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Marc Elliot: NXIVM Making Biggest Comeback Despite FBI Abuse and 3 Other NXIVM Items

11/05/2022·

Frank Parlato

As readers know, Marc Elliot is suing Lionsgate for their production Seduced.

He claims they defamed him.

A hearing to “strike” – or dismiss – the lawsuit was heard on October 28, 2022.

US Judge Sunshine Suzanne Sykes reserved the decision.

Elliot sued Lionsgate for likening him to a “rapist, terrorist and Nazi experimenter.” And for manipulating footage to do so.

He spoke with the U.S. Sun and explained.

“I filed the defamation lawsuit against Lions Gate about a year ago. I finally had my first day in federal court in front of Judge Sykes. And we didn’t win, but we didn’t lose yesterday. And she decided to take more time to evaluate the case.

“I mean, ultimately, here I was someone that was not a part of any of the criminal allegations about the NXIVM case, even though I know it’s ridiculous.

“The reality is I was targeted in this documentary for simply the fact that I have a story that is completely antithetical to the narrative that NXIVM hurts people.

“And I think when somebody watches it, it’s clear. You know, they compare me to basically an ISIS terrorist, and if anyone has spent literally two minutes with me, they would know that is just crazy.

“There’s definitely a David versus Goliath. But when I saw it, I knew it was wrong what they did.

“The fact that they can call themselves a documentary and fabricate footage to defame someone is something that everyone should not be okay with, and that’s what I’m fighting for.”

‘PHOENIX RISING’

Elliot told The U.S. Sun that he was a trainer in NXIVM, which had around 17,000 students worldwide, and has since been shut down, which he calls “unfortunate.”

Marc Elliot moved to Tucson to be Nearer My Vanguard to Thee. And to be present when he is released from USP Tucson, which he expects to occur any day now.

He said: “I have no doubt that after this injustice of what the prosecutors, what the FBI did in this case, that NXIVM will eventually come back. Just gonna take some time.”

He concluded: “I guess, like they say, the Phoenix rising. Yeah, it will be stronger in the end, but it will just be different.”

A new Kindle book about NXIVM is out. The price is 99 cents.

The NXIVM Scandal: The Sex Cult, Megalomania, and Pedophilia Protected by the Pedo-Cabal.

Joachim Hagopian

Joachim Hagopian wrote the book. His blog site is http://empireexposed.blogspot.com.

The Kindle book is part of Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy & the Deep State series.

The author says NXIVM is “in some ways a microcosm of the global to local network of elite pedophiles spanning all presidential offices, all offices of the prime minister, all royal families, and all banking, corporate, entertainment, and media elites.
The NXIVM Scandal is in so many ways an excellent window into both the nuanced intricacies of the global to local pedophilia and child torture, murder, and harvesting that includes chiefs of police, prosecutors, judges, paramilitary enforcers, and others, along with a totally complicit media, many of whom are pedophilies and child torturers.

Two American families stand out in this chapter: the Bronfman’s and the Clintons. Many other families are intimately linked, from the Bushes to the Rockefellers to the Rothschilds.
One state, New York, is ground zero for this story. The current governor of New York will not survive the forthcoming purge of Satanic pedophiles, and those who have so easily enabled their reign of terror and torture over children to persist with total impunity.
The same media that has covered up all other high crimes and misdemeanors appears criminally complicit in pedophilia and the associated crimes of child torture, child murder, and harvesting of child body parts.

Keith Raniere is a lot of things. But his NXIVM followers would not be complicit in child torture, murder, and harvesting of child body parts.

They might brand each other or do seduction assignments. They might hold collateral over one another – but harvest body parts?

The author mentions my reporting in the book.

Video of Allison at Comic Con 2008 – Under Spell of Raniere

In 2008, Allison Mack was two years deep into NXIVM but still acting on the TV show Smallville. She would leave the show in another two years and join NXIVM full-time.

This interview of her at a Comic Con 2008 is of interest, for it is midway into her indoctrination.

Mack: Oh my gosh. Well, she started out a freshman in high school who was madly in love with controversy and drama, and Clark Kent, and has ended up a woman that’s incredible grounded

and ambitious and honest, just and loyal, and her evolution has really been she’s kind of a bumpy roads bad. So it’s been an amazing journey.

Interviewer: Besides your desire to direct what changed in Allison’s life

Mack: Dude, I was 18 when I started the show I’m 26 now. Everything is different I mean I think that really for me the show was a huge part of just growing into the woman that I am and helping me to find my sanity, what I feel like, and really I don’t know, just get really clearer on the projection I want to go in my life and the things that are important to me.

Interviewer: I don’t want to be foretelling the end of the show or anything, but what’s next for you?

Mack: You know what? Lots of stuff. I mean right now my head’s down. I’m focusing on the show. But I have lot of deas for different things that I’d like to pursue: theater, film really being them, but also moving into the rest of the arts, and kind of working with other artistic communities and helping build expression in the world.

Her dreams were dashed. She soon moved into trying to develop a Raniere-based acting MLM called the Source. It failed. Then there was the MLM master slave sorority led by a man, Raniere – DOS. Her role in DOS led the DOJ to prosecute her. She is in prison now.

Vow Continues to Take the Fall in Ratings

Season 1

Viewership and ratings per episode of The VowNo.TitleAir dateRating
(18–49)Viewers
(millions)1

“The Science of Joy“

August 23, 2020

0.07

0.342^[31]

“Viscera“

August 30, 2020

0.09

0.338^[32]

“At Cause“

September 6, 2020

0.06

0.341^[34]

“Building Character“

September 13, 2020

0.05

0.304^[35]

“Class 1 Data“

September 20, 2020

0.08

0.362^[36]

“Honesty & Disclosure“

September 27, 2020

0.09

0.318^[37]

“The Dossier“

October 4, 2020

0.06

0.257^[38]

“The Wound“

October 11, 2020

0.05

0.266^[39]

“The Fall“

October 18, 2020

0.07

0.360^[40]

Season 2[edit]

Viewership and ratings per episode of The VowNo.TitleAir dateRating
(18–49)Viewers
(millions)1

“Tests of Loyalty“

October 17, 2022

0.03

0.143^[42]

“Rapport“

October 24, 2022

0.03

0.105^[43]

The Vow, Season #2, Episode 3, Stimulus and Response did not make the top 150 cable shows in ratings.

That suggests viewership dropped to an all-time low of under 100,000.

Also puzzling to many readers is why HBO did not credit Karim Amir for the show he directed and produced.

HBO lists his wife, Jehane Noujaim as the sole director. Yet Karim directed the entire second season, often while Jehane was away in Egypt.

Everyone involved in the production knows Karim was responsible for the production. So why did his name disappear?

Karim Amir & Jehane Noujaim

Some ugly rumors emerged. Knowing Karim, I doubt they are true, so before I repeat rumors, I plan to investigate.

Amir always acted as a gentlemen in my dealings with the Vow. Both in Season 1 and Season 2.

Three sources have told me things that might connect to why HBO removed his name.

In its first season, the Vow found itself on the best documentaries lists of The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Thrillist, Concrete Playground, and The Lineup.

There was a tremendous buzz and more than three times the audience.

Sure the story is familiar. The public may have become tired of it. The way they handled the story this season may have been less compelling—loads of Nancy Salzman and uninspired trial reenactments.

A story which everyone knows the ending.

While the production values may be higher, the content is not as dramatic.

The Vow started in 2017 before the FBI arrested Raniere. It was during the fight.

The fight is over, and it recaps things the public knows. That might be the reason. COVID also may have played a role.

Season 1 was during COVID. More people were stuck inside.

But The Vow Season 2 is doing lousy compared to other shows during these non-COVID times.

MK10ART’s sketch – Where’s Karim?

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Anonymous11/05/2022

BITCHUTE NXIVM THE CULT WITHIN A CULT First published at 12:52 UTC on November 4th, 2022. https://www.bitchute.com/video/UUQnikNZJ2RP/

anonymous hero11/05/2022

You're a cult follower Elliot. Disassociate already and say keith was wrong and maybe you'll have a chance In court. Do what Lauren did to save yourself. Lauren lied about not liking keith anymore….but it got her out of prison.

Marc Idiott11/05/2022

Sometimes I wonder how NXIVM would make a come back after all the lies and dirty secrets have been exposed. Part of the manipulation was the hush hush Keith played against the closest members. Clare will be forbidden to have any contact with anyone involved in the cult once she is free so I wonder how Keith would survive.

Anonymous11/05/2022

Edmondson v. Raniere (1:20-cv-00485) District Court, E.D. New York SCHEDULING ORDER – Oral Argument on the defendants' motions to dismiss will be held on January 26, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. in person in Courtroom 6G North on the 6th floor of the United States Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York. Ordered by Judge Eric R. Komitee on 10/25/2022. (AG)

Anonymous11/05/2022

Keith is a failure. He has failed to keep up with the previous record holders with the longest prison sentences. Keith still just barely managed to be mentioned among the last entries on the list. Why are his supporters whining about Raniere's sentence? Wikipedia List of longest prison sentences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_prison_sentences Prisoners sentenced to between 120 and 499 years in prison [ … ] Keith Raniere 2020 120 years United States Leader of NXIVM sex cult.

Anonymous11/05/2022

List of serial rapists From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_serial_rapists A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time. This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here. This list should include serial rapists with at least three victims. Serial killers who raped at least three victims without murdering them are also included. Name: Keith Raniere, Country: United States, Years active: 1998–2018, Proven Victims: 156, Note: Leader of the NXIVM sex cult under the guise of multi-level marketing. Formed a division within the cult exclusively designated for women, with Raniere running the group at the chief position, where hundreds of women were recruited, sexually abused, and trafficked regularly, as well as branded with Raniere's initials. Also accused of statutory sexual abuse of underage girls and repeated rape outside of the group. Arrested along with several of his associates and sentenced to life in prison on convictions including sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit forced labor, and racketeering. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_serial_rapists

Anonymous11/05/2022

Too much photoshop filter abuse

So cure tourtettes already...11/05/2022

None of the Dead Enders have ever adequately explained why their community and the tech cannot move forward without Keith. One of the commonly accepted definitions of a cult group is that it revolves around a (usually male) leader. And it falls apart without them. If that is not true of ESP (even if the government owns the tech) why not just adjust the tech slightly and move forward curing Tourette's? No one would stop them. They still have Claire's money and patronage. It doesn't seem like they really want to do the actual work they claim. It appears that the loyalists only want to rehabilitate Keith's image and go back to their exact same lives worshipping him in Albany. Marc Elliot sunk any chance of winning the Starz lawsuit by appearing in the Vow 2 electric bugaboo. Marc seems like a mentally unbalanced true believer. The fact that his zealotry is on full display also dovetailing with the window of time where he was the most attractive of the Elliott brothers rapidly closing is a tragic blow for him. It's really bizarre that Elliot believes a person acting as a therapist and assisting him to suffer from Tourette's a little less means that he owes that person the rest of his life that's not a normal response to any kind of counselor, doctor or friend helping you through something. The very idea that it was instilled into Nxivm followers to pay this kind of over the top homage and undying fealty to Keith (and Nancy to a lesser degree) is part of what makes the relationship to the leaders be defined as a cult. It's not so different really than the fans of R Kelly who believe his music helped them through a rough patch in their life, so they need to disregard the copious amounts of evidence that R Kelly was a sadistic abuser of children in every way. Blind devotion to so-called or perceived leaders is destroying both the United States and many other countries in the world. People are identifying way too closely with their idols and it's not going to end well

NFW11/07/2022

Agreed, surely an unequal relationship such as between a master and a slave is intransitive. Not like a peer relationship in which both backs better be equally scratched or one or other party might consider the friendship not worth having.. surely when you are a master, like when you are an elder, you give to the younger without expecting any return except perhaps a 'thank-you' – the gift, because of the nature of the superior position: in age, experience, wisdom, wealth, strength etc. is paid forward. The sacrifice of a parent cannot be equalled in kind by the child. When they become a parent themselves, thats when the indebtedness is paid forward. Yes, this is chapter 11 of Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes, think its called On Manners and its better written then anything Ive managed here.

Aristotle’s Sausage11/05/2022

I’m not so sure being referenced in this 99¢ self-published crazed diatribe of a book is something to be proud of. “Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy & the Deep State”? Conspiracy theories can be fun and all but it’s wise to be careful. Slippery slopes and all that. Speculating about grand conspiracies easily lead to faulty logic and losing touch with reality. Seeing connections where there are none. Convincing oneself that because something “seems suspicious” that proves evil actors are at work. Because some thumbnails are mislabeled on a seized backup drive, that somehow proves the FBI tampered with evidence and planted porn pictures. An elderly lady drowns in a river, that means she was murdered and an elaborate cover-up took place. Before you know it you’re believing in a “global to local network of elite pedophiles spanning all presidential offices, all offices of the prime minister, all royal families, and all banking, corporate, entertainment, and media elites” All it takes is a certain level of credulity and reluctance to accept simple explanations in favor of more “interesting” ones, and we’re off to the races. It’s a lot like joining a cult. “Think differently!” They enthuse, recruiting you. They’ve got an interesting story to tell. And maybe it’s true? the recruit begins to think. Keep an open mind now. Maybe they’re on to something. Maybe they do have a cure for Tourette’s. Maybe Raniere really was falsely convicted. I mean, that picture the FBI took does include TWO backup drives. That proves they tampered with evidence, right? I mean, children DO go missing. That proves “the global to local pedophilia and child torture, murder, and harvesting that includes chiefs of police, prosecutors, judges, paramilitary enforcers, and others, along with a totally complicit media” Doesn’t it? Embroidering tales of Satanic abductions is so much more interesting than the quotidian fact of kids running away from home. A conspiratorial perfect murder, flawlessly covered up, is so much more interesting than a simple suicide. And what’s the harm? We’re just “asking questions”, right? Conducting an (endless) investigation, “keeping an open mind” (even though the matter is long settled) What’s the matter, in short, with being a crank and dismissing facts and logic in favor of elaborate conspiracy theories. Plenty. You give up wisdom. And sometimes worse. Much worse. There are people who have surrendered themselves to this house of mirrors alternate reality and act on it. One of them broke into elderly Paul Pelosi’s San Francisco home and fractured his skull with a hammer. Another shot up a DC pizza parlor convinced prominent Democrats were running a pedophilia ring in the restaurant’s basement. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/business/media/comet-ping-pong-pizza-shooting-fake-news-consequences.html And the 99¢ Pedophilia & Empire contains this threat: “The current governor of New York will not survive the forthcoming purge of Satanic pedophiles” Crazy people making threats, and sometimes carrying out those threats. That’s what can come of spreading misinformation and indulging in conspiracy theories. That’s when they stop being fun.

ShadowState195811/05/2022

I commented long ago that NXIVM will survive and this crazy cult is hardier than an army of cockroaches.

Anonymous11/05/2022

Marc is the one who should be sued for fabricating a cure for Tourette’s and then not following through. Those who suffer from Tourette’s were given hope by Marc. What has Marc done for this community and those suffering?

Anonymous11/05/2022

Lionsgate definitely made Marc look poorly but did Marc give consent to be a part of the documentary?

Anon11/05/2022

Amer directed Flight/Risk and The Lincoln Project at the same time of The Vow season 2. Perhaps Noujaim oversaw the remainder of the season and the editing. He’s still credited as an executive producer.

Anonymous11/05/2022

Frank, will you appear in The Vow season 2? Did you film anything for it?

Frank Parlato11/06/2022

I do appear in the VOW 2. But my work was largely done by the time of the trial. I am working on another documentary now. Once the streamer gives the go-ahead, I will announce it. It is a major platform, and is NOT about NXIVM, but my investigative work on a villain in the same category of evil as Raniere. There may be some perspicacious readers who might guess who it is about.

Nutjob11/08/2022

My best guesses in an attempt to prove my perspicaciousness: 1. Xenu 2. Bangcock's mom 3. George McBlack 4. Richard DeVos 5. 5G Fred 6. Peter Mingils 7. Bubba The Love Sponge 8. Allyn Walker 9. Milton Erickson 10. J. Michael Shoemaker

Frank Parlato11/08/2022

I can only say this – you got it right. One of them is the subject. Now can you name the 22 herbs and spices in the KFC batter ?

Nothing Suspect11/05/2022

Amer’s name didn’t fully disappear. He’s still credited as an executive producer.

Anon11/05/2022

Amer also attended The Vow special screening on October 17, photographed with HBO Documentary Films executives Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller, if something were “off” why would they invite him? https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/filmmaker-chris-hegedus-guest-producer-karim-amer-producer-news-photo/1434319960?phrase=Jehane%20Noujaim

Jane11/06/2022

Having watched episodes 1 – 3 I don't think Mark has been defamed.

Anonymous11/08/2022

Tourette Syndrome is a horrible thing. So many are caught within its grasp, with no escape. But despite Marc's miraculous way of beating it, he still chooses to stand behind Keith. Marc, don't be a putz. You have been truly been given something special, and NOT Keith Raniere. Take what you know and help those who need it, and can benefit from your learning and therapy. The world needs that, and it is apparently something you can give. Clearly, you received something very, very good from your affiliation with the Albany group. But they are gone now, for whatever reason. It's time to move on. Don't blow the ballgame, Marc. And, you are. In a big way.

rayne hell11/09/2022

The case was current back in 2020, and people were keen to escape from Covid craziness. Now, post Covid minor crisis, we're facing a global major crisis which could at worst end in nuclear holocaust but at the very least means ongoing inflation, trade wars, climate change, increasing wealth gulfs, worsening health… NXIVM is or will soon be forgotten