This is the story of Keith Raniere who created a self-help sex cult (NXIVM) in the 1990s and amassed outrageous wealth through the notorious sex trafficking enterprise.

Who is Keith Raniere?

Keith Allen Raniere is an American born in Brooklyn, NY on August 26, 1960. His parents were James Raniere, a NY city advertising executive, and Vera Oschypko, a ballroom dancing instructor. He and his parents moved to Suffern, NY when he was five. The parents separated when he was eight. Stories told by his father portray a teenager who had flirtatious relationships with multiple girls. He was also proud and arrogant and often bragged about his intelligence. However, he graduated from college with a 2.26 GPA, having failed miserably at math and physics, the subjects he most bragged about. In his early 20s, he gained questionable membership to the MEGA Society - "the most exclusive ultrahigh IQ society," and also ran a multilevel marketing company which later got shut down when investigations proved it to be a pyramid scheme.

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