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Nxivm gal can leave home arrest to graduate
She has her own island — but no high-school diploma.
Liquor-heiress-turned-Nxivm-sexcult-financier Clare Bronfman on Thursday successfully petitioned a judge to ease up on her house arrest while she awaits sentencing — so she can graduate from high school.
The 40-year-old scion to the Seagram’s booze fortune has only a 10th-grade education and has been preparing for the national high school equivalency exam while stuck at home, her lawyers say in a letter to the Brooklyn federal court judge in charge of the case.
But to take the test, Bronfman has to leave her Manhattan apartment, where she has been on home detention, wearing an ankle bracelet and secured by a $100 million bond, her attorneys told Judge Nicholas Garaufis.
Hours later, the judge agreed to give Bronfman leave to take the test but nixed her request to attend adult-education classes and an additional 900 minutes per day to be outdoors “for running, exercising and grocery shopping.”
Bronfman (right), who is part-owner of an island in Fiji, is typically allowed five hours a week out of her pad to stretch her legs and shop.
Studying for the exam “has in-spired Ms. Bronf-man to continue her education past the high school level,” her lawyers wrote. And while she understands it’s not “practical” to enroll in college while she’s staring at a potential sentence of up to 25 years, she had hoped to take adult-education classes in “anatomy, physiology, English literature and writing,” hey wrote. Bronfman, the daughter of late Canadian billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr., is worth some so $50 million, according to court papers. She pursued a career as an elite equestrian show jumper in her youth before falling in with the notorious upstate organization run by selfstyled guru Keith Raniere — using her family fortune to help fund the group.
She and Raniere were arrested alongside other members last year following allegations of a sex-slave group within Nxivm, where women were branded like cattle and forced to have sex with Raniere.
Bronfman put some $14 million into a defense trust for her co-defendants, who also included former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack.
Raniere was found guilty in June of a slew of counts, including sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of a child.
Bronfman pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of conspiracy to conceal and harbor an illegal alien for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification. Her sentencing has yet to be scheduled.