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Nxivm leader Raniere gets creepy on camera in ‘sex lair’

Brooklyn jurors got a peak Monday into the sex-obsessed mind of Nxivm guru Keith Raniere — and the lair where he allegedly bedded female slaves.

“It’s a man-den office,” witness Mark Vicente testified in federal court as prosecutors showed video of Raniere’s upstate New York “Executive Library,” where federal agents later found what they allege to be child pornography.

The footage showed the room outfitted with books, a table, a bed suspended over a hot tub and white boards, which are covered in supposed mathematical equations — and a sketch of a toaster.

An unsolved Rubik’s cube sits on Raniere’s desk, while the accused sex trafficker leafs through an album Vicente made of his own wedding to wife Bonnie Piesse.

The 2012 video starts out with Raniere admitting he hasn’t read many of the books in the library and then making crude comments as he looks through the wedding photographs.





“Did you notice in one of the crowd shots the woman isn’t wearing panties?” Raniere asks the small group gathered in the study.

He then calls women “piggies” and adds, “To tease a woman about her odor, to say she’s a fish-hole, it’s official, she’s a fish-hole,” the grinning now-58-year-old says to the camera.

Raniere then wisecracks about “f–king” sheep and goats, as in having sex with them, and answers a phone call while sprawled in a chair by saying, “Lick me.”

Footage also shows Raniere burping and flipping off the camera as Vicente and his crew attempt to shoot still images for Nxivm’s promotional use.

“He told me he did lots of things lying down,” Vicente testified.





At one point while on film, the self-proclaimed ethicist and deep thinker laid down in the middle of the room but declined to doff his spectacles.

“If I take my glasses off, I get sleepy or horny,” Raniere informed the camera.

Vicente testified he began growing disenchanted with Raniere, who went by “Vanguard,” in the fall of 2016, when he caught him in bed with an unspecified woman during the week-long celebration of the self-obsessed leader’s birthday.

At least two women have told the government they engaged in unspecified sex acts with Raniere in the “Executive Library,” according to grand jury testimony obtained by The Post.





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