I placed a phone call to actor Casper Van Dien, the stepfather of India Oxenberg, to get some comments from him on what, if any, steps he was taking to help India leave the destructive cult of Keith Raniere.
Casper was not pleased to hear from me.
He told me that by reporting on India’s torment and torture in the wicked cult, I, along with The New York Times, People Magazine, Time and 100 other media outlets, were “publicly shaming” India.
“It is disgusting,” he said.
He next said he had no comment, then proceeded to scold me and the entire universe of media for publishing India’s mother’s anguish over the horror of her daughter being in a vicious, cold-blooded, inhuman cult.
He said the damage I and the others were doing was far worse than the minor erratic behavior India was displaying. He said he had done some foolish things when he was young but his mother and family did not out him to the world.
At one point, he said that if I published anything about him, he would go after me.
‘I’m coming after you,’ he said.
I said ‘What do you mean?’
He changed the subject.
I asked him if it was not more disgusting to have your stepdaughter branded, put on a starvation diet, and have blackmail-worthy material held over her head, than have the media report on it, so that law enforcement could intervene or through common sense, she might possibly escape.
Casper hung up on me.
I will have more to report on Casper’s point of view in my next post.
After he hung up, I texted him.
I wrote:
Casper.
Thank you for speaking with me. I plan to write a story about the various views of fathers toward their daughters who are immersed in this human branding and sexploitation cult. I had asked you if you believed it was true that India is being blackmailed and was branded. You hung up the phone.
My next question was to be “Did you know or have you any reason to suspect that India’s company ‘Delegates’ is being used as a money laundering, tax evasion and visa fraud scheme?”
From what I got out of your comments before you hung up, you think the alleged torture India is going through at NXIVM is less problematic than the press she is getting now as a purported victim.
And you believe victims should not be named.
Yet are you aware that many victims who left the cult told me precisely because I named the victims and exposed this criminal enterprise was the reason they left?
Some victims told me they did not know that the initials of Keith Raniere were on their brands until they read it on Frank Report.
My further questions are: Do you think your daughter is safe and fine where she is? Are you going to do anything to get her out of the living hell she’s in?
One more thing. I just got a report that India’s hair is ‘very very thin ‘ and maybe that is due to 500 calorie diet. I genuinely think she is in danger, both health-wise, legally, and possibly worse.
Your daughter is going bald. Noticeably missing hair – and her scalp is visible. She has stopped having periods and has the uterus of a 45 year old woman [India is 26]. Do you think that is less important than getting some publicity as a branded victim?
I have heard nothing in response.
Then I looked on Instagram and found out why.
Casper Van Dien is, or seems to be, a fool. More interested in publicity – maybe his own publicity – than his stepdaughter’s welfare.
His pictures show him to be bizarre and infantile. I have not seen even teenage girls post as many immature pics as Lil’ Casper.
Here are a few:
My final message to Casper is GET OFF YOUR MUSCLE-SOUND ASS – AND RESCUE YOUR DAUGHTER!
Frank Parlato 
Frank Parlato 
Guest View 
Janine Morrison 
J.J. O'Hara 
K.R. Claviger 
Richard Luthmann 
Nicki Clyne 
Marie White 
Paul Serran
jeez frank . butthurt much?
It was a bit of a long detour that got me here to your article. I had never realized what a douche-bag CvD is.
You wouldn’t know anything about what happened to his son Cappy “Bo” van Dien would you? In 2018 he tried to commit suicide from what sounds like a bad relationship with his father one month after van DIen and Wenger married. I cannot find any articles as to whether the young man survived or is still lying in a coma. Would you happen to know?
no, I don’t know about this, I will try to find out
This is a disgusting article, an excuse for revenge. Mr. Van Dien was right i his anger and that is not his daughter, so he is not responsible for her but her father & mother plus she is an adult who voluntarily fell in a trap and decided to stay. No need for insults & name calling!
Thanks for exposing with cunning levity why cults thrive. So many people languish in cults and toxic relationships (which are often basically mini-cults) because they have family members who are idiots, complicit, or both. It’s unfortunate that Casper didn’t have the ability — the intelligence — to recognize that the person he helped raise was so obviously in a dangerous sex starvation cult with suicidal alarms bells, even after his step-daughter became dangerously underweight, branded, and all her money was taken. Worse than doing nothing, he actually tried to convince Catherine to stop her crusade for justice.
He is not the father and actually my understanding is that he tried to tell Catherine not to go to the first session and take along India but they would not listen. Is not that he did not do anything or prevented Catherine to do anything about it, he was concerned for her safety and the safety of their 2 younger daughters, plus they were divorcing around that time..
Wow you really don’t like Casper. His social media is just that… social media. You’re vicious… what do you know about the condition of India’s uterus..?? He was right to hang up on you.
This article is the definition of harassment. The author really needs some mental help
It’s his step daughter so I wouldn’t keep calling her his daughter and he’s not even married or with Catherine anymore. Why expect anything from him. Where is her real father??
I would also like to add that India is 26 years old, an adult. Even her own mother doesn’t have any legal right to tell India what to do. And India isn’t innocent in all of this; she’s right up there with Allison Mack in the hierarchy of the group, totally involved in luring women in and torturing them. She will probably be arrested very soon, according to the latest reports.
India isn’t Casper’s daughter, so what’s he supposed to do about? India’s father is William Weitz Shaffer. Why don’t you get on that guy’s case?
She has more contact with him and it s him who gave her stupid advice and make her believe that what she has done is ok. By the way her biological father isn t better than van dien. These two are garbages.
Please no name calling, specially when people are not able to defend themselves! Casper Van Dien is not garbage, actually it seems he tried to prevent both mother and daughter from going to the first meeting and even told them if they had consulted with the real father, Will but they refused to listen and went ahead. He was divorcing Catherine in those days and he is much younger, so probably India saw him more like a brother than a father figure, she was not going to listen to anyone. How about the rest of her blood family? They also could have intervened but if you know about cults is very difficult is the person has made their mind!
Well said FRANK. This casper guy is a douche bag, self-centered prick.
Casper isn’t India’s father. Her father is William Weitz Shaffer. Casper and Catherine, India’s mother, filed for divorce several years ago, so he isn’t her stepfather anymore, either.
Pathetic reporting. Slandering someone because he hung up on you as he should have. Their family business really isn’t any of your business. Perhaps he’s done all he can, after all she is an adult. His social posts have no bearing on the story you were trying to get. If you’re so very concerned about her perhaps you should go and try to remove her from the cult yourself. Good luck with that!
Not one of my favorite articles
Its one of my favorite.
Ridiculously lowbrow article and it’s clear how out of touch the author is…. you sound insane..
YOU ARE A DISGUSTING PERSON FRANK
Why is he disgusting? He’s raising awareness about a cult that starves its followers, brands it followers and rapes its followers. If you think that is disgusting. You’re the one that is disgusting. You probably are part of keiths group.
A. You do not know the state of India’s uterus.
B. Those are perfectly normal Instagram photos. Lots of adults in healthy. loving relationships have posts like that.
C. What is your hang up with the word ‘horny’?
This is not a post of a 50 years old adult ,sorry.
Kat let me guess you work for Keith? As for her uterus. Her bloody mother said what was going on. So shut the hell up and go back to kissing keiths cock
You honestly sound like a psychopath with some kind of weird obsession with casper van dien… You also don’t seem to understand anything to do with personal family dynamics or how people deal with things in private… you also aren’t entitled to someones personal experiences or how they deal with trauma and to attack someone for how they do makes you one fucked up lady…
Go get help… seriously… i don’t know you but this article shows signs of serious mental disease…
You and the cult leader you want to go after seem to have a lot in common when it comes to being disgusting.
You sound like a cvd fanatics,il t an article about him so yes he talk about the guy.
YES.
You think hes a psychopath? Frank reached out to casper to ask him what he was doing. The guy hung up. Without Frank Keith would still be out there raping women, starving them and branding them
This is way over the top in a sensitive family matter. Much better to focus on former high level members e.g. Grace Park, Kristin Kreuk, Mark Hildreth who are in a position to go to law enforcement and who will have inside knowledge about abuse or tax evasion. People who actually know Raniere and the Salzmans.
None of those people are “high level” members, and there is no evidence any of them knew about abuse or tax evasion. Those are celebrity members used for their celebrity. The highest of those three was Mark Hildreth, the most involved, and the least well known.
Well let’s hear from them to clear everything up. Was a deal done to take their videos down from KRConversations?
I can understand wanting to hear something from those whose videos were up with the YouTube channel and have just recently been taken down, but why would someone (Kristin Kreuk) who hasn’t been involved with the group for over five years spontaneously broach the subject? Maybe if she’s asked in an interview she would give an opinion. Otherwise, she’s probably just moved on with her career and life.
Kristen is a good one.
Speaking of India, this was just recently posted online: https://pagesix.com/2017/10/29/india-oxenbergs-dad-speaks-out-about-daughter-involved-in-cult/
It ‘s the concern of india biological dad concern about this.
Casper’s opinion about his step-daughter’s public shaming holds little weight IMO. First of all, I don’t think it is such because the whole onslaught of articles isn’t to expose victims to shame, but to expose them as victims and place the shame on those who are doing the abusing and any authorities allowing it to go on for so long. Second of all, any such concern got trumped by India’s own mother going to the press. A mother has the rights of concern for her child over and above any other human being.
Frank, parents definitely need to be alerted if they don’t know about it, and I’m glad someone is calling them (I hope you call as many as possible and stress the urgency of the situation, and that you’re able to offer some sort of resources to them to help get their kid out, or report their fears to law enforcement). But I ask that you please be careful in what you publish regarding your communications with parents – India’s a special case in that she’s become the “face” of the story in the media, and of course she’s already well aware that her parents know what’s going on.
But in the case of other parents of cult members who are still in, please take care not to post anything to tip off their kids, and make them feel pressured to cut off contact with their families. If India’s stepdad doesn’t care about what’s happening to his child, then obviously he’s a terrible parent. But in general, I hope you’ll err on the side of caution when writing about any other parents you speak to, and risking any efforts to reach out to their child in the future.
Please don’t publish names unless the parent explicitly agrees to it, even if they’re reluctant to speak to you, or still in denial. People should have the chance to process this if they’re still struggling with what their child is involved in – and they may be useful to the cause once they reach acceptance.
Ok that was not necessary. What is he supposed to do? Not go on with his life? I bet that shit is hard for him and his wife and they are having arguments about that for half a year now. How would you react when some reporter would ask you about the addiction of your oldest child and if you were happy? His wife came forward and made a public statement that they are working on it. He is only the step dad and she is 26 and even if she was 16 there would be little he could do.
CASPER VAN DIEN is only concerned about his popularity and image.His priority is to show the world how perfect he is .You don t need to know him to see it.
Do you know him? Thought so. SHUT UP YOURE DISGUSTING
Cvd ,is this you?no need to know him ,he was exposed previously .He is a cheater and a liar.You re a stupid follower.