Nicki Clyne (born February 11, 1983) is a Canadian actress, known for her role as Cally Henderson on the SyFy television series Battlestar Galactica.
[citation needed] She stars alongside Lance Henriksen, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, and AFI's Davey Havok in the "illustrated film" series Godkiller.
Clyne was a member of NXIVM, a now defunct multi-level marketing large-group awareness training company founded by Keith Raniere and headquartered in Albany, New York.
[11][12] By Clyne's own account, she helped Keith Raniere found a "secret sisterhood" that started in 2015 called "DOS" (also known as "the Sorority", and "the Vow").
[8] The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said that DOS was arranged as a pyramidal organization, with Raniere at the apex and subordinates Clyne, Allison Mack and others as its "First Line".
These acts included ceremonies conducted in the nude, one involving branding with a symbol that (undisclosed to several recipients) was a monogram of the initials of Keith A Raniere.
[20] In March 2018, Mexican police raided the vacation home where Raniere and DOS members Clyne, Mack, and Lauren Salzman were staying.
In addition to Keith Raniere, prosecutors charged Allison Mack, Clare Bronfman, and several others for activities involving either DOS or NXIVM.
[25] At Raniere's trial, cooperating witness Lauren Salzman (a fellow DOS "First Line" member) testified that Clyne joined her in editing the recording of Sarah Edmondson's branding in a failed bid to preempt the October 2017 New York Times report.
After the DOS Sorority House was sold in 2018, proceeds were deposited into a trust account held by Clyne's lawyer, Edward Sapone.
[30][31] In a 2020 prosecution memorandum opposing the retrial of Keith Raniere, prosecutors stated their position that "the cache of DOS materials, including collateral, in Clyne’s possession is the product of fraud and extortion, as was demonstrated at trial.
"[38] In September 2020, one month before Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison,[39] Clyne spoke out in his defense in an interview with CBS News This Morning.
[42] In the show's second season, she is interviewed on camera, continuing to defend Raniere despite others, particularly Sarah Edmondson, expressing regret for having enticed her into NXIVM.
The lawsuit accuses the NXIVM organization of being a pyramid scheme, exploiting its recruits, conducting illegal human experiments, and making it "physically and psychologically difficult, and in some cases impossible, to leave the coercive community.