NEW YORK—Clare Bronfman, heiress of Seagram, a billion-dollar liquor company, was arrested with three other women on July 24 for a barrage of crimes related to running the secret society known as NXIVM, prosecutors announced.
A federal court unsealed a superseding indictment that charged Bronfman, a member of NXIVM’s executive board, for the first time, as well as Kathy Russell, a former bookkeeper, Nancy Salzman, the president of NXIVM, and her daughter Lauren Salzman, also a board member.
