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Smallville actress Allison Mack pleads guilty to charges related to the sex trafficking cult known as Nexium. She had been involved with the group for over 10 years and was considered a top recruiter. Claire Bronfman, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, also pleads guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with Nexium. The group, based in Albany and Brooklyn, follows the teachings of leader Keith Raniere. In other news, celebrity faith healer John of God is accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women and engaging in baby trafficking and murder. Harvey Weinstein is formally charged with rape and criminal sexual act, and his lawyer says he will plead not guilty. Spy Seth Friedman is revealed to have been hired to defend Weinstein against sexual assault accusations. Lastly, 10 Americans are detained in Haiti for attempting to transport children to the Dominican Republic without proper documents.
Speaker 0: Welcome to
Speaker 1: EZ Live. I'm Lauren Zima. We are Covering breaking news right now that Smallville actress, Allison Mack, is pleading guilty. She's facing charges is over what's being called a sex trafficking cult, the group Nexium. She was involved with the group for more than 10 years and had pleaded not guilty and or at least talked about pleading not guilty in the past.
But today, officially in court pleading guilty in this case. It's been kind of reported that she was someone who was sort of operating right under Ranieri. He was the leader of this group.
Speaker 2: According to the criminal complaint, Raniere and others in the group convinced the women to turn over potentially damaging information and sexually explicit photos in order to keep them as slayed. Prosecutors say Mac was Top recruiter. She reportedly reached out to other well known stars. Katherine Ottenberg, known for her role in Dynasty, says Her daughter, India, is in Nexia. She told NBC's Megyn Kelly she's desperate to get her daughter and other women out.
It breaks you down.
Speaker 3: It locks in a new identity, like a cult persona. And then it makes submissive and suggestible. So the end result is you have women agreeing to do things like to hurt themselves.
Speaker 4: Claire Bromfman, the heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, walked out of federal court today after pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges.
Speaker 5: Having fun? Seagram's gold and white color.
Speaker 0: I'm waiting for my son.
Speaker 5: Also, when he arrives, that's when the fun starts.
Speaker 3: She? Pity, you don't
Speaker 0: have friends.
Speaker 5: Maybe I do.
Speaker 0: I know the seagulls cooler from my friend.
Speaker 5: Anyone from mine?
Speaker 6: Any volunteers?
Speaker 4: She's grateful to put this The 2 women are now The latest high profile members of the organization, Nexium. Nexium has been called a cult like organization based in Albany in Brooklyn that followed the teachings of its leader, Keith Raniere. Last year, it became well known after Raniere and his highest ranking followers Were arrested on a slew of charges from fraud and conspiracy to sex trafficking.
Speaker 7: Miracle worker or monster? He's known as John of God, a celebrity faith healer whose followers claim he can miraculously cure diseases such as cancer. But now the once Once beloved guru is accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women, and that's not all. Horrific allegations of baby trafficking and murder.
Speaker 8: Earlier this year, it wasn't about May this You're aware the trauma of that time on top of the other traumas I'm still trying to heal were coming up, and it was undeniable that I needed to deal with it. He grabbed my hand Then he moved it behind me on his pants. And I was like, why do I have to touch your in order for me to get healing.
Speaker 7: For more than 50 years, Korea has led a spiritual center in rural Brazil where he claims 1,000,000 have blocked for a spiritual guidance or healing. From eye scrapings and evasive nose probings to incisions in the skin, John of God Has performed countless unlicensed surgical procedures, seemingly with no anesthesia on enraptured followers. Faria claims he channels the spirits of dead doctors and biblical figures perform his miraculous healings. He's also known to perform psychic surgeries, invisible procedures powered by a force he calls the entity.
Speaker 9: It's a scene many of his accusers never thought they'd c. Harvey Weinstein, a man used to walk in red carpets, now in handcuffs during the perp walk.
Speaker 1: To You're not putting it into situations where he was able to violate him sexually.
Speaker 9: His smile vanished in court as he was formally charged with 2 counts of rape and one of a criminal sexual act. It's been 7 months since his behavior, long rumored in the industry, became National headlines. Lucia Evans was one of the first to tell her story. Like so many others, she says Weinstein used his powerful position in the entertainment world to lure her to a meeting where she says he forced her to perform oral sex. A two rape charges date to 2013.
Weinstein's lawyer says the disgraced movie mogul will plead not guilty. He says they'll fight to get the charges dismissed, if they're not supported by the facts, and that all of his clients that you encounter are consensual.
Speaker 10: Mister Weinstein did not invent the casting couch in
Speaker 11: Seth Friedman has made a living operating in the shadows.
Speaker 5: There is an adrenaline rush. There is
Speaker 11: The Half of powerful cashed up clients, oligarchs, business barons, but most notably, the notorious Harvey Weinstein.
Speaker 5: This was another job. This was a big executive with a with a problem.
Speaker 11: The first rule of being a spy is that No one knows you're a spy. But in the widespread coverage of Weinstein, Stets' cover has been blown. In 2016, Seth was approached by the intelligence agency, Black Cube, and asked to not trying to defend himself against numerous accusations of sexual assault. Seth was given a hit list of 91 targets the Hollywood producer saw as threats, including the likes of actress Rose McGowan.
Speaker 3: I've never understood why people sell their soul to aid in a better criminal.
Speaker 11: At the 19 97 Sundance Film Festival, he coerced Rose to a business meeting at his hotel where he allegedly raped her. There's a sense of the toll that it that it takes on you, the Suffering after an attack like that.
Speaker 3: Well, your life is really never the same.
Speaker 11: Weinstein is obviously, in your mind, the the lowest of the low, but all those people that are
Speaker 3: I think they're lower. And he had a lot of people there to help him with his Big rape fantasy and his rape machine. I think it'd be best for everyone if he just ceased to exist, however that happens.
Speaker 10: The Reports and images that we've seen, collapsed hospitals, crumbled homes of men and women carrying their injured neighbors through the streets are truly heart wrenching. This woman led us into the back of what was left of her home.
Speaker 12: We ran, we ran, and we made it to here. And as when we came right here At this point, that's when it collapsed.
Speaker 10: She had barely gotten her children out alive. So you and as we spoke with her, You have 6 children?
Speaker 3: Isn't it? Get out.
Speaker 10: Get out.
Speaker 12: Get out.
Speaker 10: Get out. Get out. Get out.
Speaker 3: Get out.
Speaker 7: Get out.
Speaker 1: Get out.
Speaker 10: Get out. The Earth shook again.
Speaker 8: Jesse. Jesse.
Speaker 10: We just had to leave the building because there was an aftershock.
Speaker 0: 10 Americans have been detained by Haitian police as they tried to bus more than 30 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.
Speaker 12: We had 33 children, from the age The 2 months to 12 years. And in the in the course of the time frame we had them with us, I've been trying to deeply fell in love These children, they're very, very precious kids that have lost their homes and their families and are so, so deeply in need of, most of all, God's love Compassion.
Speaker 0: The Americans are Baptist church members from Idaho, and they were planning to take the children to the Dominican Republic where they plan to establish an orphanage. The group's leader, Laura Silsbee says the group paid no money for the children and obtained them from a well known pastor who heads a religious ministry in Haiti.
Speaker 12: Our understanding was that
Speaker 13: David, on the phone, let me start with you. Laura Silsbee came to you, to your orphanage, said she was looking for orphans to take away. Didn't that strike you as odd?
Speaker 6: Yes. Laura came to our orphanage friendly asking us, Do we need help? And do we have any children that are injured and that need help? They said they'll they can help by giving us some medicine.
Speaker 13: She also told you that she wanted to take kids in into Dominican Republic. Correct?
Speaker 6: She was asking us, Karen, can she help us by taking a few children for, for her so that they could be raised in in an orphanage?
