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.
Clare Bronfman, who is accused of bankrolling the alleged sex cult, was pressed over whether she had retained attorney Michael Avenatti to represent her.
"I accept that some of what I did was not just wrong, but criminal," Nancy Salzman said at her hearing. Hours later, prosecutors unsealed an new indictment against her one-time partner Keith Raniere.
