Dynasty's Catherine Oxenberg
DYNASTY’S CATHERINE OXENBERG TRYING TO SAVE MY DAUGHTER The former TV star says her daughter has been ‘brainwashed,’ and she’s now waging a desperate battle to get her back By JOHNNY DODD and LIZ McNEIL A MOTHER’S FIGHT “The more I learned, the darker and darker it seemed that this group was,” says Oxenberg (in Brooklyn on Oct. 21). Inset: Oxenberg (right) HAIR & MAKEUP: DAVID TIBOLLA/CHANEL LES BEIGES/EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS; INSET: COURTESY CATHERINE OXENBERG CATHERINE COURTESY INSET: ARTISTS; BEIGES/EXCLUSIVE LES TIBOLLA/CHANEL DAVID HAIR & MAKEUP: with India in 2008. Photographs by ALLISON MICHAEL ORENSTEIN PEOPLE November 6, 2017 69 1 or the past several years, Catherine Edmondson, 40, who, after being bank account of her inheritance. Oxenberg, who Oxenberg had been unable to shake the recruited for Nxivm’s secret sis- resisted confronting India despite her fears, says, feeling that something wasn’t quite right terhood, was branded last March “It was like, ‘Oh God, she’s getting more and more with her oldest daughter, India. Ever below her hip with what she later enmeshed in this.’ ” since the 26-year-old had become more found out were Raniere’s initials, Shewouldhardly be thefirst.“The generalization deeply involved in a controversial self- shortly before fleeing the group. is that people get into these groups because they improvement program called Nxivm This past May, after Oxenberg, want to improve themselves and help others,” (pronounced NEX-i-um), “she seemed 56, confronted her daughter says Steven Hassan, founder and director of the distant and burdened,” says Oxenberg, about Nxivm, India stopped Freedom of Mind Resource Center.
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