Lifetime will release movie about infamous sex cult Nxivm this fall, detailing the true story of how Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter India became a slave for convicted leader Keith Raniere
- Made-for-TV film NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare was announced Monday
- Actress Andrea Roth will play the role of Catherine Oxenberg opposite Jasper Polish as India, Peter Facinelli as Raniere and Sara Fletcher as Allison Mack
- The real-life Raniere was found guilty on all counts of running the cult in June
Lifetime will release a movie based on the infamous sex cult Nxivm this fall, detailing the true story of how former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter India became a sex slave for leader Keith Raniere.
Reps for the network confirmed the upcoming made-for-TV film NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare on Monday.
Rescue Me actress Andrea Roth will play the role of Catherine Oxenberg opposite Devil’s Whisper’s Jasper Polish as India and Peter Facinelli of Twilight as Raniere. Sara Fletcher of Secret Girlfriend will portray Raniere’s right-hand, Smallville actress Allison Mack.
Lifetime will release a movie based on the infamous sex cult Nxivm this fall, detailing the true story of how former former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter India became a sex slave for leader Keith Raniere. Catherine (right) and India (left) are seen arriving in court with their lawyer on the last day of Raniere’s trial last month, where he was convicted on all counts
The character of Catherine Oxenberg (left) will be played by Andrea Roth (right) of Rescue Me, Lifetime representatives confirmed in a statement on Monday
India Oxenberg (left) will be played by Jasper Polish (right) from Devil’s Whisper
Cult leader Raniere (left) will be portrayed by actor Peter Facinelli (right) of Twilight fame
Smallville actress Allison Mack (left), Raniere’s right-hand, will be portrayed by Sara Fletcher of Secret Girlfriend (right)
‘When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely enigmatic Keith Raniere, Catherine can’t help but shake the feeling there’s more than meets the eye with the self-help organization,’ Lifetime’s statement said of the movie produced with Sony Pictures Television.
‘Despite Catherine’s best efforts, India is drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining a secret sorority of female members who are branded with the cult leader’s initials, ordered to maintain a restricted diet and forced to recruit other women as sex slaves. [It] tells the story of a mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back.’
The real-life Raniere was found guilty on all counts related to running the cult last month.
A former ‘slave’ testified at his federal sex trafficking trial that India was spent a year restricted to a 500-calorie-per-day diet after being recruited by Mack.
Another ex-‘slave’ testified that India went on to have her own slave.
She was said to be one of many DOS members who had Raniere’s initials branded on their bodies during a bizarre and excruciatingly painful ceremony.
Catherine was consistently present in the Brooklyn courtroom during the trial. After the sweeping guilty verdict was handed down, she called her daughter and excitedly said: ‘I’m so happy, congratulations.’
She asked India how she felt and then said: ‘You’re in shock, I’m in shock, too. I love you.’
Raniere was found guilty on all counts related to running the cult last month in Brooklyn federal court (above in an artist’s rendering from the trial)