Nxivm ins and outs
‘Confinement’ ruling
Accused Nxivm sex-slave trader Allison Mack can leave her parents’ California home to attend classes and religious services while alleged counterpart and Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman must remain in her onebedroom Brooklyn apartment for all but 4½ hours a week, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Bronfman — who owns part of an island in Fiji — got the Brooklyn pad specifically just to hang out during her trial.
Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis originally ordered former “Smallville” actress Mack to remain cooped up with her parents while out on $5 million bail as she awaits trial in Brooklyn on sex-trafficking and kidnapping charges, but then he acquiesced a bit.
But Garaufis shot down an application from Bronfman’s lawyers requesting the scion be allowed to wander around Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. The judge said she could leave her apartment only three times a week for 90-minute periods.
Bronfman lawyer Susan Necheles said her client, who lives alone while out on a whopping $100 million bond, was getting restless in the apartment.
Garaufis said he could revisit the issue in a few months for the rail-thin, 35-year old Bronfman, who was bankrolling an organization that allegedly kept accused cult leader Keith Raniere’s sex slaves on a grueling, 800calorie daily diet. Bronfman’s defense also fought prosecutors’ attempts to keep her away from other Nxivm members, but Garaufis ruled that Bronfman must still stay away from anyone at all related to the organization.