Barbara Bouchey gives her own take on Keith Raniere on Megyn Kelly

Barbara Buchey appeared with Megyn Kelly to speak about how wonderful Keith Raniere was when they were together.

This past week, former NXIVM High-Rank Barbara Bouchey appeared on Megyn Kelly Today show on NBC TV and offered millions of viewers an interesting perspective on Keith Raniere and NXIVM.

Because we get so few alternate perspectives on Raniere on this blog – so few defend him –  this particular commentary, coming from an intimate companion of his, is especially insightful.

Bouchey said in part on television:

NXIVM was so life-changing and profound. Keith actually taught more than half of the program because it was new…

I [was] very much in love with Keith, very much aligned with the philosophy and really had experienced the changes within me…

So I began helping Keith and Nancy develop infrastructure. And organizational skills. And sales and marketing material and helping to train people…

Dating Keith Raniere did not look like going to dinner or a weekend at the beach. Keith did not do those kinds of social things.

I drove Keith to all the events. He slept at my house three or four nights a week. People would move over if they were sitting on the couch next to him to let me sit next to him…

I was his soul mate, his companion and his significant girlfriend…

I didn’t know for a year that anyone else was with him [sexually].

Barbara also said she knew about three of the women that Raniere was sleeping with while they were together – and that she later found out that he slept with a total of 12 such women.

I gave it the girl scout try…

The attraction [to NXIVM] was that it was transformational, inspirational curriculum, the material. The people who taught the workshop were amazing extraordinary people.

Everyday-people would go in and take a workshop and it was life changing…

I developed and created Vanguard Week as an annual conference more so than to celebrate his birthday…

Keith was a very dynamic person, soft-spoken, engaging… funny…He could play the piano…

Was he smart?  What I observed was he is a very intelligent man who was very skilled at many things…

I thought I was the only one and his soul mate for a good year…I found out about someone…[he had sex with a couple times a year as a teacher-student sexual relationship]…I only knew about a few of them [that he had sex with]. They all knew about each other…I didn’t find out about nine of them until after I left…

I was integral in helping create the company…plus he loved me allegedly…I couldn’t tell – I walked in the room and everybody made way for me  I was his girlfriend.

See the entire interview and learn more about Barbara Bouchey’s perspective,

https://www.today.com/video/ex-nxivm-member-recalls-alleged-abuse-by-leader-keith-raniere-1319552067596?v=raila&

 

 

This photo was aired on Megyn Kelly of Barbara, Keith, and Nancy Salzman – or, as they preferred to be called, Ya, Vanguard and Prefect
Were they soulmates? Barbara thought they were for a time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bouchey, a sad story
Bouchey, a sad story
5 years ago

Regarding a posted comment “I disagree on the polyamory, though – if all involved are informed and consenting on their own, I think they can form interwoven bonds.”

The issue with Keith and his gal pals already sleeping with him is they worked together like a pack of spotted hyena to get his next prey for him. It was a group lie that they didn’t collude together. Women were approached by some in the pack to test if there was a possibility to get this woman to spend time with Keith. It was cleverly set up that Keith could help them with whatever their goals were. These goals were extracted during the trainings.

Next Keith would start spending time with the woman, pretending he was single and not sleeping with anyone else. His pack affirmed this story. He’d take charge of the seduction “game,” and his hyenas would support a relationship with “The smartest man in the world.” Keith could have never pulled his sexual conquests without the help of his hyenas and the grand lies that took place.

Keith would pretend this new conquest was “his only true love,” but the relationship needed to remain quiet due to his status in the company. When a woman found out “she” was not the only one, the pack of his female followers (sleeping with him, if only once a year) would be beckoned to handle the reactions of the new prey once they discovery was made about the lie.

Hence the mind-bending would commence by the “fold/inner circle” as referred to by Barbara Bouchey in her latest interview.

Some women like Karen Unterreiner, Barb Jeske and Pam Cafritz who had been with Keith for decades didn’t get the fruit of his passion very often as they were Old Hags to him. KR seems only to want younger women who are super skinny and foolish.

Some women like Barbara Bouchey continued to have a polyamory relationship with Keith even after finding out Keith was having sex with other women. Bouchey is now claiming she only knew about only three other women who were sleeping with Keith. After almost a decade, Bouchey still finds it necessary to lie to make herself and her “soul mate” look better in the eyes of the unknowing public.

Bouchey is rewriting history and her interview with Megan Kelly is not the same story she told people when she was recruiting people to leave NXIVM, or right after she left. She told me and others she knew about many women like Ivy Nevares, Esther Chiappone, Lauren Salzman, Marianna, and Camila Fernande, a Physical Therapist who left NXIVM, Siobhan Hotaling (when KR was helping her to be a straight woma), Allison Mack, the Bronfman sisters and many others. Bouchey had known about these other women for years. We also were told it was within the first six months she found out the group lie, not a year as she is now claiming.

Keith sleeping with students and everyone on the Executive Board was an issue Bouchey brought to Keith during meetings with him right before she resigned from NXIVM.

The lie Bouchey still believes is Keith was her boyfriend, and he was only sleeping with three other women once in a while. How does this lie make her situation any better? It’s sad that she cannot open her eyes to the fact that Keith was using her for her money, ability to enroll others into NXIVM and for sex/attention. The downside is Bouchey lied to thousands about who Keith was as a man, enrolled under this lie and helped to keep people to stay in NXVIM.

So why not leave sooner?

It’s well known that NXIVM sent their wealthy clients to Bouchey to “manage and invest” their money. Again, the pack of spotted hyena worked the crowd of rich students, suggesting they should consider Bouchey to be their financial planner. Doing so would be upholding the ethics that NXIVM members brought to the plate in dealing with such matters. I never bought this collective pressure to change who I used for financial advice as it appeared too incestuous.

Bouchey ran her financial planning business on a percentage base and was making bank off these referrals. When Bouchey took on the Bronfman sisters as clients, it was like winning the NY Lotto for her bank account.

Bouchey did funnel a great deal of the referral pay dirt back into NXIVM, giving to “the company store” which was Keith and his many great ideas. One has to wonder if she bought her sexual status with her soul mate and how did she lose her “seat next to him.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago

Ms. Pee (cough cough Lauren Salzman) You were f*@%!ing KR during the same time. There were only old school ponies in his stable – Karen Unterreiner, Barb Jeske and Pam Cafritz all came in with CBI. KR told Toni that Barb Jeske was gay but there was no mention in NXIVM about Barb J being gay (which she wasn’t)

KR was f*@%!ing, early on, Nancy Salzman, just to get her hooked in. He than dump Nancy for her daughter Lauren aka Pea Onyu.

Barb Bouchey knew of all the women KR was having his way and early on. Bouchey told a lot about before she left NXIVM about all the women he was sleeping with and it was more than 3.

Sometimes people want to paint a pretty picture of what happened so they do not have to face themselves and the fact they got taken by this group. They don’t want to look at their participation in promotion of KR and his band of criminals. It appears Barb Bouchey is one of these people. She wants to paint a pretty picture of KR and how his gang took advantage of a lot of people, herself being one of them.

Barbara is a Chris Farley look-alike
Barbara is a Chris Farley look-alike
5 years ago

Barbara never saw the light or left for any noble reasons.

Look at her face, for crying out loud. It’s water logged. She’s got a double chin and cheeks like a pumpkin. She’s been whipped with an ugly stick.

She’s nearly a Chris Farley look-alike. She’s butt ugly now. Not even Viagra could help a man get wood for that creature. Yuck.

She just didn’t age very well.

Even 10 years ago she was over-the-hill and no longer as pretty as she was in that younger photo.

Make no mistake, Barbara only left NXIVM after she lost her status and power as Keith’s main sex girl.

She left NXIVM (and Keith) only when her aging-fat-ass was no longer a tempting sexual treat for Vanguard and her status had dwindled to that of a gofer or a Pam Cafritz drone.

She left for the most vain reason of all, her own lost ego.

She never saw the light or left NXIVM for noble reasons.

Barbara is a she-snake of the worst variety, a person with no integrity whatsoever (even worse than Flowers). I don’t know why Frank talks nicely of Barbara, she’s done nothing for anybody except herself. I honestly hope that God takes a huge shit on her one day.

Flowers
Flowers
5 years ago

Frank , are you allowing posts like this one above? How is that allowed? Moronic Fucktard knows nothing about me at all (unless he’s one of the criminals who have harassed me) and he doesn’t know the first thing about Barbara, either. He’s basing his assumptions abiut her on his own imagination.

Cynthia Miller
Cynthia Miller
5 years ago

Barbara loved him that’s all. A woman loves that’s what they do. She loved him once and forever. You could see it on Megan Kelly. She loves Keith and is still in love with him. Desperately. She’s the type I think who would wait for him to get out of prison.

Lady of the Lake
Lady of the Lake
5 years ago
Reply to  Cynthia Miller

I agree Barbara still loves him. Once a soul mate always. Soul mates are forever. What’s wrong with that anyway? So she still loves him, it shows her faithfulness. Her strength. Her loyalty. Maybe he is the weak one. Maybe Barbara is the strong one. The one he will come back to when he gets out of prison even if it is 20 years.

orangecountydreams - OCD
orangecountydreams - OCD
5 years ago

I think that even once you find out someone you deeply loved is a traitor, user, even sociopath, part of the brain does not want to believe it. It take a lot of time and absence. It might be hard for Barbara to overcome with all the reminders of KR everywhere, in the news. My guess is she remember what she once thought he was.

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago

– The one he will come back to when he gets out of prison even if it is 20 years.

Right.

You obviously don’t understand narcissistic sociopathy. You obviously don’t understand the concept of love or soul mates. There is no such thing as one-sided love. Love has always been mutual. It can fluctuate, increase, decrease, etc., but once it’s gone from one side at any level, it no longer exists. To hold onto it as such is nothing but delusion. Thus, there can also be no one-sided soul mate relationship since it is the highest form of love shared between two people. If love is not one-sided, then a soul mate relationship cannot be so by necessity. VanDouche is indifferent to the soul mate concept. It doesn’t exist in his mind as something realizable for himself. It is but a concept used as a tool to manipulate a woman who believes in such an ideal. Love is *always* manifested in action. Whether it is waiting for someone or being there for them. It is more than mere words.

There is no coming back from what VanDouche has become. I’d feel sorry for what he has become and would wish rectification and reform upon him but judging from his own words and actions, he obviously has no sense of remorse. At all. According to a previous article Mr. Parlato posted, he still believes he did nothing wrong and will get off.

Just Sayin's "Pretty Girl Scholarship" Explained
Just Sayin's "Pretty Girl Scholarship" Explained
5 years ago

Mrs. Just Sayin’ has been trying to convince others that she’s repulsed by Keith’s misogynistic view of women.

Yet she already admitted that she KNEW that her $5k-$10k NXIVM intensive fees were being waived by Keith precisely because she was on the “pretty girl scholarship” (which means she UNDERSTOOD that she was given free access to a NXIVM intensive for the sole purpose of flaunting her poontang for Keith’s eyes and to dangle her feminine candy for master Vanguard, in exchange for having her fees waived).

She *knew* ahead of time what her purpose for going to the intensive was, yet she still went anyway.

Or in other words, she purposely fed into Keith’s misogynistic view that women are good for nothing else except tempting men with their womanly fruit.

It doesn’t matter whether she gave up the pussy to Keith or just let him gaze at her feminine candy from the podium and then denied him his womanly fruit. She still attended that intensive with the sole purpose of dangling that shit for Keith’s eyes (in exchange for having her fees waived).

But yet *now* she claims that other members are the real misogynists?

Repent woman. Repent for your unholy sins of flaunting your female candy for Vanguard and embracing his misogynistic view that women are sex objects, just so you could save some money with the pretty girl scholarship. 🙂

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago

That was a lot to say for assuming that she didn’t simply start calling it so *after* she found out its real motives.

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago

I started calling it that after I found out I wasn’t the only attractive young woman to attend an intensive for free, and it is quite clear now why that happens.

The bully is just attacking me because I pointed out he is a bully. All bullies are just sad, hurting, little children inside who lash out and try to hurt others. It’s sad, really.

Flowers
Flowers
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

@I’m such a pretty girlie
No “bullies” are attacking you. We are pointing out that your story doesn’t add up, and therefore you’re probably posting here for some hidden reason.

I wonder why all those beautiful actresses had to pay for their classes? But “pretty girl” here was given a free intensive that “messed ” her up? Really? No one else complained about being “messed up” from taking an intensive. If people were being “messed up” by the first class that they took, why would they go back for more? Would they recommend it to anyone else?

See how illogical you are, pretty girl?

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

Bully? Bullies are punk kids in elementary school. Your an adult know the word no longer applies. If it does apply to you, you need to grow up.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago

How many female students got free or discount intensives for being pretty? How many had sex with Raniere? Would women recruit these women for the sole purpose of having sex with Raniere?

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

I absolutely believe that Keith would instruct people to recruit attractive girls / young women.
I was offered the intensive by a guy that I was friends with for about 8 months before he offered the “opportunity” to attend the intensive for free.
I think I probably could have continued on past the five days if I had been interested, whether it was going to be free or the start of an indentured servitude, I will never know because what went on in the first five days was so horrific, I was never going to stick around to find out.
I suppose I should be grateful to Christine Collins for that.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

Lots of people have said that about the five day intensive. What on earth happens there?

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Bear in mind, I was fine before I went to this intensive. I wasn’t having emotional difficulties. I was just open to the idea that I could learn something new that might benefit my life. I genuinely believed at that time the guy who invited me was my friend. He suggested it to me at a moment that I had the free time to do it, and it was a relatively short drive for me to go there every day. Because it was “free” and I trusted that guy (foolishly I now realise), I didn’t research it beforehand. I am sure I am not the only one to wind up at an intensive that isn’t some stupid, insecure nutjob that people make all attendees out to be.
First of all, it was mostly a lot of just garbage. They lecture you on how if you feel sleepy, you are having cognitive dissonance, so you should pay extra attention (talk about a brainwashing technique). There is an entire video by Nancy Salzman about how it isn’t a cult, that perfectly describes NXIVM as a cult.
You are kept in the room on horrible chairs at tables under fluorescent lights for 10 or 12 or even 14 hours in a day.
Also, you do not have nearly enough nutrition. Especially, if you are a carnivore like I am. To go from having a normal diet to only eating quinoa salad, and whatever other ridiculous vegan concoctions they laid out on those tables for us, will decimate anybody’s brain functioning.
You can’t get enough sleep at night, so you are exhausted coming back every day (also brainwashing technique).
A Mexican guy dragged his wife out saying this was all bullshit, and I wanted so badly to follow him, but because I hadn’t paid, I felt I owed it to my so-called friend to ride this thing out.
For me, I had panic attacks when I was younger. I hadn’t had one in probably 12 years before Christine Collins put me into one during the intensive, which isn’t surprising given the amount of physical stress it puts you under to be in those conditions for days on end. She literally physically put me in a corner and wouldn’t let me out, going at me like a drill sergeant, and I literally couldn’t breathe. I had been saying I didn’t feel like I was a victim, that I am happy with the choices I have made in my life, and I like myself the way I am, so she turned me into a victim to prove to me I was one. For some reason, in their logic, admitting you are a victim is part of realising there are no ultimate victims. It really is all pretty standard brainwashing techniques. If you can get someone to admit they are something they don’t believe they are, so that you can tell them they are then not what you got them to say they were, you have someone pretty well under control. When I left that night, I knew there was no way I was going to do another 11 days. Ridiculously, I did show up for the last day to spend it being forcefully peer pressured to go another 11 days. I think it was about 14 of us that went to the end of 5 days and absolute max 5 people went on to the 11 days.
Anyhow, after I left the intensive, I read an article about a woman who went straight to a psychiatric unit from an intensive, and I can see why. If I weren’t as strong as I am, I think that panic attack would have put me all the way over the edge.
And it isn’t just what goes on at the intensive, which is difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t attended, but many people who have will understand. It took months for me to level my emotions back out to have a normal life again, and the guy who invited me actually told me this is normal, and why it is important to stay with the program. WTF ? Basically, it is designed so that it only gets better if you stick with the brainwashing, and then, IMO, you don’t know anymore what are actually your emotions or not because the cult is so far in your head.

Just tellin' it like it is
Just tellin' it like it is
5 years ago

I agree. This story doesn’t make sense to me. If Keith gave her a free intensive because of her looks , then how did he know how she looked prior to the classes? Did potential students need to submit a picture before signing up for a class?
And why did the gorgeous actresses not get their classes for free?
And if an intensive messed up people like she claims, why did people keep signing up for more?

anon
anon
5 years ago

Where does she ever say “Keith” gave her a free intensive because of her looks?

It did mess up some people. It didn’t mess up others. It appears that anyone who has some psychological problems, e.g., anxiety issues, propensity to depression, phobias, etc., are the ones who can suffer a break.

Just tellin' it like it is
Just tellin' it like it is
5 years ago
Reply to  anon

That’s what her story is about, anon. She claims she got the course for free due to her looks – the so-called pretty girl scholarship.
Then she says that Keith was putting the moves on her, insinuating that her “friend” who somehow was able to obtain the free course for her, was some type of “pussy scout” acting on behalf of Keith.

How do you know, anon, how many people were ‘messed up’ by these intensives? Do you have inside knowledge?

Jarhead
Jarhead
5 years ago

Question for Pea Onyu: Does it hurt when you pee? What you call a “disintegration” is what normal people call infidelity. Is it a “disintegration” to have a choice that opposes Raniere? Or what if Keith brings a person with treatment resistant gonorrhia into your fold? You seem to be willing to forfeit your liberty and even your life to a person who…fled to Mexico? I am sad for you folks.

Barb
Barb
5 years ago

Barbara was groomed.
That’s all.

Pea Onyu
Pea Onyu
5 years ago

Barbara did not know about the other 9. She knew about 3. Keith taught her by degrees to share. She doesn’t own his penis. Her issue was that while 3 was fine 12 was too many. Why? It was her issue. He still spent nights with her. He let her drive him to volleyball. We were all told to let her sit next to him because she had entitlement issues. But Keith was teaching us. He would always tell us that we had to accept all her issues and that she could not know about all of us since she had too many issues. By using BB’s issues he explained and tiaght us not to be jealous.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

Did you have a go on little Keith’s penis Pea? How small is it? I assume around four inches. Is that accurate?

The only women Keithy boy ever fucked were ugly women with low self esteem, pimped out to him by other brain dead women. If you are such an expert on Raniere’s sexual conquests, name one good looking woman he fucked.

Other than Allison Mack who is clearly mad, did he fuck any other actresses?

Did Kristin Kreuk experience little Keith’s penis?

What about Kristanna Loken?

If you are really an expert on little Keith, you would be able to provide information.

Pea Onyu
Pea Onyu
5 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

The women all had spiritual beauty and of course some weee stunning like me. As for his prowess let me just say he is tops.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

That didn’t answer the question did it? Names, or you are a lier. Not “spiritual beauty” whatever the fuck that means. Beauty that non-NXIVM would notice.

Watching and Waiting for Justice
Watching and Waiting for Justice
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

Keith has really groomed his harem members to like pudgy soft men with teenie weenies. Keith also groomed his women to think they have a disintegration if they want to be in a monogamous relationship. Instead, the majority of his harem members are all unmarried, have forfeited any chance of having children, let alone getting married, and think it’s OK to not have the devotion of one man who is solely committed to them; to go out on dates and do fun things together. To be seen in public arm in arm. To go on vacation together. To come home every day/night to one devoted man with whom they can go to bed with every night. To snuggle with every night. And Keith taught all of these women that there is something wrong with them if they want such a life. How sad. I have experience with Keith and I thank my lucky stars I was too stubborn (and cleary very smart and wise) to have gotten wrapped up in his warped world. One time I was sad and didn’t know my place in the world and wanted something bigger and better out of life. Keith tried to latch onto that. I dodged a bullet. Let’s just say I didn’t need him to make me fulfilled. I now have things Keith’s harem members will never have.I feel sorry for these women in some ways, because they were all good people to start out. We were all the same, really. We all had low self-esteem, and wanted something bigger out of life and wanted to make the world a better place. Sadly, the opposite has happened for these women. And Keith messed them up so badly that they can’t even see that. Instead, they perpetuate his evil. It’s sad that one creepy man has had that much power to ruin so many women. Best of luck Pea Onyu. You were probably once a lovely person. I actually do hope that most of you come to the realization some day that Keith is a bad person and that you heal and can move on to a healthy and happy life without Keith; perhaps with a partner who will treat you as his one and only queen and be devoted to you and only you. If you’re too old to bear children yourself, perhaps you can adopt.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

Go pee on yourself, you were early on inner circle or being told what to say.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

You state you are young enough to be in kieths harem in one post, now you state you were around when Barb was, which means you are to old to be in Kieths harem. You have been caught lying in nearly every post you have made. Do you enjoy making yourself look like a lying fool Pea brain?

ionwhitepoetry
5 years ago

You have to have a soul before you can be a soulmate to anyone. Keith’s soul – what was left of it – was something he never shared with anyone –

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago
Reply to  ionwhitepoetry

– You have to have a soul before you can be a soulmate to anyone.

Ha! Good one.

Pea Onyu
Pea Onyu
5 years ago

Stop picking on Barbara. She loves him. He was her soul master not soul mate and her teacher. Barbara is wise just went astray. She must come back to him. She is too old to be lover but she can join the other older ones like Karen and Lauren etc. and find newer ones to be spiritual wives. This is natural on our siloed relatinhsos woty our master. Babs still loves him and based on what she says she’s coming back. Just waiting for him to be acquired.

Watching and Waiting for Justice
Watching and Waiting for Justice
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

Spiritual wife – what a load of crap. Too old to have sex with the creepy one, but yet she has made a lifelong commitment to Keith, and therefore can’t have sex with anyone else, and instead has to find new young recruits for her spiritual husband. So an older spiritual wife has to be celibate, continue to maintain a starvation diet (she can’t even find an outlet in good food!), run errands and clean house for Keith, do Keith’s dirty and illegal work, and go to bed every night knowing the pretty young recruit is the one wrapping her legs around Keith’s pudgy body instead her. What a great, fulfilling life that must be! Well, your spiritual husband will be in jail for many decades. What will you do with your life while he resides at a federal or state prison?

Cognitive dissonance galore
Cognitive dissonance galore
5 years ago

I hope this woman can eventually recover from her association with Raniere. I knew him too – and managed to leave when it became clear to me that my “soulmate” was an abusive, manipulative, lying piece of trash. It’s hard to accept that you were nothing but a game to someone you cared deeply about and who said you were special to them. In the end, you’ve got to be able to look them in the eyes and admit there is no love there, and go find it elsewhere. The only photos I have ever seen of Raniere with someone he maybe “loved” in his own spectacularly disturbed way were with Pam Cafritz and Toni Natalie. In photos with anyone else, he has dead lizard eyes – nothing but cold calculation there. I didn’t bother to keep any photos of him with me, but I’m pretty sure the dead lizard would have been staring back at me as well.

Let it go, Barbara – help the Feds put the bastard behind bars permanently and then find some other way to fill the holes in your life.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago

Keith Raniere is a devil. It is good that you saw the light. Out of curiosity, when were you involved with this prick? I would imagine as NXIVM grew, the more he got his ass kissed and the more women became obsessed with him.

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago

Note to Barbara: Apparently no one ever told you that Photoshop is not available on live TV. Maybe it’s time to put some pictures from this decade on your website: http://barbarabouchey.net/.

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

Great, now flowers / mike and / or Scott or whomever is copying my name.

I did not say that. Never trust anybody posting with my name and putting a link up.

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

Well, fixed that problem.

LOL
LOL
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

Yes, it did.

But you’re still a hypocrite for feeding into Keith’s misogynistic view of women as sex objects — by using your pretty girl scholarship to flaunt your womanly fruit for master Vanguard’s eyes, then accusing others of being misogynists. lol

You don’t sound real bright. Maybe time to attend a class in Logic 101. 🙂

Flowers
Flowers
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

Uh…pretty girl, after you posted that snarky comment about Barbara, you then posted another comment a hours later, and you apparently you didn’t notice this “imposter ” comment at that time?
Riiiiight….
No one is posting comments under your name. And if you don’t like the comments here, stop posting here. There’s no reason for you to post.

One Of Your Former Staff
One Of Your Former Staff
5 years ago

INFLATION ALERT! That old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words greatly underestimates the value of the picture at the top of this post. You truly are a glory-whore.

Ex-Nx
Ex-Nx
5 years ago

maybe this is Becky Freeman??? Who was the Office Mole at Barb’s firm…holding secret meetings with NX members and working for NX and Keith while compromising the business. Becky who lied about Barb and other members who left with her…lied under oath to enable Nxivm, Clare and Keith to harass them…hmmmm?

Was There, Saw That
Was There, Saw That
5 years ago

Great job, Barb. In addition to unnecessarily admitting that you are complicit in a number of criminal activities – kind of like when you voluntarily admitted that you decided to access NXIVM’s website several months after Toni Natalie, Joe O’Hara and John Tighe had been arrested for allegedly doing the same thing – you also managed to sing the praises of the cult and Keith Raniere.

When I first read this post, I wondered why Frank had written so many negative things about you. Then I went back and re-watched the Megyn Kelly show and realized that all he did is repeat things that you had actually said.

It’s fascinating to watch you try to re-write your history with the cult – especially all the parts you simply never mention. Like how much money you made from all the people you recruited – and all the fees you earned for managing the Bronfmans’ trust funds.

Here’s a very simple question for you Barbara: Did you earn more from recruiting fess and money management fees than you lost in covering Raniere’s initial foray into the commodities market?

And speaking of the commodities market, how is it that you – as the Bronfman sisters’ financial planner – didn’t warn them that Raniere had no idea what he was doing in the commodities market? Didn’t you have a fiduciary duty to tell them that? And did you reinforce his “explanation” that the reason he lost $56 million of their money is because their father was manipulating the markets against him?

C’mon, Barb, inquiring minds want to know!

TK
TK
5 years ago

I wonder if Keith shaves his back. Hm? That’s a bad mental image, I know! Creepy.

Heidi Hutchinson
Heidi Hutchinson
5 years ago

One other note to Barbara and any potential “takers” with a mind to repackage and resell any NXIVM components —

The NXIVM slogan: “He who has the most joy wins” was coined and penned by yours truly. It was originally, “SHE who has the most joy wins.”

It’s a twist on the biblical verse: “Man is that he might have Joy” combined with a popular bumper sticker slapped on expensive cars and boats back in the day that read:

“He who dies with the most toys wins.”

I wrote it, Keith stole it and, later, wired 10k into my bank account for seed money to leave my husband and join his new business, ESP/NXIVM. When I left my husband but didn’t join NXIVM, nor agree to have sex with Keith, he claimed the money was payment for the slogan.

Given Keith’s propensity (or need — given his creative authenticity deficits) to not only plagiarize but pervert original material, I’d be very careful about what “goodies” you snatch from the NXIVM technology in any new venture as well as your claims to the media that you, not Keith, were the intellectual property thief.

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago

– I wrote it, Keith stole it and, later, wired 10k into my bank account for seed money to leave my husband and join his new business, ESP/NXIVM. When I left my husband but didn’t join NXIVM, nor agree to have sex with Keith, he claimed the money was payment for the slogan.

I’m curious. Does VanDouche do this with all the women he wants to form a business or develop an idea with, i.e., proposition them for sex? I say that tongue in cheek because I’m pretty sure the latter comes before the former. How does he go about doing this, i.e., what’s his method or means? What happens then if a women refuses to sleep with him?

Heidi Hutchinson
Heidi Hutchinson
5 years ago

Part of what deeply disturbs me about NXIVM — apart from the destructiveness to every life they touch — including flat-out harassment they’ve sporadically perpetrated on me for years — is that they “incorporated” some of my interviews and correspondence on and off the record (after confiscating computers through bogus criminal, computer trespassing charges) with Jim Odato (former Albany Times Union Reporter) and others — into their “technology” or coursework. And did so in (what else could they but?) the most perverted manner imaginable.

For instance, I shared that my sister, Gina, was in a state of “cognitive dissonance” when she died. Also that there were “emotional triggers” I believe were set by Keith et. al. over her lifetime association from the age of 13 with Keith and his “inner circle,” who experimented heavily on her and used her braintrust — her sincere, hard-won knowledge of Spiritualism, Buddhism and Eastern studies — albeit twisted through Keith’s deviant, devious grey matter — to further develop their evil “technology” even after it killed her — if one of them didn’t actually pull the triggers.

So, now, it appears Barbara —and whomever else she thinks might or IS buying in — is changing historic facts to not only defend herself and the toxic “technology” that wreaked so much destruction on so many lives, but also to try to claim, redistribute ownership of Keith and Nancy’s poisonous formulas!

The possible repercussions of taking this tact on the criminal cases, the civil cases, the media reports, the lives and psyche’s of the branding and other victims, on even Barbara herself is significant. Yet, Barbara seems to be “oblivious” to the potential impact.

Call it the kind of “cognitive dissonance” Keith claimed (or threatened) sets in when anyone dares to leave him, call it latent “emotional triggers” Keith claimed he cures not sets — put Barabara on suicide watch if that’s the case here — but I call it lying to advance one’s own agenda at the sacrifice of others lives.

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago

– apart from the destructiveness to every life they touch

Whether that touch is direct or indirect, truer words could not be spoken.

Ex-Nx
Ex-Nx
5 years ago

OK OK<, I realize you are upset by your sisters relationship with Kieth and her death, but your far reaching claims about it destroying everyones lives it touched is pure nonsense. I was there for many years, and saw and experienced much good. You were not. I left because of Keiths bad behavior and the realization that behind closed doors Keith not only had a harem,but he had also recruited many people in the organization to do bad and criminal things against perceived enemys. I then became one, and got the brunt of the harassment myself. I am one of the people who wants justice and would like to see everyone who participated in destructive or criminal behavior charged…Clare and Sara, the entire"legal team" ,Becky Freeman, Jim Delnegro, Steve Ose, Ben Myers…and many more. Point is, I did not leave because the cirriculum wasn't good. I wish people would focus on the real crimes..and they are many, but the people who carried them out are just a smidgen compared to those who helped people and were not contaminated by Keiths charms and abuse.

Oops, my leg itches
Oops, my leg itches
5 years ago

That picture cracked me up and shows Bouchey will go to any lengths to be the center of world.

Perfect witness for Raniere's defense
Perfect witness for Raniere's defense
5 years ago

Bouchey should really write a book.

She is good at rewriting history.

I was told by her personally in her living room, when she was recruiting me to leave NXIVM with the other eight women, that she knew about his entire stable of women. Now shes saying isher only knew about three.

Bouchey’s storylines are not matching up. She was within the “inner circle” as she calls it.

Bouchey said Raniere’s downfall was bringing women into ‘the fold” he was not controlling through sex / mind bending and he had to have better control or they turned on him like those who knew who Raniere was truly like.

Bouchey helped to set up systems within NXIVM.

What… was she a part of the money laundering or hide your assets system? Was she part of this is how your extract millions from your students system? Was she part of setting up the pyramid scheme?

We know she was part of “let’s all lie about and support our Master system. Knowing he was a liar and cheating on his so called SOUL MATE for years. aft

Bouchey became blinded by his powers. She didn’t mention this soft spoken gental man sent his other britches to do his punishment to Bouchey every time she would step out of line. Which was often and his stable was constantly doing their mind bending sessions with Bouchey because of her reactions every time a newer, younger, prettier gal pal came into his “fold” as Bouchey calls it.

My money is on Bouchey is now trying to paint a pretty picture of LaLa land just to improve her image.

There are so many other realities that can be exposed regarding Bouchey’s cognitive dissonance but I have a life to live today.

Pea Onyu
Pea Onyu
5 years ago

Barbara understood how noble he is. Despite Keith breaking up with her she still adores him. She is growing and after 9 years she realizes how great he is. She knows she was suppressive and money was her issue. Maybe one day she will again join us.
The trial is in January he will be acquitted by February. Come back and join us now Barbara. He is your soul master. Don’t wait until the end times to realIze Keith is your all in all. You admitted in live television before the whole world you are in love with Keith. Come back and be our new Prefect !

orangecountydreams - OCD
orangecountydreams - OCD
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

Yeah, he is great. And her MONEY issue was, he took all of her hard earned stash (maybe for retirement?) for himself, and she had the nerve to object. Maybe she can now counsel him on Handling Adversity with Grace. Maybe someday she will re-join him – Haha! She is now free and does not need a false prophet.

“Keith” is nobody’s “All”. He is all about himself.

It’s easy to be tricked by a practiced liar and a cheat. Keith, did you ever earn one day’s honest pay in your sorry, deceptive, life?

Most men would be ashamed to be what you are.

shadowstate1958
5 years ago
Reply to  Pea Onyu

“money was her issue.” Pea Onyu
After Raniere swindled her out of a million dollars I would think that money would be her issue.

“The trial is in January” Pea Onyu
The trial will be in June 2019 or even October 2019.
This is a complex multinational RICO case,

“he will be acquitted” Pea Onyu
He will be found guilty and will rot in prison for the rest of his life.
And Clare, Allison and Sara should rot in prison with him.

“Come back and be our new Prefect !” Pea Onyu
Pea, you should be the new Prefect.
You are delusional enough.

“you are in love with Keith” Pea Onyu
And Keith is in love with himself.

Scott Johnson (@ScottTexJohnson)

Looks to me like Barb’s cognitive dissonance is raging in full force, not suppressed.

Scott Johnson (@ScottTexJohnson)

Barb knew about Raniere screwing multiple women besides her for several years and stayed with him. Is that something the women commenting here think is normal?

Heidi Hutchinson
Heidi Hutchinson
5 years ago

It’s “normal” perhaps for those who are trapped in loveless marriages or relationships with someone they depend on financially, emotionally or otherwise to sustain themselves and/or their dependents.

I don’t think it’s “normal” for anyone who really loves and cares for another in a romantic sense to willingly let that mutual bond of true, romantic love be intruded on.

Further, I believe Keith cruelly used the desire for and expectation of a mutually exclusive relationship (at some point) with him — or with the fantasy of who he pretended to be — to manipulate many of his paramours at least initially.

Shelby
Shelby
5 years ago

Definitely not! I couldn’t believe it when I read that. She sort of made it sound “not that bad” by saying she only knew of three while they were together. ONLY three? I’m pretty sure I speak for most (normal, non-brainwashed) women when I say that simply one would be a dealbreaker.

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago

Meh. Typical reaction to suppress the cognitive dissonance of a woman fooled by a sociopath.

Just Sayin'
Just Sayin'
5 years ago

I agree. IMO, anybody saying how great NXIVM is still has serious mental issues from their involvement with it.

Darth VanDouche
Darth VanDouche
5 years ago
Reply to  Just Sayin'

– I was integral in helping create the company…plus he loved me allegedly…I couldn’t tell

“I COULDN’T TELL” says it all.

How do you believe someone is your soulmate and yet, you “couldn’t tell” if they love you. I mean it’s just absurd.

Shelby
Shelby
5 years ago

Right?! I suppose knowing he was screwing three others at the same time was throwing her off a bit.

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His work has been cited in hundreds of news outlets, like The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Sun, The Times of London, CBS Inside Edition, among many others in all five continents.

His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, “Scarred” by Sarah Edmonson, “The Program” by Toni Natalie, and “NXIVM. La Secta Que Sedujo al Poder en México” by Juan Alberto Vasquez.

Parlato has been prominently featured on HBO’s docuseries “The Vow” and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discovery’s “The Lost Women of NXIVM.” Parlato was also credited in the Starz docuseries "Seduced" for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS.

Additionally, Parlato’s coverage of the group OneTaste, starting in 2018, helped spark an FBI investigation, which led to indictments of two of its leaders in 2023.

Parlato appeared on the Nancy Grace Show, Beyond the Headlines with Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Oz, American Greed, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, where Parlato conducted the first-ever interview with Keith Raniere after his arrest. This was ironic, as many credit Parlato as one of the primary architects of his arrest and the cratering of the cult he founded.

Parlato is a consulting producer and appears in TNT's The Heiress and the Sex Cult, which premiered on May 22, 2022. Most recently, he consulted and appeared on Tubi's "Branded and Brainwashed: Inside NXIVM," which aired January, 2023.

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