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		</div><p>An heiress to a multi-billion dollar fortune has pleaded guilty in a case involving a cult-like New York group of creating a secret harem of sex slaves for their self-anointed spiritual leader.</p>
<p>Clare Bronfman admitted she harboured someone who was living in the US illegally for unpaid &#8220;labour and services&#8221; and that she committed credit card fraud on behalf of Keith Raniere, the lead of a group called NXIVM.</p>
<p>Bronfman is the 40-year-old daughter of the late billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr, who was chairman of alcoholic beverage giant Seagram.</p>
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<p>She told the judge that she had wanted to help people through NXIVM but ended up dishonouring her family.</p>
<p>&#8220;Your honour, I was afforded a great gift by my grandfather and father,&#8221; Bronfman told the judge.</p>
<p>&#8220;With the gift, comes immense privilege and more importantly, tremendous responsibility. It does not come with an ability to break the law.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added: &#8220;For this, I am truly sorry.&#8221;</p>
<p>As part of a plea agreement, Bronfman agreed to forfeit $6m from a fortune prosecutors say is worth $200m.</p>
<p>She faces more than two years in prison at sentencing on July 25.</p>
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<p>The plea means Bronfman will avoid going to trial early next month with Raniere.</p>
<p>He faces conspiracy charges alleging that his inner circle of loyalists created a secret society of women who were forced to have unwanted sex with him.</p>
<p>Prosecutors say some of the women were branded with his initials as part of their initiation.</p>
<p>An accountant for the group, Kathy Russell, also pleaded guilty on Friday to a fraud charge.</p>
<p>She joined three other NXIVM insiders besides Bronfman who have also pleaded guilty.</p>
<p>Among those defendants is Allison Mack, a TV actress best known for her role as a young Superman&#8217;s close friend on the series Smallville.</p>
<p>Bronfman had long been affiliated with NXIVM, giving away tens of million of dollars to bankroll Raniere and his program of intense self-improvement classes.</p>
<p>She also paid for lawyers to defend the group against a lawsuit brought by its critics.</p>
<p>With the two guilty pleas on Friday, Raniere will face a jury by himself.</p>
<p>Defence attorneys have insisted any relationship between their client and the alleged victims, including women expected to testify against him at trial, was consensual.</p>
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