A bizarre case of an actress, a high profile heiress and other, well to do women have been charged with recruiting women for a cult called Nxivm whose leader Keith Raniere had forceful sex with them. The women who were recruited believed that they were joining a self-help women's group but found to their horror that they were made slaves of the leaders and also had to gratify them with sex.

'Smallville' actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty to the charges and also admitted that compromising videos and photographs of the victims were in the custody of the cult and they were threatened that will be made public if they talk about the activities in public.

The Nxivm started as a multilevel marketing company and later turned itself into a sex-trafficking operation, and a sex cult in which women were branded and forced into sexual slavery.