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From 2010 and 2017, NXIVM member and medical doctor
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By 2011, Elliot begain claiming that NXIVM had taught him to "overcome" Tourettes. By 2014, Elliot had discontinued his public speaking tour in order to focus full-time on being a 'proctor' in NXIVM. Also in 2014, Elliot married
Canadian NXIVM member Maja Miljkovic to help obtain a work visa for
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November 2022, the court dismissed the lawsuit and granted Lions Gate Entertainment's request for attorneys' fees and costs. The judge found that the documentary did "imply that Plaintiff was a devoted member of an organization whose leader has been implicated in a range of serious sexual
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In 2020 Elliot helped form "Make
Justice Blind", an organization of loyal Raniere followers; The group is offering a monetary challenge to exonerate Raniere on both his sex trafficking and forced labor charges. In September 2020, Elliot spoke out in defense of Raniere in an interview with
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On August 11, 2002, sixteen-year-old Elliot was returning home from camp via
Greyhound bus when he repeatedly shouted an anti-black racial slur at black passengers. While the driver was aware of his condition, Elliot was ejected from the bus. The incident was covered by local news station
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crimes, but this assertion – however unflattering – is substantially true."
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