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One of 'The Vow's most fascinating characters is Lauren Salzman, daughter of NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman. Where is she these days? Keep studying.

HBO’s The Vow is an insider’s glance into NXIVM, told from the views of people who had been part of the group and as regards to key players like Keith Raniere. While Keith Raniere’s identify was once most within the press back when he was arrested in 2018, Part 1 of the nine-episode documentary made it transparent that Keith wasn’t the only one in charge.

Through the series, audience had been offered to different necessary contributors who made NXIVM possible. One of those avid gamers is Lauren Salzman, daughter of NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman, and a high-ranking professional inside of Keith’s inner circle referred to as DOS.

But now that the gang has formally dissolved, Lauren has been stuck up within the aftermath of the cult and faces penalties of her own. Keep reading to be informed what she's doing as of late, after the release of The Vow Part 2.

What took place to Lauren Salzman — and where is she now?

Lauren was once certainly one of 5 ladies who have been with Keith Reniere all through his 2018 arrest in Mexico, where he had fled to the 12 months before, after Sarah Edmondson's New York Times article exposing DOS and NXIVM’s unsavory practices was public. Lauren was additionally arrested on racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges and in 2019, she pled accountable to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy.

Lauren had faced up to twenty years in jail, however her sentence used to be lowered after she was a key witness for the prosecution in the trial against Raniere. During the trial, Lauren testified for four days — and it helped convict Reniere, who is recently serving a hundred and twenty years in jail, according to The New York Times.

Meanwhile, Lauren was once sentenced to five years of probation and three hundred hours of neighborhood carrier in September 2021.

What did Lauren do in NXIVM?

Lauren first met Keith when she used to be 21 in 1998 and they began a sexual courting in 2001, which continued in secret till she joined DOS around 8 years later. While she was once in DOS, Lauren testified in court that Keith used to be her master and that she “revered him, and depended on him and ... wanted to be like him.”

Her role within DOS was that of a “master” who recruited other “slaves,” and at one point Lauren had 22 people reporting directly to her, including Sarah from whom we hear in The Vow. As she rose within the ranks of DOS, Lauren said that Keith allowed her to have sex with other women that he was having sex with within the group, but when she came to him asking for permission to sleep with another man, he said no. 

Keith told her that if she stayed with him, he would recommit to her and have a child with her, but every time Lauren committed an “ethical breach,” like jumping on another man in celebration of a volleyball win, Keith would get angry and question whether he wanted to have a child with someone so “disrespectful.”

Despite how Keith treated her, Lauren remained loyal to him for many years. She participated in taking naked group photos for Keith, refrained from masturbation, and religiously maintained her strict 1,500-calorie diet.

Lauren also testified that in 2010 she helped Keith keep a woman of Mexican nationality confined to a room for the “ethical breach” of falling in love with another man. Lauren testified that she was under the impression the woman would be kept in the room for a few days but her "stay" actually lasted 18 to 24 months. 

Lauren also admitted to threatening the woman with deportation if she continued to disobey Keith’s orders.

In the top, Lauren testified that seeing Keith come out of the walk-in closet where he used to be hiding as Mexican authorities held guns to her own head put all of it in standpoint. As she mentioned at the stand, “It never even crossed my mind that I might select Keith ,and Keith would choose Keith.”

The Vow Part 2 premiered on Oct. 17, 2022, on HBO Max.

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