Nxivm ‘slave master’ Allison Mack sentenced to three years in prison
“Smallville’’ actress Allison Mack got a wrist-slap sentence of three years in prison Wednesday for serving as a Nxivm “slave master” that brainwashed women into becoming sex slaves for the group’s twisted leader.
Brooklyn federal court Judge Nicholas Garaufis took pity on Mack before meting out the light sentence — 117 years shorter than Nxivm leader Keith Raniere’s punishment.
“In the language of [the cult], you were a slave as well as a master … It is hard to determine an appropriate sentence for a perpetrator who is also her co-conspirator’s victim,” Gaurafis told Mack.
He added that her punishment needed to serve as a “forceful deterrent,” but told Mack that he did not “doubt that you were also manipulated and that you also felt captive.”
Mack — who was hoping for probation and home confinement — remained silent as Gaurafis handed down the 36-month sentence.
Throughout the proceeding, the 38-year-old disgraced TV star was stoic except for when she entered a tearful apology to the court after listening to a series of victim impact statements.
“I’m filled with remorse and guilt. I renounced Keith Raniere and all of his teachings. From the deepest part of my soul, I am sorry,” the former actress, wearing a black dress and a lemon-printed face mask, said as tears streamed down her cheeks.
She also apologized to the victims and their families, as well as her own.
Ahead of the sentencing, one of Mack’s victims Jessica Joan excoriated her in an impassioned statement — calling Raniere’s former right-hand woman an “evil monster.”
“She can blame Keith all she wants but she is the menace cut from the same cloth,” Joan told the court.
“She sought me out like a predator stalking her prey … Allison Mack and Keith Raniere are the most evil monsters I’ve ever met.”
Outside the courthouse, she said she was “satisfied” with the sentence.
“I respect the judge’s decision,” Joan told The Post. “Allison tried to sex traffick me along with other people and cause a lot of harm and pain.”
Mack appeared in court two years after she pleaded guilty to working as Raniere’s right-hand woman to lure victims into Nxivm’s secret subsect called DOS and was allowed to walk free Wednesday with a surrender date of September 29.
She faced 14 to 17 1/2 years behind bars under federal sentencing guidelines — though prosecutors asked for less, noting her cooperation in their case against Raniere and other leaders of the upstate cult.
In a letter filed with the court last week, Mack said devoting herself to Raniere was “the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life.”
“I am sorry to those of you that I brought into Nxivm. I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man,” she wrote.
Mack pleaded guilty in April 2019 to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges that included extortion and forced labor.
As part of her plea, she admitted to her role as a slave “master” in DOS — which translates to “dominant over submissive” — in which some members were branded like cattle with her and Raniere’s initials and blackmailed into having sex with him.
Mack’s defense team urged the judge in court papers last week to let her off with probation or a sentence to home confinement — citing her cooperation with federal prosecutors.
Mack has been out on $5 million bond and on home confinement since her arrest in 2018.
She was among around a half-dozen people charged in the federal case — including Raniere, who was convicted by a jury and sentenced in October to 120 years in prison.
Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman, another top Nxivm cohort, was hit with a more than six-year sentence in September — more than a year longer than prosecutors had pushed for in her case.
