“Clearly a lie,” Dan says. “Samantha and Athena were included because they were Sullivan’s victims, Heather because of the takeover, and Nicole for the trial.””
“Wasn’t NXIVM called Executive Success Programs when it started?” Dan and I had been mesmerized by The Vow, and he’d done a deep dive on NXIVM after we’d watched it, reading several books by ex-members and listening to endless podcasts. “I think you kind of want it to be a cult so you can put all that knowledge to good use.””
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