Samuel Rappylee Bateman was a member of the FLDS community in the Short Creek area — Colorado City, Arizona, and…
Amy Carlson began building an online following in the 2010s, eventually declaring herself a divine being — “Mother God” —…
Jeff and Shaleia Ayan (also known as Jeff and Shaleia Divine) built Twin Flames Universe into an online coaching business…
Keith Raniere founded NXIVM in 1998 as a personal- and professional-development company offering seminars (“Executive Success Programs”) that attracted a…