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Outlook: Nxivm ‘sex cult’ part one: How my daughter became trapped

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Catherine and India Oxenberg

31/05/2021 GMT

Nxivm ‘sex cult’ part one: How my daughter became trapped

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Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group was a dangerous cult

Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group, Nxivm, was in fact a dangerous cult and that India was being sexually exploited by cult leader, Keith Raniere.

In 2011, the former Dynasty actor Catherine Oxenberg and her 19-year-old daughter India took a course from the self-help organisation Nxivm (pronounced Nexium). It was a pivotal experience for India as she had been struggling to find a career and Nxivm seemed to offer her purpose. She ended up working for them as a coach and moving away from her mother. What India didn’t know was that Nxivm was in fact a dangerous cult. Eventually she would be trapped in a secret subgroup, which was really a sex-trafficking ring operated by the cult leader, Keith Raniere.

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The interview with India and Catherine Oxenberg is part one of Cult Behaviour, a mini-series from Outlook exploring how a cult can manipulate a person’s sense of reality, and what it can take to break free. Part two, which explores the next stage of India and Catherine’s story is available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1jwb. Or you can listen to both these episodes combined on the Outlook podcast.

Picture: Catherine and India Oxenberg, with Catherine's mother Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia on the left
Credit: Courtesy Starz Entertainment

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