A Brooklyn jury took less than five hours to find Keith Raniere guilty on all counts of sex-trafficking and other charges accusing him of coercing women into unwanted sex using systematic shame and humiliation.
A former member of the alleged cult claims that the "Smallville" actress convinced her to make a sex tape and write a letter falsely accusing her own father of sexual abuse as a way to prove her commitment to the group.
“I remember Keith running to hide, dodging through other people,” she testified about Keith Raniere, who is on trial for sex-trafficking and other charges related to the purported self-help group he ran.
“Master, please brand me, it would be an honor, an honor I want to wear for the rest of my life," Lauren Salzman testifed she told Keith Raniere at a branding ceremony.
The witness, identified as Sylvie, testified that she was forced to provide naked photos of herself and a stamped letter telling her parents she was a prostitute to earn admittance into a secretive group that kept women as "slaves."
Keith Raniere will stand trial starting this week on charges that he coerced women - and in one case a 15-year-old girl - into sex under the guise of acting as a self-help guru.
