SEX-CULT SENTENCE SHOCK
Mack gets just 3 years
“Smallville’’ actress Allison Mack got a wrist-slap sentence of three years in prison Wednesday for serving as a Nxivm “slave master” who brainwashed women into becoming sex slaves for the group’s twisted leader.
Brooklyn federal 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,” Garaufis told Mack.
He added that her punishment must 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, 38, who had asked for probation and home confinement, was stoic through the proceeding except when she entered an 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,” Mack, wearing a black dress and a lemonprinted face mask, said as tears streamed down her cheeks.
She also apologized to the victims and their families, as well as to her own.
Before the sentencing, one of Mack’s victims, Jessica Joan, called her an “evil monster.”
“She can blame Keith all she wants but she is the menace cut from the same cloth,” Joan said.
“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, Joan said she was “satisfied” with the sentence.
“I respect the judge’s decision,” she told The Post. “Allison tried to sex-traffic me along with other people and cause a lot of harm and pain.”
Mack appeared in court two years after she pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering-conspiracy charges that included extortion and forced labor as she worked as Raniere’s right-hand woman to lure victims into Nxivm’s secret subsect called DOS — “dominant over submissive” — and was allowed to walk free Wednesday with a surrender date of Sept. 29.
She faced 14 to 17½ years behind bars under federal sentencing guidelines — although 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.”
As part of her plea, she admitted to her role as a slave “master” in DOS in which some members were branded with her and Raniere’s initials and blackmailed into having sex with him.
Mack, who has been out on $5 million bond and on home confinement since her arrest in 2018, 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 six-year-plus sentence last September.