Ben Szemkus, the man who said he attended a Nxivm “mixer” in Hamden, Connecticut, in February 2007, with celebrities, Nxivm leaders and politicians, has named eight new people he says were in attendance — people he failed or declined to name before.
On March 1, Ben tweeted:
“To Clear Things Up….. this is the list of People I met at a NXIVM Recruitment Party over a decade ago. https://twitter.com/benszemkus/status/1101471283601059840 …
“Allison Mack, Keith Raniere, Stormy Daniels, Eric Schneiderman, Nancy Salzman, Sara Bronfman, Claire Bronfman, Catherine Oxenberg, India Oxenberg, Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Michael Avenatti, James Alefantis, David Brock, Frank Parlato and Roger Stone.
In another tweet, Ben added, “Dr. Brandon Porter was there with a clipboard…. As I was leaving Elliott Spitzer and Ashley Dupres were walking in like movie stars (those were the only pictures I saw that were taken at that event).”
Last year, when Ben Szemkus first revealed to the world that he went to a Nxivm party in Connecticut – in February 2007 – he named an astonishing group of people in attendance.
- Porn star Stormy Daniels [with bodyguard] who later claimed Donald Trump had an affair with her, then paid her to be silent.
- Keith Raniere
- Allison Mack
- Anthony Weiner, then a US Congressman, now in federal prison for pedophilia.
- Huma Abedin, Weiner’s girlfriend, later wife, and Hillary Clinton aide.
- Former, disgraced NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman [then a NY State Senator].
- James Alefantis of so-called “Pizzagate”, an unproven but widely reported internet conspiracy scandal that alleges Hillary Clinton and John Podesta ran a child-trafficking ring out of Alefantis’s DC restaurant, Comet Ping Pong.
- Clare Bronfman
- Sara Bronfman.
- Nancy Salzman
- A dozen or more college women.
- Ben Szemkus, along with a female friend.
After Ben first revealed the existence of the Nxivm party, some people questioned Ben’s honesty, claiming it was a ridiculous and impossible story. Ben took a lie detector test and passed it.
Ben also reportedly went missing for a time after telling the Nxivm party story and some suspected foul play from Hillary Clinton.
Szemkus’ newly named Nxivm party attendees are:
- Elliot Spitzer, then governor of New York.
- Ashley Dupree, the woman at the center of Spitzer’s prostitution scandal that forced his resignation as governor a year after the party.
- Catherine Oxenberg
- India Oxenberg [then 15 years old].
- David Brock, a well known political consultant who founded the media watchdog group Media Matters for America.
- Michael Avenatti, a lawyer who would years later represent Stormy Daniels.
- Roger Stone, a Republican political consultant, and longtime Trump adviser, who was to later to have a hand in the take down of Gov. Spitzer.
- Myself, Frank Parlato.
As for my attendance at the party, I don’t recall being there. But wouldn’t I say that any way, even if I was there?
As I recall, I first heard of Nxivm in August 2007, six months after the party. I started work for them in September 2007 as a publicist and consultant. I first met Keith, as I recall in September 2007.
When I interviewed Ben for a Frank Report story, last year, he named the people he saw in attendance at the Nxivm mixer. He did not mention to me that I was at the party.
My recollection was that I was in Big Pine Key Florida in February 2007 and not in Connecticut at all in 2007.
I think I would have remembered the governor being there. And possibly Stormy Daniels – who Ben says went into a bedroom with Keith Raniere.
At the time of the party, Spitzer was governor of New York. He began serving the month before – in January 2007.
David Brock – a close ally and consigliere of the Clinton family and Democratic politicians. Ben says Brock was at the Nxivm party.
Michael Avenatti. He became Stormy Daniels lawyer years later. Ben said he was at the Nxivm party in 2007.
[…] This one admission sheds new light on the allegations by Stormy Daniels about Trump that were deployed to destroy his presidency. In 2018, two years after the election and well into the development of DOS, Stormy Daniels came out with her allegations that the president had paid her to keep quiet about a sexual tryst. The investigative journalist, Frank Parlato, who broke the NXIVM story reported that Stormy Daniels was seen at at least one NXIVM event. […]
[…] This one admission sheds new light on the allegations by Stormy Daniels about Trump that were deployed to destroy his presidency. In 2018, two years after the election and well into the development of DOS, Stormy Daniels came out with her allegations that the president had paid her to keep quiet about a sexual tryst. The investigative journalist, Frank Parlato, who broke the NXIVM story reported that Stormy Daniels was seen at at least one NXIVM event. […]
[…] This one admission sheds new light on the allegations by Stormy Daniels about Trump that were deployed to destroy his presidency. In 2018, two years after the election and well into the development of DOS, Stormy Daniels came out with her allegations that the president had paid her to keep quiet about a sexual tryst. The investigative journalist, Frank Parlato, who broke the NXIVM story reported that Stormy Daniels was seen at at least one NXIVM event. […]
[…] This one admission sheds new light on the allegations by Stormy Daniels about Trump that were deployed to destroy his presidency. In 2018, two years after the election and well into the development of DOS, Stormy Daniels came out with her allegations that the president had paid her to keep quiet about a sexual tryst. The investigative journalist, Frank Parlato, who broke the NXIVM story reported that Stormy Daniels was seen at at least one NXIVM event. […]
Will you take a polygraph?
Did some one say party? Its not a real party till the pussy branding starts. Woop woop
God this idiot liar has pupils almost as big as Stormy’s amazingly fake tits
Clear sign of drug use.
Did some one say Party? Its not a party till the pussy branding starts woop hoop
“But wouldn’t I say that anyway, even if I was there?” hahahah love you frank and i think you’re totally in the clear as far as i can see. you’ve already admitted what involvement you had and then ended, and your exposure of the organization is the most significant part of all
I sent the following email to Ben:
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Scott Johnson
To: James, Tanster Alves, Ben Szemkus
Mar 11 at 7:45 PM
Ben,
Did you mean this, or is it a joke? Ben Szemkus on Twitter
Ben Szemkus on Twitter
“Allison Mack, Keith Raniere, Stormy Daniels, Eric Schneiderman, Nancy Salzman, Sara Bronfman, Claire Bronfman, …
Regards,
Scott J
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I have not yet received a reply from Ben. However, I did get a “response” from Tanster, who was copied on the email, (I added the parentheses for clarity, as Tanster the nutjob has long believed that I’m some kind of “secret agent” for Frank):
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Tanster Alves
To: Scott Johnson
Mar 11 at 8:30 PM
Is he (Scott Johnson) still pretending he’s not an agent of Frank?
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By the way, unless Tanster bcc’d Ben, he didn’t get her email, as she responded only to me. That’s the low level of intelligence she possesses. My reply to her (Tanster):
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Scott Johnson
To: Tanster Alves
Mar 11 at 8:45 PM
No, I’m pretending that you’re not a complete IDIOT. LOL
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I have not heard back from Tanster again. LOL
Tex2,
…….and I thought I needed a life.
LMAO
You do. I’m one of the few people making comments on this website that mean anything.
Damn, Frank. You get around.
round like a donut
Hey Ben Szemkus,
Was Nicki Clyne at the NXIVM get together having a big “Pea Onyu” party?
That was R. Kelly
LOL
The Chicago Tribune’s music critic Jim De Rogatis is writing a book about R. Kelly titled “Soulless”.
De Rogatis has talked to over 60 women who claimed R. Kelly molested them when they were underage.
His story is less believable by saying you were there, Frank, when you know you were not there. Hmmmm
Somebody,
I could totally see Frank at a party like the one Ben Szemkus describes. Frank probably motorboated Stormy Daniels.
What do think of that strange green light and green sheets in his bedroom? It’s kind of the setup I imagine Sultan of Six has minus the Kristin Kreuk wallpaper.
I am fairly certain Ben Szemkus has probably been prescribed Zyprexa or a lithium based drug by a Psychiatrist at some point in his life.
Frank clearly has a good sense of humor posting this type of stuff. The first 5 seconds of Ben’s video would make a hell of a meme.
I actually laughed my ass off reading this article.
Frank Parlato is being DISHONEST with his readers.
Translation: I know for a FACT that Frank Parlato DOES NOT TRULY BELIEVE this bullshit story about Ben Szemkus putting Frank’s name on the list of attendees — not for one single minute!
Why?
…Because no SANE human being (and Frank is sane) would ever believe that Ben Szemkus would suddenly change his list of alleged ‘attendees’ just months after he was SKEWERED on FrankReport for having several of his previous ‘attendee details’ totally discredited.
Unless:
1) He was trying to TROLL Frank Parlato (and other people) into publishing a story about this new attendee list — in order to make fools of them, which he has apparently succeeded in doing.
2) Somebody else hacked his Twitter account to post this shit in order to make him look even more insane than he probably is.
FACT: Changing the list of alleged attendees to now include ‘Frank Parlato’ and ‘India Oxenberg’ (years before she even became an adult and attended her first NXIVM seminar) would be so insane sounding that not even the patients of a mental hospital would believe it.
Therefore, Ben could not have SERIOUSLY added their names to the list of alleged attendees in any SERIOUS manner.
Either he’s trolling Frank to make him look like an idiot (for publishing this shit on his blog) or somebody else has hacked Ben’s Twitter account to troll him instead.
Either way, Frank’s assertion that Ben has SERIOUSLY claimed that Frank and India attended that party is FUCKEN BULLSHIT.
IMO, Frank is a LYING TURD for trying to make his readers assume that this story has merit.
I am really hoping the story is true and Frank takes me to the next party with Roger Stone and all those wild women.
I wonder if Scott Johnson was at the party? I think he and Ben could be friends….
………They both have made extremely unintelligible YouTube videos that only individuals that have sniffed to much glue in their childhood could make.
I was at the party. DIdn’t you hear us discuss it when Ben was on my radio show?
Thanks, Bang. For a minute I thought Frank really believed Ben. You aren’t totally useless.
Did you see on the other thread that Flowers said you and her were also there on a date?
Nutjob, do you behave like this in real life, too, or only online? Once again, I never mentioned or addressed YOU first…..Why are you so focused on me?
Sorry, Flowers. I hope you can forgive me. Suggesting that you and Bangcock were dating was out of line. (But I do bet you wish you were at the party)
However, I do not apologize for defending the newbie to the website from your conspiracy theory angled interogation.
1) I act this way in real life.
2) You intrigue me.
Nutjob, you’re acting like a troll. I never suggested any conspiracy theory to Vaed. All I said is that people don’t usually join a cult thinking that they are joining a cult, correct? So if Faith told people she had joined a cult, then maybe she realized after she became involved that it really was a cult.
One thing to consider- did she have the money to take NXIVM courses?
Frank told me he doesn’t believe Ben’s story, and I tended to not believe it as well, even before this update came out. However, the reason Frank posted the original story was to see if anybody else came forward to confirm the party, which makes total sense. Everybody taking an extreme position, either for or against, is an idiot.
Mercury in retrograde…What goes around, comes around, yet again. He’s still a moron and a twat.
Hi Frank,
Can you please bring me to the next party you attend?
Sincerely your friend,
Niceguy
Sounds very believable. Frank, can you tell us who else was there? Maybe Ben has forgotten a few people.
Hi Frank,
Can you please bring me to the next party you attend.
Thanks,
Niceguy
This Knucklefuck must be auditioning for a job with CNN.
Don’t forget Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Richard Ramirez, King David, Zoroaster, and the Balanced Federal Budget.
They were all there too!
And Elvis.