Smallville Actress Allison Mack Speaks the First Time About NXIVM | Crime Alert 1PM 11.11.25

Smallville Actress Allison Mack Speaks the First Time About NXIVM in a CBC podcast. The founder of 1-800-411-PAIN is arrested after allegedly bringing a loaded gun onto a Miami-Dade high school campus. Drew Nelson reports.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert hourly update, Breaking crime news. Now, I'm Drew Nelson.
Alison Max speaks out for the first time since her
release from prison. It was a humid June morning in
twenty twenty one when Max sat in the backseat of
a car headed to a Brooklyn, New York courthouse, wearing
a black dress that she had bought just for the occasion.
That day, the Smallville actress faced sentencing for her role

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in Nexium and XIVM, the so called self help empire
turned sex cult run by Keith Raniery. Once known for
playing the sharp and loyal Smallville character Chloe Sullivan, Mack
was now branded a criminal. Victims called her a monster
in court, the judge called her an essential accomplice. On
the new CBC podcast Allison Afterium, Max said quote, I

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don't see myself as innocent.

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I think that I capitalized on the things I had,
and so the success I had as an actor, I
think I did capitalize on that. Yeah, and it was
a power tool that I had to get people to
do what I wanted.

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Now, now forty three, Mack had served nearly two years
of a three year federal sentence before being released in
twenty twenty three. She has since remarried, begun a master's
in social work, and for the first time, is confronting
the contradictions of being both a victim and a victimizer.
Mack grew up in Long Beach, California, the daughter of
an opera singer and a Montessori teacher. She began acting

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before she could read. By her late teens, she was
living on her own in Los Angeles starring in network
TV shows when Smallville began filming in Vancouver in two
thousand and one. She was just nineteen, earning forty thousand
dollars a week, and suddenly surrounded by fame and pressure
that she didn't understand. In the podcast's first episode, Mack
recalls how her co star Kristin Krook helped lead her

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into what would become the most destructive decision of her life.
According to Mac, Crook began taking Nexiums, so called executive
success programs while they filmed in Vancouver, and later urged
her to try it. Krook has long denied in wrongdoing,
saying in twenty eighteen she left Nexium years before the
crimes came to light and had minimal contact afterward. She

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said she was quote horrified and disgusted by what emerged
about DOS. That's the so called secret sorority where women
were branded with rneri's initials. Max's first Nexium seminar was
held in a hotel in Vancouver. Soon after, she accepted
an invitation to fly by private jet to Albany, New York,
where she would meet Ranieri for the first time. She

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says the meaning left her disoriented yet captivated in a
way that she described as ground shifting. Within a few years,
Mack had moved to Albany, leaving her acting career behind.
Prosecutors later said she became Rhannieri's second in command, recruiting
women into DOS under the guise of empowerment. Members were
starved and forced into sexual submission. At sentencing, Max sat

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in silence as victims read their statements.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
My poor mom, Mike, I'm so sorry you guys, you know,
just he was more like but I can take it,
like you know, but like thank you guys.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Think I'm so sorry. Now sixty five, Keith Riniery is
serving a one hundred and twenty year sentence for sex trafficking,
racketeering and related crimes. MAC cooperated with prosecutors providing recordings
and testimony that helped convict him. More crime and Justice
news after this. The founder of one eight hundred and

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four to one one PAIN is arrested after allegedly bringing
a loaded gun onto a Miami Dade High school campus.
Deputy say fifty nine year old Robert Cash Lewin of
Southwest Ranches was taken into custody around noon on Saturday
at Miami Coral Park Senior High School in the Westchester area.
According to the Miami Dade Sheriff's Office, Lewin was seen

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sitting on the gym bleachers with a handgun tucked in
his waistband. When he bent over, the weapon became visible,
and a student snapped a photo that was sent to
an assistant principal. Administry There's alerted law enforcement, who found
Lewin sitting inside a black Lincoln Navigator in the school
parking lot, bearing a vanity plate referring to the legal
service four to one one PAIN. Deputies ordered him out

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of the suv and conducted a pat down, discovering the gun,
an extra magazine, and a knife. Lewin told them he
had brought the weapon to school quote by accident. He
was arrested on one count of possession of a firearm
on school property, and the gun and magazine were impounded
as evidence. As of now, Lewin does not appear as
an inmate on the Miami Day Jail website. The FBI

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continues to seek information on the disappearance and suspected kidnapping
a forty six year old Jose Luis Muro del Real.
He vanished alongside his brother al Varro while traveling to
an airport in Zacatecas, Mexico, in September of twenty twenty three.
According to the FBI, Jose Luis and Alvarro left Kolotlan,
Jalisco between one and two am on September sixteenth of

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twenty twenty three, so that Jose could catch a flight
at five forty five am from Zacatecas International Airport. He
never got on that flight, and neither brother has been
seen since. Jose Luis, who lived in Plymouth, Indiana, had
traveled to Mexico to visit his ailing mother. According to
his family, His wife, Myra Morales and daughter Alejandro Diez

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told The Pilot News they believed he was kidnapped. The
FBI is offering a reward of three thousand dollars for
information leading to his recovery or to the arrest and
conviction of those responsible. He's five seven, one hundred and
ninety nine pounds when he was last seen, black hair,
brown eyes, three small moles under his left eye that
form a triangle. He also has a scar on his

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back and a redburn mark on his right arm. Jose
Luis was born in Colotlan April tenth of nineteen seventy
seven and speaks both English and Spanish. Anyone with information
is urged to contact the nearest US embassy or consulate,
or contact the FBI at eight hundred call FBI and
tips dot FBI dot gov. For the latest crime and
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podcast app with this crime miler. I'm Drew Nelson.