https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-cult-queen-allison-mack-tried-to-recruit-harry-potter-star-emma-watson https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-smallville-actress-allison-mack-became-a-women-branding-cult-leader https://www.thedailybeast.com/leader-of-self-help-group-nxivm-charged-with-sex-trafficking Daily Beast has been on this like a dog with a bone. Patient Zero appears to be The New York Times.
Wow. She looks incredibly ill now. I've known about it for a while and for whatever reason submitted it today. I'm not sure if this is the most unexpected and bizarre celebrity story I've ever run across, but it's easily top 3 and I can't think of what the rivals might be. Not so much because of who it is, just all the details of what they were doing.
That's interesting - my reaction is "of course a C-list celebrity would be involved with a C-list cult." I actually tried to pitch that story to a couple production companies back in like '09; I decided a multi-level marketing/personal development organization should have a secret cannibalism ritual because horror sells more easily domestically than sex (but of course there would be lots of sex). I think I called it "The Feast of Silverlake." Of course back then the Wachowskis couldn't get their cannibalism cult project off the ground so I didn't feel so bad.
Meh. I pyramid scheme that is also a sex slavery cult involving hot iron branding seems pretty shocking to me. Then throw in a girl I had a celebrity crush on 18 years ago and some liquor company heiresses and pretty much no amount of weed could get me to come up with such a story. Also, -C List is incredibly generous