Former Nickelodeon star Darris Love was arrested on Christmas Eve, EW has confirmed.
According to TMZ, the 42-year-old actor — best known for starring on The Secret World of Alex Mack in the ’90s — had a domestic disturbance with his girlfriend in his Los Angeles home. She claimed he hit her in the back of her head during an argument, according to the site.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 24: Darris Love attends Toast To Black Hollywood Celebration at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on June 24, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images)
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Police arrested Love at noon PT, and he was booked at 2:26 p.m. PT, online records show. After bail was set at $20,000, he was released on bond at 10:05 p.m. PT.
Following his release on Saturday, Love posted multiple times on social media but did not address his legal issues, instead wishing his followers, “HAPPY HOLY DAYS 🕎 👑KINGS & QUEENS.”
Love’s first credited role was in the 1994 film Shrunken Heads before he went on to land his breakout role on The Secret World of Alex Mack, where he played the main role of Ray Alvarado, a.k.a. Alex’s (Larisa Oleynik) best friend, for four years. Since then, he’s appeared in three episodes of Sister, Sister, as well as other series including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, E.R., Shameless, The Shield, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and multiple other films.
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Louisville and coach Chris Mack are in the final stages of negotiations for a separation agreement, a source with direct knowledge told The Athletic on Tuesday.
A meeting of Louisville’s Board of Trustees and Athletics Board has been called for Wednesday to consider approving the agreement and Tuesday’s edition of the Chris Mack Radio Show was canceled. Nothing is finalized but the widespread expectation in Louisville is that Mack has coached his last game there.
Mack is in his fourth season of a seven-year deal with Louisville, which has gone 11-9 (5-5 in ACC play) this year. All five of the Cardinals’ conference losses have come in their last six games. After the team’s loss to Notre Dame Saturday, center Malik Williams was asked if the players had tuned out the coaching staff, responding “I don’t have a comment for that.”
In Mack’s first season (2018-19), the team earned a 20-14 record and a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament. In the 2019-20 campaign, the Cardinals went 24-7 before the postseason was canceled due to COVID-19. In the 2020-21 pandemic-shortened season, Louisville went 13-7.
To start this season, Mack was suspended without pay for six games — from Nov. 6 through Nov. 27 — for failure “to follow university guidelines, policies, and procedures in handling” an extortion attempt by former assistant Dino Gaudio. Gaudio had said in court documents that he knew of NCAA violations being committed by the program a year before his firing in March 2021.
As a result of the dust-up between Mack and Gaudio, Louisville faces three more alleged NCAA violations. The program still faces a total of one Level I and six Level II violations, most stemming back to the FBI pay-to-play investigation into college basketball in 2013.
Mack was previously the head coach at Xavier for nine seasons; he was named National Coach of the Year in 2016. Mack’s teams have participated in the NCAA Tournament in nine of his 12 seasons as head coach.
Heather Mack, 26, conspired with her boyfriend to kill her mother, Sheila Von Wiese-Mack, stuff her body in a suitcase and load it into the trunk of a taxi during a vacation on the Indonesian island of Bali, the US Justice Department said.
Mack was scheduled to appear in US District Court in Chicago, her home city, on Wednesday, it added in a statement.
Indonesian authorities arrested Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 28, after the August 2014 killing. Schaefer was sentenced in 2015 to 18 years for premeditated murder, while Mack, then 19, received a 10-year sentence for being an accessory to murder.
A 2017 US grand jury indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday alleged that Mack and Schaefer came up with their plan to kill Von Wiese-Mack before they left the United States for Bali, and that Schaefer asked his cousin, Ryan Bibbs, about ways of killing her.
Mack asked Bibbs if he knew anyone who would kill her mother for money, and he pleaded guilty in December 2016 to one count of conspiracy to commit foreign murder of a US national, the Justice Department said.
Under the department’s contention that her plan was conceived in the United States, Mack faces two US counts of murder conspiracy and one of obstruction, and a maximum statutory penalty of life imprisonment if convicted of the conspiracy charges, the department said.
Mack was deported following her release from prison on Oct. 29 as her permit had expired, an Indonesian immigration official said. Schaefer remains in jail.
Mack’s lawyer, Yulius Benyamin Seran, said she was accompanied on the plane to Chicago by her daughter, to whom she had given birth before her sentencing.
Running back Marlon Mack was scratched by the Colts on Sunday and he may be off their roster entirely in the near future.
According to multiple reports, the Colts are working to trade Mack.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that nothing is imminent and that the desire for a trade also exists on Mack’s side due to the presence of Jonathan Taylor and Nyheim Hines on the roster.
Mack tore his Achilles in the season opener last season and signed a one-year deal to remain with the Colts this offseason. He ran for 1,999 yards and 17 touchdowns in 2018 and 2019, but has only played one game and carried the ball five times for 16 yards this season.
Mack said she signed a pre-written affidavit to protect Kelly from sexual harassment claims
Cheryl Mack, the mother of music producer, London On Da Track, shared a tearful testimony in the New York trial against R&B singer R. Kelly.
Mack, who was the disgraced singer’s executive assistant from 2013 to 2015, testified that she was bullied into signing incriminating false apology letters, wasn’t paid for periods of time and watched him humiliate young women, amongst other abusive acts.
The Brooklyn trial related to the charges of racketeering and sex trafficking against the singer began on August 18.
The former talent manager discussed in detail several occasions where she was made to feel uncomfortable, including one instance where Kelly became enraged at her at a McDonald’s after accusing her of “spoiling” a surprise birthday gift for his stylist.
“I just had enough,” she said about the altercation in which she claims Kelly yelled and cursed at her while pounding the table. “And in that moment, I quit.”
Mack, who was seen clutching tissues and crying during her testimony, said she did not want to be there but was subpoenaed by prosecutors.
Litigation regarding sexual abuse by the 54-year-old singer has come to a head following decades of allegations and documented abuses.
The first wave of allegations dates back to the early 1990s when the singer began a public and illegal relationship with the late singer Aaliyah, who was 15-years-old at the time.
Prosecutors allege that Kelly paid off an Illinois state employee in order to get Aaliyah a fake ID because he believed that he got the teenager pregnant and needed to marry her so she would not be forced to testify against him in court.
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His next mainstream instance of foul play happened in 2002 when a video of the singer having sexual intercourse and eventually urinating on a 14-year-old was released to the public.
A history of Kelly’s abuses was detailed in a 2017 Lifetime exposè, Surviving R. Kelly where numerous victims and former associates shared their experiences of being emotionally, physically, sexually, and mentally abused and coerced by the singer.
The series spearheaded several investigations into the singer, which resulted in a number of lawsuits in places like Chicago and New York.
Mack’s history with Kelly started in 2009 when she was the talent manager for a 17-year-old artist named Precious, she said in her testimony.
Kelly invited the artists to his studio to collaborate, which led to her moving into a hotel near the singer’s home.
Mack said the partnership ended after Kelly demanded her to travel to Chicago from Atlanta because Precious threatened to sue him for sexual harassment.
“He told me she was trying to file a lawsuit, and I needed to pick a team,” said Mack, who also said that Kelly told her that “people come up missing” in situations like this.
He then made her sign a pre-written affidavit, that she said she never read, and found out later, that the lawsuit had been “resolved.”
She later reconnected with the singer in 2013, when she became his assistant and saw firsthand the metaphorical hold the singer had on countless young women.
She claimed that the singer had “strict rules” for the copious women he was dealing with, including one occasion where he made the women he was involved with sit facing a wall at a basketball game, so they wouldn’t make eye contact with other men.
She also recalls a time when the singer felt like he was not paid enough for a gig, and stopped paying her for months “to offset what he thought [the payment] should’ve been.”
The trial resumes next week with testimony from clinical psychologist Dana Hughesa, who will be speaking about the effects of grooming and sexual abuse on young girls.
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Two weeks before Allison Mack was supposed to start a three-year prison sentence for her intense role with the NXIVM cult, the Smallville vet surrendered to authorities on September 13.
A search of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ database confirmed the 39-year old Mack in now behind bars at FCI Dublin in the East Bay area outside San Francisco. The low security women’s prison is the same facility that Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin served their respective time in 2019 and 2020 for their participation in the high-income college admission bribery scandal.
No reason has been provided as to why Mack slipped in to FCI Dublin. However, with the date of her surrender part of the public record, perhaps the actress who played young Clark Kent’s pal Chloe Sullivan from 2001 to 2011 on the now classic CW superhero series wanted to avoid attention, somewhat.
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Back on June 30, a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York gave Mack a relatively light 36-month stretch that was set to start on September 29. At the time, Mack said in a statement, she now saw her core part in the pyramid scheme and gruesome NXIVN cult as “the biggest mistake and regret of my life.”
In no small part to the EDNY U.S. Attorney’s office recommending leniency to Mack because of her pivotal involvement in the investigation of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, which ultimately contributed to his conviction. Now labeled a convicted sex trafficker, Raniere was sentenced in October to 120 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy charges,, sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy charges, and wire fraud conspiracy charges.
Mack and her lawyers had hoped the actress would be able to get zero jail time because of her help on the successful Raniere probe. No such luck, obviously. In addition to the three years behind bars, Mack will be on supervised release for another three years once she is out. She will also have to pay a $20,000 fine and put in over 1000 hours of community service.
Of course, this being America, Mack won’t actually be in FCI Dublin for three years. She will likely get out in just over a years and a few months for good behavior and to Bureau of Prisons efforts to try to trim back overcrowding.
Arrested by the FBI in the spring of 2018, Mack initially faced charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy herself pertaining to her role in NXIVM. The actress pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in April 2019 and could have served 14-17 years in prison under the current sentencing guidelines.
Could have, but didn’t.
Along with Raniere and others in the NXIVM inner circle, Mack still faces a civil case from around 80 ex-cult members on fraud and abuses claims.
TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in a scandal-ridden, cult-like upstate New York group, reported to prison in California to start her sentence early, according to a spokesperson for the correctional facility.
“We can confirm Allison Mack entered the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on September 13, 2021, at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin in Dublin, California,” a spokesperson for the prison said. “Ms. Mack’s projected release date will be calculated in accordance with federal statutes and Bureau of Prisons policy.”
FCI Dublin, according to its website, is “low security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.” The correctional facility, which only houses female offenders, currently has 727 inmates.
Mack was sentenced to 3 years in prison on June 30 after pleading guilty to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the group’s spiritual leader.
Mack — best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville” — appeared in Brooklyn federal court for her sentencing earlier this summer. She’s expected to seek credit for cooperating against NXIVM leader Keith Raniere and taking responsibility for helping him create a secret society of brainwashed women who were branded with his initials.
Devoting herself to the self-improvement guru “was the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life,” she wrote in a letter filed with the court last week.
“I am sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM,” she wrote. “I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.”
Under advisory sentencing guidelines, Mack would have faced between 14 and 17 1/2 years behind bars. Her defense team has argued in court papers that probation or a sentence to home confinement is more appropriate, and prosecutors have agreed that any prison term should be below the guidelines range because of her cooperation.
“The NXIVM saga and the story of Ms. Mack’s descent have been a tragedy for all involved. But that need not, and should not, be the end of the story for Allison Mack,” her lawyers wrote in court papers.
In the end, she was sentenced to 36 months for racketeering and 36 months for racketeering conspiracy — both to be served concurrently. She will also have 3 years of post-release probation. Additionally, she was fined $20,000.
Mack, 39, was once part of the inner circle of Raniere, whose group attracted millionaires and actors among its adherents. Prosecutors said she became a “master” for “slaves” she ordered “to perform labor, take nude photographs, and in some cases, to engage in sex acts with Raniere.”
As authorities closed in on Raniere, he fled to Mexico with Mack and others to try to reconstitute the group there. He was arrested and sent to the United States in March 2018; Mack was arrested a few days later.
“Ms. Mack now understands that this was the best thing that could have happened to her at that time,” the defense papers say.
Mack provided information to prosecutors about how Raniere encouraged “the use of demeaning and derogatory language, including racial slurs, to humiliate ‘slaves,’” the government papers said. More importantly, she provided a recording of a conversation she had with Raniere about the branding, they added.
The branding should involve “a vulnerable position type of a thing” with “hands probably above the head being held, almost like being tied down, like sacrificial, whatever,” Raniere told her. The women, he added, “should say, ‘Please brand me. It would be an honor.’ Or something like that.”
Raniere was sentenced last year to 120 years in prison for his conviction on sex-trafficking charges.
The self-improvement guru was sentenced on charges that he turned female members of the group into sex slaves and even branded some with his initials.
Former “Smallville” star Allison Mack couldn’t wait to start serving her prison term … or so it seems, ’cause she showed up more than 2 weeks early to begin serving her sentence.
Allison reported to the facility Monday, according to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, CA. She was supposed to begin serving her sentence on September 29.
Mack was sentenced to 3 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of racketeering and one count of racketeering conspiracy in her highly publicized sex cult case. She recruited and directed women to have sex with the leader of the cult.
After her release … Allison will be on supervised release for another 3 years.
BTW, if FCI Dublin sounds familiar it’s because that’s where Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman served their sentences for their roles in the college admissions scandal.
As we reported … Allison was sentenced back in June. The sex cult leader, Keith Raniere, was sentenced to 120 years in prison. Mack was with him in Mexico when he got busted back in 2018.
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Allison said her loyalty to Raniere was “the biggest mistake and regret of my life.”
Allison Mack, a TV actress well known for her role in a Superman spin-off series “Smallville”, was sentenced to three years in prison for recruiting women for a spiritual cult, NXIVM.
Mack appeared on Wednesday in Brooklyn’s federal court, where she faced charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labour conspiracy, for which she pleaded guilty to in April 2019, following her arrest in 2018.
She was expected to seek credit for cooperating with the case against NXIVM’s leader Keith Raniere.
He was sentenced to 120 years in jail last year for sex-trafficking and for demeaning and abusing women who became “slaves” for him.
Ms Mack wrote in an apology to victims of NXIVM that it “was the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life”.
“I am sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM,” wrote the former actress. “I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.”
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Mack gave tearful apology in court
Allison Mack, who has been sentenced to three years in prison for her role in the NXIVM cult, tearfully apologised to her victims and her family in court, calling her actions “abusive, abhorrent and illegal”.
She admitted in her guilty plea before the hearing that she coerced two unnamed women into doing work for the group by threatening to release damaging information about them.
Leaders of the cult, including Ms Mack, were said to have kept women on starvation diets, branded them with initials, and in some cases ordered them to have sex with the now-jailed leader, Raniere.
Her lawyers had asked for the “Smallville” actress to face no jail time, but she was instead handed a sentence of three years in prison.
Additional reporting by Reuters.
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Allison Mack sentenced to three years in prison
Allison Mack has been sentenced to three years in prison for her role in the sex cult, a judge ruled on Wednesday in Brooklyn.
The Independent’s Clemence Michallon has more here:
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Allison Mack was once known as Chloe Sullivan on Smallville.
She is believed to have become involved in NXIVM in 2006.
Mack can be seen in the HBO documentary The Vow meeting Keith Raniere for the first time at a volleyball game.
Read more about that meeting and the actor’s itinerary in the story below:
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What was NXIVM?
NXIVM (pronounced ‘Nex-E-Um’) had been operating for nearly two decades as a self-help group for Hollywood actors and the wealthy before it was uncovered as a cult that physically and emotionally abused women.
Victims were referred to as “slaves” by NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, who operated the group until his arrest in 2018, when it was exposed.
While he was known as “The Vanguard” within NXIVM, Allison Mack was allegedly a “master” who encouraged women to join the group, which she described as an initiative of female self empowerment.
In interviews with survivors, it was revealed that women were asked to hand over compromising material so Raniere so he could blackmail them into belonging to the group, or sex cult.
As well sexual acts, victims of NXIVM were humiliated, insulated and branded with Raniere’s initials, it is alleged.
He was sentenced to 120 years in prison last year. Ms Mack, meanwhile, has cooperated with federal investigators and argues that she is reformed. She has also pleaded guilty ahead of sentencing.
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Judge will ‘bring justice’. says victim of NXIVM
Jessica Joan, an actress who joined NXIVM, has said although there was “an aspect of forgiveness” towards Allison Mack for her role in the sex cult, there was a need for “accountability by her”.
“I want to tell her my truth. I want to let her know all of the pain and suffering that she caused,” Ms Joan told CNN. “I believe the judge will give a sentence that will bring justice.”
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Victim speaking at sentencing hearing
A woman who left NXVIM after she was allegedly asked to have sex with the organisation’s leader, Keith Raniere, has said she will be addressing the court at Ms Mack’s sentencing.
The woman, CNN reported, said she hopes Ms Mack is not handed a reduced sentence by the judge.
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Ex-NXIVM member arrives in court
The 38-year-old was pictured walking into the Brooklyn federal court where she will be sentenced for her role in the NXIVM sex cult on Wednesday.
US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis is set to deliver the sentence, which lawyers for Ms Mack have said should avoid jail time. Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, acknowledge that her sentence should be reduced in recognition of her cooperation in the case.
She faces charges of sex trafficking and manipulating women into joining the NXIVM, where they were forced to be “slaves” for its jailed leader, Keith Raniere.
Allison Mack arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court
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Lawyers for Mack argue against jail time
“She cannot undo what has been done, and she will have to live with the regret for the rest of her life,” wrote lawyers for Allison Mack wrote in a court memo, in which they appealed for her to avoid jail time.
They continued: “Ms Mack still holds the potential to be valuable to society – as a family member, as a friend, as a helper to those in need and as a cautionary tale.”
The star of TV series “Smallville” was said to have forced women to hand over compromising materials as a form of blackmail members into complying with the NXIVM sex cult, led by Keith Raniere, as Reuters reported.
Federal prosecutors have not requested a specific sentence, but have said it should be less than the 14 years called for by federal guidelines in light of her “substantial assistance” in the investigation of NXIVM and Raniere.
Ms Mack has pleaded guilty.
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In apology letter, Mack speaks of ‘overwhelming shame’
The actress and star of Superman spin-off series “Smallville” issued a series of apologies ahead of her sentencing, in which she spoke of “overwhelming shame” for her role in the sex cult, NXIVM.
She told the judge, who has been asked to consider giving the 38-year-old no jail time by her lawyers, that she was “sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM. I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man. I am sorry that I encouraged you to use your resources to participate in something that was ultimately so ugly”.
“I also want to apologise to all the friends and loved ones I have hurt throughout this process who were not involved in NXIVM. I know many of you fought hard to show me the truth about NXIVM and Keith, but I didn’t listen,” added Ms Mack.
“Please know that I am dedicated to spending my life working to mend the hearts I broke and continuing to transform myself into a more loving and compassionate woman.”
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Mack ‘dehumanised people’, victim says ahead of sentencing
Another victim of NXIVM and it’s founder Keith Raniere, has been interviewed by ABC News’s “Good Morning America” ahead of the sentencing of Allison Mack, who was a so-called “master” of the cult.
India Oxenberg, a survivor of the group, said of Ms Mack: “Her worst quality, is just the fact that she treated people..she dehumanised people, she was inhumane and that’s hard to come back from”.
Ms Oxenberg said she was encouraged to join NXIVM, which was described by Ms Mack as a group for female self-empowerment. She belonged to the group for seven years, up until it was disbanded following Raniere’s arrest in 2018.
