Aug 21, 2018

Seagram’s heiress wants judge to let her leave Brooklyn


Emily Saul
NY Post
August 20, 2018

The Seagram’s heiress accused of funding the upstate sex cult Nxivm is asking a Brooklyn judge to reconsider the “home detention” condition of her release on a whopping $100 million bond.

After ponying up all that money, Clare Bronfman wants to at least be able to go into Manhattan, her lawyer writes in court papers filed Monday.

“Our proposal is that Ms. Bronfman would be allowed to travel in Manhattan up to 96th Street, in Brooklyn only insofar as to include the EDNY Courthouse, not to include airports, and would not travel outside this pre-approved zone unless she obtains prior approval,” the motion reads.

Brooklyn federal court Judge Nicholas Garaufis has yet to rule on the motion.

He had ordered Bronfman, accused of identify theft, money laundering, extortion and other crimes, held under electronic monitoring and home detention as she awaits trial alongside Nxivm leader Keith Raniere and his accused sex slave trader and onetime “Smallville” actress Allison Mack.

Bronfman is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday for a status conference in her case.

Raniere and Mack are charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy for allegedly coercing women into joining a secret group within Nxivm called DOS, where the members, called “slaves,” were forced to sleep with Raniere and have his initials seared into their skin.

https://nypost.com/2018/08/20/seagrams-heiress-wants-judge-to-let-her-leave-brooklyn/

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