Actress Allison Mack, who starred in the television series “Smallville,” has been released from prison early, government records suggest.
Online records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons website state that Ms. Mack was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California—a low-security women’s prison—on July 3, a year earlier than anticipated.
A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that Ms. Mack was released from the prison on July 3.
“While we don’t discuss a specific inmate’s release method, we can share that an inmate may earn good conduct time,” the spokesperson said.
Raniere, 60, was also arrested in 2018 at his luxury villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Ms. Mack pleaded guilty in 2019 to racketeering and conspiracy after prosecutors claimed she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for Raniere while she was a high-ranking member of NXIVM, which billed itself as a self-help organization offering classes that cost up to $5,000.
Initially, Ms. Mack had faced a sentence of up to 17 years behind bars but she ultimately received a shorter sentencing after cooperating with investigators who were pursuing a case against Raniere.
The actress handed over evidence to prosecutors showing how the cult leader had brainwashed women into becoming “slaves” and forced female members of the group, which was based in Albany, New York, to have sex with him.
In some cases, women were placed on starvation diets and allegedly branded with Raniere’s initials, prosecutors said. Others were forced to hand over personal or embarrassing information about themselves, such as nude photos, that were later used to blackmail them into not leaving the group.
Ms. Mack was subsequently handed a three-year sentence in 2021 following her cooperation with prosecutors.
‘Biggest Mistake and Regret of My Life’
“It is now of paramount importance for me to say, from the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry,” she wrote. “I threw myself into the teachings of Keith Raniere with everything I had,“ she continued. ”I believed, wholeheartedly, that his mentorship was leading me to a better, more enlightened version of myself. I devoted my loyalty, my resources, and, ultimately, my life to him. This was the biggest mistake and regret of my life,” Mack added.Ms. Mack and her lawyers also stressed that she had “publicly denounced Raniere (and her own prior association with Raniere) in the strongest possible terms.”
“I apologize for my participation in all of this … this pain and suffering,” he said in the interview. “I’ve clearly participated. I’ve been the leader of the community. And it has come to this. Even if it is by oppression, I am absolutely sorry and pained. This is a horrible situation.”
Other members of the group included Clare Bronfman, a billionaire heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune and a daughter of TV star Catherine Oxenberg of “Dynasty” fame.
Bronfman was sentenced in September 2020 to nearly seven years in prison for her role in NXIVM.