‘Smallville’ Alum Allison Mack Released From Prison Early After Serving 21 Months for Role in NXIVM

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Actress Allison Mack has been released from jail early after being sentenced to three years behind bars for her involvement in the sex cult NXIVM.The Smallville alum, 40, was released from prison on Monday, July 3, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

Mack was sentenced to three years of jail time in June 2021 after pleading guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges in connection to NXIVM in April 2018.

She began her prison sentence in September 2021. The reason behind Mack’s early prison release is currently unknown.Mack’s legal drama began in April 2018 after she was arrested for allegedly recruiting women to the sex trafficking group to become sex slaves to its leader, Keith Raniere, in addition to identity fraud and money laundering. “The victims were then exploited, both sexually and for their labor, to the defendants’ benefit,” United States Attorney Richard P.

Donoghue said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter at the time.According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly in April 2018, Mack — who is best known for portraying young Clark Kent’s (Tom Welling) friend Chloe Sullivan on The CW’s Smallville from 2001 to 2011 — recruited women to NXIVM by describing it as “a women’s empowerment group or sorority.” After joining members were forced to “provide [NXIVM] with naked photographs, assets, criminal confessions and other damaging information, known as collateral.”The docs also stated that Mack “would perform ceremonies in which her slaves were branded” with Raniere’s initials and that she “would place her hands on the slaves’ chests and told them to ‘feel the pain’ and to ‘think of their master,’ as slaves cried in pain.” Old tweets of Mack’s resurfaced amid the scandal, in