An heiress to the Seagram's liquor fortune has been released on $100 million bond after pleading not guilty to racketeering charges related to a New York self-help group accused of branding women and forcing them into unwanted sex.
Clare Bronfman left a Brooklyn federal court Tuesday without speaking to reporters.
The 39-year-old Bronfman is a daughter of the late billionaire philanthropist and former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr.
She has been involved in financing NXIVM and supporting its co-founder, Keith Raniere, who's accused of coercing followers into becoming "slaves" to senior members of the group. He denies the charges.
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