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Schneiderman’s ex compared him to Nxivm cult leader

Eric Schneiderman’s girlfriend warned that he probably wouldn’t help take down an upstate sex-cult leader because they were “too many similarities” — just months before the then-state attorney general’s own alleged sexual abuse was exposed, according to a new book.

Schneiderman’s now-ex Tanya Selvaratnam reportedly made the remark at a cocktail party late last year, while speaking to a filmmaker who was working on a documentary about Nxivm and its leader, Keith Raniere.

“I wouldn’t count on too much help from Eric,” Selvaratnam told producer Karim Amer, actress Catherine Oxenberg writes in her new book, “Captive,” which documents her struggle to free her daughter India from Nxivm and Raniere’s clutches.

“He has too many similarities [to Keith].”

The very next day, Selvaratnam moved out of Schneiderman’s apartment, according to Oxenberg — and six months later, she revealed in a New Yorker expose that the state’s top lawman allegedly referred to her as his “brown slave,” wanted to be called “master” and beat her during sex.





Schneiderman resigned shortly after the piece, which contained allegations from three other women.

Raniere was busted by the feds for sex trafficking earlier this year, accused of creating a twisted master-slave group in Nxivm where “slave” women were forced to sleep with him and have his initials branded into their skin.

Oxenberg says India was both a slave and a master in the group, and may have been sleeping with Raniere herself.





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