Key Sentence:
- Actress Jessica Joan had her long-awaited closing moment reading her victim’s testimony in sentencing Alison Mack.
- The “Smallville” star turned sex cult leader convicted Keith Ranier and his organization NXIVM.
Joan is a victim of NXIVM who was previously only identified as “Jay” in court documents. Joan decides to reveal her identity as part of Mack’s assessment to move on to the next chapter in her life. She recently published the podcast The Untouchable Jessica Joan, and a book of the same name is due out next month.
“I’m a powerful person,” said Joan Variety hours after speaking with US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in a Brooklyn courtroom. “I think there’s a reason why I was put in this situation to act the way I did. It took emotional sacrifice.
Actress and poet Joan has spent the last three years and was also called to The FBI, and federal prosecutors for East New York City are preparing for the trial of Ranier, who was convicted to 120 years in prison last year for sex trafficking. Extortion, fraud, and conspiracy. Mack, who worked with prosecutors, was sentenced to three years in jail.
Mack recruited Joan into what was supposed to be a women’s empowerment initiative known as “DOS” or “The Vow,” but it turned out to be a means of recruiting sexual partners for Raniere. The group revolves around the distorted “master” and “slave” relationship between different women. As an executive, Mack instructs Joan to try to seduce Ranier and have sex with him, in part to help Joan recover from childhood and the trauma of sexual abuse she suffered in her youth.
Mack’s instructions to have sex with Ranier are the shock Joan needs to break away from NXIVM. He lived with the group in their New York State compound but fled to their native Hawaii. He is not one of the group members that undergo a ritual of stigmatizing people, which leaves them with a symbol bearing the initials Ranier in the pelvic area. He also didn’t have sex with Ranier.
