OCT 13, 2003

Cult of Personality

By Michael Freedman/Forbes

But some people see a darker and more manipulative side to Keith Raniere. Detractors say he runs a cult-like program aimed at breaking down his subjects psychologically, separating them from their families and inducting them into a bizarre world of messianic pretensions, idiosyncratic language and ritualistic practices. "I think it's a cult," says Edgar Bronfman Sr. Though he once took a course and endorsed the program, he hasn't talked to his daughters in months and has grown troubled over the long hours and emotional and financial investment they have been devoting to Raniere's group. One daughter, Clare, 24, has lent the program $2 million, at 2.5% interest, the senior Bronfman says (she denies this).

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018

Today's Blind Items - It Was Almost Someone Else

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Back in about 2002-2003 this hopefully will never again get out of jail child molester/rapist was probably at peak earning power. One of the people who attended his classes and was enamored by him was the foreign born offspring ( Ana Cristina Fox ) of a former leader ( Vincente Fox ) who still makes a name for himself today. Now, unlike many others from her country, this offspring for the most part managed to stay in the shadows with her relationship to the molester.

Another person who was a frequent guest at the seminars then but has never previously been mentioned was this former A+ list mostly movie actress ( Goldie Hawn ) who got her start on a very famous television show way back in the day ( Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ). All of you still know this actress although she rarely works any longer. Anyway, she and her significant other ( Kurt Russell ) had been trying for years to get a bunch of regulations lifted so they could expand a vacation house they owned. Enter the child molester who introduced the actress to the offspring. Problem solved.

Our actress was so happy about the connection that she started bringing her own offspring to see some of the seminars. Our child molester made a bold move to hook up with the offspring ( Kate Hudson ) of the actress. Now, at the time, the offspring had a significant other but did hook up with the molester and did so frequently. While they were in the midst of this hookup, a news report broke based on some leaked documents which made our child molester and his seminars look really bad. It happened at just the worst time. Our actress was going to be a public face of the seminars and the offspring was going to leave her significant other and be with the child molester full time. When that news story broke though almost two decades ago, the actress was spooked and bolted and took her offspring with her.

If not for that news story, we could be looking at someone completely different as the top female of the group.