| CLAIRE HOWORTH,
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Vanity Fair readers know cult stories. Kundalini. Hillsong. Twin Flames. And you've been reading about NXIVM for years, the celebrity "sex cult" exposed as rife with abuse; leader Keith Raniere is serving a 120-year sentence on trafficking and racketeering charges. Now, Allison Mack, the Smallville star and NXIVM member who was accused of crimes alongside Raniere, is back in the spotlight to share her point of view, including the ways in which she was a victim. Jane Borden has the exclusive on Allison After NXIVM, the new podcast from Vanity Fair's Vanessa Grigoriadis and her cohost Natalie Robehmed.
Elsewhere on VF.com, Kase Wickman has a charming, revealing interview with the one and only Jean Pigozzi, as his HBO selfie documentary premieres. |
After a decade on the TV drama Smallville—and years of cable news and documentary stories about her abusive role in the destructive cult NXIVM—Allison Mack doesn't want to be on camera anymore. Instead, she's telling her own story for the first time through a podcast.
The actor was released from federal prison in July 2023 after serving nearly two years for her role in NXIVM. A year later, she reached out to Vanity Fair's Vanessa Grigoriadis, to whom Mack had spoken back in 2017, before the arrest of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. Grigoriadis asked her longtime and award-winning podcast partner Natalie Robehmed to pursue a series about Mack. Reluctant at first—and uninterested in "being a tool in Allison Mack's redemption arc"—she agreed to a dinner, where she found Mack—now in her early 40s—"surprisingly down to earth" and candid about her crimes. In Allison After NXIVM, we hear stories of both Mack the abused and Mack the abuser. |
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With immortal roles in Jezebel, Dark Victory, and All About Eve, Bette Davis managed her career far better than her private life. In a series of exclusive interviews over the last decade of her life, the great screen icon talked about her four failed marriages, her daughter's tell-all book, the man who got away, and more: "You know, I was the only one who ever brought Howard Hughes to a sexual climax, or so he said." |
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