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- Allison Mack got married two years after she was released from prison, where she served time for her role as a prominent leader within Nxivm sex cult
- The Smallville actress got engaged around last Christmas and tied the knot last week during a small outdoor ceremony in L.A.
- After she pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering and conspiracy, Mack served her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and was released in 2023
Allison Mack is married.
The former Smallville actress— who pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from her instrumental role in the Nxivm sex cult — wed a man named Frank in Los Angeles last week, according to TMZ.
According to the outlet, the pair met soon after her release from prison in 2023 at a dog park in L.A. and became engaged sometime around Christmas in 2024.
Authorities first arrested Mack, 42, on April 20, 2018, when she was accused of recruiting sex slaves for Keith Raniere, who co-founded the controversial self-help group Nxivm and its subgroup, DOS — described as an all-female secret society in which women allegedly were forced to be sexually subservient to Raniere.
Mack was sentenced to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering and conspiracy for her role as a prominent leader within Nxivm, the dismantled, Raniere-led self-help group some have characterized as a cult.
Mack served her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California and was released in 2023 via a Donald Trump-era law called First Step Act (FSA), which allows for federal inmates to earn up to 54 days of “good conduct” credit for every year of their imposed sentence.
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In 2020, Mack filed for divorce from her wife Nicki Clyne in Orange County, California according to TMZ. She had been married to the Battlestar Galactica actress, 42, since 2017.
The marriage was conducted at the behest of Nxivm co-founder Raniere, Nxivm’s one-time publicist told PEOPLE.
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Mack pled guilty to racketeering charges in 2019, giving a tearful apology in a Brooklyn federal court.
In her address to the court, Mack said, “I have come to the conclusion that I must take full responsibility for my conduct and that’s why I am pleading guilty today,” Vulture reported.
“I’m very sorry for who I’ve hurt through my misguided adherence to Keith Raniere’s teachings,” she said, according to Vulture.
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Mack was among six others who were accused of sex trafficking, forced labor, racketeering and other charges.
Federal investigators claimed the actress brought women into DOS, which was purported to be a female mentorship group to address members’ weaknesses, but instead was used to take advantage of women sexually.
Mack is most known for her role as Chloe Sullivan on Smallville for nine seasons. For two consecutive years, she won the Teen Choice Award for Best Sidekick in 2006 and 2007. In 2006, Mack appeared in her own miniseries, Smallville’s Vengeance Chronicles.
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