the man she called “Grandmaster.”<br />
“I chose what I believed we had been training for this entire time. I chose love,” she said. “It never occurred to me that I would choose Keith and Keith would also choose Keith.”<br />
Raniere, instead, hid in a walk-in closet while Salzman and the other women tried to hold off the agents.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">This was how she felt even after confronting Raniere about the commitment ceremony after another one of the women told her it involved a “group b&#8212;&#8211;b.”</span></div>
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<h6 class="lightbox-image animated undefined" tabindex="0"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-291271" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Keith-Raniere-1.png" alt="Keith Raniere 1" width="626" height="622" /><span style="font-size: inherit;"><b>Raniere hid in a walk-in closet while Salzman and his other female acolytes tried to hold off the Mexican federal agents, when the group was busted at their hideout</b></span></h6>
<h6 class="lightbox-image animated undefined" tabindex="0"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-319736" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Clare-Bronfman-left-and-Lauren-Salzman-1.png" alt="Clare Bronfman [left] and Lauren Salzman 1" width="606" height="563" />&#8216;She who has the gold rules&#8217;: Clare Bronfman [left] and Lauren Salzman [right], both were members of NXIVM’s Executive Board. Clare was VP in charge of Operations and Lauren VP in charge of Education. Salzman who outranked Bronfman wore the Green Sash – with Four gold Stripes] and Clare was only an Orange with Three Stripes</span></strong></h6>
<div class="lightbox-image animated undefined" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Salzman said that when she confronted Raniere, he told her that the other woman was more committed.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“There has to be a way I can grow that isn’t this?” she asked him.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“There is not,” he told her.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Raniere, 58, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and other charges. He claims his encounters with the alleged victims were consensual.<br />
Five of Raniere’s co-defendants, including Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman, “Smallville” actress Allison Mack, and Salzman have all entered guilty pleas.<br />
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<p>Clare Bronfman and Lauren Salzman, both were members of NXIVM’s Executive Board, while Lauren&#8217;s mother, Nancy Salzman, was co-founder of cult. Nancy took an earlier plea deal that put her in better stead than her daughter.<br />
Bronfman was VP in charge of Operations and Lauren Salzman VP in charge of Education. While Lauren had a higher rank was allowed to wear the emblem of authority, a Green Sash with Four gold Stripes. Clare could only wear an Orange with Three Stripes, they followed the golden rule – &#8216;she who has the gold rules&#8217;.<br />
However, Clare’s enormous wealth from the Seagram&#8217;s empire, permitted her to control much of the direction of NXIVM, with Raniere at the helm.<br />
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Federal raid in Mexico interrupted ‘Group oral sex session to pleasure NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere’ – Ex-lover, Lauren Salzman
