Forced to Wed? The Truth Behind Neria’s OneTaste Marriage

In a previous post, Frank Report examined how Michal Neria came to OneTaste, a sexual wellness company, seeking to experience orgasms. She got them, then blamed OneTaste for her newfound sexuality.

In this post, we will examine how Neria met a man, married him in a fever, used him for his money, divorced him in jealousy, and blamed OneTaste.

Misha ‘Mike’ Safyan worked as an aerospace engineer, but at age 27, he had erectile dysfunction.

He wrote what he wanted his teachers at OneTaste to know:

“I would have intense performance anxiety when trying to have sex. It got so bad that I started getting prescriptions for Viagra… My longest relationship was a year and a half in college. When I graduated, I broke up with her because she wasn’t Jewish… I kept taking Viagra when I found new partners, until even that stopped working, and I got desperate. I saw a therapist a handful of times, then I went to see a sex coach. Finally, I overheard someone talking about OM, and later that night I signed myself up for How to OM.”

Manipulation and Misunderstanding

In March 2015, Safyan met Michal Neria at a OneTaste course. He said it was love at first sight.

Safyan’s roommate, Amber, told Frank Report:

“Misha liked her. She fit the bill. She’s little and she’s Jewish and she’s cute. And she was into OneTaste. And so for him, she was the right person.”

Safyan began to chase.

He told his OneTaste instructors, “I go way out of my way to accommodate a woman I am chasing…. I don’t drive relationships from my desires, but rather try to accommodate the woman’s desires.”

This scenario was perfect for Neria, who wrote:

 “I rely on my cuteness and physical appearance to get men to be interested in me.”

Once he showed interest, she played on his chivalric tendencies. 

He had written:

 “I love being the knight in shining armor and saving women.”

She was a damsel in financial distress.

Neria explained to her friends that she was not in love.

She said, “I got intoxicated on his attention and financial help.”

Neria persuaded Safyan to pay for Magic School, a five-day OneTaste program showing how a sensitive person can make the world magical.

Neria told the BBC:

“I was told (the classes) would have great healing effect for me and would teach me exactly what I need to know.”

According to Neria’s lawsuit, she was not to blame for Safyan paying for her class.

Lawsuit: “Michal had been taught that in OneTaste, men paid for women to participate in Courses in exchange for spending time with them. In this way, Misha began a relationship with Michal, by paying for her to participate in Courses in exchange for spending time with him.”

In an interview with the BBC, Neria said:

“He wasn’t my type. I wasn’t sexually attracted to him, and yet he had this great power because he was willing to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on me…. So you know, it’s not exactly prostitution… but it’s also not completely different.”

While Neria considered herself somewhere between an escort and a prostitute, Safyan thought he was in control:

He wrote to OneTaste teachers, “Sometimes I seduce women because I can, not necessarily because I want to,” and that one of his “guilty pleasures” was “making women fall in love with me.”

A Toxic Tango: Neria and  Safyan’s Volatile Relationship

Michal Neria was candid about Safyan.

Asked to name people she had “an aversion to and why?” she wrote, “my partner – he doesn’t fit my preferences of what my partner should look and behave like.”

They knew how to trigger each other.

Neria wrote of Safyan:

 “I like to make my boyfriend jealous in order to feel powerful and get his attention.”

But she admitted she was triggered “when my boyfriend flirts with other women and doesn’t tell me.”

On the other hand, Safyan loved to flirt.

When asked on a questionnaire for a class, “What are some things you do that make you feel alive and happy?” He answered, “Flirting.”

When asked, “What can someone do to make you feel happy and alive?” Safyan answered, “Flirt with me.”

A Shocking Proposal

On July 5, 2015, after knowing each other for four months, Safyan proposed to Neria.

According to the Lawsuit:

“On the last weekend of the coaching program, (a OneTaste teacher) called Michal up on to the stage. When Michal got on the stage, Misha joined her and proposed to her.

“Michal was shocked and angry but the entire class began clapping and Michal said yes.

“Michal confided in Misha that she was upset.”

Former OneTaste student Andy Garcia witnessed Safyan propose to Neria.

Garcia told Frank Report:

“He proposed to his wife or ex-wife at the end of our coaching program. We were having a wrap party, and he got on the stage, and he was really excited, and he said the craziest thing I’ve ever heard in my life at this point. He was looking at his fiancé at the time. He says, ‘When you had me gagging on that strap-on, and I was tearing up and choking, I knew right then and there, looking up at you, that I loved you, and you were the one that I wanted to be with, and so now I’m on my knees again, but I’m asking you, will you be my wife?’ And everyone was cheering.”

Safyan’s roommate also witnessed the proposal. Amber told Frank Report:

 “They came back to the house right after he proposed, and they were both super excited and jumping around.

Maybe at the moment, she felt overwhelmed by the fact that Misha proposed in public, so she said, ‘yes.’ But you can undo it. When you’re alone, you say, ‘Actually, this isn’t what I want.’ That’s what normal people do.

“We suggested they simply have a (mock) ceremony and wait to get married later officially. He has a close family and she has a close family. We had this whole conversation to tell them that they should include their families when they get married.

“When Michal returned to New York, I talked with Misha alone. I said, ‘You two aren’t getting along. I don’t think you should get married.'”

His roommate in San Francisco was not the only one who did not think the couple should rush into marriage. Neria’s roommate, Courtenay Lapovsky, told Frank Report:

“Michal insisted on getting married. And I, and several others who knew her, said ‘maybe wait.’ Many people had told her to slow down and not to rush into marriage.”

Tumultuous Marriage Decision

According to Neria’s lawsuit, she had no choice but to marry Safyan.

The lawsuit: ”No consequential decisions were ever made by anyone (in OneTaste) without…approval from (OneTaste co founder Nicole) Daedone….

“By and through the design of OneTaste and the Inner Circle, and only with the express approval of Daedone, Michal would later marry Misha.”

From texts the day before the wedding, it appears Daedone did not even know they were getting married.

OneTaste teacher Yia Vang texted Daedone on August 13, 2015 – the day before the wedding:

Vang: “Misha and Michal wedding happening tomorrow.”

Daedone: “The mock wedding right?”

Vang: “Legal one. No rabbi or parents. They’ll do one (later) for parents.”

Daedone: “Whoa.”

A Compelled Union?

Bloomberg wrote of the marriage as if Neria was in misery:

 “When Michal got married in August 2015, her family and longtime friends didn’t attend.

“The woman who walked her down the aisle, the dozens of beaming onlookers, her soon-to-be husband — all were people she’d met in the preceding 10 months.

“Wearing a loose, casual dress borrowed from one of her new friends, Michal spent the ceremony in a daze.

“She knew she didn’t want to get married like this, in the living room of a rented San Francisco house without her family’s support, yet she felt compelled to do it.”

Despite being in a daze, Neria articulated her self-written vows, which began:

“Misha, I know deep inside my belly in the deepest part of me that truly knows that marrying you today is answering the call of my desire. This choice to marry you is fueled by pure desire to create the conditions that are essential for my own awakening.”

Unlike Neria, Safyan admitted it was not Daedone or OneTaste who forced them to marry. It was their idea. He wrote:

 “We even got legally married during that 2 week course back in August, which again, was crazy because we did it without much rational thought, without our friends and families there, and we were riding the thrill of peak emotional experience.”

Bloomberg reported Neria had told her parents before the wedding:

Bloomberg: “Michal and her parents began to argue more…when she told them she’d be marrying a fellow member—the one who’d been helping pay for her classes. “

But a text Neria sent four days after the wedding suggests she did not tell her parents and planned to deceive them by staging a fake wedding to Safyan with a rabbi officiating.

On August 18, 2015, Neria texted Janet:

Hi love. Yes. I’m at my parents house for a few more hours…. We are making wedding plans with them. It’s stressful because they don’t know we got married.”

Safyan also confirmed Neria chose not to tell her parents.

He wrote: “We kept the fact that we were married hidden pretty well. We only told our families about two weeks ago, and keeping a secret like that added more stress and pressure to an already very heavy load.

Nightmares But Why?

Bloomberg’s narrative continues:

“Around the same time, Michal’s OneTaste life started to break down. She regularly woke up screaming from nightmares.”

The lawsuit supports Neria’s narrative:

“Around this time, Michal began having debilitating nightmares and panic attacks every day….”

The cause of her nightmares was jealousy. But that didn’t stop Neria from trying to blame OneTaste.

The lawsuit: “Using a script prepared by (OneTaste) Teachers, Misha told Michal that he wanted to have sex with other women. Michal became increasingly upset.”

There was no script. These were not actors. They were adults, making their own real life decisions, and free to accept or reject anything.

Safyan wrote to friends in late 2015 that Neria insisted that he should disclose to her every time he even glanced at another woman.

“I would have a thought that I was attracted to another woman, so in an attempt to be honest and forthcoming, I would share that with Michal. This would deeply hurt her, but we kept the admissions going because we thought that ‘honesty’ was more important than the pain it inflicted.

“This quickly spiraled out of control, and I would give admissions several times a week (mostly about women I had unfaithful thoughts about) – which put Michal under a great strain, made her completely lose her trust in me, and we would have these giant blow-out fights where she would rightfully doubt my fidelity and the worth of our relationship, and threaten to end the whole thing.

“I would be confused… and then would desperately try to win her back and set things right again. These fights continued throughout our relationship, usually occurring several times a week, and both of us became extremely on edge, nervous wrecks. Either we were in a fight, making up from a fight, anxiously anticipating the next one, or enjoying the rare oases of calm, normal relating in between….

“I can’t tell you how many times I knew it was a bad idea to share a thought but somehow couldn’t stop myself, then Michal would explode and we’d be caught right back in the cycle. It got to the point where if I didn’t give an Admission to Michal for several days, she would grow suspicious and demand one from me…

“Michal started having anxiety attacks and nightmares, and I was living with an ever growing knot of stress in my stomach not knowing when the next time would be when I’d set off another catastrophic blow-out.”

Ending of the Marriage and Bullshit Called

Just as the couple were not forced to marry, the couple broke up without the help of OneTaste. They divorced in December 2015, having been married just four months.

In the end, Neria caused a lot of trouble with her, “the-devil-made-me-do-it” victim story. But everything falls apart with a little scrutiny. Her whole story was held together with lies.

And it has been said of her that she is as clever as the devil and almost half as cute

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Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

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