NXIVM heiress’ Knox horse farm put on market
Property, listed at nearly $5M, was a first-day topic at Raniere’s trial last year
Knox For nearly $5 million, one can live like an heiress in the Capital Region — well, a jailed heiress.
An estate with a horse farm on West Wind Road in Knox — owned by Seagram’s heiress and longtime NXIVM executive Clare Bronfman — is on sale for $4,995,000, according to a Zillow listing.
The 234-acre estate, which dates to 1805, includes seven bedrooms and five bathrooms and was described as dream for horse lovers with open pastures, riding trails, a pond, 10-stall barn, carriage house with three more stalls and more. The property is one of many Nxivm-linked homes in the Capital Region that have been sold or are on the market following the convictions in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere and five other members of his cult-like personal growth organization. Bronfman, 41, the daughter of late Seagram’s tycoon Edgar Bronfman and sister of longtime NXIVM member Sara Bronfman-igtet, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal aliens for financial gain, and fraudulent use of identification. She is serving six years and nine months in prison.
Bronfman’s property in Knox was mentioned on the first day of Raniere’s trial last year. A woman from England who years later became a member of Raniere’s secret “master/ slave” club, Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS), testified that she stayed beginning in 2005 at “the farm where Clare had her horses.”
Public records show a number of other NXIVM members have lived at the property.
Bronfman also owns a home on Button Road in Clifton Park and has owned townhouses in the Knox Woods development in Halfmoon, where more than twodozen NXIVM members lived. Bronfman also forfeited a building at 1475 Route 9 in Halfmoon that was the former Apropos restaurant, a meeting spot for NXIVM activities.
The longtime now former home of NXIVM president Nancy Salzman went on sale last year. The more than three-acre property, which includes hardwood floors, a stone fireplace and spacious loft area, is on Oregon Trail in Halfmoon in the Stage Run development and is valued by Zillow at nearly $455,000 but alas, not for sale.
Salzman’s home also had a basement where, evidence at Raniere’s trial showed, boxes of
information on NXIVM’S perceived enemies were kept.
Raniere, known within NXIVM as “Vanguard,” had a home down the road on Oregon Trail estimated at nearly $478,000.
Salzman’s daughter, Lauren Salzman, a highranking member of NXIVM who became the star witness against Raniere, had her farmhouse on Lape Road, featuring a two-car garage, back porch and sun room, on the market for nearly $375,000. She pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy.