"Dynasty" actor Catherine Oxenberg heard about NXIVM from a friend and recommended it to her daughter, India, who was about to start her own business in 2011. Oxenberg believed that NXIVM was a leadership organization, but eventually noticed that something was off with India when she got more deeply involved with the cult. Following Raniere's arrest in 2018, Oxenberg's daughter left NXIVM. Later that year, Oxenberg released a book, "Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter From a Terrifying Cult."
"First, she seemed more distant, more distracted, more serious, kind of burdened," she said in an interview with California Live. "But it was slow and I wouldn't see her and she would pretend that she could come and go as she pleased, but the truth is they had her on a very tight rein and they had a lot of control and the control became absolute."
