Chanel Maya Banks, Charles Manson, OneTaste, Legal
"Loved ones of actor Chanel Maya Banks, who is most known for her roles in "Gossip Girl" and "Blue Bloods," said they are convinced the 36-year-old is in harm's way despite the fact that police said they found her unharmed in Texas a few days ago.
Banks' cousin Danielle-Tori Singh on Friday insisted the actor was brainwashed by a religious cult and is in danger. She also said she believes authorities mistakenly identified another woman as Banks.
"We know she's a part of a cult," Singh said during a news conference Friday. "We know that this organized group is not allowing her (to use) her phone."
Singh also said she thinks the cult has been posting on Banks' Instagram account. The account, Singh said, includes photos of a woman who claims to be Banks and that the actor is fine.
The woman also wrote that she just wants "to be free of a toxic woman and her family." The posts included a statement laced with inflammatory allegations, with the woman indicating she willingly left "to escape my cage" and to find spiritual renewal.
"The things that she is posting on her social media are not true and it's not her," Singh said, adding that all photos of Banks and her husband, Carlos, appeared to be deleted. "The only facial recognition that she provided is a little clip that she posted -- or whoever posted -- of her where she's getting her makeup done last night.
Singh added that she saw a separate video on YouTube of a woman in Texas during a retreat. She said while she believes the woman is Banks, she's still uncertain her cousin is safe.
In fact, she thinks Banks deliberately walked across the view of the camera and looked at the lens as a way to send her family a message."
"Hippie cult leader Charles Manson, who was the mastermind behind one of Hollywood's most gruesome slayings, confessed to additional murders before becoming the leader of the Manson Family cult, as featured in chilling audio that will be included in a new docuseries on Peacock.
The confessions were featured in a teaser clip of the new series, "Making Manson," in which Manson could be heard talking from a prison phone about his time south of the U.S. border.
"There's a whole part of my life that nobody knows about," Manson is heard saying in the clip. 'I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco, stole some cars.
"I just got involved in some stuff over my head, man," he continued. "Got involved in a couple of killings. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left some dead people on the beach."
The docuseries premieres Nov. 19 on streaming service Peacock.
In 1971, Manson was convicted of nine murders, including the 1969 slaughter of actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time.
Prosecutors said he was attempting to foment a race war, an idea he supposedly got from a misreading of the Beatles song, "Helter Skelter."
The Manson murders were brutally horrific. Tate, who was 26 at the time of her death, was stabbed and hung from a rafter in her living room. The intruders used the victim's blood to write, "Pigs," while also misspelling "Healter Skelter."
While Manson did not carry out the murders himself, he was the master manipulator who persuaded others to kill for him.
Members of the Manson Family, as his followers were called, slaughtered five of its victims on Aug. 9, 1969: Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish movie director Voityck Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of the property's caretakers. The murders took place at Tate's home while her husband, director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time.
The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town."
"Nicole Daedone, the founder of OneTaste, a wellness company centered on the practice of "orgasmic meditation," said she will "absolutely" testify at her trial next year.
The former CEO is scheduled to stand trial in New York in January on one count of forced labor conspiracy. Prosecutors allege that she and former OneTaste executive Rachel Cherwitz, who is facing the same charge, targeted victims of trauma to become members and manipulated them into performing sex acts and going into debt, among other things. Cherwitz has denied any wrongdoing.
"It's not true," Daedone said of the allegations against her in an exclusive interview with NBC News NOW's "Top Story." "It's definitely not true. And as much as any human being, as this woman, this person, would not want to go to court because it's grueling, just even going to small hearings, I want to go to court because I want all of this transparent. I want it to be exposed. I want everything that I didn't say to be said."
Daedone rose to fame by teaching the practice of orgasmic meditation, or OM, as a key to women's well-being. She founded OneTaste in 2005 and grew it into a $12 million business with thousands of followers, including celebrity fans like Gwyneth Paltrow and Khloe Kardashian.
But it all came crashing down after a 2018 Bloomberg article and the 2022 Netflix documentary "Orgasm Inc." featured former employees who said they were subjected to a toxic environment that included emotional and physical abuse.
Daedone and Cherwitz were charged in a 2023 indictment that alleges they preyed on people who had been victims of previous trauma; forced One Taste members into debt by opening lines of credit to finance courses; subjected members to surveillance; had them sleep in communal homes and beds; and encouraged members to engage in sexual acts with investors and clients."
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