Actress Allison Mack, who pled guilty in connection with sex-trafficking organization, released early from prison

The actress who pled guilty to charges in connection to the sex-trafficking operation NXIVM has been released early from prison.

According to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, Allison Mack was released from a federal prison in Dublin, California, near San Francisco on Monday, a full year before her sentence was scheduled to conclude. In June 2021, Mack was sentenced to serve three years in prison after she pled guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy for her role in NXIVM, which she joined in 2006.

Though billed as a company offering seminars for personal development and self-improvement, NXIVM, based in Albany, was soon considered a cult. By 2015, founder Keith Raniere had formed an otherwise all-female subgroup within NXIVM called DOS. Mack and other female leaders of DOS, known as "first-line masters," recruited women to become sex "slaves" for Raniere, whom they referred to as "Vanguard" or "the grandmaster." The women, described as "brainwashed," were often branded with Raniere's initials and blackmailed with nude photographs of themselves, which they were also forced to provide.

Mack cooperated with federal authorities in the investigation into Raniere and NXIVM. She even recorded a ceremony during which women were branded with Raniere's initials, evidence that prosecutors called "crucial." However, Mack was also referred to in court as Raniere's "essential accomplice," and others have compared Mack's role in NXIVM to Ghislaine Maxwell's role in Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking operation.

During her sentencing hearing in 2021, Mack called her participation in NXIVM "the biggest mistake and regret of [her] life." "I believed, wholeheartedly, that his mentorship was leading me to a better, more enlightened version of myself," Mack said of Raniere. "I devoted my loyalty, my resources, and ultimately my life to him."

She expressed similar regrets in a letter she composed to the women she victimized, admitting, "I lied to you, again and again, in order to protect the delusion I was so deeply committed to believing."

While U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis viewed Mack as Raniere's "willing and proactive ally," he also acknowledged that Mack had likely been "manipulated and also felt captive."

About a month after Mack was sentenced to three years in prison, a federal jury convicted Raniere, 62, of sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and racketeering charges that included underlying crimes of extortion, identity theft, and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to 120 years in prison.

After her prison sentence was complete, Mack was originally sentenced to serve an additional three years of supervised release. Whether that portion of her sentence has now begun is unclear.

Before she became involved with Raniere and NXIVM, Mack, who will turn 41 later this month, spent more than a decade in Hollywood, landing modeling and small acting roles on "7th Heaven" and the film "Camp Nowhere," starring Christopher Lloyd. She is best known for playing Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent's friend, on the Superman TV series "Smallville." After "Smallville" ended, Mack made appearances on Fox's "The Following" and on the Elijah Wood series "Wilfred."

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