The Stripe Path – a primer for those considering joining NXIVM

If you wear the yellow sash or higher you have ranking in NXIVM.

The “Stripe Path” is the means of advancement within Nxivm.  

Nxivm’s members are awarded colored sashes,which they are privileged to wear around the neck at NXIVM courses.

The awarding of sashes is based on one’s services to NXIVM.

The decision to promote is entirely arbitrary and was the ultimate decision of Keith Raniere alone.

Prior to his incarceration, it was possible for an attractive and slender woman to make her way up to the top fairly rapidly through personal mentoring by Raniere.

In short, the color of the sash signifies rank.  

Rank within Nxivm is also denoted by means of handsome “stripes,” which are added to a member’s sash until she or he earned a sash of a higher-ranking color.

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The valuable sashes worn by the august leaders of NXIVM. The cost of the physical sashes may not be high [about $7] but their value in garnering Executive Success is immeasurable.

Let us now examine the ranks:

White

The lowest rank are “students” who wear the white sash.

There have been likely more than 15,000 whites. Anyone who pays for the course gets a white sash.

At the classes, the white sashes learn to recite praises to the Vanguard,, how to bow before him and learn the secret handclasp.

A white sash can be obtained for as little as $2,000. Pretty and slender women have been known to get them for free.

Yellow

The next rank is that of a coach, who wears yellow.  They work for free and pay monthly fees to keep their yellow sash. Pretty women, with generous and compliant dispositions, have been known to get a yellow rather quickly after visiting Raniere at his “library.”

There have been 1,000-1,500 who have worn the yellow sash over the 20 years of NXIVM. 

Yellow sashes can be obtained for as little as $25,000 in cash and services. Plus annual fees. Each additional stripe – and there are four – cost another $50,000. 

Unless one is a young slender woman.

Income in return – zero.

Orange

The next higher rank permits a person to be eligible to actually make a [small] salary or earn commissions [for recruiting]. They are called “Proctors”and they wear the orange sash.

I would estimate there have been several hundred orange-sashed Proctors.

Orange sashes have been obtained for as little as $250,000 in cash and services. Each additional stripe costs about $100,000 more in cash and services.

The most expensive Orange sash- with four stripes was obtained by Clare Bronfman. It cost her more than $100 million.

Average income in return for being an orange – $35,000 annually.

Green

Above the orange-sashed ones loom the “Senior Proctors” who wear the glittering green.

There have been less than 20 Greens.

Cost of a Green – $1 million in cash or services.

Ave. income in return: $90,000 [Plus possible promise of an avatar baby.]

[Some have said that the cost of Harvard education is substantially less than getting a Green Sash, but Harvard does not teach the wisdom of the Vanguard.]  

Among notable Greens:

Lauren Salzman

Lauren R. Salzman

Green, Edge, 4 stripes

Loreta J. Garza Davila

Green, 4 stripes
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Sara R. Bronfman-Igtet

Green, 3 stripes

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Alejandro Betancourt Ledesma

Green, 3 stripes

Esther L. Carlson
Green, Edge, 1 stripes

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Emiliano Salinas Occelli

Green, 1 stripe*

Omar ‘Cuckie’ Boone

Green, Edge
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Jimena Garza promoted to the green sash accomplished her goal of getting six women branded in June.

Jimena “Brand My Pussy’ Garza Davila

Green

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Emiliano Salinas [green t shirt] dances with sister Cecelia [also in green t shirt] as they bow to their master Keith Raniere.

Cecilia Salinas Occelli

Green

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Dawn Morrison

Green

Blue

Edgar Boone is a Blue with two stripes. 

The next rank – is that of a Counselor, who wears blue.

To my knowledge, there is only one blue sash  – Edgar Boone – a current member and pioneer of the Mexican recruitment and the bulk cash smuggling efforts.

Cost: $5 million.

Income $200,000 less fees.

Purple

The next higher rank is Senior Counselor – who wears the purple sash.

There are presently no “purples” in NXIVM. There have been only three purple sashes I know of in the history of NXIVM.  All three were girlfriends of Keith Raniere

Barbara Jeske – deceased

Pam Cafritz – deceased

Toni Natalie – resigned.

Gold

Prefect wears gold.


Beyond the purple is the astronomically high and virtually incomprehensible– Gold Sash – which is worn only by the Prefect.  Her name is Nancy Salzman. She is also indicted.

Ethereal

Beyond that – abiding in the heavens above and not material at all – is the colorless sash [it appears to the naked eye as white] of the Vanguard – Keith Raniere – who is beyond all sashes.

Vanguard speaks to his disciples

Cost to be Vanguard – zero dollars, servicing hundreds of slender and attractive female students, and likely a life sentence in prison.

Keith Raniere, that brilliant inventor sought to patent his sashes. Here is his detailed sketch of his patent-pending NXIVM sash.

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Scott Johnson (@ScottTexJohnson)

I understand Raniere used to wear the Black sash, but he kept spilling pizza on it, so he did away with it. On a more serious note, what do the edges mean? By the way, the color sashes are obviously similar to a martial arts belt progression, and the “edification” shown to the “upline” is straight out of Raniere’s Amway training. Been there, saw that. Wrote the websites, click on my name to read them.

Sashy
Sashy
5 years ago

The very mention of a sash and I would have been out of there. Seriously? A sash. You want me to become enlightened and then put on a silly sash? In the dictionary next to the word cult is this photo. Weird these people could not see they were in a cult.

Scott Johnson (@ScottTexJohnson)
Reply to  Sashy

It’s not about you or anyone else who would have been put off by the sashes. It’s about the people who were okay with it, and I doubt the sashes were shown the first day. It’s a slow immersion, not a sudden exposure to all things NXIVM. It’s how all MLM scams work. I know you’re so smart that you wouldn’t fall for it, good for you.

Jarhead
Jarhead
5 years ago

Maybe Frank Parlato can market t-shirts that read “I moved to Clifton Park and all I got was this lousy sash…and a bad case of VD”.

shadowstate1958
5 years ago

You can buy those NXIVM sashes now for five bucks a piece at Goodwill and you would still be overpaying for them.

Scott Johnson (@ScottTexJohnson)

Which Goodwill are they available at?

TK
TK
5 years ago

My gosh, these stupid striped sashes are nothing more than handing out bonus bucks for the most lottery tickets, frozen pizzas or corn dogs sold. I wonder who made the sashes. Who was the person at the helm of the Singer seeing machine stitching and adding the stripes? Or, were they iron-on stripes? Perhaps they sent them out to a local seamstress, or tailor?

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago

Funny. I love these pieces, Frank.

Stuart
5 years ago

It has been said that in order to make a small fortune through NXIVM, you need to blow a large fortune.

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Stuart

And blow Keith Raniere’s little peepee. The dumb cunts.

Pyriel
Pyriel
5 years ago

The second photo is comical. I wonder why the seated members have their hands in that position. Does Nancy make them nervous?

Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago
Reply to  Pyriel

Nancy doesn’t make the men “nervous”…she makes the men hard, and their hands are covering their erections.

Scott Johnson (@ScottTexJohnson)
Reply to  Anonymous

Nancy doesn’t do anything for me.

About the Author

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist.

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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