India Oxenberg has been out of NXIVM for two years now, but it wasn’t until this past Tuesday that she could finally, truly rest easy. In a Brooklyn courtroom on October 27, NXIVM “Vanguard” Keith Raniere, now 60 years old, was sentenced to 120 years in federal prison. “I felt a sense of peace knowing that he’s not getting out. It’s one more bad guy off of the streets,” the 29-year-old told Esquire on Thursday, two days after the sentencing. The daughter of Dynasty actress and royal descendant Catherine Oxenberg spent seven years entrenched in what has since been revealed to be a malicious “sex cult.” After years in NXIVM’s Executive Success Programs (read: neuro linguistic programming and grooming), India was recruited into DOS, a secret group within the organization marketed as for women only, through which Keith Raniere was puppeteering a web of “slaves.” In DOS, India was frequently forced to hand in damaging collateral, kept on a 500 calorie per day starvation diet, coerced into becoming involved sexually with Keith Raniere, and branded with his initials near her pelvis. She escaped from the dark grips of NXIVM in 2018 following the arrests of several of its high-ranking members, but she’s laid rather low the past few years throughout the extensive media coverage of the cult’s implosion. Her mother Catherine wrote her own book on the matter, and participated in HBO’s NXIVM documentary The Vow, but India tells of the atrocities she endured in the cult for the first… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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